Crime
Timothy Delosreyes III Trial For Murder Of Eric Bean Begins
By Greta Mart
Staff Reporter
Thursday May 03, 2012
Delosreyes's attorney G. Wright Morton said in a phone interview Wednesday that he was hoping his client would be found mentally incompetent to stand trial – incapable of understanding the proceedings against him and unable to assist in his own defense – during a competency jury trial held April 25-28.
DNA Science Revives Port Costa Cold Case
By Greta Mart
Staff Reporter
Tuesday May 01, 2012
On the morning of June 2, 1993, a man was walking his dog near Port Costa's Reservoir Street when he noticed a partially-buried body under a pile of debris. Sheriff's Office investigators determined Doe's body had been buried at the location for over a year and the woman had been killed by blunt force trauma to the head.
Forensic deputies recently completed a DNA profile of the woman's remains and tried unsuccessfully to locate her in national law enforcement missing persons databases.
Coin Thief Sentenced To Prison
By Greta Mart
Staff Reporter
Thursday April 26, 2012
Wyatt Yeager, sentenced this week in a federal courtroom in Delaware, pled guilty in January to pocketing over 300 rare coins and other numismatic – a term used to describe coins, paper currency and medals – items from the American Numismatic Association's Edward C. Rochette Money Museum in Colorado Springs, Colorado. At the time of the thefts – January through March of 2007 – Yeager served as the museum's collections manager.
GUILTY!
By Greta Mart
Staff Reporter
Thursday March 29, 2012
Gardner was convicted of first-degree murder and torture as well as residential burglary and larceny. He is expected to be sentenced by the end of April.
Gardner hung his head as the guilty verdict was returned on the murder charge. As each subsequent guilty verdict was read by the Superior Court clerk, he shook his head and at one point looked around to his mother, who sat in the gallery crying.
Jury Deliberates In Bean Murder Case
By Greta Mart
Staff Reporter
Thursday March 29, 2012
Both the prosecutor and defense attorney in the first trial of an accused killer of Martinez teen Eric Bean delivered closing arguments during the morning court session. Contra Costa Deputy District Attorney Jason Peck reiterated his accusations that Gardner, a former Benicia resident, fully participated in the torture and murder of Bean in 2009, titling his final PowerPoint presentation to the jury, "Snitches End Up in Ditches."
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