In the Pasadena Courthouse This Week

This week, four high-profile Pasadena criminal cases will move forward in the Pasadena Courthouse of the Los Angeles County Superior Court. Here’s an update and profile of these cases.

Pretrial Hearing for Anthony Joseph Miller, July 27

Anthony Joseph Miller, 53, of Pasadena, faces five counts of forcible rape, two counts each of forcible oral copulation, sodomy by use of force and dissuading a witness from reporting a crime, and one count each of sexual battery by restraint and false imprisonment by violence.

In October 2018, Miller was charged with sexually assaulting one woman in 2011 and four victims between August and September 2018, according to prosecutors.

Miller pleaded not guilty to the charges on October 1, 2018.

If convicted as charged, Miller faces more than 270 years to life in state prison. He remains in custody, with bail is set at more than $10 million.

Preliminary Hearing for Telly R. Johnson, July 28

Telly R. Johnson, 42, of Los Angeles, is accused of murder in connections with the fatal stabbing of the manager of a supportive-housing apartment building in Pasadena on March 1, 2019.

He is also facing a knife use allegation stemming from the slaying of 52-year-old Byron Young Nettles, who was stabbed in the heart at 9:05 a.m. in front of the apartment building in the 100 block of South Euclid Avenue.

A witness said Johnson had an altercation with Nettles during which the victim was stabbed. Nettles was declared dead after arriving at Huntington Memorial Hospital.

The incident prompted the lockdown of a junior high school and forced area residents to shelter in place during an extensive police search.

Johnson was arrested that night and pleaded not guilty to the charges on March 13, 2019.

He remains in custody, with bail set at $2 million.

Preliminary Hearing for Lamarr Marquise McDaniels II and Trevor Dorman, July 28

Lamarr Marquise McDaniels II, 24, and Trevor James Dorman, 19, both of Monrovia, are facing murder charges in connection with the shooting death of 24-year-old Anthony Michael Tafoya Ortiz during a drug deal and robbery that turned violent in Pasadena on August 9, 2019.

McDaniels was arrested in Monrovia the next day by the United States Marshals Pacific Southwest Regional Fugitive Task Force and Pasadena Police Detectives. Dorman was arrested in Covina four days later.

On the day of the crime, Pasadena Police officers responded to the 100 block of Painter Street, and found Ortiz with a gunshot wound. The victim was transported to a local hospital in grave condition and died two days.

On August 16, 2019, Dorman was charged with one count of murder and one count of attempted murder. McDaniels was charged with one count of murder, one count of assault with a firearm, one count of conspiracy and one count of attempted robbery.

McDaniels’ bail has been set at $3.080 million. Dorman was allowed no bail.

Pretrial Hearing for Deleon Jackson, July 29

Deleon Jackson, 24, of Pasadena, faces a charge of second degree murder in connection with the shooting death of 27-year-old Pasadena resident Eric Lamar Holloway on August 7, 2017 in Pasadena.

Early that morning, Pasadena Police officers responded to the 1000 block of East Maple Street after receiving several 911 calls from citizens who reported hearing a gunshot and seeing a man lying in the street bleeding. When they arrived on scene, officers found the victim suffering from a single gunshot wound. Paramedics transported the victim to a local hospital, where he later succumbed to his injury.

Jackson was arrested at about 8:58 that night. He is being held on $3 million bail by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.