Editor’s note: This is the second part of a two part Reporter investigation.

On Sept. 3, 2013, at 10:19 p.m., Kirkland police received a call from a woman at her residence in a Kirkland apartment complex. A Hispanic male, she claimed, had followed her home and knocked on her door several times. When she did not answer, she said the man, whom she described as holding a towel over his hand, became angry.

A police officer arrived at the scene, but was unable to locate anyone matching the description before he had to go to a burglary call in Bellevue. When he returned later that evening, another officer had an 18-year-old man in custody, having discovered him sitting on the apartment building stair landing above the victim’s apartment door.

Although they found no towel on him, they did discover a pair of rubber kitchen gloves and two knives, one of which was an illegal gravity knife. He told officers he had been dropped off by “George,” but couldn’t provide the rest of his friend’s name or the vehicle he had arrived in.

While searching the rest of the area with a K9 unit, the officers were contacted by other residents in the apartment complex who had noticed a man in the parking lot who appeared to be a drug dealer, as well as a Hispanic man whom they described as resembling a “Cholo,” or Mexican gangster.

The 18-year-old Hispanic man turned out to be Kent resident Eric Mora Barcenas, an acquaintance of Jocelyn Valerie Ruiz, believed to be a member of the Lil Valley Lokotes (LVL), a criminal street gang from the Yakima area.

Documents from a police investigation obtained by the Reporter through a public records request reveal a plan concocted between Ruiz and two men to break into the 31-year-old woman’s apartment in retaliation for reporting identity theft allegedly committed by Ruiz during the same year. Following the arrest of Barcenas-Mora for possession of dangerous weapons and burglary tools on Sept. 3, police discovered a possible suspect vehicle in the northwest area of the apartment complex.

When police were informed by the victim that Ruiz might have been involved in the attempted robbery, they obtained warrants for phone records from T-Mobile, as well as data from Facebook accounts. Recovered text messages from Ruiz’s phone, confiscated during her arrest, conveys an effort on her part to find someone willing to break into the victim’s home, physically assault her, and possibly kill her.

One text message from Ruiz’s phone dated Aug. 27, 2013 to an unknown person stated she was “trying to get it done, but everybody is scared.”

When the unknown person inquires about what she wanted to do, the response is “[expletive] her [the victim] up then drop her off somewhere?”

Ruiz allegedly also bragged in the texts about how she had stolen the victim’s personal information and also claimed to have been “planning this for a while.”

Although the texts indicate the unknown person seemed interested, communication shortly ceased between the two, according to the police investigation.

Facebook messages recovered by police show Ruiz allegedly took to Facebook to find accomplices, posting that she had a job that paid $10,000, according to police documents.

“Make 10k doing what?” one responding message to Ruiz’s Facebook account says.

“It’s kind of a man job it’s really serious I can’t tell just anyone,” reads the reply from Ruiz’s Facebook account.

“Lol well, you put it on Facebook so I was wondering buh yup,” the person replied.

When another person asked on Facebook what the job entailed, Ruiz allegedly asked “what’s the most extreme [expletive] you’ve done lol,” to which the person replied “lol trust girl I done some [expletive]-up [expletive] that’s why I ask.”

Ruiz allegedly also told the person via Facebook that she wanted to “get rid of this [expletive] whatever sense I can. Whether [sic] it be driving her hours away from putting her in a hospital or whatever. She has a lot of money so I’m talking bout 10 grand each.”

When asked why Ruiz wanted to burglarize and assault the victim, she allegedly claimed the victim had “put her up in RJC (Regional Justice Center)” and slept with her mother’s husband.

Ultimately, Ruiz planned the actual robbery attempt with an 18-year-old Hispanic man and Kent resident, Alexander Castro-Marciel between Aug. 29 and Sept. 4, 2013 over text messages. No messages between them were found in the Facebook data from Ruiz’s account.

“We can beat her n leave her in Eastern Washington,” one of the texts reads.

An alleged text from Ruiz also suggested “How about we wait for her outside her house or outside her work you guys [expletive] her up & then we get rid of her cause she knows who I am in case she sees me.”

Further texts between Ruiz and Castro-Marciel discuss the details of the robbery, such as the hours the victim was at work, the security of the victim’s residence, as well as the exact day to carry it out.

“I was thinking you guys can brake [sic] into her house before she even gets there and wait for her inside,” reads a text from Ruiz’s phone on Sept. 3, 2013, the day before the attempted robbery. One of the texts from Castro-Marciel’s phone expresses concerns over breaking inside. To which Ruiz replies “I also know how to get her out the house.”

