A Tulare County Superior Court judge has reduced the sentence of a 16-year-old minor who admitted to the 2023 murder of Orosi teacher Sergio Martin. On July 16, 2025, in Department 21 of the South County Justice Center, the court reduced the minor’s sentence by two months, citing positive behavior toward rehabilitation outlined in Welfare…
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Today in Department 3 of the Tulare County Superior Court, Blake Benham, age 44, of Dinuba, was sentenced to 23 years and 8 months in prison for a DUI crash that killed two women and severely injured two others. At approximately 6:18 pm on December 3, 2023, Benham, driving a Ford F-150, collided with a…
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Yesterday in Department 6 of the Tulare County Superior Court, the court completed the sentencing of two Visalia men involved in the 2020 death of a man at local motel. On the morning of January 8, 2021, Visalia Police Department officers were called to a motel for a report of a man lying down in…
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Today in Department 6 of the Tulare County Superior Court, TCDA prosecutors secured a guilty verdict against Francisco Javier Valdivia, age 44, for the 2016 murder of Cecilia Bravo Cabrera. Valdivia and Cabrera were married in Fresno in 2008. Despite the marriage, the pair did not live together and did not have children, as several…
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Today in Department 10 of the Tulare County Superior Court, the court sentenced Samuel Camposeco, age 29, to 50 years to life in prison for the 2017 attempted murder of a police officer in Dinuba during a robbery. On January 5, 2017, Camposeco and Luis Vargas, both armed with semi-automatic weapons, entered the Texaco gas…
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