Tag: guilty
A driver who was fleeing the U.S. Border Patrol and crashed his truck, killing three passengers in East County, was sentenced Feb. 5 to 20 years and eight months in state prison.
Deputy District Attorney Clayton Carr said Luis Alberto Virgen, 22, will have to serve 85% of that term because it involved violent felonies.
“This case is indeed a tragedy,”...
Jury deliberations continued this week in the murder retrial of a former El Cajon man suspected of killing a 71-year-old man in 2000.
A jury began deliberations Jan. 22 for Edward Jamar Brooks, now 39, who is accused of bludgeoning LeRay “Mac” Parkins on Aug. 23, 2000 with a baseball bat.
Parkins was mortally wounded at 8:35 a.m. in an alley...
