Fountain Valley Attempted Murder Charges
The website hbindependent.com reported in an account on April 9, 2009 that Fountain Valley police were able to make Mary Katheryn Sharpski, 46 confess during a police interview to conspiracy in a plot to murder her husband with a machete. Mary Sharpski’s lover and tenant, Michael Calvin Shores II, 39, and Antonio Cinco Ortega, 23, of Santa Ana are also being charged with plotting to kill Frank Sharpski.
According to authorities, Mary Sharpski revealed her husband’s daily routes and offered to pay Ortega, who owns a personal knife collection, for the murder. Ortega was employed as a meat clerk at Stater Bros. in Huntington Beach.
Prosecutors stated that Shores was a tenant in the Sharpski’s home for a year, and both he and Mary Sharpski intended to live together with her three children “as a family”, after her husband had been eliminated.
The attack took place in March, 2008 when Ortega attacked Frank Sharpski outside his apartment in the 17300 block of Euclid Street. Ortega sliced him with a machete and is accused of “fracturing the victim’s skull, severing a thumb and fingers, partly severing his nose, causing several machete wounds, and leaving him to die.”
Authorities allege that Ortega left forensic evidence at the scene of the crime, which assisted officers with their investigation. All three cohorts are charged with attempted murder,conspiracy to commit a crime and mayhem, including a sentencing enhancement for great bodily injury; and an additional enhancement for the personal use of a deadly weapon for Ortega.
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