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June 23, 2008

Three agencies investigate correctional officer's death

From the Merced Sun-Star:

An autopsy is scheduled Tuesday for slain federal correctional officer Jose Rivera, 22, of Chowchilla, who was stabbed to death Friday by two inmates at U.S. Penitentiary Atwater.

Three government agencies are investigating Rivera's death, the Merced County Coroner's Office, the FBI and the federal Bureau of Prisons. Merced County Sheriff Mark Pazin, who heads the coroner's office, said the autopsy will probably be conducted Tuesday.

Here's the Sun-Star's updated story.

Categories: Homicide

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Q: ... I was hoping you could please tell me if there was ever an arrest made in the murder of Joshua Fish? Joshua Fish was a senior at Florin High School. I believe he was murdered in 1997. He was a friend of my brothers and we never heard of any arrests made in this case. He was murdered in south Sacramento.


A: As reported in The Bee on March 10, 2007:

Brandon Lee Johnston, who was convicted for killing a man in 1997 for 5 pounds of marijuana, was sentenced to life in prison with no parole.

The 32-year-old, an admitted "Flat Dog Crip" gang member, was sentenced before Sacramento Superior Court Judge Michael T. Garcia, who gave Johnston the mandatory sentence.

Johnston was convicted of the May 1, 1997, shooting on Scottsdale Drive in south Sacramento of Joshua Fish, 18. Fish died later that month.

According to a probation report, Johnston was arrested in May 2005 after an accomplice agreed to testify against him.

The accomplice, whom Johnston blamed for the shooting, told jurors that Johnston shot Fish to steal a box filled with marijuana.

Detectives say they cracked the case with information gained after a reward was offered by the Governor's Office in May 2004.


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