A standout football player Carson High School and the University of Iowa, where he was a starting wide receiver in the 1982 Rose Bowl, the former San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputy served in the department for nearly ten years.
A friend of Carrion’s since high school, Escobedo was the driver of the Corvette that led San Bernardino Sheriff’s Deputies on a high speed chase through Montclair and Chino with Carrion as his passenger.
The used-car salesman, who fled Cuba for the United States in the early 1993, was in bed in his Chino home on the night of Jan. 29, 2006 when he heard a car crash across the street from his home.
Cope has been a deputy district attorney in the San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office since 1983 and is now assigned to the major crimes unit where he handles death penalty cases, violent crimes and other high profile prosecution.
