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West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Medical Center<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A New York City man was sentenced Wednesday to 25 years and 10 months in federal prison for kidnapping a 68-year-old woman with dementia at the West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Medical Center in July 2021, officials stated.<\/span><\/p>\n

Johnny Ray Gasca then obstructed an FBI investigation into the abduction, according to officials.<\/span><\/p>\n

U.S. District Judge Andr\u00e9 Birotte Jr. sentenced <\/span>Gasca, 53, of Bronx, New York.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

After a six-day bench trial, Judge Birotte found Gasca guilty on June 13 of one count of kidnapping, two counts of attempted obstruction of justice, and one count of attempted witness tampering.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"“[Gasca] financially exploited [the] victim\u2019s mental fragility \u2013 describing his supposed \u2018girlfriend\u2019 as \u2018senile\u2019\u2026 \u2013 to steal tens of thousands of dollars from her,\u201d prosecutors argued in a sentencing memorandum. \u201cAfter the victim managed to get away from [Gasca], he abducted her from the grounds of a hospital where she had sought care for her dementia in order to steal even more of her money. Immediately after the abduction, he attempted to indoctrinate her to parrot back a version of events favorable to him.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Gasca kidnapped the victim at about 8:30 a.m. on July 19, 2021, after the victim attempted to obtain a medical appointment at the VA facility, officials stated.<\/span><\/p>\n

A long-time friend accompanied the victim, and as the two of them \u201capproached their car, Gasca appeared unexpectedly,\u201d according to court documents.<\/span><\/p>\n

Adding, \u201cGasca put his arms around [the victim] and pushed her toward a gold-colored pickup truck that was parked nearby. Gasca then picked [the victim] up and threw her into the rear portion of the truck\u2019s passenger compartment.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"After the Department of Veteran Affairs Police Department contacted the FBI later in the morning, the victim\u2019s friend told agents she recognized Gasca, believed he previously was in some kind of relationship with the victim, and suspected Gasca may have taken some of [the victim\u2019s] money from her bank and retirement accounts.<\/span><\/p>\n

The witness also reported that the victim had previously noted that she was missing some of her credit cards. <\/span><\/p>\n

When the two went to the victim\u2019s bank to review her accounts, bank records showed a $35,000 withdrawal from the victim\u2019s retirement account, followed by several Venmo, MoneyGram, and PayPal transactions that the friend believed the victim did not have \u201cthe knowledge or wherewithal\u201d to conduct, court documents state.<\/span><\/p>\n

Within hours of beginning its investigation, the FBI located the victim\u2019s phone at a hotel on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles, where agents converged. Soon after, Gasca and the victim exited the hotel, leading to Gasca\u2019s arrest.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"During an interview recounted in court documents, Gasca described the victim as his girlfriend and told agents that, after leaving the VA facility, they stopped at a bank where the victim made a $15,000 withdrawal.<\/span><\/p>\n

After his arrest and while in pre-trial custody, Gasca made several jail calls to a friend in New York, asking him to destroy evidence of his wrongdoing with the victim, according to evidence presented at the trial. Gasca urged the friend to erase all his messages on the Facebook Messenger app, including messages describing the victim as a \u201cGolden goose.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In August 2021, Gasca made another jailhouse phone call to his friend and told him to collect his hard drives from his apartment before the FBI could seize them and learn of his financial exploitation of the victim.<\/span><\/p>\n

The FBI investigated this matter and received substantial assistance from the VA Police.<\/span><\/p>\n

Assistant U.S. Attorneys Kevin B. Reidy of the Major Frauds Section and Kathy Yu of the Violent and Organized Crime Section prosecuted this case.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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