Contra Costa County D.A. announces policy restricting civil-asset forfeitures
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Contra Costa County District Attorney Diana Becton talks with Scott Alonso public information officer for the Office of the District Attorney, in her office on Friday, August 28, 2020 in Martinez, Calif. Becton’s office announced restrictions to the way her office will handle civil-asset forfeitures, a controversial process that allows law enforcement officers to seize property from people they suspect have been involved in a crime.Lea Suzuki / The Chronicle 2020
Contra Costa County District Attorney Diana Becton announced changes Tuesday to the way her office will handle civil-asset forfeitures, a controversial process that allows law enforcement officers to seize property from people they suspect have been involved in a crime.
DENVER A Pueblo man who was sentenced Thursday to 34 months in federal prison said his history of crime has to do with (his) drug addiction and alcohol abuse.
Kenneth Lawrence Baca was sentenced in Denver at the U.S. District Court for Colorado for having a gun after being convicted of a felony.
Court records show he had at least three felony convictions in Pueblo District Court in 2000, 2005 and 2009. The crimes were second-degree assault with a deadly weapon, criminal mischief and identify theft.
Police caught Baca, 41, in 2018 with a loaded .38 caliber handgun in a car parked in the 1100 block of South Prairie Avenue. That was the basis of the case for Thursday s sentencing by Judge William J. Martinez.