Just a week after four men landed prison sentences La Jolla cookbook author Jeanne Jones were sentenced to prison, one of her former housekeepers pleaded guilty to residential burglary involving her theft of jewelry she took and gave to her boyfriend to sell. Carla Rosela Carrillo, 44, also pleaded guilty on Sept. 23 to commercial burglary involving stealing clothing from a Gap store while she was out on bail for stealing jewelry from Jones, said Deputy District Attorney C.J. Mody. Sentencing was set for Nov. 17, and Carrillo faces a maximum term of four years and eight months in state prison. She pleaded guilty before San Diego Superior Court Judge Charles Gill, who dismissed other charges that included grand theft and receiving stolen property. Carrillo’s boyfriend, Lamont Long, 29, pleaded guilty to receiving stolen property. Mody said it was Long who pawned the stolen rings to a jewelry store but he never was at Jones’ residence. Long is expected to get probation when he is sentenced on Dec. 16. He has no prior record, Mody said. Court records show Carrillo was convicted of burglary in 1999 and attempted theft in 1995. Carrillo is being housed at the Las Colinas Women’s Detention Facility on $60,000 bail. She had been free on bond until she was arrested for the Gap theft in March. Long remains free on bond. Jones testified at the Dec. 9 preliminary hearing when both were ordered to stand trial. According to court records, Jones was shocked to learn Carrillo had been stealing from her. Carrillo was also a caregiver to Jones’ elderly mother. The jewelry stolen included a Rolex watch, a Cartier ring and opal diamond ring, and a heart shaped pendant worth more than $38,000, according to records. The Cartier ring, worth $10,000, was recovered, along with some of the jewelry. Jones writes a nationally syndicated column called “Cook it Light,” and has written 32 books. On Sept. 16, Thomas Walter Clark, 42, was sentenced to 45 years in prison for the home-invasion robbery of Jones and her husband. Aaron Jacob Espinoza, 24, and Hector Guerra, 31, were each sentenced to 26 years and four months in prison for the robbery. Miguel Ocegueda, 24, the getaway driver who did not enter Jones’ house, got 14 years and four months in prison. The four pleaded guilty to two robberies, false imprisonment and felony assault. They took about $30,000 in jewelry from Jones’ home, but almost all of the jewelry was recovered by police.








