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U.S. Border Patrol supervisor from El Cajon pleaded guilty May 14 to making a false statement to a federal agent and seven misdemeanor counts of video voyeurism in which he placed a camera in the drain of a women’s bathroom at a building inside the Chula Vista Border Patrol station.
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U.S. Border Patrol supervisor from El Cajon pleaded guilty May 14 to making a false statement to a federal agent and seven misdemeanor counts of video voyeurism in which he placed a camera in the drain of a women’s bathroom at a building inside the Chula Vista Border Patrol station.
Armando Gonzalez, 46, remains free on $50,000 bond and is no longer working in his position. Sentencing was set for Aug. 17 before U.S. District Court Judge Roger Benitez in San Diego.
The maximum sentence Gonzalez faces is 12 years in federal prison and a $950,000 fine. Five years is the maximum sentence for the false statement charge and one year each is the penalty for the seven misdemeanors.
The motion detection camera was discovered Jan. 9 and court documents say agents seized an Apple MacBook computer in which there were edited video files of numerous women who changed clothes in the restroom.
The seven counts represent seven women who worked for the U.S. government in some capacity.
La Mesa robbers to be sentenced in June
Brian Quinn Coats, 22, and Reynisha Ann Bransford, 24, will both be sentenced in June after they both pleaded guilty to robbing a woman and attempting to rob a man outside the Vons grocery store on Lake Murray Boulevard in La Mesa.
The pair also pleaded guilty to robbing three UCSD students in Fashion Valley on March 6, the same night. Deputy District Attorney Jim Koerber said both defendants face a maximum sentence of eight years and eight months in prison.
San Diego Superior Court Judge Timothy Walsh set sentencing for June 2 for Coats and June 23 for Bransford.
Santee man pleads guilty, awaiting sentencing
A domestic violence suspect who struck a sheriff’s patrol car in Santee has pleaded guilty to felony evasion of police, being a felon in possession of a firearm, and DUI.
Eddie Dewitt Martin III, 41, of Santee, faces up to three years and eight months in prison, said Deputy District Attorney Ron Mendes. Sentencing was set for June 30 before El Cajon Superior Court Judge Daniel Goldstein.
On Feb. 28, deputies went to the 9700 block of Mast Boulevard in Santee for a domestic violence call, but Martin fled before they arrived. His spouse called them later that night when he returned and Martin’s car struck a patrol vehicle head-on on Mast Boulevard while he was escaping, injuring one deputy who was taken to a hospital.
