Soto, Penelope “Penny”
Appeared in Salvation in Death (c. May 2060)
Personal Information[]
- Description: She had black and magenta hair and improbably large breasts on a bony build—man-made breasts, Eve concluded. Junk-made build.[1]
- Hair: Black and magenta
- Relationships: Nick Soto (father/deceased)
- Occupation: Bodega beside St. Cristóbal’s
Description[]
- She had ink-black hair streaked with magenta; her mouth was dyed a hard red; she wore gold hoops, wide enough to slide a burrito through, in her ears; and bracelets on her wrist.[1] She has a pointed shoulder and a bony hip.[2]
- Her nails were painted as dark as her mouth, with the half-moons etched out in black. On her forearm rode the symbol of the Soldados, with the kill mark.[1] She swaggered.[3]
Personality[]
- She was hotheaded.[4]
- Detective Stuben said she carried hate around in her; she didn’t have to have a purpose to do something to someone.[5]
- She had a reputation for sleeping with many.[6]
- Eve said Penny had layers and layers of hard on her, slapped right over mean and possibly psychotic; and she’s not very smart.[7]
History[]
- She said her mother was useless, more interested in her next fix than Penny. More interested in that than stopping her father from raping her—she was twelve the first time. He slapped her around and told her to keep her mouth shut about it and, if she did, he wouldn’t slap her around next time. He raped her for two years.[8]
- She joined the Soldados when she was fourteen[8] and, when she was not yet fifteen, was made a lieutenant in the gang. There was dissension over the promotion, but Lino Martinez took the dissenter out with a pipe and let Penny “kick the shit out of him.”[9]
- Her mother OD’d years ago.[6]
Criminal History[]
- She has a record for illegals — sale and possession, sexual solicitation without a license, and assault. She’s recently off parole.[10]
Homicide Information[]
- Victims
- Nick Soto
- She and Lino cut her father to pieces when she was fourteen. He was a known drug dealer and the police thought it was an illegals deal that went bad on him.[11] Joe Inez said she and Lino bragged about it all the time.[12]
- Ronni Edwards
- Lino, Steve Chávez, and Penny arrived at the dance after the boomer exploded and blamed it on the Skulls. Joe Inez overheard Penny and Lino talking about how they planted the bomb; he also heard Penny say that they should have used a bigger boomer.[14]
- Quinto Turner
- She helped plan the second bombing and pushed the button herself.[14]
- Kobie Smith
- She helped plan the second bombing and pushed the button herself.[14]
- Conspiracy to murder and fraud
- Lino Martinez[15]
- Juanita Turner was given a toss-away ’link by Penny that she was supposed to throw away. She didn’t and Penny’s voice was recorded implicating herself in conspiracy to murder Lino.[16]
- Lino Martinez[15]
- Accessory to murder after the fact
- Penny thought the Clemency Order would protect her but she was incorrect.[19]
Interesting Facts[]
- Penny was Lino’s girlfriend at the time Lino left at seventeen.[20] When Dallas first asked her about Lino, she lied and said she hadn’t seen him since she was sixteen.[3] Later, she said she was fifteen when she last saw him.[21]
- Dallas baited Penny, gripping and squeezing her arm, then moving to touch her again, when Penny slapped her hand away; when Peabody said she assaulted an officer, Penny became angry, shoved Dallas aside and tried to leave. Dallas said it was another assault, armed, and resisting, when Penny tried for her knife.[22] She was represented by Carlos Montoya.[23]
- After Lino returned, while posing as Miguel Flores, Penny and Lino began a sexual relationship before she knew he was Lino; he told her later.[24] She said Lino loved her.[25]
- Penny said that she and Rosita opened the bodega beside St. Cristóbal’s at 6am on the morning Lino was murdered. They did the prep, and worked the breakfast counter for three hours straight. Penny took her break at 10 a.m. with Pep in the back room.[25]
- She has been in contact with Mr. Feinburg, anticipating claiming the inheritance left behind by Ortega.[26]
- When Dallas set up a sting for Penny, Penny attacked her, hacking out with a knife, catching her on the arm; Dallas took a kick to the hip, a scratch of Penny’s fingernails across her jaw; and another blow here or there. Dallas had a bloody nose and arm after she knocked Penny out.[27]
- Dallas used this to deal with Penny, reducing charges to get her to talk.[28]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), p. 231
- ↑ Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), pp. 232, 346
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), p. 232
- ↑ Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), p. 235
- ↑ Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), p. 251
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), p. 257
- ↑ Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), pp. 274, 301
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), p. 247
- ↑ Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), p. 253
- ↑ Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), p. 208
- ↑ Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), pp. 249, 272, 288
- ↑ Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), p. 324
- ↑ Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), p. 273
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), pp. 321-322, 348
- ↑ Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), p. 311
- ↑ Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), pp. 335-337, 348
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), pp. 311, 337, 347-349
- ↑ Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), pp. 347-349
- ↑ Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), pp. 348-349
- ↑ Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), p. 206
- ↑ Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), p. 245
- ↑ Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), pp. 233-234, 271
- ↑ Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), p. 244
- ↑ Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), p. 246
- ↑ 25.0 25.1 Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), p. 248
- ↑ Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), pp. 299-300
- ↑ Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), pp. 343-344
- ↑ Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), p. 346