San Diego

The sentencing of two members of white supremacy groups charged with assaulting a Latino man in Hillcrest was postponed Monday by a judge, who then ordered one defendant jailed for allegedly threatening the victim about testifying.

At the request of defense attorneys, Superior Court Judge Herbert Exarhos postponed until next Tuesday the sentencing of Charles Leek, 20, and Frank Tokash, 18, both said to be members of an East San Diego group known as the “Bomber Boys,” or skinheads.

After the delay was granted, however, Deputy Dist. Atty. Wesley Schermann requested that the defendants, both of whom were free on their own recognizance, be jailed until that hearing because of the witness-intimidation allegation.

“The victim called my office and said (Tokash) confronted him and said, if he didn’t come to the sentencing and say he was innocent, that (Tokash) would follow him,” Schermann said.

Tokash’s attorney, Roy Gunner, said the defendant and the victim, Humberto Huerta, 21, ran into each other at a party, and that Huerta offered to fight Tokash at a park the next day.

Without taking testimony from Huerta, who was in court, Exarhos ordered Tokash to be taken into custody immediately, but allowed Leek to remain free after Schermann said Leek wasn’t implicated in the threat.

The Probation Department has recommended at least one year in jail for each defendant in connection with the Oct. 17 attack outside a Hillcrest restaurant on Huerta and a friend, Lisa Fegarsky, 18. Huerta suffered a broken jaw, cuts and bruises, and Fegarsky had minor injuries.