Today in Department 17 of the Tulare County Superior Court, South County Justice Center, the court sentenced James Van Norton, age 46, to 13 years, 8 months in prison for child molestation. “I am certain that the public views this sentence as wildly inadequate based on the defendant’s actions and position of trust. As a…
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District Attorney Tim Ward is pleased to introduce Tor, TCDA’s first electronic detection K9. Tor was welcomed at today’s Board of Supervisors meeting in Visalia. Tor, a two-year-old black labrador retriever, is an inaugural graduate of the United States Secret Service (USSS) National Computer Forensic Institute (NCFI) program for electronic detection K9’s. The TCDA Bureau…
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On Friday, February 7, 2025, in Department 6 of the Tulare County Superior Court, TCDA prosecutors secured a guilty verdict against Orosi man Raul Alberto Vasquez, age 20, for a series of shootings in the Cutler Orosi area in the summer of 2023. Around 10 pm on June 27, 2023, a group of neighbors and…
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Today in Department 22 of the Tulare County Superior Court, South County Justice Center, the court sentenced Lacey Gonzalez, age 38, of Visalia, to 5 years in prison for a 2022 high-speed chase in Tulare that injured a police officer. On March 5, 2022, Tulare Police Department officers observed a stolen Ford Flex vehicle being…
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