Not Guilty Plea in July Acid Attack

By Marcus Gilmer in News on Dec 23, 2008 3:30PM

Ofelia Garcia, 59, Maria Olvera-Garcia, 35, and Linda Dirzo, 58, have pleaded not guilty to attempted first-degree murder and several counts of heinous battery stemming from an acid attack against Esperanza Medina in Logan Square this summer. Police believe Garcia hatched the plan because she thought Medina was seeing her ex-husband. The trio hired a trio of teens to attack Medina; she suffered third-degree burns over 25 percent of her body and may lose sight in one eye as a result of the attack. Two of the teens have already been charged in the attack. Dirzo has already admitted to driving the teens to the scene of the attack.