Suspect in Rialto officer’s death used a fake identity
Investigators have discovered the true identity of a man held in connection with the fatal shooting of a Rialto police officer, authorities said Saturday.
Officer Sergio Carrera Jr., 29, a four-year department veteran and member of the SWAT team, was shot while serving a search warrant Thursday. The man accused of killing Carrera identified himself to police as Jaranard Thomas, 32. He was booked on suspicion of murdering a police officer.
But on Saturday, a check of the man’s fingerprints revealed that he was using one of several aliases, police said. Under his real name, Kris Antonio Wiggins, 32, he is wanted on a $100,000 warrant issued by authorities in Grenada, Miss., for selling crack cocaine, according to Arden Wiltshire, a spokeswoman for the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department. Wiggins also went by BeDuke and Short Dog, records show.
Wiggins was being held without bail at West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga and was to be arraigned on the murder charge Monday morning in San Bernardino County Superior Court in Fontana.
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molly.hennessy-fiske@ latimes.com
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