Story Created:
Feb 22, 2009 at 3:28 PM PST
Story Updated:
Feb 23, 2009 at 12:36 AM PST
FULLERTON — The Rev. Willie Holmes, who was mobbed by a group of Hispanic youths Feb. 13 as he and his sons drove up to his Fullerton church, has been ordered to jail to serve a 360-day sentence jail for a probation violation stemming from a lewd conduct conviction, according to news reports.
Holmes, 41, is scheduled to surrender to Orange County Jail March 6, Assistant District Attorney Jaime Coulter told the Orange County Register.
Holmes pleaded guilty to engaging in lewd conduct on Nov. 30, 2006 and was sentenced to three years probation, the Register reported.
On Feb. 4, Holmes pleaded guilty to a probation violation — though it was unclear what — and was given 360 days in jail and three years probation, the Register reported. He was also ordered to stay away from Hillcrest Park in Fullerton.
Three days later, Holmes was arrested on suspicion of indecent exposure, lewd conduct in a public place and loitering around a public toilet, the Register reported.
Holmes pleaded guilty to lewd conduct and loitering and was sentenced to 60 days in jail and three years’ probation, the newspaper reported.
His encounters with law enforcement, according to the Orange County Superior Court’s Web site, stretch as far as July 20, 1999 when he pleaded guilty to writing a bad check and paid $540 in fines. He also was given three years probation.
Holmes’ 49-year-old wife, Vanessa, told the Register she was unaware of her husband’s criminal record.
“I need to find out what is going on now,’’ she told the newspaper.
Vanessa Holmes, however, was named in several small claims cases, as well as an “unlawful detainer’’ lawsuit naming her and her husband, according to court records. Typically, unlawful detainers have to do with nonpayment of rent.
Jacqueline Rubio, an attorney for Holmes in the lewd conduct case, was unavailable for comment Sunday.
America West Airlines also had a collection case against Holmes in 2005, court records show.
Two 17-year-olds and a 16-year-old from Fullerton, all believed to be members of a local street gang, were arrested on suspicion of felony vandalism, assault with a deadly weapon and gang membership in connection with the Feb. 13 attack reported by Holmes at his church, Majesty Christian Fellowship, 421 S. Richman Ave.
There is no evidence that racism was a motive in the attack, Fullerton police Sgt. Michael MacDonald said.
Holmes said that up to a dozen people surrounded his 1981 Mazda 626 sedan about a block from the church and knocked the windows out of it once he and his sons had fled into the church. Someone then allegedly broke out a plate glass window on the church.
Arriving officers chased and caught two suspects, and the third was arrested based on information gleaned from the first two.
Following the attack, Holmes led two neighborhood peace marches.
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