LAKEPORT — The Lake County District Attorney”s Office has filed a motion to consolidate three separate cases against Andrew James Serrano — all involving his estranged wife — into one case.
Serrano, 38, remains in custody at the Lake County Jail on $1 million bail for charges in the most recent case in which he faces seven felonies, including attempted murder, and a slew of special allegations.
Authorities allege that on Sept. 10 Serrano beat his estranged wife and shot a man accompanying the woman as she retrieved personal items from a residence on Big Valley Road.
Serrano has yet to enter a plea in that case.
In a second pending case, Serrano pleaded not guilty to felony and misdemeanor charges for allegedly following his estranged wife, ramming her vehicle and leaving the scene in early July.
Serrano allegedly violated a court order to stay away from the woman during the July incident. The protective order originated because of a third pending case in which Serrano faces misdemeanors for alleged harassing phone calls to the woman in May.
The motion to consolidate those three cases was before Judge Arthur H. Mann Monday morning at the Lake County Courthouse.
Mann decided to continue consideration of the motion after defense counsel, Mitchell Hauptman, asked the court for more time to review the recently-filed prosecution request and confer with his client.
The motion to consolidate will be addressed on Oct. 17 at 8:15 a.m. in Department 3. Mann also continued pending proceedings in all three cases to that date.
Contact Jeremy Walsh at jwalsh@record-bee.com or call him at 263-5636, ext. 37.
