The murder mystery of a woman’s body – dead for weeks – found near a Pomona homeless encampment appeared to be near a solution as police announced Friday that an arrest warrant has been issued for the suspected killer who is the victim’s boyfriend’s brother.
The victim was identified as a 33-year-old Ontario mother of three who had been stabbed to death.
Mityas was last reported seen leaving her home in the 1600 block of Briar Avenue after a heated argument about money with her boyfriend’s brother, 38-year-old Tomas Sarinana, Ontario police said.
Police do not know Sarinana’s whereabouts and last saw him Sept. 8, when he came into the police station voluntarily to talk to detectives, said Ontario police Sgt. Jeff Higbee.
Sarinana told police that Mityas packed up her clothes and left in a maroon-colored sedan about 11 a.m. that morning.
Ontario police said Mityas left behind her car, her cell phone and her children, ages 7, 5 and 1. Family members said they didn’t know who she left with or who drives a maroon sedan.
Mityas’ boyfriend Eddie Sarinana, who is the father of their three children, reported her missing. His two adult brothers also lived with the couple, according to Ontario police.
A coroner’s investigator said she died from a “sharp force injury to the chest” in what has been ruled a homicide.
At the time her decomposing body was discovered in a field, Pomona police said the coroner’s office estimated the woman had been dead for several weeks.
A security officer at a park-and-ride lot at Gillette Avenue and Fairplex Drive called police about 8 a.m. Monday to report that a body had been found in an adjacent vacant field frequented by transients, police said.
Pomona police detectives asked anyone with information about the woman’s death to call them at (909) 620-2085.
— City News Service