“One party was found away from the location, but he doesn’t know how he got there,” Lorenz said.
Once police talked to Dean and Garcia, they realized that the loan agents were injured in the same attack, he said.
“At this particular point, the detectives are still investigating,” Lorenz said.
“But as a result of their assault and attack on these parties, that’s what we charged them with.”
Dean and Garcia were reportedly helping La Cañada residents Mary Ann Parmelee and Daniel Weston, both 52, modify their home loan to get out of foreclosure, according to the Los Angeles district attorney’s office.
The couple’s address in the 4800 block of La Cañada Boulevard is also the location of Lee’s DW Real Estate Development, where prosecutors allege Parmelee was a Realtor.
She and two other alleged attackers — Mario Gonzales, 47, of Glendale, and Marissa Parker, 49, of Sylmar — often sent loan modification referrals to the agents, the district attorney’s office stated.
“These people . . . all had some type of business relationship,” Lorenz said. “They knew of each other.”
But when a dispute over their loan modification service arose, Parmelee, Weston, Gonzales, Parker and Gustavo Canez, 36, of Los Angeles allegedly planned a meeting with the agents and attacked them in the office, according to the district attorney’s office.
Authorities would not say for how long the two loan agents were imprisoned and beaten.
All five suspects were charged with two counts of torture, two counts of false imprisonment by violence and two counts of second-degree robbery.