Following the failed robbery attempt, further texts from Ruiz’s phone reads “Now I really wanna kill that hoe I’m so mad,” to which Castro-Marciel replies “Serio tho wait till I get a strapp honestly I dnt casre about the money anymore real [expletive].”

Meanwhile, police learned from the victim that she had received a text message the same night as the attempted robbery that read “I sent my cousin over to give you ur [sic] wallet but obviously you didn’t open door anyway he left it under your car so u can leave us alone.”

The number, the victim claimed, belonged to Ruiz’s phone. No wallet was found underneath the victim’s car.

A citation was issued to Ruiz through investigation for the order violating, and police later arrested her in Kent. While in police custody, Ruiz denied being in Kirkland the night of the attempted robbery, and when she was shown a photo of Barcenas-Mora, she allegedly said he had attended a party at the victim’s residence in June but she had not seen him since.

When asked about the victim’s wallet, Ruiz allegedly admitted to having it, but added the victim had given it to her. She later claimed that Barcenas-Mora had shown up to the victim’s residence because “they like to, watcha’ call it, hit licks I guess you say.” When the officers asked her if she meant robberies, she allegedly confirmed it.

While Ruiz initially offered an alibi that placed her in Kent during the attempted robbery, she later confessed to have driven Barcenas-Mora and Castro-Marciel – whom she referred to as “David” – to the victim’s apartment complex to take her TV and laptop back because she hated the victim too much to go inside.

Ruiz also confessed to having suggested a “lick” at the victim’s residence to Castro-Marciel, and that they had parked in the apartment complex 10-20 minutes before the victim had come home. According to police documents, Ruiz had parked in the same spot in the apartment complex where witnesses told police they had seen a suspicious man come and go from a vehicle the same night as the attempted robbery.

From there, Barcenas-Mora had knocked on the victim’s door, at which point Ruiz texted the victim about the wallet to get her to come out. Afterwards, however, Ruiz got scared and drove away, leaving the men behind.

Less than two hours after the robbery attempt, Kirkland police received a phone call from Castro-Marciel, whose caller ID was Fidel Castro. Castro-Marciel claimed to be a cousin of Barcenas-Mora’s and inquired about possibly releasing him from custody. Police inquired how he knew about Barcenas’ arrest, to which Castro-Marciel said nothing.

About an hour later, they received another call from Castro-Marciel, who called himself “David,” inquiring about Barcenas-Mora’s release. Police provided him with Bercenas’ bail at $1,000. But when police informed Barcenas-Moras that his cousin “David” had come to bail him out of jail, he told them he had no cousin named David.

Police later learned that “David” was one of Ruiz’s accomplices after she repeatedly mentioned the name during her interview. They were able to identify Castro-Marciel, a recent graduate of Kent-Meridian High School, based on his Facebook page shown to them by Ruiz during her interview.

Castro-Marciel was arrested in Kent on Sept. 11, 2013 in connection to the armed robbery attempt. During a police interview, he told them he had known Ruiz for several years and had agreed to take part in the armed robbery, although he also described having a bad feeling about it once they arrived and he “didn’t want to be there.”

Right before the attempted robbery, he received a phone call from his girlfriend complaining about him not telling her everything about his plans. His girlfriend then became upset when she heard Ruiz’s voice. Castro-Marciel tried to calm her down, which got Ruiz confused as to whom he was speaking. This also led to confusion for Barcenas-Mora’s, who decided to get out of the car to knock at the victim’s door again.

At the same time, Ruiz insisted on using Castro-Marciel’s phone to text the victim about the wallet.

Later on in the interview with police, Castro-Marciel admitted the plan became a mess and “none of us knew what was going on, or what was going to happen.”

Police also found pictures on Castro-Marciel’s phone of a stolen Mercedes, which he told detectives he knew to be stolen.

At the conclusion of the police investigation, the three were charged for the attempted robbery. Barcenas-Mora and Castro-Maciel eventually pled guilty and are currently serving prison sentences.

On top of her charge for first degree identity theft against the Kirkland woman, Ruiz was charged by King County Prosecutor’s Office with second degree identity theft and first degree attempted robbery, with bail set at $30,000. When she failed to appear at her court appearance, a warrant was issued for her arrest with $250,000 bail, and the KPD put out a notice to the public seeking their help.

For Ruiz, the chase ended in Long Beach, Calif., when she was nabbed by bail bond agents acting on behalf of Jail Sucks Bail Bonds, as well as U.S. Marshals, following an eight day hunt, but not before her flight from Washington earned her a spot on Washington’s Most Wanted. A trial date is scheduled for April 7, 2015.