Woman accused of attempted murder at Rainbow Family gathering in court today

Posted 1:49 pm, June 23, 2014, by , Updated at 11:31am, June 25, 2014
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HEBER CITY, Utah – A woman arrested for attempted murder at the Rainbow Family gathering in Heber City is expected in court today.

Leilani M. Novak Garcia, also known as “Hitler,” was taken into custody by the U.S. Forest Service officers and Wasatch County deputies Monday evening.

Authorities said they found the 32-year-old Las Cruces, New Mexico, native hiding in a tent.

She is being held on a $20,000 cash-only bail.

Garcia is accused of stabbing a 45-year-old man, officials said.

Heber City Police said Uinta National Forest Rangers told them they heard someone say “I’ll kill you,” just before they found the man stabbed twice at about 1 a.m.

According to Heber City Police’s Facebook page, Garcia is accused in the stabbing and ran before officers arrived.

 

 

 

33 comments

    • Matt

      Great. Hitler is lose on the masses in Heber. So much for love, peace, and whatever else those ding dongs supposedly believe in. Oh, brother!

      • Bill

        Har har har, one person stabs someone and all of a sudden you paint everyone else at the gathering with the same brush.

        Do you hate and demean everyone in your own city because someone who lives there robbed the corner store? If not, wake up and realize that this means there’s still hundreds – if not thousands – of peaceful individuals in the woods who haven’t done anything remotely like this!

      • Bob

        Obviously this criminal doesn’t understand the stated goal of the Rainbow Family to “achieve peace and love on Earth”..

      • Mike Hunt

        Bob, that is because you have to have an IQ above 50 to understand that, I bet the entire rainbow family combined would be hard pressed to reach an IQ of 100, that’s why they, “stick together”…

      • lostthoughts

        mike most of the people i have encountered at rainbow have been very intelligent..cant say that about most my interactions in society(this discussion included)….sadly ignorant bigots like yourself keep a lot of the good that could come from rainbow from making it out of the woods…..btw my IQ is 135, i scored one point away from perfect on the asvab, have never scored below the 8th percentile in any testing i have ever done, can work on anything from computers to cars, and can survive without any modern tech. U really want to start trying to compare mental acuity with someone like me(a rainbow member), i promise you will lose. and we “stick together” because we are decent human beings that are able to see things from others point of view….your narrow-minded bigoted approach is exactly whats wrong with the world.

  • Daniel

    My daughter-in-law tells me she is a client at the hospice she works for in Las Cruces, New Mexico. She might be headed back there.

    • mark

      I think your dil just broke confidentiality policies and HIPPA laws. Of course, you have made a major assist. Good for you.

  • Dizzy Glass

    Freakshow, dingdongs, insensitive, demeaning comments form the “fox” news peanut gallery…..hashahhaha, what a f%^king joke….your government eats children for profit…wake the F$%K up, “americans”: seperatists. warmongers. isolated socio-psychopathic, ego driven power brokers. im one of those people you people feel the need to demean in your small sheeple brains……I dont know why im even wasting the time to say all this. let me ask you this???? you got obama care? your kids gotta get a school loan to have a future. the rainbow bridge philosophy is one of true unity, with love and acceptance for all gods creatures……..we are ALL children to God….you will be judged according to your judging. blessings from the most high to you and our world family.

    • Bob

      You’ve got a lot of hate working for you there Dizzy. And you want to talk about “love and acceptance”? I assume that your attitude is shared by the rest of the Rainbow Family.

      • Meg

        I’d say that assuming 10k+ people share any particular attitude would be pretty ignorant, Bob. Even more so, jumping to that conclusion based on a single internet comment by a stranger.

