Carlos Arturo Olvera, 32, of Lakeside, has been sentenced to two years in jail after pleading guilty to seven counts of commercial burglaries of businesses in La Mesa.
La Mesa Police arrested Olvera Feb. 13. The sheriff’s department said his projected release was Aug. 14, 2016, and he will be under three years of mandatory supervision by the department.
Carlos Arturo Olvera, 32, of Lakeside, has been sentenced to two years in jail after pleading guilty to seven counts of commercial burglaries of businesses in La Mesa.
La Mesa Police arrested Olvera Feb. 13. The sheriff’s department said his projected release was Aug. 14, 2016, and he will be under three years of mandatory supervision by the department.
El Cajon Superior Court Judge Herbert Exarhos sentenced Thomas Owen Martin, 23, of San Diego, to three years in jail Aug. 13 and his projected release date is Aug. 27, 2016.
Martin was ordered to pay $23,693, and will be on four years supervision by the sheriff’s department after his release. Martin pleaded guilty to six counts of commercial burglaries, some of which were in La Mesa where he drove a stolen car and was arrested by La Mesa Police on Feb. 18.
The two defendants were not together and did not burglarize the same stores. There were 15 commercial burglaries from December 2014 to Feb. 2. Taken were TVs, monitors, and electronic equipment.
Drunk driver charged with second-degree murder, $2 million bail set
Bail was set at $2 million Aug. 18 for Joshua Daniel Taylor, 38, who is charged with second-degree murder and drunk driving in the Aug. 13 death of Rocio Leamon, 38, who was killed in the Lake Murray area.
Taylor was also charged with gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and prosecutor Steven Schott said he was driving at a .23 blood/alcohol level, which is three times the legal limit. Schott said he was charged with murder because he has two drunken driving convictions.
Leamon, a mother of three, was dragged 57 feet by Taylor’s truck after he ran a red light, said Schott. She was in a crosswalk at Navajo Road and Golfcrest Dr. at 6:20 p.m. when she was struck. Taylor stopped his vehicle some distance away and dumped a vodka bottle, which a police officer recovered, said Schott.
A preliminary hearing was set for Oct. 27 in San Diego Superior Court. Taylor pleaded not guilty and remains in the central jail.
Preliminary hearing set for Lakeside/North County arsonist
A Sept. 1 preliminary hearing has been set for Jonathan Benjamin Cohen, 44, charged with five counts of arson in the Lakeside area and also in North County.
Cohen, of Poway, was arrested July 9 following a long investigation that goes back to 2006 in which hidden security cameras were placed in areas of Wildcat Canyon Road in Lakeside and elsewhere. He was driving several minutes after some fires were set, court records say.
The five arsons involve vegetation fires and no structures were burned as they were quickly put out. A tracking device was placed on his vehicles after investigators noticed his license plate tag turning up on surveillance cameras.
The arsons he is charged with occurred on June 23, June 20, June 15, April 19, and Oct. 24, 2014. The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection has put in 3,024 investigative hours since 2006. Cohen has pleaded not guilty in El Cajon Superior Court and remains in jail on $250,000 bail.
