Tag: East County San Diego court news
A Santee man who carjacked a 77-year-old woman and assaulted an inmate in jail weeks later was sentenced March 26 to seven years in state prison.
Christopher Frank DiSalvo, Jr., 31, got credit for 263 days previously spent in jail by El Cajon Superior Court Judge Daniel Lamborn.
DiSalvo received seven years for the carjacking of a woman outside a Santee...
A judge dismissed a murder charge March 16 against Daniel Christopher Allen in the shooting death of an angry man who yelled some threats in an unincorporated area of El Cajon.
District Attorney communications director Steve Walker said March 17 the DA’s is reviewing the decision over whether to re-file the charge against Allen, 50, in the Nov. 21, 2020,...
A young Spring Valley man was sentenced Feb. 1 to 16 years and eight months in prison for two armed carjackings while being on probation at the time for an armed robbery.
Jaden Razell Jones, 21, hit a taxi driver in the back of his head with a gun on March 6, 2019, at 1:03 a.m. not far from the...
A former sheriff’s deputy from Santee was ordered Jan. 27 to stand trial for second-degree murder in the shooting death of an escaped prisoner.
After hearing testimony for two days in the preliminary hearing, San Diego Superior Court Judge Theodore Weathers ordered the trial for Aaron Russell, 24, who is charged with killing Nicholas Bils, 36.
Russell is the first police...
An El Cajon boat owner who assisted his friend in dumping the body of his friend’s roommate into a barrel in San Diego Bay was sentenced Jan. 21 to 10 years and 10 months in prison in three separate cases.
Alicia Villegas, the sister of the murdered man, Omar Medina, 28, spoke at the sentencing of Derrick Spurgeon, 41, before...
A former resident of a now closed group home in El Cajon was sentenced Jan. 6 to 16 years to life in prison for killing another resident who was struck over the head with a frying pan.
Shannon Beasley, the sister of Michael McCarthy, 39, spoke about how his 2018 murder “turned the family upside down” with grief and anger...
A drunk driver was turned away from the Jamul Casino because he was too intoxicated—minutes before he allegedly struck and killed a highway construction worker on state Route 94, a prosecutor said on Dec. 24.
A murder charge was filed against Arnold Lee Patton, 69, of San Diego, in the Dec. 17 death of Jesus Gonzalez, 27, who was directing...
