POLICE BEAT
Dead girl's father arrested on warrants
Advertiser Staff
The father of a 5-year-old girl who died Wednesday after being found unconscious in her Makaha home was treated for injuries from a possible beating Friday and arrested by police on outstanding warrants.
Ronald Sanchez, 53, whom police had been seeking to question in the death of Victoria Sanchez, apparently returned to his Makaha residence at 84-552 Farrington Highway Friday morning. The family notified police that he was there. Police found Sanchez injured when they arrived.
Emergency Medical Services personnel were called at 10:37 a.m. and treated Sanchez at the scene, according to department spokesman Bryan Cheplic.
Sanchez was then arrested on outstanding misdemeanor warrants of $250 and $200 at 11 a.m., according to police records. He has since been released on bail. Sanchez is a felon with 15 convictions including three for family abuse in 1996, according to Hawai'i Criminal Justice Data Center records.
Listing the cause and manner of Victoria Sanchez's death has been deferred by the Honolulu medical examiner's office pending lab results. Police have classified the case as an unattended death pending findings by the medical examiner.
Police have wanted to question Sanchez about "medication" he reportedly gave to his daughter. Victoria Sanchez was found unconscious in bed by her mother at 5:30 a.m. Wednesday and EMS was dispatched to the Makaha home at 5:51 a.m., Cheplic said. The girl died at a hospital at about 7:30 a.m.
The medication allegedly given her is reportedly a controlled substance painkiller not available for public purchase.
The girl's three brothers — ages 13, 9 and 7 — have been placed in an emergency foster home with their maternal grandmother, according to state Department of Human Services spokeswoman Toni Schwartz.
