Monterey County Local News: Crime & Justice


All Local Crime & Justice News articles contributed by our local media allies and other local newsrooms.

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11/15/2022
The family of the latest inmate to die in the Monterey County Jail plans to seek a second autopsy after the Sheriff’s Office procedure couldn’t determine the cause of death, seemingly a suicide.

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11/10/2022
California lawmakers declined to put an anti-slavery measure on the ballot. This week, Alabama, Louisiana, Oregon, Tennessee, and Vermont voted on similar measures; only Louisiana voted not to ban slavery as a form of criminal punishment.

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11/09/2022
David DePape, 42, faces up to 30 years in prison on one federal charge and up to 20 years on another in the Oct. 28 attack.

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11/04/2022
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Grand Jury determines that Santa Clara City Councilmembers Becker, Jain, Park, Chahal, and Hardy committed malfeasance; police chief asks DA to investigate.

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11/02/2022
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A second woman has sued Monterey County and recently retired undersheriff John Mineau over alleged sexual harassment, and an ongoing failure to stop the behavior.

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11/02/2022
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The King City Police Department has been awarded a $50,000 grant to increase patrols throughout the community and provide programs to help reduce the number of serious injuries and deaths on roads.

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10/31/2022
Tina Nieto and Joe Moses have both adopted platforms that promise there will be a new sheriff in town.

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10/31/2022
A look back on the Bakke decision—the 1978 Supreme Court decision that ruled affirmative action was constitutional—as the Court gets ready to reexamine the matter.

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10/30/2022
Paul Pelosi remained hospitalized Oct. 31 while recovering from an attack by the man who planned to take the Speaker of the House hostage and “break her kneecaps.”

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10/27/2022
A complicated picture of David Depape's fringe beliefs began to surface through his online presence and connection to a Bay Area nude activist community. His online promoted anti-Semitism, far-right QAnon theory, and 2020 election denialism.

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10/27/2022
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It was a day of celebration Oct. 25 at Seaside City Hall, as scores of local dignitaries, police officers and residents gathered for the official swearing-in ceremony of Seaside Police Chief Nick Borges.

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10/24/2022
State regulators plan to impose a $155.4 million fine against PG&E Corp. over the Zogg Fire, which killed four people in Shasta County. PG&E is already under criminal indictment in the fire, and has pleaded innocent to manslaughter and other charges.

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10/21/2022
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Four years ago, Pacific Grove’s actions to curtail short-term vacation rentals came under attack through two lawsuits.

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10/18/2022
Monterey County officials have agreed to a $2.5 million settlement in the latest in a series of jail death lawsuits, this one involving a schizophrenic inmate who died after having received almost no psychiatric care for months on end, reports Voices of Monterey County.

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10/18/2022
Image for display with article titled Paul Flores Found Guilty of 1996 Murder of Kristin Smart, Father Acquitted on Accessory Charges

Two separate Monterey County juries spent two weeks deliberating in a 1996 murder case that has haunted the family of Kristin Smart, a Cal Poly student who disappeared and was never located.

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10/17/2022
Nearly half of California domestic violence offenders failed to complete a required program designed to prevent future assaults and judges failed to impose new sanctions almost every time.

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10/17/2022
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A Monterey County judge has given life sentences to two Sureno gang members from King City for their involvement in the 2019 murder of a Greenfield man.

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10/13/2022
SCOTUS is set to rule on race-based programs in college admissions. Since 1996, affirmative action in college admissions has been banned in California; an amicus brief filed by the University of California states that other efforts have failed to bring representative racial diversity to its student body.

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10/13/2022
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SALINAS VALLEY — Last Sunday, Oct. 2, the Information and Technology Resources (ITR) team at Hartnell College detected abnormal network activity that prompted a manual network shutdown.  Currently, Hartnell College is working with third-party forensic incident response specialists and federal law enforcement to investigate this incident. The college has confirmed that the nature of the [...]

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10/12/2022
Image for display with article titled An investigation, spurred by allegedly missing pain pills, is underway in Monterey County Jail.

According to a nurse who works inside the Monterey County Jail, there is a standard procedure when dispensing potentially addictive medications. There is a log book, noting the patient/inmate name, time and date and the dose, and a witness signature.