Results tagged “charges” from Inland Empire Courts
By Stacia Glenn on December 5, 2008 8:49 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) |
A Beaumont man suspected of lighting the Esperanza Fire that killed five firefighters is scheduled to appear in court today in preparation for next month's trial.
Raymond Lee Olyer, 38, will appear in Riverside Superior Court this morning, a month after a judge denied his request to move the Jan. 5 trial outside of Riverside County.
His attorney, Mark McDonald, argued that media attention would make it difficult to find an impartial jury.
Continue reading Suspected arsonist of Esperanza Fire in court today.
By Melissa Pinion Whitt on November 25, 2008 11:57 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) |
A sheriff's deputy who shot and killed a suspected gang member in July was cleared of criminal charges Tuesday because the suspect pointed a gun at the deputy several times, prosecutors said.
San Bernardino County sheriff's Deputy Kent E. Watson feared for his safety when Ibn Rasheed Jones climbed a fence and reached for a gun he had dropped, the San Bernardino County District Attorney's Office said.
"The fatal shooting of Ibn Jones was a justifiable homicide by a public officer in the performance of his duties. No reasonable jury could find otherwise," prosecutors wrote in the report.
Continue reading Prosecutors decline to charge deputy in fatal Victorville shooting.
By Stacia Glenn on November 25, 2008 12:41 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) |
A 17-year-old Barstow girl has been charged in connection with a car crash that killed a man in September.
Prosecutors charged the girl, who has not been identified, with gross vehicluar manslaughter while intoxicated for the Sept. 10 collision on Lenwood Road, just west of the 15 Freeway on-ramp in Barstow.
The girl was driving intoxicated when she crashed into a power pole. Her passenger, 20-year-old Dusty Cox, was killed in the accident.
By Stacia Glenn on November 17, 2008 3:45 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) |
A San Bernardino gang member wanted for a fatal shooting in December is expected to be extradited back to San Bernardino County this week, police said.
U.S. Marshal's agents arrested Darrin Pearson, 28, on Nov. 6 outside Memphis, Tenn. He has been charged with murder for the Dec. 24 slaying of 21-year-old Michael Rawlings in the 2100 block of E. Jane Street.
San Bernardino police detectives are expected to accompany Pearson back to the area by Wednesday.
Continue reading San Bernardino gang member to be extradited this week.
By Stacia Glenn, Staff Writer
Article Launched: 11/06/2008 06:14:22 PM PST
SAN BERNARDINO - Two baby girls killed years ago in separate abusive households were recently linked to the same man, prompting murder charges Thursday against him and two former girlfriends.
Ivan Benjamin Hancock, 46, first blipped onto the district attorney's radar in 2004 when he was arrested on suspicion of beating his girlfriend's 17-month-old daughter to death.
"It looked liked him from the get-go, but we had no real evidence to prove it," said Colton homicide Detective Jack Morenberg.
Two years later, San Bernardino police began investigating Hancock after his new girlfriend's 15-month-old baby girl was found not breathing with head injuries in the couple's South Foisy Street apartment.
Continue reading Man, ex-girlfriends charged in deaths of 2 babies.
By Stacia Glenn on October 24, 2008 3:17 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) |
Redlands police said they helped foil a murder plot after a gang member called his girlfriend from prison to order a fellow gang member's death.
Charges were filed Thursday against David Martinez, 34, and his girlfriend, 29-year-old Erika Hernandez, for solicitation to commit murder.
Hernandez was arrested that same day at her home in the 700 block of Baldwin Avenue. Martinez was already in custody at Calipatria State Prison, where he made the phone call in July ordering the murder of a 26-year-old Highland man who is a fellow gang member.
Continue reading Murder plot of Redlands gang member foiled, charges filed.
Four San Bernardino gang members and associates were charged Thursday with the kidnapping of two women, one of whom was bound in an apartment closet for several days.
Daniel "Psycho" Mendivil, 29; Angelica Romero, 32; Albert "Laughing Boy" Gutierrez, 36; and Dellaery Limon, 26, were charged with two counts of kidnapping for ransom, according to San Bernardino Superior Court records.
