Pedro Castro: ‘If I knew, I would have reported it—brother or no brother’

Onil and Pedro Castro (CNN)

The brothers of accused kidnapper and rapist Ariel Castro broken their public silence, giving CNN what's billed as an exclusive sit-down interview about the case.

Pedro, 54, and Onil Casto, 50, told CNN's Martin Savidge that they had no knowledge of their 52-year-old brother's alleged crimes.

"It’s going to haunt me down because people going to think, 'Yeah, Pedro got something to do with this,'" Pedro Castro said in an excerpt from the interview released Sunday. "And Pedro don’t have nothing to do with this. If I knew, I would have reported it—brother or no brother.”

The full interview with the brothers will air Monday, one week after three women—Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gina DeJesus—were freed from Ariel Castro's west Cleveland home where they were beaten and raped over a decade of captivity, police say. A six-year-old girl, believed to be Berry and Ariel Castro's, was also rescued.

The women had several miscarriages during their captivity, police said.

Pedro, Onil and Ariel Castro were arrested on Monday. Pedro and Onil were questioned and held on on outstanding misdemeanors. They were released on Thursday. Ariel Castro was charged with four counts of kidnapping and three counts of rape. He is being held on $8 million bail and is currently on suicide watch.

In 2012, as excavating crews dug through an empty lot in the neighborhood looking for Berry's remains, Pedro Castro told a local news crew that the search for the missing girl was "a waste of money."

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Earthquake rattles Southern California, no damage reported

By Steve Gorman

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A magnitude 4.7 earthquake struck deep beneath a mountain range in Southern California on Monday, jangling the nerves of tennis stars competing in the nearby desert town of Indian Wells and rattling urban areas as far away as Los Angeles, but no damage or injuries were reported.

Automated sensors initially reported the quake as a flurry of three tremors in rapid succession at magnitudes of 5.1 or higher, but seismic strength was quickly downgraded to between 4.6 and 4.7 before scientists determined that only a single quake of that size had actually occurred.

Susan Hough, a seismologist for the U.S. Geological Survey in Pasadena, said the agency's real-time quake-reporting system was "confused" by a 2.3 magnitude foreshock that preceded the main jolt by 16 seconds, and a 3.2 aftershock less than a minute later.

The main quake, which hit shortly before 10 a.m. local time about 22 miles south of the resort town of Palm Springs, ended up being followed by about 100 very small aftershocks, she said.

The principal tremor occurred about 6 to 8 miles beneath the San Jacinto Mountains, a granite range towering over California's southern desert, on a branch of an active fault line named for the mountain, Hough said.

Quakes of similar size typically generate too little ground motion to cause any property damage.

"If you were sitting right on top of a 4.7, it might have knocked some things off the wall," she told Reuters, but centered in the mountains as it was, "we'd expect little or no damage." None was reported, she said.

But the quake proved a distraction for some of the tennis players competing at the BNP Paribas Open in the nearby desert community of Indian Wells.

"We just had an earthquake!!!," Russian pro Maria Kirilenko exclaimed in a Twitter message from the elite ATP Masters 1000 event. "Suddenly everything start moving, I was holding the walls in my room not to fall! OMG"

Two-time champion Rafael Nadal of Spain later told reporters he was startled by the tremor, the first he had ever experienced.

"I was very scared," Nadal said, smiling. "I was on the massage table preparing for my warm-up. I think the massage table moves even more."

"I finish the earthquake, and my legs were like this," he grinned, wobbling his legs.

Light rattling or rumbling was reported felt about 60 miles to the south in San Diego and about 100 miles to the northwest in Los Angeles, where some high-rise buildings swayed slightly.

Hough said the state of California overall averages about eight magnitude 5.0 earthquakes a year over the long term.

(Additional reporting by Mark Lamport-Stokes, Dan Whitcomb, Cynthia Johnston and Nichola Groom; Editing by Richard Chang and Eric Walsh)

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