Archive By Section - Crime
Duo kick down door to steal bike
Two men are facing home invasion charges after they forced their way into a man's Turlock residence and stole his bicycle. The incident was reported to the Turlock Police Department around 12:43 a.m. Friday. The victim told police that two men kicked down the door of his home in the 600 block of Wayside Drive and ordered him to stay on the couch or they would hurt him, said Turlock Police spokesperson Officer ...
Guilty: Turlock mother convicted of murdering daughter
A Stanislaus County jury needed only about 45 minutes to find Brandy Lee Rose Devine guilty of killing her 2-year-old daughter Stephanie Torres. The jury returned guilty verdicts against Devine for second-degree murder, a felony charge of willful cruelty to a child causing great bodily injury and/or death, and a misdemeanor charge of using a controlled substance. The verdicts leave Devine facing a prison term of 15 years to life, said Deputy ...
Investigators arrest two for murder
Two Turlock men have been arrested for murder in the death of a 21-year-old man, whose bullet-riddled body was found slumped over the wheel of his car on Main Street early Wednesday morning. The victim of the fatal shooting was identified by the Turlock Police Department as 21-year-old Amritpal Sandhu of Modesto. Arrested for Sandhu's murder Wednesday night were Pardeep Singh, 21, of Turlock, and Kultar Singh Dhatt, 22, of Turlock, ...
Pedestrian safety operation nets multitude of offenders
A concentrated effort to improve pedestrian safety on Turlock's streets resulted in 83 citations being issued Wednesday. The citations were dispersed among both pedestrians and motorists alike and were issued in large part for jaywalking and not yielding to pedestrians in a crosswalk, according to Turlock Police Sgt. Neil Cervenka. Additionally, two citations for cell phone use and three citations for driving on a suspended license were handed out. "Pedestrian safety ...
Homicide on Main Street
Turlock Police detectives are investigating a shooting on Main Street that left one man mortally wounded. Around 1:30 a.m. today police began receiving multiple calls reporting shots fired in the vicinity of E. Main Street and Pioneer Avenue. As the first officers arrived at the scene, they located a vehicle that had run up on the curb in front of the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church on Minaret Avenue. The driver ...
Toddler left to die in filth, says DA
Put in her crib and shut away in a room with cats for three days, 2-year-old Stephanie Torres died a slow death from dehydration and malnutrition while her mother camped out on a couch in the living room with a case of PediaSure sitting untouched feet away from her in the kitchen. The Stanislaus County District Attorney's Office is presenting a jury with this image of willful neglect and indifference as they seek ...
Effort to improve pedestrian safety
If you're a person who jaywalks, consider yourself warned. The Turlock Police Department will be leading a multi-agency crackdown today targeting violations. The department is hosting the Stanislaus Countywide Integrated Traffic Enforcement Pedestrian Safety Enforcement. Motorcycle officers from several agencies within Stanislaus County will converge in Turlock for an organized operation targeting pedestrian violations. The violations targeted will include those committed by pedestrians, as well as those committed by motorists against pedestrians. ...
Gunman kills TSA officer at LAX, wounds 2 others
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A man carrying a note that said he wanted to "kill TSA" pulled a semi-automatic rifle from a bag and shot his way past a security checkpoint at Los Angeles International Airport on Friday, killing one Transportation Security Administration officer and wounding two others, authorities said. The gunman was wounded in a shootout with airport police and taken into custody, authorities said. His condition was not disclosed. The ...
Father makes plea for information in son’s death
A grieving father has issued a public plea in the hopes it might elicit a few leads in the death of his son, Korey Kauffman. Kauffman's remains were found Aug. 19 in the Stanislaus National Forest by a group of hunters. Kauffman had been missing for more than a year and was last seen in Turlock. The sheriff's department called the death "suspicious." In the letter released Friday, Kauffman's father, who ...
Defendant will face trial on sex charges
A Turlock man will stand trial on multiple felony charges stemming from allegations he sexually abused a teen girl over the course of three years. A Stanislaus County Superior Court judge ruled the District Attorney's Office had provided enough evidence to hold 33-year-old Robert Daniel Gomes over for trial on the charges against him. The ruling came at the conclusion of Gomes' preliminary hearing and after it was determined he was mentally competent ...
Woman attacked outside Turlock home
Two masked men pistol whipped and threatened the life of a 39-year-old woman Tuesday morning in a failed attempt to get marijuana from a Turlock residence. The victim was standing outside a Turlock home in the 300 block of Montana Avenue around 8 a.m. Tuesday smoking a cigarette when two men snuck up behind her. One suspect hit the woman in the back of her head with a pistol, while the second ...
Two convicted for fatal carjacking, one acquitted
Two Stanislaus County juries have convicted two men of murdering a Riverbank man during an attempted carjacking, while acquitting a third of all charges. One jury returned a guilty verdict Monday against Turlock Diaz, 18, of Turlock on a charge of first-degree murder and attempted carjacking. The same jury acquitted Jah-Kari Phyall, 18, of Turlock for the same charges. On Tuesday, a second jury came back with a guilty verdict ...
Man tries to elude arrest on horse
A Winton man put the term "horse power" to literal use Monday when he tried to flee law enforcement on his trusty stead. Merced County Sheriff deputies were attempting to arrest Liddon Todd Cowden, 42, when he fled on his horse, sheriff spokesman Deputy Delray Shelton said. Deputies were dispatched to a report of a fight in the 1700 block of W. Belcher Road around 3 p.m. Monday. According to the report, ...
Man apprehended for pitchfork attack
Merced County Sheriff's detectives have arrested a man who last year stabbed a Delhi man with a pitchfork in a squabble over a woman. The suspect, Antonio Trejo Perez, 57, was apprehended earlier this month trying to cross into Mexico from the Texas border, said sheriff spokesman Deputy Delray Shelton. Perez has been charged with the attempted murder of Ceaser Alcordo, 73, of Delhi. Back on June 6, 2012, Perez allegedly ...
Police ride 3-wheeled green machines
The Turlock Police Department's newest green vehicles look more like something out of a science fiction movie than what is typically seen on Main Street. The department is the newest agency to try out the Trikke Carving Vehicles, a three-wheel electric powered personal transportation device - almost like a hybrid of a bicycle, scooter and skateboard, with a tripod thrown in as well. Trikkes are quick-moving and capable of being folded down ...
Articles by Section - Crime
Daycare locked down in search for armed suspect
The search for a burglary suspect Monday afternoon prompted a brief lockdown of a Turlock daycare center. Around 12:30 p.m. a woman called the Turlock Police Department to report a burglar had just been in her apartment in the 3500 block of Crowell Road and one of the items stolen was a handgun, said Turlock Police spokesperson Officer Mayra Lewis. Officers en route to the apartment saw a man running in the ...
Thefts plague high school ag department
The Turlock High School Agriculture Department has various patios and open spaces for students to perform hands-on activities, with students and teachers often staying late and coming early to utilize tools. This freedom has, unfortunately, come at a cost as the department has faced its fifth theft since the summer. On Saturday, the THS Agriculture Department discovered that wiring on several trailers had been cut and taken, along with 12 small engines from ...
Two dead in Delhi
Two men were gunned down in an execution style murder and left in an idling truck on a Delhi country road. Merced County Sheriff Mark Pazin said the men's death was a "very precise, calculated and message-driven" slaying at the hands of a Mexican cartel. It's believed the two Hispanic men were in the country illegally and were part of an operation growing marijuana in the area. The Merced County Sheriff's Department ...
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