SLO police identify officer killed in Monday shooting
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. - The San Luis Obispo Police Department has identified the officer who was killed in the line of duty Monday as well as the man suspected of killing him.
The police department says Detective Luca Benedetti was the officer shot and killed Monday evening while serving a search warrant at a San Luis Obispo apartment. Benedetti was a 12-year law enforcement veteran, the police department said.
Detective Steve Orozco was also injured in the shooting and was transported to the hospital where he was treated and released. He is expected to make a complete recovery.
Deanna Cantrell never thought she d be a police officer, let alone a police chief. I did not like police growing up, the Fairfield police chief told the Bay Area Reporter. I grew up underprivileged in New Mexico, in a household with a lot of violence, so police came quite a few times and I didn t care for them. So, if you ask anyone who knew me then, nobody would have thought that d be my path.
But Cantrell, a 50-year-old lesbian, became the first woman and the first LGBTQ person in her position last October. She said her feelings toward the police began to change after a chance encounter with a stranger at a party decades ago.
Deanna Cantrell never thought she d be a police officer, let alone a police chief. I did not like police growing up, the Fairfield police chief told the Bay Area Reporter. I grew up underprivileged in New Mexico, in a household with a lot of violence, so police came quite a few times and I didn t care for them. So, if you ask anyone who knew me then, nobody would have thought that d be my path.
But Cantrell, a 50-year-old lesbian, became the first woman and the first LGBTQ person in her position last October. She said her feelings toward the police began to change after a chance encounter with a stranger at a party decades ago.
Former Uber driver sentenced for sex crimes, burglary and theft
San Luis Obispo County District Attorney s Office
Alfonso Alarcon-Nunez
and last updated 2021-04-26 20:42:27-04
A Santa Maria man has been sentenced to 46 years to life, plus 8 years and 8 months for his conviction of 13 felony counts, including sexual crimes, burglary and theft involving five women.
In March, Alfonso Alarcon-Nunez, 43, was found guilty of charges that include assault with the intent to commit rape during a residential burglary, four counts of burglary of an occupied residence, one count of rape by force, two counts of rape of an intoxicated individual, one count of oral copulation of an intoxicated individual, one count of assault with intent to commit rape, and one count of grand theft.
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Last week, I wrote this story about how the 25-year-old “disappearance” of Kristin Smart a 19-year-old student who disappeared from the campus of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in the early morning hours of May 25, 1996 was solved in large measure by a podcast called “Your Own Backyard,” which detailed the events of the night of her disappearance, and the decades of poor law enforcement efforts to charge fellow student Paul Flores in connection with her presumed murder. Flores was the last person to see her alive and told a series of fantastical stories about his actions that night and the following day.