Behind the Badge
Garden Grove officer recounts scary brush with suspected carjacker taken down by K9
0Editor’s note: This story has been updated. Suspect Antonio Padilla Jr., 37, of Palm Desert was charged Wednesday, Feb. 28, with multiple felonies and misdemeanors that, if he is convicted, come with a maximum sentence of 120 years in prison, according to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office. Padilla is a third-striker parolee whose past convictions include first-degree robbery in 1998 in Orange County, making criminal threats in 2006 in Riverside, unlawful possession of a firearm in 2007, burglary in Riverside in 2011, and inflicting corporal injury in Riverside in 2017, according to an OCDA news release. In addition, Garden…
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