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# SM police nab America’s Most Wanted murder suspect
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/sm-police-nab-americas-most-wanted-murder-suspect/
- Published: 2005-06-22T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T07:16:48.000Z
- Author: Carolyn Sackariason
- Tags: Crime, Main St, #archive-import

*Truck driver left for dead on the road in 2004 murder*

POLICE HDQRTS. — Santa Monica police have captured one of America’s Most Wanted.

Mark Damon Grossi, 42, who was wanted for murder in San Diego, was arrested on Sunday on Main Street. The SMPD arrested Grossi for providing false information to a peace officer.

At about 10:30 a.m., a witness reported to police that they saw a man masturbating in a parked vehicle on the 2900 block of Main Street, between Ashland and Pier avenues.

Officers approached Grossi, who was sitting in a maroon Volkswagen, and asked him if he had been masturbating, to which he replied, “Only for a few minutes.”

SMPD officers noticed that the California identification card Grossi had given them didn’t match his physical description and was only a color copy. The ID card bore someone else’s name and information.

Officers took Grossi to police headquarters, where his fingerprints showed that he had an outstanding murder warrant in San Diego. He appeared in court Tuesday and is currently being held in a Los Angeles County detention facility with no bail.

Police in San Diego sought Grossi for a deadly road rage incident. According to officials, on Oct. 13, 2004, Grossi was heading down I-5 in San Diego and soon found himself on a collision course that left one man dead.

Jorge Negrete, a 47-year-old long-distance truck driver, also was driving down I-5, along the same route at the same time as Grossi. Police say that at some point, one of the men cut off the other, igniting a fit of anger that escalated into a war of words between the two men, according to the America’s Most Wanted Web site.

Witnesses say the two men were swearing at each other while driving along the highway. Suddenly, both men pulled off onto the shoulder. Negrete pulled over in his big rig, and Grossi stopped behind him, according to the Web site profile of the case. Police say Negrete’s size, at over 300 pounds, might have intimidated Grossi, because witnesses have said Grossi returned to his truck as Negrete continued to approach him. The enraged Grossi put his pickup truck in reverse, backed up a distance, then put it in gear and stepped on the gas. Police say he slammed into Negrete with an impact that forced the 300-pound man into the air and then sped off. Negrete died on the way to the hospital.

According to America’s Most Wanted, hours after the murder, Grossi was captured on ATM surveillance tape withdrawing everything he had in his saving account.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on June 22, 2005.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/062205.pdf?ref=smdp.com)