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UNCOVERED: Martinez - The Untold Story

'Illegal Alien' Released From Custody One Day Before Allegedly Stabbing Father of Two to Death

A Contra Costa County judge released Iriarte-Valdez from custody one day before prosecutors say he killed Todd Stewart during a burglary.

International Business Times UK · Aug 13

Attorneys Injured In Martinez Courtroom Attack

A courtroom incident in Martinez, California, involving defendant Ramello Randle stabbing his lawyer with a pen and attempting to attack the prosecutor dur...

Evictions eclipsed pre-pandemic levels in Bay Area as tenant protections expired

Janae Randolph waited nervously with her boyfriend outside a wood-paneled courtroom at the Contra Costa County courthouse in Martinez, California. She scanned the increasingly crowded hallway for somebody official-looking — maybe a public defender, she hoped — who would explain why they’d been summoned after receiving an eviction notice at…

Tribune News Service · Feb 16, 2023

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Lawsuits challenge Bay Area oil refineries’ switch to biofuels

With the planet warming at an unsustainable rate, two large Bay Area oil refineries are switching to liquid biofuels production — a seemingly cleaner alternative than fossil fuels. But those plans instead have run afoul of environmental groups that have filed lawsuits to bring the transition to a halt.

Tribune News Service · Jun 15, 2022

Baby mauled to death by 'out-of-control' family dog as grandma requires stitches

Seven-month-old Serenity Garnett was attacked by an American Bulldog Great Pyrenees mix, owned by her great-grandmother's landlord in Martinez, in Georgia, US

Daily Mirror · Mar 24, 2022

Former sheriff’s deputy sentenced to 6 years for shooting Bay Area man

MARTINEZ, Calif. — In the conclusion of Contra Costa County’s first case involving a policeman who was prosecuted for an on-duty shooting, ex-sheriff’s Deputy Andrew Hall was sentenced to six years in prison Friday for fatally shooting a mentally ill man during a slow-speed police chase in 2018.

Tribune News Service · Mar 5, 2022

Down the true-crime rabbit hole: Why we’re fascinated with cold cases, serial killers and the worst in human nature

SAN JOSE, Calif. — One day in 2007, I found myself in the basement of the Contra Costa County Superior Courthouse in Martinez, staring at a partial bloody footprint on the lid of a plastic bin. The footprint looked markedly similar to the tread on the bottom of the teenage…

Tribune News Service · Feb 9, 2022

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