Hatchet attack suspect had wages garnished

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A day before Border Patrol agent Gamalier Rivera broke into an Escondido home, attacking a woman and her boyfriend with a hatchet, a judge ordered his wages garnished to pay $2,200 per month in child and spousal support, it was reported Saturday.

Rivera’s wife was living at the address, and he may have mistaken the woman for his estranged wife in Thursday’s roughly 1 a.m. attack, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported.

“Unfortunately, I believe Gamalier has let his anger over our pending divorce and the financial obligations that come along with that cloud his judgment,” the wife, Erika Von der Heyde wrote in a court document filed in April. “In fact, Gamalier recently told me that he was going to quit his job
and get a job making minimum wage, telling me that I would never get money from him.”

Police have refused to name the victims. The 29-year-old man, initially in critical condition, remains hospitalized, the newspaper reported.

Von der Heyde and her 7-year-old daughter, who were in another room at the time of the attack, were uninjured.

The 32-year-old suspect, arrested shortly after the attack when an officer noticed him on Upas Street near Ninth Avenue talking on a pay phone in bloody clothes, is jailed in Vista on suspicion of attempted murder and set to be arraigned Monday.

Escondido police searched Rivera’s vehicle and the couple’s Imperial Beach condominium but would not say what was found, the Union-Tribune reported.

Court records show Rivera makes $104,400 annually. He joined the Border Patrol in 2003 after marrying his wife for the first time in 2002. They met in Venezuela, her home country, while she worked for the U.S. Embassy and he was in the Marine Corps, the Union-Tribune reported.

In 2005, Von der Heyde, 33, accused Rivera of writing a list of things he would need to kill her, including gloves, a plastic bag for her body and weights to sink the bag, according to court records.

Police seized the list and Von der Heyde was granted a three-year restraining order. Two months later, the restraining order was dismissed while divorce proceedings continued, according to the Union-Tribune.

The couple remarried in Nevada in August 2007 and co-own the Imperial Beach condo, the newspaper reported based on court records.

In February, amid their second divorce, Rivera asked for a restraining order against Van der Heyde, alleging she abused her daughter and suggesting she could flee the country. The request was denied, and he was ordered to pay spousal and child support, the newspaper reported.

Tags: Erika Von der Heyde, Gamalier Rivera, Hatchet attack, SDNN

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