Murder suspect's arraignment delayed
A Long Beach man's arraignment on a murder charge has been
postponed until Sept. 2.
Skylar Deleon, 26, who will stand trial with his wife and another
man on charges that they murdered a Newport Beach couple, will be
arraigned Sept. 2 on a charge of killing an Anaheim man.
John Jarvi, 45, was found in December 2003 near a highway in
Mexico. His throat was slashed.
Deleon's wife, Jennifer Henderson-Deleon, 24, and his cousin,
Michael Lewis Jr., 24, of Arizona are also charged in connection with
Jarvi's murder.
Henderson-Deleon pleaded not guilty Monday to charges that she was
an accessory to the murder.
The Deleons are already in custody awaiting trial for the alleged
murders of Tom and Jackie Hawks, a retired couple who police believe
were killed in November.
Police arrest former temple music teacher
A Newport Beach man was arrested Wednesday on charges of child
annoyance after he allegedly engaged in "intimate physical contact"
with a 15-year-old girl, said Jim Amormino of the Orange County
Sheriff's Department.
Thomas Konnerth MacFarlane, 48, a former music teacher and chorale
instructor at Newport Jewish Temple Bat Yahm, was arrested Wednesday
and posted $10,000 bail, Amormino said.
MacFarlane had inappropriate contact with the child on several
occasions at the temple, in MacFarlane's Newport Beach home and in
Aliso Viejo, Amormino said.
"He had apparently known her for a number of years," he said.
The contact between the man and the 15-year-old allegedly began at
the beginning of the year. According to a spokesperson for Temple Bat
Yahm, MacFarlane is no longer associated with the temple.
"MacFarlane resigned his association with our temple on May 15,
2005," said Bill Shane, Temple Bat Yahm executive director.
MacFarlane is scheduled to be arraigned Sept. 22 in Newport Beach.
