Suspect Held in Slaying of Marine on Base

A suspect in the Aug. 31 slaying of a Camp Pendleton Marine has been arrested in Phoenix, Assistant U. S. Atty. Larry Burns said Wednesday.

The suspect, Glenn Allan Silva, 32, alias Kyle Bergland, has been indicted on a murder charge by a federal grand jury in Phoenix and will be brought to San Diego and arraigned in federal court in the next few days, said Burns, who will prosecute the case.

Cpl. Robert James Winters Jr., 23, died of a single shot in the back as he tried to flee an assailant outside his home on Erskine Drive in Camp Pendleton’s San Onofre housing area, Burns said.

Silva was arrested by the FBI after a joint investigation with the Marines. He had lived in the 1000 block of Tremont Street in Oceanside and worked at a 7-Eleven convenience store in Leucadia under the name Bergland until quitting a week before the killing.

Real Identity Discovered

Silva met Winters through the Marine’s wife, Terri Jeanne, who also worked at the store, Burns said. Silva moved to North County a year ago after jumping bail on a murder charge in his hometown of New Bedford, Mass., Burns said.

Silva’s real identity was discovered through fingerprints after his apprehension in Phoenix, Burns added.

Silva faces a maximum sentence of life in prison and a $500,000 fine if convicted in the slaying of Winters. Trial will be held in federal court because the crime occurred on Camp Pendleton.

Two other people are also under arrest in the case. They are Timothy Brian Hulinsky, 21, of the 800 block of Soft Wind Road, Vista, and Adrian Murray Tyson, 29, of the 800 block of Wandering Road, Vista. They were arrested in San Diego County one day before Silva was seized in Phoenix, Burns said.

They face a preliminary hearing in federal court Friday on charges of being accessories after the fact for driving Silva to Phoenix, Burns said.

Silva, a 1984 graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, was facing a murder trial for the 1984 killing of Leslie Offley, the daughter of a police officer, when he disappeared, according to a source who knew Silva.

Silva reportedly had been jailed after being charged with the slaying but fled after being released when his bail was lowered.