- Leslie Diana Figueroa Rodriguez, 25, charged with obstruction of justice in Utah.
- She's linked to a 2022 drive-by shooting that killed Pete Carlos Robert Ulibarri, according to prosecutors.
- Prosecutors request no bail.
WEST VALLEY CITY — A Magna woman who police believe has information about an unsolved 2022 drive-by shooting that claimed the life of an innocent bystander is facing a criminal charge.
Leslie Diana Figueroa Rodriguez, 25, was charged Friday in 3rd District Court with obstruction of justice, a second-degree felony.
On the night of May 5, 2022, Pete Carlos Robert Ulibarri, 45, was shot in the head and killed while sitting in his car in a driveway near 3500 South and 6400 West. He died from his injuries the next day. Last year, West Valley announced a $10,000 reward for information in the case.
After the incident, detectives recovered surveillance video that showed "a silver sedan make a U-turn on 6400 West approximately one- to-two houses to the south of the incident. After making the U-turn the sedan slows down to what appears to be a stop directly in front of a residence and fires shots from what appears to be the passenger door of the sedan. The sedan then speeds away at a high rate of speed northbound on 6400 West," according to charging documents.
With the help of license plate readers, detectives identified a Honda with prior law enforcement involvement driven by Figueroa, a documented gang member, as being in the areas that night, the charges state.
"Additionally, an accident report was located with Salt Lake City Police Department in which the defendant claimed that the Honda Insight was involved in the accident was hers and that someone had stolen the vehicle. However, it was later determined to be a lie," the charges state.
When questioned on May 13, Figueroa claimed she hadn't had a car in several years, according to the charges. But despite additional information collected by police linking her to the Honda, "the defendant continues to deny any involvement with the vehicle."
Nevertheless, prosecutors are requesting that Figueroa be held without bail pending trial "due to the serious nature of the allegations, the defendant's current probation status, the defendant's documented gang status, and the defendant's involvement with a vehicle involved in a drive-by shooting that caused the death of another," the wrote in charging documents.
