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Former Raiders defensive end Anthony Wayne Smith was charged along with two others in the 2008 murder of 31-year-old Lancaster man Maurilio Ponce.
Smith, of Fontana; Charles Eric Honest of Los Angeles; and Dewann Wesley White of Bloomington were all charged in February, and were arrested last week.
According to Sandi Gibbons, spokesperson for the L.A. District Attorney’s Office, “The defendants are all charged with one count of murder.”
Deputy District Attorney Michael Blake said Honest appeared in Lancaster Superior Court yesterday and his arraignment was put over until March 17 in Department A01. Smith and White were due in that court for arraignment this afternoon. Bail for Smith and Honest was recommended at $1 million each, while White’s was recommended at $1.05 million.
Blake said Ponce was beaten and shot several times before his body was dumped near the Antelope Valley poppy fields about 11 miles west of Lancaster. The case was investigated by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and filed on Feb. 16 as a felony complaint for arrest warrant after investigators presented evidence to Blake.
Smith played professional football with the Raiders between 1991 and 1998. He was living in Marina Del Rey at the time Ponce was killed.
The information here was gathered largely from an update from the L.A. County Sheriff’s Nixle.com account.
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