Today via a remote hearing and over the objection of prosecutors, a California parole board recommended parole for Mitchell Line, age 45, who is serving life in prison for sexually assaulting two victims in the mid-1990’s. Line is currently incarcerated at the California Institution for Men in Chino. After midnight on October 24, 1996, Line…
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Yesterday in Tulare County Superior Court, Visalia Division, the court sentenced Marlon Darnell Edwards, age 48, to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the 1994 shooting murder of a man during a drug deal. After a night of drinking on January 4, 1994, the victim, Mario Castaneda, and his friends decided to…
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On Monday, February 14, 2022, in Tulare County Superior Court, a jury convicted Alexander Shinn, age 28, of murdering his roommate in 2018. In the early morning of December 8, 2018, after several weeks of tension in their Farmersville residence, Shinn bludgeoned his 25-year-old roommate with a metal bar while he was asleep on the…
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Today in Department 17 of the Tulare County Superior Court at the South County Justice Center in Porterville, a jury of six men and six women recommended a death sentence for Noel Herrera, age 32, for multiple murders committed from 2010 to 2017. Herrera, a known gang member with the moniker of “Guilty,” committed his…
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Today former Porterville City Council member Daniel Penaloza, age 28, was arraigned on a criminal indictment by a Tulare County Grand Jury for crimes against a minor. The Grand Jury was empaneled on February 7, 2022, and presented an indictment on February 9, 2022. The indictment includes four total felony counts: two counts of sex…
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District Attorney Tim Ward has announced attempted murder charges against Antonio Salas Cisneros, age 41, for the alleged shooting of his pregnant wife on the evening of February 3, 2022. Cisneros is charged with premeditated attempted murder, assault with a firearm, injuring a spouse, child abuse likely to cause great bodily injury or death, and…
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