Orange County Bail Bondsman Killed, From Bail Bondsman in Orange County and Newport Beach

RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA – The owner of a bail bonds business died after he was shot by another man at least once at a home here in an upscale neighborhood, Orange County Sheriff's officials said.

A little before midnight Saturday, a man who authorities later identified as Dean Patrick Maldonado was shot by a 51-year-old man who was a guest at a home on the 21300 block of Stonetower Drive, Sheriff's spokesman Jim Amormino said.

Maldonado, 49, runs Maldonado Bail Bonds in Newport Beach.
Amormino said Maldonado was an acquaintance of the woman who owns the two-story home. The 51-year-old was inside the home with the woman when Maldonado came into the home through a rear sliding door. Some time afterwards, the shooting occurred, Amormino said.
Maldonado died at the scene.

It's unclear, however, what led up to the shooting and the investigation is ongoing, Amormino said. Investigators are still at the scene and in the midst of sorting out what happened and have held off on making any arrests for now, he added.

Maldonado's daughter Megan Maldonado said Sunday that the home her father had visited in Rancho Santo Margarita belongs to his girlfriend.

Property records show that the home belongs to Linda Sprowl, who is also known as Linda Shaw-Sprowl, a fitness trainer in Trabuco Canyon.

Reached by telephone on Sunday, Sprowl declined to comment.

"I'm not available at the moment," she said before hanging up.

In a telephone interview, Megan Maldonado said that she doesn't know the details of her father's death. However, she did say that her father was a very positive person.

His Facebook page shows several inspirational phrases such as "If You Don't Like Something Change It; If you Can't Change It, Change the Way You Think About It," which he wrote on his wall on Tuesday.

Megan Maldonado said her father was the type of person who struck up conversations with just about anyone.

"He would meet a waitress at our table and have a full on conversation with her," she said.

Maldonado, a father of three children, was a bodybuilder who loved fitness and the beach, said Megan, who is his oldest child.

"The beach and his kids were his life," said the 24-year-old. "He loved life and enjoyed everything. We were his life."

Maldonado's Bail Bonds Facebook page describes Maldonado as single Newport Beach resident.

His last Facebook entry was Thursday when he wrote "I'm a Sucker for Love."

By Writer with the OC Register
Edited by All American Bail Bondsman in Newport Beach Ca

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NO BAIL FOR PREVIOUSLY DEPORTED MAN WHO STRUCK AND KILLED BICYCLIST, FROM NEWPORT BEACH BAIL BONDSMAN

NEWPORT BEACH — An Anaheim man involved in a fatal collision with a bicyclist has a history of being ticketed for driving without a license and was previously deported by immigration authorities, police said Friday.


Jose Luis Huerta Mundo, 38, was being held in Orange County Jail without bail after Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials ordered that he be held for possible deportation proceedings.

Court records show that in 1999, Mundo was convicted of driving with a suspended license and not having proof of insurance. In 2002, he was convicted of not having his license on him and a year later, for not having his vehicle registered. He was convicted two more times of driving without a license, in 2005 and 2006.

Mundo, a landscaper, was detained by Newport Beach police Thursday morning his truck collided with bicyclist Michael Nine, 43, of Santa Ana. Mundo was driving a white Chevrolet stake bed truck that collided with Nine, who was riding his bicycle near Spyglass Hill Road and Harbor Ridge Drive. Nine died from his injuries, and police are investigating what happened.

Federal authorities would not say if and when Mundo was previously deported, but a record of a past deportation showed up when officers verified his identity at the police station, said Sgt. Evan Sailor.

The area is frequented in the morning by cyclists who coast down the swerving, downhill street.

This was the third fatal bicycle-vehicle collision here in less than a year.

Darryl Benefiel, a 43-year-old bicyclist from Newport Beach, was killed July 23 in Newport Coast. Donald Murphy, 49, of Irvine, died from injuries Dec. 9 when he was rear-ended on Jamboree Road.

After Benefiel's death, the city created a task force to study bicycle safety in Newport Beach. The task force came back to the council in May with a list of recommendations to improve bicyclist safety and drivers' awareness of bike riders in the city.

Group members consider Thursday's crash a wake-up call to the city to do something about bicyclists and drivers, especially in popular biking areas like Corona del Mar and the Balboa Peninsula.

"I'm not sure anything we discussed in the task force would've prevented this," said group member Daniel Murphy. "Anytime a bike and a car tangle, unfortunately the car is going to be the victor. I do think what it does is bring back into focus how important bike safety is. Hopefully it'll jump start discussions."

Task force member Tony Petros agreed.

"Each situation has to be evaluated on its own merits," Petros said. "Right now we don't know whose fault it is. We don't even know if there's fault to be assigned."

He said the city could add street signs warning drivers about bicyclists, or add bike lanes among other things. But the city can only do so much, Petros said.

"We can plan and design but no amount of planning and design can mitigate the individual," he said. "Unfortunately, good planning and design can always be trumped by the individual, be it the cyclist or the motorist."

Story by Joseph Serna edited by Newport Beach Bail Bondsman with All American Bail Bonds
 
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