Man arrested in deaths of parents
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A man suspected of killing his parents in a Y2K plot to steal their money was arrested Wednesday, authorities said.
If convicted, they say, Jose Alonso Najera Jr., 27, could face life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Najera, of Anaheim, allegedly persuaded his parents to take their money out of banks in 1999 and put it in a safe-deposit box in anticipation of the Y2K bug. Then, on Dec. 28 of that year, Najera and an accomplice killed the parents, prosecutors said.
Gerard Johnson was convicted in 2000 in the stabbing deaths of Jose Najera Sr., 42, and Elena Najera, 46, who owned a home in Garden Grove. Najera was not charged at that time.
He is scheduled for arraignment Friday at the West Justice Center in Westminster.
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-- David Haldane
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