News & Press Releases

The San Joaquin County District Attorney's Office is proud to announce the successful completion of the Youth Leadership Academy Class of 2024. This unique program, the only one of its kind run by a district attorney's office, was established to provide young individuals in San Joaquin County with opportunities for personal development, leadership skills, and public engagement through various presentations and activities.

The San Joaquin County District Attorney's Office is pleased to announce the conviction and sentencing of Gamoni Polk, 24, of Oakland, for crimes committed in January of 2023. Polk robbed a victim of her rent money at gunpoint in Stockton.

San Joaquin County District Attorney Ron Freitas announces that on May 23, 2024, Save Mart Supermarkets, LLC, and their affiliated stores agreed to pay a $1.6 million settlement in a civil complaint brought forth in coordination with the District Attorney’s Offices in San Joaquin, Solano, El Dorado, Marin, Sonoma, and Yolo counties.

San Joaquin County District Attorney Ron Freitas announces that two individuals from Stockton have been found guilty of multiple homicides that occurred in 2017.

San Joaquin County District Attorney Ron Freitas announces a guilty verdict in a series of robberies and carjackings in 2023.

District Attorney Ron Freitas announced today that a jury found Steven Martinez, 59, of Stockton, guilty of one count of murder (Penal Code section §187), one count of residential burglary (Penal Code section §459), and two special circumstance allegations (Penal Code section §190.2) murder in the commission of a burglary and murder in the commission of torture of Mary Sellars, a 57-year-old resident of Stockton, in February of 2020.

The San Joaquin District Attorney's Office announced today that Alvaro Cruz Lopez has plead guilty to violating multiple sections of the Penal Code related to copper wire theft. Lopez admitted to violating Penal Code sections 487j (theft of copper wire), 12022.1 (committing a felony while on bail or O/R), 496 (possession of stolen property), and an aggravating factor 4.421(a)(9) (loss of great monetary value).

Angel Ann Flores was arraigned at the San Joaquin County Superior Courthouse by The Honorable Ronald North-up on the following felony charges:

Today, the San Joaquin County District Attorney’s Office filed a criminal complaint in Superior Court from this afternoon’s arrest of former Stockton Unified School District Board President Angel Ann Flores conducted by the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office.

The San Joaquin County District Attorney’s Office announces a settlement in the case regarding 32-year-old Gerardo Velasquez Luque.