Man holds two babies hostage in East Napa

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Sunday, March 25, 2007

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By CARLOS VILLATORO
Register Staff Writer

A domestic violence incident that began late Friday evening turned into a hostage situation resulting in the release of two infant hostages and the arrest of a Napa man early Saturday morning.

Napa Police officers used its SWAT team and the assistance of a California Highway Patrol helicopter to apprehend Jose Pedro Aguilar, 25, and arrest him on suspicion of domestic violence, false imprisonment, endangering the health of a child and assault on a police officer.

The dramatic chain of events began at 11:20 p.m., Friday when Aguilar’s female accuser walked into Queen of the Valley Hospital for treatment of injuries she told hospital staff were sustained when Aguilar allegedly beat her, Napa Police Sgt. John Kostelac said.

“She reported to officers that the suspect was going to take her two infant children and crash the car and kill himself and the children,” Kostelac said.

When officers arrived at Aguilar’s home on the 2300 block of Barry Street, they spotted Aguilar driving away from it with the two children, Kostelac said

“They got in a chase with him briefly ... he fled at high speed and he ran some stop lights and red signals,” Kostelac said.

Police noticed that Aguilar had at least one of the infants on his lap as he was driving and they backed off of the chase for the safety of the children, Kostelac said.

A CHP helicopter continued to follow Aguilar and tracked him down to a Shetler Avenue cul-de-sac where police boxed him in with their vehicles.

Aguilar attempted to get away and rammed one of the police cars, slightly injuring a police officer, Kostelac said. Aguilar then held the children in his vehicle and a Napa Police negotiator attempted to talk Aguilar into releasing the children and turning himself in.

When Aguilar refused to listen to the negotiator, the SWAT team broke the windows out of the car around 2 a.m. Saturday, grabbed the children and stun-gunned Aguilar. Officers then took him to the hospital to be medically checked and took him to jail.

The 25-year-old woman was treated and released from the hospital, and re-united with her children. The police officer sustained minor injuries.

4 comment(s)

john wrote on Mar 25, 2007 2:09 PM:

" "life without" for the coward, Lifers will teach him RESPECT> "

Good Job! wrote on Mar 25, 2007 3:48 PM:

" The police did a good job under scary circumstances. Hope the injured policeman recovers quickly. "

checkyoursix wrote on Mar 25, 2007 4:49 PM:

" thank God the city hasn't cut the SWAT team...yet "

Anthony wrote on Mar 25, 2007 8:28 PM:

" Sweet now we have the SWAT team in Napa. Oh yes, once again that is just "typical crime in any U.S.A. town". I am sure this incident is a result of the Napa Police Force and the community at large, not reaching out to this poor disenfranchised person. We, as rich, fortunate Napans (yes I have seen that posted more than a few times in the Register you do know we are all wealthy beyond our dreams?) must make it our civic duty to share with these poor misunderstood criminals in our fair city and change their ways... Yet we are all mean and vile people for not wanting this garbage in our city. What loser public defender will twist this case to show that Aguilar beat this woman and then put two young infants in harms way as a result of a poor childhood and/or our society at large? Start putting these piles of useless waste away for long periods of prison time and we may see less of this nonsense. Or shall we all reach out and try to reform this young man? I see a bright future for him with some serious coddling and understanding. "

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