On Friday, December 30, 2022 at 12:48:14 PM UTC-8, risky biz wrote:
So why wasn't this bag of shit serving a life term at a work farm rather than being out on the steet committing murder?
'Bianco identified the gunman as William Shea McKay, 44, who most recently lived in San Bernardino County. McKay’s criminal history dated to the 1990s and included kidnapping, robbery and multiple assaults with deadly weapons..'
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-12-30/la-me-riverside-deputy-killed
Now some reports are that the same judge released this violent asshole early more than once.
'William Shea McKay, 44, had a long and violent criminal history and was constantly fleeing from police.
The three-time convicted felon had a history of trying to evade police, which in each case led to violent confrontations, court records show.
His first strike came in 1999, when he pleaded guilty to assault with a firearm and spent three years in prison. The second came in 2005, when he and a co-defendant attacked a sleeping couple in their apartment, assaulting them and stealing $3,700 from a
safe.
The third strike came when he was convicted on Nov. 8, 2021, of false imprisonment, evading a peace officer, criminal threats likely to result in death or great bodily injury, and receiving stolen property. Evidence included zip ties, duct tape, an ax
and gang paraphernalia. McKay represented himself at trial but absconded before his sentencing. There had been a warrant out for his arrest since October.
It was not McKay's first police chase. He had led police on a high-speed chase in 1999, driving 90 mph on surface streets, forcing Caltrans workers to dive out of the way as he sped through a work zone, according to court documents. When his car was
disabled, he got out with a gun and waved it in the air menacingly at officers before finally surrendering.
He did it all again in 2021, fleeing after being stopped for driving a stolen vehicle with a co-defendant, court records show. The two sped off, evading police in the desert for 20 miles, then took off on foot armed with knives after their car was
disabled. McKay's co-defendant stabbed a police K-9 during that pursuit.
"At no time in the defendant's adult life has he led a sustained crime-free existence," wrote prosecutor Tess Ponce in a sentencing memorandum in April that detailed McKay's criminal history.
McKay's criminal history dated to the 1990s and included kidnapping, robbery and multiple assaults with deadly weapons, according to the memorandum.
His violent history should have kept him in jail, Bianco said. He was convicted of his third strike in November 2021, but was released after a judge lowered his bail in the case, according to Bianco.
McKay and two other co-defendants in that case were accused of holding one of his acquaintances captive between March 23 and March 27, 2021, according to court records and the sentencing memorandum filed by San Bernardino County prosecutors in April of
this year. The woman had been house-sitting for McKay while he was in custody on another case, according to prosecutors. When she left the house for a few hours, the residence was burglarized.
After the woman helped bail McKay out of jail, he asked her to come over to speak about the burglary, according to prosecutors.
"Defendant punched victim several times in the face, told her he was going to kill her and her mother," prosecutors wrote.
McKay then duct-taped the woman's wrists and ankles and held her at the house for days.
He and his co-defendants repeatedly assaulted the victim, who managed days later to loosen her restraints, escape and call police on March 27, according to prosecutors.
McKay’s bail in the case was originally set at $950,000 in June 2021, court records show. After the verdicts, including his acquittal on kidnapping charges, Judge Cara D. Hutson reduced his bail to $500,000.
On Nov. 8, 2021 — the day Hutson reached her verdict — the record notes that a “confidential document” had been filed in federal court: an indictment. There is no record of McKay being charged in public federal court databases. It’s unclear
whether he was the subject of a sealed indictment.
McKay postponed his sentencing and posted the $500,000 bond through a Riverside bail agency in March, court records show.
McKay was also facing charges of possessing a firearm as a felon, though the case was later dropped, records show.
On Dec. 16, 2020, Cpl. Serbando Saenz of the San Bernardino Police Department saw a maroon Ford Flex turn at the intersection of H Street and Baseline Road without signaling.
Saenz testified that when he pulled over the SUV, he saw McKay slump over in the driver’s seat, as if he were reaching for the floorboard.
Inside a bag on the driver’s side floorboard was a .22-caliber revolver loaded with six rounds, Saenz testified. McKay was also armed with two knives, one tucked in a sheath and another in his pocket, Saenz said.
Two passengers in McKay’s car were found to be carrying methamphetamine and pipes.
McKay was charged with possessing the revolver as a felon, but the district attorney’s office dropped the charge the same day he was found guilty in his other case of false imprisonment, making criminal threats, evading police and receiving stolen
property, records show.
"I am angry that judge let him go," Morales said. "I’m angry that criminals seem to have more rights [than victims]. I’m just angry."
https://news.yahoo.com/dedicated-cop-career-criminals-lives-222956089.html
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