Osiris Quintero Munoz, a man arrested on charges of murder and
assault with a deadly weapon in connection with the fatal downtown
stabbing at Rio Nilo last month, will appear at the South County
Courthouse at 9:30 a.m. this morning.
Osiris Quintero Munoz, a man arrested on charges of murder and assault with a deadly weapon in connection with the fatal downtown stabbing at Rio Nilo last month, will appear at the South County Courthouse at 9:30 a.m. this morning.
Gilroy police arrested Munoz, 26, the evening of March 25 on the 800 block of El Cerrito Way for violating the conditions of his probation. The arrest was a result of a tip that led undercover GPD officers to 2280 Cochrane Road near Anderson Reservoir in unincorporated Morgan Hill, where Munoz’s former employer lives.
That’s where police located the gold 1998 Chrysler Sebring with a black convertible top and a broken passenger window that matched witnesses descriptions from the murder scene. Using DMV records, police matched the car to Munoz and then arrested him at his crowded Gilroy apartment for illegally possessing a single .380 round. They also recovered clothing and a towel that “appeared to have blood stains” and a 4-inch knife, according to court files and a statement of facts compiled by GPD Detective Stanley Devlin.
In the affidavit, Munoz told police that security guards ejected him and a friend from Rio Nilo, 7474 Monterey St., because his friend was fighting with the two victims: Juan DeDios Arvizu Cabrera, 26, of Castroville – who eventually died outside the bar from multiple stab wounds – and Adan Arvizu Cabrera, 23, of Salinas, who suffered non-life threatening knife wounds, police said.
Munoz told police that he sat in his Sebring after being kicked out of the bar and did not see the fatal fight. He claimed a friend who recently returned to Mexico jumped into the car, yelling, “Let’s go! Let’s go!” and that the other friend who was involved in the indoor fight fled on foot, according to Devlin’s statement.
But Munoz’s former employer told police that after Munoz dropped his car off at Cochrane Road that night, he admitted to partaking in the fight and then departed with two males. The next day Munoz, who had a “fresh” cut on his wrist, returned to Cochrane Road and told his former employer that he had stabbed the two victims with his “pocket knife” outside because they were beating on the friend who had gotten into the fight inside Rio Nilo.
Police are still searching for another vehicle – a silver pickup with double tires on the rear axle – that drove away from the scene of the stabbing death after the Sebring.
Munoz was found guilty of an unrelated assault with a deadly weapon, a felony, in September 2006.
The death of Juan Cabrera is the only violent death of 2008 and the first killing in Gilroy almost 11 months. Early in the morning of April 29, 2007, 56-year-old Juan Lugo was found in an alley behind La Colonia Latina, located on Monterey Street between Eighth and Old Gilroy streets.
In mid-May, police arrested 21-year-old Tomas Martinez Romero and turned him over to the district attorney, who charged him with murder. However, the charge was later dropped. Romero is now charged with two counts of attempted murder in an unrelated shooting.
Last 10 gang related incidents
April 4 – Attempted murder of a 16-year-old
April 1 – Drive by shooting, three injured
March 26 – Possible gang fight, three arrested
March 4 – Assault with a deadly weapon, man stabbed
Feb. 28 – Assault with a deadly weapon, man stabbed
Feb. 26 – Robbery and assault, 16-year-old victim
Feb. 25 – Shots fired into residence
Feb. 25 – Shots fired into vehicle
Feb. 4 – Assault with a deadly weapon, 15-year-old victim stabbed
Jan. 11 – Holding firearms while on parole
Anyone with information can contact Gilroy Police Department Detective Stan Devlin at 846-0335. Those wishing to remain anonymous may call 846-0330.
