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An Upland tax preparer was fined $310,369 and placed on three years probation for filing false state income tax returns.

Jose A. Garcia, 29,  appeared in the San Bernardino County Superior Court Wednesday for the sentencing, said John Barrett with the Franchise Tax Board, and paid his fine in full.

Garcia owned and operated Mi Oficina Income Tax, a tax preparation business with several locations throughout the Inland Empire, according to an FTB news release.

On Feb. 20 Garcia pleaded guilty to four felony counts for preparing false personal state tax returns for tax years 2001 through 2004 and underreporting his income by more than $968,000, according to the news release.

The charges were filed April 2008.

- lori.consalvo@inlandnewspapers.com

Two men convicted in the carjacking and shooting death of Hannah "Honey" Jordan are due in court this afternoon for sentencing in the brutal attack in front a San Bernardino doughnut shop in 2001.

The defendants, Hector Miguel Aguirre and Ruben Garcia, are scheduled to sentenced at 1:30 p.m. before Judge Colin Bilash in San Bernardino Superior Court, Deputy District Attorney Robert Bulloch said earlier this morning.

Jordan is the wife of well-known local neurologist Dr. Kenneth Jordan, who worked at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center, in Colton, and St. Bernardine Medical Center, in San Bernardino.

A bail agent who pleaded guilty nearly four years ago to charges stemming from the county's bail bond investigation was sentenced today to three years probation.

As part of the agreement Gerald Lee Brandt struck with prosecutors, he has agreed to cooperate with authorities and testify at any upcoming trials for the remaining defendants in the case.

Brandt, who was one of several defendants who accepted plea bargains early in the case, was sentenced before Judge Colin Bilash in San Bernardino Superior Court. He pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy in February 2004.

 

Brandt must give up his bail license and was ordered to pay $10,000 restitution to the Victims' Compensation Fund.

Three defendants in the deadly Mynisha Crenshaw shooting, who took plea bargains and testified during three criminal trials, were sentenced to three years in state prison Monday. Then they were ordered released for time served.

Each of the men had taken plea bargains which required them to testify truthfully in all court proceedings and to cooperate with law enforcement.

Prosecutors had requested Judge Brian McCarville sentence one of the defendants to a higher term of six years but were pleased with the outcome. McCarville said the defendants provided truthful testimony in court and cooperated with law enforcement, and he sentenced each of them to the low term of three years.

Defendants Shawn Davis, Patrick Lair and Alonzo Monk were ordered to report to the state's parole office immediately after being released, where they will begin four years of parole. Each defendant was credited with serving 1,277 days, or roughly 3.5 years, in county jail, which included credit for good conduct.

Two men recently convicted in the gang slaying of 11-year-old Mynisha Crenshaw were each sentenced today in Victorville to more than a century in state prison.

Defendants Sinque Morrison and Michael Barnett Jr. were sentenced to 109 years to life in state prison and 101 years to life in prison, respectively, according to Deputy District Attorney Ron Webster, who prosecuted the case.

The sentencing was held in Victorville Superior Court. Neither defendants made a statement in court, and none of the victim's family made statements, Webster said.

Two men recently convicted in the gang slaying of 11-year-old Mynisha Crenshaw are scheduled to be sentenced tomorrow in Victorville.

A jury found defendants Sinque Morrison and Michael Barnett Jr. guilty in October in the gang slaying of the little girl in her San Bernardino apartment in November 2005.

The sentencing hearing will be in Victorville Superior Court.

Patrick Shaun Macon was sentenced to 23 years and four months in state prison Thursday in the shooting death of 20-year-old Edward Griffin in San Bernardino.

Macon, 28, was convicted Sept. 8 of manslaughter and attempted manslaughter in the shooting. He faces about three decades in state prison if he is sentenced at the maximum term, according to prosecutors.

Of three defendants who went to trial in Griffin's death, Macon was the only one convicted of shooting the victim inside a vehicle at the intersection of Medical Center Drive and Ninth Street on Feb. 9, 2007.

A man charged in the shovel beating and deadly shooting of 22-year-old Jerry Ramirez in 2005 was sentenced today as friends and family of the victim, some of whom wore dark-colored memorial t-shirts, looked on.

Judge Brian McCarville sentenced Edward Vincent "Vinny" Hernandez to 50 years to life in state prison during proceedings in San Bernardino Superior Court.

A jury found Hernandez guilty of first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder and found true a special allegation for the use of a gun in the death of Ramirez, whose badly beaten body was found dumped in Waterman Canyon with seven close-range gunshot wounds to the head in November 2005.

A Fontana man was sentenced to 109 years to life in state prison Wednesday after a jury found him guilty in a shooting two years ago that left a 19-year-old woman dead.

A jury found Sergio Moreno, 22, guilty of first-degree murder in the death of Heather Marie Montoya who was traveling with two friends in a vehicle on Citrus Avenue, in Fontana, when gunshots were fired at the car in August 2006.

Moreno was also found guilty two counts of premeditated attempted murder, shooting at an occupied vehicle and gun charges, Deputy District Attorney Simon Umscheid said. The trial was held in Fontana Superior Court.

The sentencing hearing for a man convicted in the deadly San Bernardino shooting of 20-year-old Eddie Griffin was postponed to Thursday, according to prosecutors.

Patrick Shaun Macon was set to be sentenced Tuesday in San Bernardino Superior Court, but Macon's lawyer, James Gass, was unavailable because he was in trial.

At a hearing in October, Gass told a judge that he wanted to respond in writing to a county Probation Department pre-sentencing report which recommended the maximum sentence for Macon. His client has no criminal record, Gass said.

A man charged with the violent murders of three men was sentenced today to life in state prison, after a Superior Court judge denied his attempt to back out of a plea bargain that helped him avoid the death penalty.

Defendant Christopher Richard Lanteigne, 29, and co-defendants Camille Vredenburg, 27, and Christopher Weaver, 32, pleaded guilty as part of a package deal for their roles in a 2004 series of crimes, including the murders, that extended from San Bernardino to the San Gorgonio Pass.

 

On Mar. 5, Lanteigne and Weaver pleaded guilty to three counts of murder - as part of a plea bargain package - in the deaths of Scott Fisher, 42, of San Bernardino, Clayton McCobb, 44, of Ramona and Kareem Mohammed Radwan, 26, of Loma Linda. But Lanteigne later changed his mind.