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Two of six men facing charges related to the alleged murder of Shanta Olsen were taken into custody Wednesday, while two other defendants were allowed to remain out on bail.
Ronney Turner, 31, and Devon Deontae Jennings, 21, were taken to Nevada County jail after Judge Robert Tice-Raskin set their bond status to no bail, both defendant’s attorneys confirmed, meaning that both men will remain in custody until they stand trial.
Dakari Mondell Harris, 22, and William Rynell Levise, 31, also charged in the case, were both allowed to remain out of custody and return home until trial, under pretrial release conditions specified at Wednesday’s hearing.
Wesley Panighetti is “every woman’s worst nightmare” and a sociopathic monster, said prosecutor Helenaz Moteabbed Hill.
According to Hill, the 62-year-old Panighetti victimized and abused his victim for years during an intermittent BDSM relationship that ended in non-consensual sexual assault.
Panighetti is a career criminal and a sexual predator, Hill told a jury during closing arguments of his trial in Nevada County Superior Court on March 3. Panighetti is facing felony charges of sodomy by use of force, forcible oral copulation, criminal threats, first-degree burglary and dissuading a witness, as well as one misdemeanor count of battery, Nevada County Superior Court records state.
By Liz Kellar | Staff Writer
A Grass Valley man was sentenced Friday to three years in state prison for his role in helping rob another man of cash and drugs.
Jerry Joseph Delgado, 32, had pleaded guilty to first-degree residential robbery in the March 26 incident, in which he stole items from another man. A burglary count was dismissed as part of the plea agreement.
During an September hearing into the case held in Nevada County Superior Court, a Grass Valley police officer testified he had been dispatched to the scene of a reported robbery on Dorsey Drive.
The victim said two men, one of whom he identified as Delgado, had come to his apartment earlier that day to sell him methamphetamine, the officer testified. The two men later returned and Delgado stole $150, six cartons of cigarettes and a small wood box holding the meth the victim had just bought, while the other man punched him and then held him at knife point.