Duo Caught With Stolen Car In Lake Elsinore: Sheriff's Dept.

MURRIETA, CA — A felony charge was filed Thursday against a convicted felon accused with her boyfriend of stealing a car in Orange County and driving it to Lake Elsinore.

Jacqueline Alisa Ramirez, 27, of Wildomar was arrested Tuesday with 25- year-old Victor Daniel Vega of Lake Elsinore after they were allegedly caught in a Scion reported stolen a month earlier.

Vega posted a $10,000 bond and was released from the Byrd Detention Center in Murrieta.

Ramirez pleaded not guilty to a single felony count of receiving a stolen vehicle. Riverside County Superior Court Judge Stephen Gallon scheduled a felony settlement conference for March 11 at the Southwest Justice Center in Murrieta.

The defendant is being held in lieu of $10,000 bail at the Smith Correctional Facility in Banning.

According to sheriff's Sgt. James Woodland, patrol deputies spotted the black Scion about 11:45 a.m. Tuesday near Collier Avenue and Riverside Drive and identified it as one listed in an interagency law enforcement bulletin as stolen out of Orange County on Jan. 31.

Vega was at the wheel and Ramirez in the front passenger seat when the deputies stopped them near Riverside and Strickland Avenue, Woodland said. Both were taken into custody without a struggle.

According to court records, Ramirez has prior convictions for identity theft, burglary and shoplifting.

Vega, who is slated to be arraigned in April on charges of receiving a stolen vehicle and being in possession of a controlled substance, has no documented prior felony or misdemeanor convictions in Riverside County.

— By City News Service