Jul 11, 2008 8:42 pm US/Pacific
North Bay Man Enters Plea To Girlfriend's Murder
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Honorio Pantaleon, aka Victor Pantaleon seen in a police mugshot from Dec. 2007.
Santa Rosa PD
A Santa Rosa man accused of fatally stabbing his girlfriend and putting her remains in a toy box in a closet of their home pleaded not guilty Friday to nine felony charges in Sonoma County Superior Court.
Honorio Pantaleon, 30, entered his pleas two days after Judge Elliot Daum ruled he was competent to stand trial based on two psychiatric reports.
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Sept. 24.
The Sonoma County District Attorney's Office amended the criminal
complaint this week to charge Pantaleon with the attempted murder of his girlfriend's wife in Mendocino County. He is being held under no bail in the Sonoma County jail. He faces life in prison.
Pantaleon is charged with killing 25-year-old Patricia Barrales, the mother of their two children. Her body was found May 11 in a toy box in a closet in the couple's apartment on Montecito Avenue in Santa Rosa. She had been stabbed multiple times in the upper body and head, Santa Rosa police said. The complaint adds an enhancement that the murder was heinous, atrocious and cruel.
Pantaleon is charged with murder, aggravated mayhem, domestic violence battery on a spouse, burglary, two counts of child endangerment, attempted first-degree murder, assault with a firearm and mayhem.
Pantaleon also allegedly tried to shoot Barrales' mother Isabel with a rifle at her Ukiah home on May 12 but instead struck her with the rifle when it didn't fire. He was arrested by the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office later that day in Ukiah. That charge will be tried in Sonoma County.
Santa Rosa police went to Barrales' Rincon Valley apartment at 6:47 p.m. on Mother's Day after her brother asked them to check on her welfare because she had been a victim of previous domestic violence. Two officers checked the apartment and found no one inside and no signs of foul play, Sgt. Lisa Banayat said.
At 9:27 p.m. that day, the apartment manager called police after he received a call from Barrales' family members asking him to check the closets in the apartment, Banayat said. The family members said Barrales' 4-year-old son stated his mother was locked in the closet, Banayat said.
The apartment manager called police who then discovered Barrales' body. Police have not said exactly when Barrales was killed.
Pantaleon showed up at his mother's Lake County residence with his two sons just before midnight on May 10, relatives said.
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