After being housed in segregation at Monterey County Jail for two months, Bobby Carrillo, the ex-King City cop convicted for felony crimes tied to a years-long towing scheme, was granted a request made by his attorney that he be released early from custody.
Susan Chapman, Carrillo’s defense attorney, made the request Thursday, asking Monterey County Superior Court Judge Julie Culver to let Carrillo finish his sentence in home confinement.
“He’s lost 30 pounds in 60 days,” Chapman told Judge Culver.
Culver granted the request, which means Carrillo is now a free man and has to check back on Aug. 16 with probation and apply for home confinement. He was initially ordered to serve a year in county jail.
Prior to the ruling, prosecutor Steve Somers argued that being jailed was “part of the punishment that comes with breaking the law” and added there are no signs of Carrillo being mistreated or being kept unsafe at the jail.
But Culver thought two months in jail had already been a harsh enough.
"I don’t think Carrillo should be treated any differently from most people doing felony probation,” Culver said. “He has already been treated differently, more harshly than other nonviolent offenders.”
Culver was referring to the effect of AB109 and Proposition 47, which have been legislative vehicles to reduce the state’s prison population by allowing newly convicted low-level offenders without current or prior serious or violent offenses to serve time in county jail or sometimes probation.
Carrillo’s punishment came after he was fingered as the head of the scheme that fueled a February 2014 corruption scandal—one of the biggest police-related scandals in Monterey County history.
The scheme defrauded hundreds of low-income Latinos when police impounded their vehicles and then kept them for profit, and led to the arrest of six police officers in the department and crippled morale and staffing level there for years.
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This predator cop is not a victim he is a perp! The worst kind! This awful man prayed on the most vulnerable for years! He did not have to be violent; he had a gun, authority, the color of law, intimidation, threats, greed, and power. He ruined lives. Props AB109 and 47 are ruining the state of CA because they allow pieces of crap human beings to function with near impunity as repeat offenders as "victims" (isn't every property stealing, lying meth addict or heroine addict really just a victim hidden behind every horrid crime they commit?) when this man surely knew better (likely a sociopath) because he is a cop. The fact that he lost weight (30 pounds in 60 days) The Biggest Looser would commend consider that a success considering he was fat. He is still fat! Steve Somers has done a tremendous job prosecuting these "dirty cops" who have preyed on mostly vulnerable and illigal immigrants. Affinity crime, it seems as many if these officers were Hispanic. This is surely just the tip of an ugly iceberg which was caught thawing in the county revealing corruption and cronyism. Ugliest of all is implication that this cop has suffered enough. Cry me a river. #HeartBreakFromDallas
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