People v. Vasquez CA2/8

Filed 2/18/26 P. v. Vasquez CA2/8 NOT TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE OFFICIAL REPORTS

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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION EIGHT

THE PEOPLE, B339360

Plaintiff and Respondent, Los Angeles County Super. Ct. No. VA071398 v.

LUIS VASQUEZ,

Defendant and Appellant.

APPEAL from an order of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Roger T. Ito, Judge. Affirmed. John Steinberg, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant. Rob Bonta, Attorney General, Charles C. Ragland, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Susan Sullivan Pithey, Assistant Attorney General, Idan Ivri and David A. Wildman, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent. ____________________

Luis Vasquez appeals the trial court’s denial of his section 1172.6 petition for resentencing. We affirm. Undesignated statutory citations are to the Penal Code. I Anthony Guzman was a big time drug dealer. Guzman lived in a rented house on Beverly Road with his girlfriend, Rachel Carrillo. Mario Montiel also lived in the house. Carrillo’s uncle, Richard Perez, also stayed there occasionally and worked as a broker for Guzman. Vasquez lived behind the house and came over frequently. Christopher Price also spent time at the house. Eli Reyes was a smaller time drug dealer. Perez introduced Reyes to Guzman as a source of better quality drugs. Eventually, there was a money dispute between Reyes and Guzman. The last time Reyes’s sister saw him, he was driving a black Honda. Later that same day, Mary Terhofter was visiting Price at the Beverly Road house. They were smoking methamphetamine and playing games on PlayStation. Montiel and Vasquez arrived at the house. They played darts and Montiel joined Price and Terhofter in smoking methamphetamine. On a monitor connected to a camera facing the driveway, Terhofter saw a car pull onto the base of the driveway. Montiel went to the door and told the person to pull the car farther up. Montiel and Vasquez went outside. Terhofter heard sounds of fighting, and Price went to the doorway. Terhofter then saw Montiel, Price, and Vasquez pull something large and struggling, like a person, through the front door. A loveseat partially blocked Terhofter’s view, but she saw the lower legs and feet of a struggling person.