TCDA prosecutors have secured a guilty verdict against Marvin Joseph Chang, age 36, for numerous felony crimes including attempted murder of a police officer for a 2021 incident that started in Three Rivers and ended in an orange grove. On February 19, 2021, while at a Three Rivers gas station, Chang knocked on the window…
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Criminal investigators and prosecutors from the Tulare County District Attorney’s Office have announced more victims have come forward in the sexual assault case against Tomas Jimenez, age 60. Originally charged on June 25, 2024, for the alleged sexual assaults of four women, Jimenez is now charged with the assaults of 21 people in a 48-count…
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District Attorney Tim Ward has announced the filing of criminal charges against Visalia man Donald Franklin, age 37, for residential burglary. It is alleged that on July 6 and July 8, 2024, Franklin burglarized a Visalia home on two separate occasions. Franklin is charged with two felony counts of residential burglary along with numerous special…
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District Attorney Tim Ward has announced the filing of criminal charges against Tomas Jimenez, age 60, for sex crimes against four female victims. Jimenez is charged with six felony counts and three misdemeanor counts related to sexual assault and battery. It is alleged that the crimes were committed in his Dinuba home starting in 2021…
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At a virtual hearing on July 3, 2024, over the objection of prosecutors, California parole commissioners found June Gravlee, age 70, suitable parole after serving over three decades in prison for the 1987 murder of her husband. Gravlee is currently incarcerated at the California Institution for Women in Corona. In 1990, Gravlee was convicted of…
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Today in Department 6 of the Tulare County Superior Court, the court sentenced Visalia man David Edma, age 30, to life in prison for DUI murder. On June 15, 2018, around 9:30 pm, California Highway Patrol officers were dispatched to a collision on SR 63 south of Ave 392 near Cutler. When they arrived, they…
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Today in Department 6 of the Tulare County Superior Court, the court sentenced Curtis Williams, age 31, to life in prison for the 2020 shooting death of a man at a Visalia apartment complex. On November 28, 2020, the victim, age 33, and Williams were engaged in an argument in the victim’s apartment. Surveillance video…
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On June 27, 2024, via a virtual hearing, TCDA prosecutors successfully argued against parole suitability for Annette Batten, age 61, after reoffending as a parolee. Batten is currently incarcerated at the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla. In 2017, over the objection of TCDA prosecutors, Batten was paroled after serving two decades in prison for…
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