Contra Costa County courts reporter
Nate Gartrell
Nate Gartrell covers crime and corruption in Contra Costa County. He joined the Bay Area News Group in 2014 after a year spent working at a beer supply warehouse. Outside of journalism, he doesn't do much. He endeavors to visit all 30 Major League Baseball stadiums.
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Man gets 3 months for intimidating key witness in Hells Angels murder case
Samuel Holquin, 50, pleaded guilty to witness intimidation of a man whose testimony has put more than a half-dozen Hells Angels behind bars.
Police ID father of two killed outside Oakland fast food restaurant
A 28-year-old man was shot and killed, and the woman he was with was injured, in the Jan. 21 shooting in Oakland.
Prosecutors charge 19-year-old with murder following death of East Bay woman
Details of the shooting have not been made available.
DA throws out murder case investigated by Oakland detective facing perjury charges
The defendant's legal troubles are far from over; he's facing two separate felony cases and is serving 59 years for attempted murder and carjacking.
Oakland teen charged with crashing car and killing 73-year-old woman in front of her family
The victim, who'd recently moved to California from Thailand, was killed in front of her daughter and 10-year-old granddaughter.
Jurors delve into the secret world of prison gangs as Aryan Brotherhood trial begins
Recently sworn-in jurors got an immersive look into the cutthroat and chaotic world of prison gangs, and even passed around a murder weapon from a 2011 stabbing.
Feds detail human trafficking, as they charged East Bay man chased by Vacaville police with gun possession
Federal prosecutors detailed ways Adesola Kehinde has attempted to evade prosecution, including a police chase, and another time he allegedly "attempted to change his voice to sound like a woman."
Leaders of a massive California prisoner movement have been hit with federal charges — they call it retaliation
Defendants in RICO prosecutions involving the Aryan Brotherhood and the Nuestra Familia have asked for the cases to be dismissed on the ground that the charges were politically motivated.
Sureño gang member convicted in East Bay mass shooting that killed three, injured seven
Enrique Ramirez-Calmo, 29, argued in trial he made a false confession to the Father's Day 2021 killing.
Suspect in Christmas Eve Oakland slaying had been released from prison for 1986 double murder
Keith Lollis, aka Keith Gains, was the driver in a 1986 double murder motivated by a feud over drug turf, but his conviction was overturned due to a change in...