Suspected Accomplice Arrested for Solvang Attempted Murder

Santa Barbara- September 8th, 2009

A Los Angeles woman is now in custody in connection to an attempted homicide in Solvang four months ago.

The LAPD arrested 23-year old Nicole De La Fuente (DOB 8/29/86) over the weekend on an outstanding warrant out of Santa Barbara County. Detectives had identified De La Fuente as an accomplice in a shooting outside the Santa Ines Mission on April, 26, 2009.

In that case, De La Fuente is suspected of luring a man into the Mission parking lot where Eddie Rojo was waiting to rob him. The botched crime ended with the victim being shot twice. The victim survived and Rojo was arrested one week later in Santa Maria. De La Fuente remained at large until this weekend.

De La Fuente was transported back to the Santa Barbara County Jail where she was booked for Attempted Murder. She remains in jail on $500,000 bail.

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