A Gilroy man accused of stabbing a man to death in March 2008
and assaulting another man is set to go to trial almost two years
after the crime.
A Gilroy man accused of stabbing a man to death in March 2008 and assaulting another man is set to go to trial almost two years after the crime.
Osiris Quintero Munoz, 28, will be tried for murder and assault with a deadly weapon on March 15, in connection with the March 16, 2008, death of Juan Cabrera and stabbing of Adan Cabrera.
Judge Philip Pennypacker set the date for March 15 on Dec. 3 after a hearing regarding the trial had been continued several times.
Gilroy police arrested Munoz the evening of March 25, 2008 on the 800 block of El Cerrito Way for violating the conditions of his probation. The arrest resulted from a tip that led undercover officers to the home of his employer in unincorporated Morgan Hill.
That’s where police found the gold 1998 Chrysler Sebring with a black convertible top and a broken passenger window that matched witnesses descriptions from the crime 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 Gilroy police.
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.
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 left. 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.
Munoz was found guilty of an unrelated assault with a deadly weapon, a felony, in September 2006.
