HAYWARD (BCN) — The Alameda County District Attorney’s Office is reviewing a Hayward police report to decide whether to file charges against Esmid Valentine Pedraza, who was arrested on Wednesday on a homicide warrant for the death of 22-year-old Stacey Aguilar of San Jose.
Aguilar’s body, which had numerous gunshot wounds, was found in a rural area near Morrison Canyon Road in Fremont last Saturday afternoon but police say they believe she was killed in Hayward.
She was last seen three days earlier leaving a party in the vicinity of Silva Avenue and Jackson Street in Hayward, police said.
Pedraza is scheduled to be arraigned in Alameda County Superior Court at 2 p.m. today if charges are filed against him. Hayward police submitted their report on Aguilar’s homicide to the District Attorney’s
Office late this morning.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said today that they want to take Pedraza into custody if he’s not charged in connection with Aguilar’s death.
In a statement, the agency said, “ICE has lodged a formal request with the Alameda County Jail seeking to have the jail notify ICE prior to Mr. Pedraza’s release so the agency can arrange to take him into custody to pursue possible follow-up immigration enforcement action.”
Pedraza currently is being held at the Hayward police jail without bail.