- Fernando Renteria, 41, charged with obstruction of justice in an Ogden shooting case.
- Renteria allegedly helped his son flee to Las Vegas after the Oct. 7 incident, then to Mexico.
- Surveillance showed family at Las Vegas airport; police claim Renteria lied about son's whereabouts.
OGDEN — The father of a teen who police suspect is involved in the fatal shooting of a Ben Lomond High School student on Oct. 7 was charged Wednesday with obstruction of justice and accused of lying about his son's departure to Mexico after the shooting.
Fernando Renteria, 41, of Roy, is charged in 2nd District Court with two counts of obstruction of justice, a second-degree felony.
Renteria is the father of a teen accused of being one of the two shooters in the killing of 16-year-old Mason Caballero. He helped his son escape to Las Vegas and then lied to police about his whereabouts, according to the charges.
On the afternoon of Oct. 8, a day after the shooting, Roy police, Ogden police and the Ogden Metro SWAT team were serving a search warrant at a home in Roy. During the visit, a Weber County sheriff's deputy learned that the mother of the household, Renteria's wife, had previously been deported, court documents state.
The deputy called Immigration and Customs Enforcement to check the woman's immigration status, and learned that she had booked a flight from Las Vegas to Monterrey, Mexico, on Oct. 8, that was scheduled to depart from the airport in Las Vegas that day at 3:22 p.m.
No one was home during the time, but the SWAT commander "made note of several closets in the home that had been left open, as if the family packed items and left town," the charges state.
A Roy police detective contacted Homeland Security and had it check the travel activity of the woman and Fernando Renteria. The detective was later informed that the woman and her son, the teen suspect, had taken a flight from Las Vegas to Monterrey, Mexico, the charges state.
The next day, Oct. 9, Ogden and Roy police officers returned to the home and made contact with Fernando Renteria and another family member in the front yard. When asked by police if he knew where his son and his wife were, Renteria said he didn't know, according to the charges.
Las Vegas metro police obtained surveillance footage from the Harry Reid International Airport, which showed seven people arriving in two family vehicles on the morning of Oct. 8, the charges say. Police said they believe the two vehicles were used to transport the teen suspect and his mother to the airport in Las Vegas.
The footage also showed Renteria, another family member and three other people "give the mother and son hugs and the two begin to walk through the security line," the charges state.
Police also noted cellphone records that tracked movements after the shooting on Oct. 7 showed the vehicle used in the incident was dropped off at a location in Roy, where the teen suspect and another family member were both present, "showing that he (the family member) picked up (the teen) directly after the homicide and provided him transportation," according to the charges.
The other suspected shooter, Isaias Emanuel Carranza, 16, was charged as an adult in 2nd District Court in Ogden with aggravated murder in the killing. He also faces 28 other counts.
