Left: Karla Terron (Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department). Center: Juan Figueroa after his arrest (City of San Fernando/Instagram). Right: Terron seen at VFW bar in San Fernando on Dec. 16, 2022 (Karla Terron/Facebook).
More than a year and a half after a California woman was last seen alive at a VFW bar on a Friday night and found “engulfed in flames” in the early morning hours the next day near a freeway off-ramp in Bakersfield, investigators have arrested a murder suspect.
On Wednesday, officials in the City of San Fernando announced that the San Fernando Police Department and the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department conducted a “special operation” and arrested 30-year-old Juan Figueroa at a Knox Street residence in “connection with” 27-year-old Karla Terron’s murder.
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In July, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department renewed calls for the public’s assistance in identifying who was responsible for the slaying of Terron, a mother to two sons who was stabbed multiple times, killed, and then set on fire after she left the bar, a VFW that was reportedly near where she worked as a waitress .