Osiris Quintero Munoz appeared in court this afternoon on charges of murder and assault with a deadly weapon in connection with the fatal downtown stabbing at Rio Nilo March 16, but the judge delayed the hearing yet again pending the coroner’s complete report.
Munoz, 26, will appear in court again at 1:30 p.m. Aug. 26 at the San Martin Superior Courthouse. As he has repeatedly done so throughout the trial, Deputy Public Defender Enrique Colin asked the judge Tuesday for further postponements pending the coroner’s report.
The Santa Clara County District Attorney has also charged Munoz with violating the conditions of his probation, and that case will be folded into the current proceeding’s come Aug. 26, both sides agreed Tuesday. Munoz was found guilty of assault with a deadly weapon by the same court in September 2006.
Gilroy police arrested Munoz the evening of March 25 in Gilroy on this last charge. The arrest was a result of a tip that led undercover GPD officers to a migrant camp near Anderson Reservoir in unincorporated Morgan Hill, where Munoz’s former employer lives.
That’s where police located the convertible that matched witnesses descriptions from the crime scene, but the number-letter combination witnesses reported differed from the actual tags. Using DMV records, though, police matched the car to Munoz and then arrested him at his crowded Gilroy apartment for illegally possessing a single .380 round. They also recovered clothing and a towel that “appeared to have blood stains” and a 4-inch knife, according to court files and a statement of facts compiled by GPD Detective Stanley Devlin.
In the affidavit, Munoz told police that security guards removed him and a friend from Rio Nilo, 7474 Monterey St., because his friend was fighting with the two victims – Juan DeDios Arvizu Cabrera, 26, of Castroville, who eventually died outside the bar from multiple stab wounds, and Adan Arvizu Cabrera, 23, of Salinas, who suffered non-life threatening knife wounds, police said – but Munoz told police he never stabbed anyone as he sat in his car outside the bar while his friends got into the fight.
