On February 1, 2019, Mercedes Carrera and her husband were arrested for Sexual Acts with a child under ten years old and possessing a Controlled Substance while armed with a handgun.

Their case finally has a trial date set three and a half years later. Their trial date has been set for October 3, 2022.

There have been multiple delays in their case, but for the most part, these delays have been at the request of either Mercedes Carrera or her husband. Almost all delays in the last three years have been on the side of the defense for one reason or another. Despite what some people may want you to believe, this case isn’t being drugged out by the prosecution.

Those who regularly speak to Mercedes Carrera while she is in jail say that she keeps pushing the date back and asking for delays “because her lawyers tell her to do it,” but she never quite indicates why that is.

Some people will have you believe that the government is keeping her in jail and not giving her an opportunity to have her day in court. That honestly isn’t the case. Almost every delay for the last three years has been because of either Mercedes or her husband. It’s one reason or another but almost always on their part. Mercedes Carrera and Jason Whitney have made all those delays. So don’t listen to anyone who tries to tell you some bleeding heart story.

District Attorney’s Office in Rancho Cucamonga has been ready to go to trial, as far as I know, since 2020.

So what about bail? Well, due to the nature of the charges against them, Mercedes Carrera and her husband were originally denied bail. They were, in fact, deemed “ineligible for bail.” However, that changed for Jason Whitney, who was eventually offered bail in the amount of $2 million.

That being said, despite what other sources claim, Mercedes Carrera continues to be “ineligible” for bail. Even if she had the money, according to the representative I spoke with from SBCSD, Mercedes Carrera doesn’t qualify for bail due to the nature of the charges.

So despite what others are saying, there is a reason why Mercedes Carrera hasn’t posted a bond. Quite simply, she can’t.

Mercedes Carrera will go to court in October to answer four specific charges.

• PC288.7(B) ORAL COP: VICT UNDER 10YRS
• PC288.5(A) CONT SEX ABUSE OF CHILD
• PC288A(C)(1) ORAL COP: PERSON -14YR/ETC
• HS11370.1(A) POSS CNTL SUB WHILE ARMED

Charge 1: Bigamy, Incest, and the Crime Against Nature: (b) Any person 18 years of age or older who engages in oral copulation or sexual penetration, as defined in Section 289, with a child who is ten years of age or younger is guilty of a felony and shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a term of 15 years to life.

Charge 2: Bigamy, Incest, and the Crime Against Nature: (a) Any person who either resides in the same home with the minor child or has recurring access to the child, who over a period of time, not less than three months in duration, engages in three or more acts of substantial sexual conduct with a child under the age of 14 years at the time of the commission of the offense, as defined in subdivision (b) of Section 1203.066, or three or more acts of lewd or lascivious conduct, as defined in Section 288, with a child under the age of 14 years at the time of the commission of the offense is guilty of the offense of continuous sexual abuse of a child and shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a term of 6, 12, or 16 years.

Charge 3: Bigamy, Incest, and the Crime Against Nature:  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (i), a person who willfully and lewdly commits any lewd or lascivious act, including any of the acts constituting other crimes provided for in Part 1, upon or with the body, or any part or member thereof, of a child who is under the age of 14 years, with the intent of arousing, appealing to, or gratifying the lust, passions, or sexual desires of that person or the child, is guilty of a felony and shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years.

(c) (1) A person who commits an act described in subdivision (a) with the intent described in that subdivision, and the victim is a child of 14 or 15 years, and that person is at least ten years older than the child, is guilty of a public offense and shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for one, two, or three years, or by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than one year. In determining whether the person is at least ten years older than the child, the difference in age shall be measured from the person’s birth date to the birth date of the child.

Charge 4: Miscellaneous Offenses and Provisions: (a)  Notwithstanding Section 11350 or 11377 or any other provision of law, every person who unlawfully possesses any amount of a substance containing cocaine base, a substance containing cocaine, a substance containing heroin, a substance containing methamphetamine, a crystalline substance containing phencyclidine, a liquid substance containing phencyclidine, plant material containing phencyclidine, or a hand-rolled cigarette treated with phencyclidine while armed with a loaded, operable firearm is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for two, three, or four years. As used in this subdivision, “armed with” means having available for immediate offensive or defensive use.

While she was originally charged with many other crimes, these are the only four that she’ll be answering to come time for her trial.

Here is a rundown of her original eight felony charges from 2019.

That later changed once they got arraigned. She then faced two counts of possession of a controlled substance while armed while previously she had only one, and five counts of sexual acts with a child instead of the eight previous charges.

That has all changed now, and she is now facing just the four charges total, again those we discussed above.

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