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A former California Road Patrol officer who was initially accused, with another man, of February and theft of car parts from the end of 2016 to mid-2018, received the order to turn 90 days in prison prison prison prison The County of Solano, the journalist discovered.
The files of the Superior Court of the Solano count in the morning in department 1 of the Fairfield Center of Justice. He was represented by the lawyer for the criminal defense of Vallejo, Daniel J. Russo.
A report by the Department of Libertad Condado has recommended that the sentence be suspended and that Smith receives two years of probation, but the court documents have clearly mentioned the 90 -day sentence, which requires that Smith reports at 9 am. November 21 to start celebrating the time.
Judge Jeffrey C. Kauffman also ordered a revision of the progress of the case and planned it for November 14, but Smith does not have to appear for the procedure.
In addition, Kauffman ordered Smith to pay $ 600 fines and not have "knowledge with knowledge" with two other men related to the case: Nicholas Ryan Bonachea and Thomas Carpenter.
Bonachea, 41, former automatic CHP coach, is planned for a preparation conference and a test environment at 9 a.m. From August 24 to the Justice Center in Fairfield.
The last development date followed a two -day preliminary audience and a position reading held on May 4 of last year.
Judicial files indicate that Smith was arrested on November 30, 2018 by an official partner of the Golden Gate division of Benicia Road in Vallejo. Shortly after being reserved for Solano County prison, he recorded a deposit of $ 35,000 in position, embezzlement of criminals / flight of a large surplus of $ 950.
Bonachea was arrested on the same day under the suspicion of diversion of February which exceeds $ 950. After being reserved in prison, he published a deposit of $ 35,000 on December 4.
A third suspect in the case, Thomas Jerome Carpenter, 52, was also arrested on November 30 for receiving stolen goods, car parts, among others. After being reserved in prison, he also published a deposit of $ 35,000 on December 4.
The three were prosecuted for the accusations on December 31 in department 17 at the Fairfield Hall of Justice. Everyone said Innocent.
During the following months, however, Carpenter, accused of two stolen property receipts, declared himself guilty and was sentenced on August 17 of last year. However, the judicial files accessible to the public do not indicate exactly which sanction Kauffman imposed. Before declaring, he faced the possibility of a maximum of five years in prison, more fines.
Carpenter, also a car mechanic, originally accused of having received a stolen property which exceeds $ 950 (car parts, hand controller and a CHP medicine bag), and his probation term was transferred in His current county of residence, which, according to judicial files, is the County of Butte.
A search in legal files showed that the case against him closed on November 30, 2020 and there was no other information in the court management system.
At the beginning of the first day of the preliminary hearing, on April 19, the deputy prosecutor of the district William J. Moser, who led the prosecutor's office at the time, called the detective of the James Hampton CHP at the witness post.
.Hampton indicated that at one point, he had obtained a search warrant for Carpenter's House in Pacheco, where the researchers found what was described as a "hand control device" and a "device with screen tactile ".
.During the search for the house, Carpenter arrived and told the researchers that he had received "some articles" from Bonachea and admitted, according to Hampton, that he was not allowed to have the articles, which were stolen and with a value of $ 2,000. The researchers also found car parts belonging to the CHP in the Carpenter garage.
Hampton said that Bonacea has been working for the CHP at the author's care center in Vallejo since 2015. He also testified that car parts, including new tires and tires for CHP vehicles, were used In personal vehicles that they belong to Carpenter, Bonachea and Smith.
In addition, said Hampton, the three men used CHP vehicles "to save money" while working in an "automatic tension" company.
In the interrogation, Russo splashed Hampton with questions about how he determined that the vehicles had stolen parts. Hampton said they were labeled as a CHP property, either in a box or with a certain type of sticker, or marked directly in the room.
The criminal defense of Fairfield, Vincent Maher, who represented Bonachea at the time, forced Hampton to admit that tires and tires, brake pads "have no CHP pads" or other identifiers.
.Smith, if he had been sentenced in the trial, faced three years in prison.
If he is found guilty in the trial, Bonachea also faces the possibility of a maximum period of three years after the bars, more fines.
In a complaint filed on November 30, 2018 by the County County District Prosecutor, the prosecutors say that Smith and Bonachea committed the alleged crimes between December 6, 2016 and June 13, 2018.
The elements listed on the list include a computer touch screen, reflective rain jackets with CHP fixes, CHP decals and an external public address system.