Limon also faces an assault with deadly weapon charge for attacking one of the victims with a knife, records show.
Continue reading Four San Bernardino gang members charged in kidnapping of women.
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By Mike Cruz
Staff Writer
The lawyer for a man charged with the deadly shooting of a Rialto SWAT officer is challenging a judge's holding order.
George Wright, who represents Kris Antonio Wiggins, filed a motion to challenge a May 29 ruling from Judge Ingrid Uhler to hold over Wiggins for trial.
Wiggins, 33, appeared briefly Friday in Fontana Superior Court.
Wright, a deputy public defender, is challenging Uhler's ruling, which prohibited the defense from calling a police officer to testify as a defense witness at a May 29 preliminary hearing.
"It was the judge's opnion that the witness was going to testify to something that wasn't relevant and was hearsay," Wright said Monday in a telephone conversation. Wright was not Wiggins' lawyer at the preliminary hearing.
Deputy District Attorney Cary Epstein confirmed the challenge to Uhler's holding order. The motion will be addressed Nov. 14, when Wiggins returns to court.
Prosecutors have charged Wiggins with murder, claiming that he fired a SWAT officer's rifle while struggling with that officer during a narcotics raid Oct. 18, 2007 at Wiggins' West Cascade Drive apartment.
SWAT Officer Sergio Carrera Jr., a 29-year-old father of two from Beaumont, was struck and killed.
Wiggins has denied the charges. The defense has questioned in court the SWAT team's tactics, suggesting another officer's hands were on the rifle and alleged the shooting might have been "friendly fire."
Dates were also set Friday for a trial readiness hearing Dec. 5 and for the trial to begin Dec. 8.
By Stacia Glenn on October 15, 2008 4:38 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
A 32-year-old homeless man entered a not guilty plea Wednesday to charges in connection with a fire that burned along the 215 Freeway this week in San Bernardino and charred four acres.
Brenton Marvin Jacques was charged by prosecutors Wednesday with recklessly causing a fire of a structure or forest, according to San Bernardino Superior Court records.
Jacques was arraigned in San Bernardino Superior Court via closed-circuit video from West Valley Detention Center, in Rancho Cucamonga. He is scheduled to return to court Oct. 23 for a pre-preliminary hearing.
By Stacia Glenn, Staff Writer
Article Launched: 10/09/2008 08:38:30 PM PDT
SAN BERNARDINO - The paranoid schizophrenic woman held a weightlifting bar over her shoulder as she crept suspiciously out the door to where a police officer was trying to talk to her.
San Bernardino police Officer Ryan Thornburg had been flagged down moments earlier May 19 by Demetrius Monroe, who asked for help in dealing with his mentally ill wife, according to court records released Thursday that detailed the encounter.
Monroe told the officer that his wife had kicked him out of their Golden Avenue apartment and that he was "having problems" with her.
A Redlands-based contractor was sentenced to two years in state prison Thursday after he earlier pleaded guilty, under the terms of a plea bargain, to grand theft charges.
Tim Shaeffer, 62, was sentenced during proceedings in San Bernardino Superior Court.
The defendant admitted in July to bilking a family out of $86,000 in 2007, gutting their Highland home, leaving the house in shambles and forcing the family to live in a motel room.
Continue reading Unlicensed contractor sentenced to prison in plea deal.
By Melissa Pinion Whitt on October 9, 2008 11:56 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Prosecutors today declined to file charges against a San Bernardino police officer who shot a woman when she charged at him with a weight-lifting bar.
Officer Ryan Thornburg commanded 40-year-old Monica Monroe to drop the bar several times, but she held the bar over her head and was heading toward the officer when she was shot, the San Bernardino County District Attorney's Office said.
She received wounds to her chest and arm. Monroe survived and has since been charged with assault on a peace officer, prosecutors said.
Stacia Glenn, Staff Writer
Article Launched: 10/08/2008 10:32:02 PM PDT
CALIMESA - A former councilman who admitted an addiction to child pornography last year before being jailed has been rearrested on suspicion of probation violation after using the Internet to arrange a hotel meeting with a man.
