Tag: San Diego County court news
A Lakeside man was sentenced Nov. 23 to five years and four months in state prison after he pleaded guilty to robbery and attempting to make a criminal threat to a former friend.
Kenny John Schutt, 36, asked for immediate sentencing from San Diego Superior Court Judge Robert O’Neill after his guilty pleas.
Also pleading guilty to robbery of the same...
A judge on Nov. 18 refused to set any bail for a La Mesa man who is charged with stabbing his husband more than 50 times in August.
More details were revealed in the slaying of Kevin Powell, 38, when the prosecutor said he was found with a knife still embedded in his chest while in bed in his La...
A La Mesa man who was extradited from Nevada pleaded not guilty Nov. 13 to a murder charge in his husband’s death in August.
Daniel Scott Jordan, 45, made his first court appearance in El Cajon Superior Court involving the death of Kevin Powell, 38.
The attorneys did not discuss the case before Judge Daniel Lamborn as the bail issue was...
A judge has ruled that a 75-year-old sexually violent predator can be released to a house in Jacumba Hot Springs on or before Dec. 1 under strict conditions.
The written ruling by San Diego Superior Court Judge Howard Shore was released Tuesday for Joseph Bocklett following an Oct. 26 hearing on Zoom in which two residents asked him not to...
A Lakeside drug dealer was sentenced Oct. 28 to 14 ½ years in federal prison for causing the death of a La Mesa woman who ingested a drug that contained fentanyl.
Family members of Tiffany Hansen, 26, gathered at the sentencing of Uriah Odish, 31, to describe the devastating impact her death had on them after her sister found her...
An El Cajon man was sentenced Oct. 23 to 14 years in federal prison for distributing a lethal dose of fentanyl, causing the death of a former La Mesa man who purchased it from him.
Christopher Glenn Emison, 33, was sentenced for the April 11, 2019 death of Derrick Hotchkiss, 45, a member of the San Diego Old Aztecs Rugby...
An Oct. 28 preliminary hearing is scheduled for a man suspected of felony assault in the death of a man who fell and struck his head during a fight in Spring Valley.
The victim was Manuel Arrechea Chavira, 45, who was injured March 13 and died at a hospital the next day. The cause of death was blunt force injury...
An Oct. 15 preliminary hearing has been tentatively set for a man accused of killing his ex-girlfriend’s son in El Cajon.
George Louis Garcia, 41, is charged with shooting Fabian Esteban Cerda, 21, to death on Aug. 18 during an argument in the 1500 block of E. Main Street around 1:30 a.m.
Garcia, who was previously convicted of attempted murder in...
Daniel Scott Jordan is accused of killing his husband, Kevin Powell, in their La Mesa home in August and has an extradition hearing Oct. 7 in Reno where he could be remanded to San Diego.
Jordan, 44, fled the area and was arrested in Reno, Nevada, on Aug. 20 on a no-bail murder warrant issued by a judge.
The cause of...
A retired sheriff’s captain will be sentenced Dec. 9 after he pleaded guilty Sept. 15 to illegally selling firearms from a sheriff’s station without having a federal license.
Morad Marco Garmo, 52, of La Mesa, faces up to five years in federal prison when he appears before U.S. District Court Judge Gonzalo Curiel.
Garmo remains free on $100,000 bond. He had...
