On July 21, 2021, at the California Institution for Women in Corona, a California parole board issued a three-year denial for June Gravlee, age 67, for the 1987 murder of her husband. In her 1990 trial prosecuted by former Tulare County District Attorney Phil Cline, Gravlee was convicted of first-degree murder with the special circumstance…
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Today in Department 14 of the Tulare County Superior Court, Visalia Division, the Court sentenced Richard Ramirez, age 47, to 5 years, 8 months in prison for crimes against three victims. On May 7, 2021, a jury convicted Ramirez of the following: Adult Victim 1 –The defendant was convicted of two misdemeanor counts of battery.…
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On Friday July 16, 2021, in Department 17 of the South County Justice Center, the Court sentenced Anthony Ray Rojas, age 24, to 32 years-to-life in prison for attempted murder. In December of 2020, Rojas was at a friend’s house in Richgrove when his friend’s ex-boyfriend, the victim, stopped by while riding his bicycle. The…
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Today at the South County Justice Center in Porterville, the Court sentenced convicted sex offender Ronald Thomas, age 63, to 50 years-to-life in prison for harassing teens at a local park. On May 21, 2021, a jury convicted Thomas of one count of annoying or molesting a child with a prior sex crime conviction, and…
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Yesterday via video conference, a California Parole Board recommended parole for Harry Bodine, age 75, of Visalia. Bodine has been incarcerated since 1992 for the attempted murder of now retired Tulare County Superior Court Judge Howard Broadman. Bodine is currently housed at High Desert State Prison. On May 4, 1991, Bodine entered Judge Broadman’s Visalia…
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Via video conference on July 7, 2021, TCDA prosecutors successfully argued against parole for Omar Galeana, 35. In the late evening of July 16, 2006, Tulare County Sheriff deputies were dispatched to a Visalia area residence on Road 124 concerning an adult male suffering from a gunshot wound. The victim had been shot in the…
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In the weeks leading up to this 4th of July weekend, investigators from the TCDA Bureau of Investigations and Tulare County Fire Department removed 540 pounds of illegal fireworks off the streets. During a series of joint operations targeting sales, investigators worked to intercept dangerous “Illegal” fireworks that have been brought into the county in…
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