The driver of a car that plunged off a cliff in Northern California, seriously wounding two children and a second adult after the 250-foot drop, was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and child abuse, the California Highway Patrol said Tuesday. Dharmesh A. Patel of Pasadena will be booked into...
Porterville Man Convicted of Murdering 18-Year-Old Girl
A Tulare County jury has convicted Dale Watson, 55, of murdering 18-year-old Dynasty Alexander two years ago with a shotgun blast to her upper body. The verdict came in late Friday afternoon, the Tulare County District Attorney's Office said. According to court testimony, Watson, who lived in Porterville, picked up...
Man Paroled After Serving 26 Years in Visalia Beating Death
The California Board of Parole released Jon Thomas Gregorich, 46, on March 24 from Corcoran State Prison after he served 26 years for beating a man to death outside a Visalia bar in 1994. In the early morning of May 5, 1994, outside the former Shagnasty’s bar, Gregorich and two other...
Tahoe Man Accused of Strangling Woman Found Near Car Crash on Highway
RENO, Nev. — A 26-year-old Lake Tahoe man has been charged with murder in the strangulation of a Sparks woman whose body was found near a crashed car on the Mount Rose Highway in the middle of the night in September. Alexandrew Vail of Kings Beach, California was being held...
Man Pleads Not Guilty to Rape, Murder of Bakersfield Teen
BAKERSFIELD — A Southern California man has pleaded not guilty to allegations that he raped and killed a 13-year-old girl he met online, then set her body on fire. Armando Cruz, 24, of Inglewood, entered pleas Tuesday to a dozen charges including murder, kidnapping, and rape in the July 2...
Georgia Promises Thorough Probe in Killing of Ahmaud Arbery
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Outrage is spreading over a shooting of a black man that led to murder charges more than two months later against a white father and son, but "all that matters is what the facts tell us,” Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Vic Reynolds said Friday. And once...
Bakersfield PD Announces 1995 Cold Case Murder Arrest
BAKERSFIELD — A man who attempted to cross the U.S.-Mexico border at Nogales, Arizona, was arrested on a cold-case murder warrant, the Bakersfield Police Department said. Armando Lujan, 48, was arrested by the Sheriff’s Office in Santa Cruz County, Arizona, on March 17 on an outstanding warrant for a death...
Father Arrested in Killings of His Valley Born Children
A former Fresno man about to be freed from prison has been taken into custody in connection with the decades-old killings of five of his infant children in a case a sheriff said has haunted his agency for years. Paul Perez, 57, a convicted sex offender with a 20-year criminal...
Brothers Wanted for Questioning in Porterville Murder Arrested in Utah
Two brothers accused in the killing of a Porterville man last week, are now in custody. Jeremy Bailey, 20, and Chris Corbit, 25, were arrested by the Utah Highway Patrol near Green River, about 60 miles west of the Colorado border. The brothers are suspects in the killing of 22-year...
4 California Correctional Officers Injured in Inmate Attack
DELANO — Four California correctional officers were injured while subduing an inmate who pulled a weapon on them at Kern Valley State Prison last weekend, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said. The incident Saturday is being investigated as attempted murder, the department said in a statement Monday. The inmate,...