Murrieta Man Allegedly Threatens Girlfriend, Points Gun at Retired Cop

A Murrieta man who alleged attacked his girlfriend and pointed a handgun at a retired cop was arrested in Temecula.

Julius Seaser Stamonica, 20, was arrested shortly before 9 p.m. Thursday on suspicion of false imprisonment, assault with a deadly weapon, brandishing a gun and making terrorist threats, sheriff’s Sgt. Terry Scanlon announced today.

He was booked into the Southwest Detention Center and was released on $50,000 bail a few hours later, according to jail records.

The incident started around 8:30 p.m. in the 28000 block of Lake Front Road in the Harveston community. A retired law enforcement officer reported to the sheriff’s department he heard a woman screaming in a vehicle parked by the lake, the sergeant wrote in an annoucnement.

The retiree walked up and saw the suspect attacking a woman in the vehicle. The man knocked on the rear window to get their attention, and the suspect turned toward him, pointing a semi-automatic handgun at him.

The ex-lawman quickly wrestled the gun from the suspect’s hands, pulled out his own handgun and held the suspect at gunpoint until deputies arrived.

The retiree legally owned his handgun, and nobody was hurt in the struggle, Scanlon said.

The suspect’s gun was loaded with a magazine of “simunition,” a type of ammunition that fires paint pellets and can be used in conventional weapons.

Though the ammunition was non-lethal, it was still dangerous, Scanlon said.

"The simunition has the capability to cause great bodily harm if the projectile strikes an unprotected area of the body,'' Scanlon said.

Anybody with information on the incident was asked to call the Temecula Police Department at 951-696-3000.