Felony charges were expected to be filed Friday against a music teacher accused of molesting multiple students in Riverside County.
Omar Garcia Herrada, 54, of Woodcrest was arrested and booked into the Robert Presley Jail Tuesday on suspicion of sexual assault of minors and related allegations. He’s being held in lieu of $1 million bail.
The case was under review by the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office Thursday, delayed by the intervening Veterans Day holiday, when the courts were closed.
Herrada was first arrested at the end of October following a county Sheriff’s Department investigation stemming from information that one of his pupils in the La Cresta area, west of Temecula, furnished regarding alleged inappropriate touching.
The circumstances weren’t specified.
Before the case could be submitted to the D.A.’s office at that time, Herrada posted an undisclosed amount of bail and was released from jail.
However, detectives from the sheriff’s Special Investigations Bureau continued looking for other potential victims. According to Sgt. Jim Peters, in the last two weeks additional unnamed parties came forward alleging that Herrada had sexually abused them, though further details were not provided, including their identities and locations.
Peters said an arrest warrant was obtained and served on the suspect after he was stopped while driving toward Rancho Cucamonga. He was taken into custody without incident.
Background information on Herrada, including the number of years he has provided private music lessons in the region, was unavailable.