POLICE responded to multiple calls by neighbors living in the cul-de-sac where an ex-cop allegedly tortured a woman for six months.
Since January 1, a neighbor told The Sun that the community called Chino Hills, California police because they claimed they heard screams for help and banging on the walls inside one of the homes.
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Chino Hills police were called seven or eight times since January 1 for domestic disturbances but didn’t find enough evidence to make their way inside the home, the department told The Sun in an email.
“There have been calls for service from nearby neighbors since the beginning of the year referencing possible domestic disturbance,” the Chino Hills PD said.
“A deputy responded to each of the calls and no disturbance was ever substantiated. The house was quiet and no one answered the door during each of the calls.”
A woman was allegedly held against her will, raped and tortured by Peter McGuire from January 1 to June 9, according to the criminal complaint.
He “did cut and disable the tongue, and put out an eye and slit the nose, ear and lip” of the victim, the criminal complaint said.
McGuire pleaded not guilty to all charges.
McGuire was employed with the Huntington Park PD from 1986-1987 before his termination and again employed for a short time with Hawaiian Gardens PD from 1995-1997, San Bernardino District Attorney’s Office confirmed.
The Hawaiian Gardens PD no longer exists.
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VICTIM’S ESCAPE AND HUNT FOR MCGUIRE
On June 9, the victim ran out of the back of the Chino Hills home, down the hill into a California state park, according to the criminal complaint.
People in the park saw the victim and called 911, police said.
Deputies took care of the woman, who’s now in stable condition in a hospital, and executed a search warrant on McGuire’s home two days later.
A neighbor, who wished to remain anonymous for safety reasons, told The Sun that police came into the home through the garage, but he wasn’t home.
He fled to the city of Placentia, which is about 15 miles southwest of Chino Hills, Chino Hills Police Captain Garth Goodell said during the June 14 city council meeting.
When law enforcement swarmed the home, he barricaded himself inside for a period of time until he surrendered without incident, Goodell said.
GAP OF TIME UNACCOUNTED FOR
There’s a part of the story that’s not described in court documents or the police narrative between the time deputies arrived in the park to help the woman and McGuire’s arrest.
When asked what the woman told police and how they pinpointed McGuire as the suspect, Chino Hills PD said:
“Although I cannot discuss in any detail, beyond what information we have already put out, the specifics on the case, I can tell you the investigation has been thorough and McGuire’s arrest was made in accordance with the law.”
The charges against McGuire include torture, kidnapping to commit another crime, kidnapping, mayhem, assault with a deadly weapon, false imprisonment by violence, forcible rape, two counts of sodomy by use of force and forcible oral copulation.
Again, he pleaded not guilty to all charges and accusations.
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