    • Mike Hunt

      There is no god, science has pretty much debunked that one. Also, your language make so you a hypocrite when talking about “love and acceptance”. I will keep my money, car, shower, soap, house, and job. Keep being parasite hippies on society, the hard working will always be there to clean up after you losers…

    • Mike Hunt

      Also due to hard work, I am in a six figure household. I will take that over the rainbow say any day…

      • Meg

        Believe it or not, there are more than a few rainbow family who make over six figures. The thing about rainbow is that it attracts people of MANY demographics (a rainbow of different people, you might say), which is why stereotyping based off some internet comments is not bright. I don’t plan to give up my car, hot showers, soap, house, job, etc., either — not long term, at least. But I enjoy going to the gatherings and not have to worry about the rat race and keeping up with the Joneses. It’s refreshing to be around people who in general are much more positive, open-minded, and accepting than most groups I’ve encountered outside the gatherings. If you are in the area, I do hope you will come and check it out. Come far in, past the parking lot area (scene there is a bit different than further in). Come and stay for dinner. It’s on us. Then you can see how much hard work these hippies put in.

      • Mike Hunt

        Meg, normal people call that camping. Normal people also camp without stealing, begging, being smelly, stabbing, or leaving places trashed…

      • Meg

        Nike, most people at the gathering — the vast, vast, vast majority — are not stealing, begging, stabbing, or leaving places trashed. As for being smelly, i think it’s pretty normal to be smelly after a week of camping. You saying that kind of makes me think that you don’t go camping enough. In any case, being smelly in the woods is not a crime. Stealing and stabbing rightfully are. And as for “leaving places trashed”, rainbow family does an incredible job of cleaning up the sites and keeping them clean to begin with — and even cleaning up local’s trash, which there often is. Unfortunately, many “normal” campers do litter and don’t follow other Leave No Trace principles. While some newbies may need education, they will get it at the gathering.

  • April

    I’ve known this woman personally for about 14yrs, and despite the crude comments she is actually a a very caring and decent human being. In all actuality, the man may have tried to assault
    her or rob her. This may have been why she assaulted him. I personally could not see her committing that act in any other circumstances except in some sort of
    self defense.

    • Bob

      A woman who is known as “Hitler”, stabs someone, and then runs off is obviously a “very caring and decent human being”. No doubt about it, she’s headed for sainthood. Meantime she’s sitting in jail and waiting for a loving family member to bail her out.

      • April

        People are only human, even at rainbow gatherings. And by far is she a person heading for sainthood, I never implied that. I don’t see you making any comments about the other half of what I said, maybe the guy did something to her, an act in self defense that may have scared her after the fact, maybe why she ran and hid. No one knows the whole truth of what happened except person(s) that were personally involved or is
        handling the case. And just because she has some crazy nickname doesn’t mean she some kind of ax murderer, just a horrible incident with a messed up nickname is all people see.

      • April

        And in no means am I defending what she did, but people should open their eyes and weigh tge pros & cons of things before the judge.

      • Bob

        Let’s get serious April. If the victim did something to her she could have cried out for help and people like the Uinta National Forest Rangers would have come running to help her. How can you not judge someone who plunges a knife into another human being and then takes off running?

  • willow

    Why so unkind? The look in her eye and her actions are that of one with mental illness. I pray you find help with those more compassionate than some of these commenters should such a fate befall you.
    The victim she stabbed attended her court hearing, according to another news story, and he has not been charged with assault or attempted assault, April.

  • April

    I am being serious, and I realize she could and should have called out for help but who’s to say what anyone would do in that situation, right or wrong. I still wont judge, even though, Yes, It was wrong. If she’s guilty then she’ll pay for her actions.

  • Rhonda

    My daughter knows this chick and swears that for her to do something like this it was probably a self defense situation. You don’t stab somebody for no reason. Whether its self defense to robbery and every thing in between nobody gets stabbed “just because” . Unless of course its a mentally unstable person and even then in their minds there is a reason.

    • Bob

      Yeah right, Rhonda. With other people right there who could step in and help? You don’t even believe what you’re saying. Based on your story they need to lock her up in a mental hospital for the criminally insane.

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