A bill by Senator Anthony Cannella, R-Ceres, was voted down in the Senate Budget Committee on Tuesday. SB 144, or the Realignment Reinvestment Act, intended to redirect some funds from the state prison system into jails and programs at the state’s 58 counties to help with the increase of inmates and probation clients. The bill [...]
Story: http://www.sacbee.com/2013/05/01/5385121/sacramento-county-will-have-competitors.html
San Joaquin County Deputy District Attorney Ron Indran’s team of Tracy High School students finished at sixth place in the state’s 32nd annual Mock Trials. Tracy High made it to the state finals after winning the county mock trial competition in February. Indran volunteers to help the students prepare for the events. Sixth place is the [...]
After the book “Searching for Sandra” by Ohio deputy and author Stacy Dittrich was published, I spoke to San Joaquin County Deputy District Attorney Thomas Testa about the murder of 8-year-old Sandra Cantu. Most of the interview didn’t fit into the story http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130327/A_NEWS/130329904/-1/a_special0263, which was published Wednesday. Here’s more on it. When Sandra was reported [...]
Lodi attorney Russell Humphrey is in the running for the Northern California Golf Association’s Player of the Year after him and golf partner Jeff Hoffman won the association’s second annual granite Bay Four-Ball Championship in Granite Bay two weekends ago. “Hoffman and Humphrey, who won the NCGA Master Division Four-Ball Championship less than six months [...]
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After we published the story on Rebecca Mendoza — a woman who alleges she killed her husband Michael Bradford because he had told her he helped Loren Herzog and Wesley Shermantine in a killing spree and that he would do the same with her — people close to the husband called to defend him. Michael [...]
A criminal grand jury has returned a murder indictment for two members of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang in connection with the 2011 murder of 26-year-old Danny Martinez. Brandon Gann, 31, and David Splan, 42, were arrested Thursday, and booked into San Joaquin County Jail. Prosecutors had moved forward with the grand jury investigation prior to [...]
Monsignor Richard Ryan and Sister Barbara Thiella prepared a chronology of the events involving misconduct by former father Michael Kelly. This is the document: Notice Documents Re Father Kelly. For more on the latest child sex abuse lawsuit against Kelly, view the story at: http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20121108/A_NEWS/211080325
Galgiani sent a letter Nov. 6 to Special Agent in Charge Herb Brown of the FBI’s Sacramento office asking him to verify statements he made regarding the recovery effort of remains from victims of serial killers Loren Herzog and Wesley Shermantine. San Joaquin County Sheriff Steve Moore said that same day he plans to ask the [...]
