

They took him to Vista Detention Facility, where for two days guards continued to think him intoxicated, despite repeated refutations from his family. After his release, Gil began acting strangely. Yet the officers continued believing that Gil, who did not drink or use drugs and had no history of reckless driving, was under the influence. As they were arresting him, Gil’s daughter arrived to inform them of her father’s condition and explained that she was having his ability to drive assessed. Gilbert Gil, 67, had been arrested two days earlier on suspicion of DUI by California Highway Patrol officers who were unaware that he suffered dementia, diabetes and possibly hyperglycemia. On May 4, 2022, a third whistleblower came forward, former Chief Lajuana Haselrig, who accused the Sheriff of growing so “desperate and panicked for a cover story” that he “turned around and illegally fabricated” allegations that she and Limon were responsible for the video’s coverup, a charge for which Haselrig was then demoted.Ĭalifornia: A detainee was found dead in an Escondido jail on February 14, 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported. In another whistleblower claim filed the same day, former Assistant Sheriff Robin Limon said she was forced to retire after clashing with Villanueva over his alleged coverup of the video, which she claims she watched with the Sheriff in the days immediately following the March 2021 incident at the county courthouse. The day before, Tchekmedyian had reported a whistleblower claim filed in advance of a lawsuit by Allen Castellano, a Sheriff’s Office Commander who disputed Villanueva’s protestations that he was unaware of the video showing deputies abusing the detainee, murder suspect Enzo Escalante. Hours later, he walked back those comments, insisting reporter Alene Tchekmedyian was not being investigated, KTTV reported. Penitentiary in Atwater, was booked into the Merced County Jail and released on bail.Ĭalifornia: Standing next to a blown-up photo of a Los Angeles Times reporter at a press conference on April 26, 2022, Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva railed against the leak of a video she reported that showed one of his deputies kneeling on a restrained detainee’s head, and he promised an investigation. He was charged with making criminal threats, reckless driving, assault, battery, suspicion of kidnapping, and child endangerment. When one did stop, Stokes allegedly assaulted him, throwing him in the bed of his truck and driving him back to the residence. The residence did not belong Stokes nor was he there, but he chased the children and threatened to shoot them if they did not stop running. The Merced Sun-Star reported that the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) employee, Earl Stokes, 50, chased down a group of juveniles in his truck after one of them kicked the door of a residence on March 18, 2022. No further details of his short-lived escape have been made public.Ĭalifornia: A federal prison employee in Merced turned himself in to authorities on April 13, 2022, after he was accused of kidnapping and injuring a child the month before.

Lindsay will go back to serving his life sentence for the murder of Bessie Louise Stovall, 68, who died when he sped past a stop sign and drove into her car while leading police on a chase in a stolen vehicle in Morgan County in 2012, earning his sentence for reckless murder three years later. that afternoon, after he was found nearby. from Kilby Correctional Facility in Montgomery County only to be returned by 3:00 p.m. The prisoner, Mitchell Dillan Lindsay, 29, escaped around 8:30 a.m. Īlabama: Alabama News Network reported that a state prisoner was recaptured on April 30, 2022, after escaping that same day.
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Alabama News Network reported that the guard, Ulysses Oliver, Jr., 47, was given 30 months in prison with three years of supervised release for the attack, for which he pleaded guilty in 2020. The indictment comes on the heels of the sentencing of a guard at the nearby Elmore County Correctional Facility on April 10, 2022, for assaulting two prisoners there on February 26, 2019. The guard, Lorenzo Mills, 55, was charged with beating three male prisoners with a wooden baton at Draper Correctional Facility in Elmore in October 2020 and then falsifying his report about the incident. Prosecutors say the three men were not resisting. Share: Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on G+ Share with emailĪlabama: A former Alabama Department of Corrections (DOC) guard was indicted on April 22, 2022, for assaulting three prisoners and then filing a false report to cover it up, the Associated Press reported.