Jon Winningham, who served 12 years on the council, was arrested Sept. 22 on suspicion of violating probation and booked into Robert Presley Detention Center in Riverside.
He posted a $5,000 bail and was released, according to jail records.
Winningham, 52, could not be reached for comment Wednesday.
Continue reading Former Calimesa councilman rearrested on probation violation.
Lawyers in the trial for Pedro Escobedo, who faces murder charges in the death of a 12-year-old boy during a failed handoff of Mexican immigrants, gave their opening statements to the jury this morning.
The trial is being held before Judge Kyle Brodie in San Bernardino Superior Court.
Escobedo, 45, is accused of being the driver of a Ford Explorer that chased a Nissan Maxima that left the scene of a handoff of two Mexican immigrants in a restaurant parking lot in the Cajon Pass in 2006. Gunshots were fired at the Maxima during the chase.
Continue reading Opening statements today in trial for deadly Mexican immigrant handoff.
Lawyers continued jury selection today in a trial for Pedro Escobedo, who was charged with the death of a 12-year-old boy during a handoff of Mexican immigrants in the Cajon Pass in December 2006.
Supplemental jury panels were ordered this morning for the trial in San Bernardino Superior Court, according to court records. No word was immediately available about when lawyers' opening statements and witness testimony would begin.
Authorities have said they believe 45-year-old Escobedo was running a smuggling ring that brought him to a McDonald's parking lot, off of Interstate 15, for a handoff of two Mexican immigrants on the day the boy was shot.
Continue reading Trial underway for man involved in deadly Mexican immigrant handoff.
Prosecutors could conclude presenting their case and calling witnesses this week in the third Mynisha Crenshaw trial in Victorville Superior Court.
Deputy District Attorney Ron Webster called key witness and co-defendant Patrick Lair, who wrapped up his testimony today in the trial for Sinque Morrison and Michael Barnett Jr., according to court records.
Webster has a few more witnesses to be called for testimony Thursday before closing his case. That paves the way for the defense to begin calling witnesses next week. The trial is dark on Friday, and the court is closed Monday for a holiday.
Continue reading Update: Prosecutors nearing end in third Mynisha trial.
A Superior Court judge has rejected the plea bargain for a former Patton State Hospital technician accused of attacking a patient at the mental health facility.
Daniel I. Alawoya appeared for a scheduled sentencing hearing Tuesday morning in San Bernardino Superior Court, when Judge Michael Dest surprisingly rejected the plea bargain, according to court records.
No reason was provided for the rejection of the plea bargain. The defendant is scheduled to return to court Oct. 23 for a status hearing.
The upcoming trial for a Victorville man suspected of kidnapping a Riverside woman for ransom, and keeping her in a padded box in his van, has been delayed to next year.
Defendant Mark Herbert Warren appeared Wednesday to begin a criminal trial in Riverside Superior Court, when his lawyer made a motion to continue the proceedings, according to court records. Warren is scheduled to return to court Jan. 14 for the trial.
No reason was given for the delay.
Continue reading Trial delayed for Victorville man who kidnapped woman for ransom.
A jury has found one man guilty and deadlocked on charges against another in a second trial stemming from the shovel beating and deadly shooting of 22-year-old Jerry Ramirez in November 2005.
Jurors found defendant Edward Vincent Hernandez, 28, guilty of first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder and special allegations for using a gun, prosecutors confirmed.
The verdicts were announced Tuesday in San Bernardino Superior Court.
Continue reading Verdicts reached in 2005 death of Jerry Ramirez in San Bernardino.
The sentencing for man convicted in the deadly shooting of 20-year-old Edward Griffin was postponed to Nov. 12 during proceedings Monday in San Bernardino Superior Court.
Patrick Shaun Macon appeared briefly Judge Ronald Christianson when lawyers announced the sentencing would be rescheduled.
For more details about the case, read earlier posts from The Sun's "Inland Empire Courts" blog:
Man convicted in death of Edward Griffin to be sentenced Monday
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