Tag: Court News
A man who stabbed a 75-year-old man in El Cajon has been sentenced to 14 years in state prison, the District Attorney’s office said on Sept. 3.
Lester Kenji Riley, 41, was convicted earlier this year of attempted murder by a jury in El Cajon Superior Court, said District Atorney spokesperson Tanya Sierra.
The jury also convicted Riley of elder abuse...
Two brothers pleaded guilty Aug. 25 to transportation of undocumented persons that ended in death for three sisters who died in February while being smuggled through the backcountry mountains.
Cecilio Rios-Quinones, 37, and Ricardo Rios-Quinones, 22, both of Chihuahua, Mexico, will be sentenced Nov. 13 before U.S. District Court Judge Cathy Bencivengo.
Juana Santos Arce, Margarita Santos Arce, and Paula Santos...
A judge declined to set any bail Aug. 18 for a Spring Valley woman who is charged with killing her roommate who was stabbed to death.
Anielka de los Angeles, 37, pleaded not guilty to killing Manuel Castro, 41, who was found dead in their apartment in the 3500 block of James Circle in Spring Valley on Aug. 9.
El Cajon...
A Jan. 21, 2021, trial date was set Aug. 10 for the husband of Blake Synowski, an El Cajon dentist, who is charged with murder in the force feeding of the dentist who died.
Thomas Wayne Zupner, 66, posted $250,000 bond a few days after a judge lowered his $2 million bail at his preliminary hearing on July 27.
Zupner pleaded...
A sheriff’s deputy from Santee has pleaded not guilty to 20 sex charges involving molestation of three girls.
Jaylen Devon Fleer, 27, appeared in a jail uniform from a room at the Vista Detention Facility on July 29.
Bail was set at $800,000 by Chula Vista Superior Court Judge Garry Haehnle.
He pleaded not guilty to 18 felonies and two misdemeanor charges.
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An Alpine man who shot his girlfriend to death while she was on her way to work at an El Cajon care center was sentenced July 30 to 40 years to life in state prison.
Paul Alan Paraschak, 44, apologized before he was sentenced for shooting Melanie “Ling Ling” Benitez, 27, who worked at the Victoria Post Acute Care Center...
A sheriff’s deputy from Santee will be arraigned July 31 on sex charges involving minors.
Jaylen Devon Fleer, 27, is expected to plead not guilty in Chula Vista Superior Court to felony charges. He was arrested July 23 by Chula Vista Police and remains in the Vista Detention Facility without bail for now.
The charges have “nothing to do with Fleer’s...
A 23-year-old former sheriff’s deputy from Santee pleaded not guilty July 14 to a murder charge in the shooting death of an escaped prisoner.
Aaron Russell is believed to have posted $500,000 bond as the jail website no longer listed him as an inmate.
Russell appeared in a jail uniform wearing a mask in a room on a video feed before...
The sentencing of a Lakeside drug dealer who supplied fentanyl to a woman who fatally overdosed on it has been delayed to Sept. 15.
The attorney for Uriah Odish, 29, won the delay because Odish was moved to a federal prison in Victorville, which is on lockdown due to the coronavirus outbreak.
His attorney wrote that he wanted to discuss the...
A man charged with possessing two Molotov cocktails during a protest in La Mesa pleaded not guilty July 2 in federal court.
Zachary Alexander Karas, 28, of San Diego, appeared before U.S. District Court Judge Dana Sabraw, who ordered him to return on July 31 for motions.
Karas is only charged with possessing two glass bottles with wicks that contained gasoline,...
