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This morning District Court Judge David Wall sentenced Jody Kenneth Thompson to a maximum of sixty (60) months and a minimum of twenty-four (24) months in the Nevada Department of Corrections (NDC), to be served concurrent with 06-C-219049-C and
consecutive to 04-C-200176-C. Thompson received no credit for time served awaiting sentencing.

Thompson, a U.S. Marshals Service Top 15 Most Wanted Fugitive, was arrested November 29, 2005 in Las Vegas by members of the U.S. Marshals Service and the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department’s SWAT Team and Robbery Detail. Thompson escaped from the Northern Nevada Correctional Center (NNCC) in Lovelock on August 25, 2005. Before his escape Thompson was serving 12 consecutive sentences of 30 to 150 months each for charges of kidnapping, robbery with a deadly weapon, and burglary.

District Court Judge Douglas Herndon presided over the sentencing of Jody Thompson today in Department 3.

Case Minutes

District Court Judge Valerie Adair confirmed a jury’s sentence for Pascual Lozano and added four more years during Lozano’s sentencing today (Oct. 31) in Department 21. Previously a jury had convicted Lozano of the 2002 murder of 9-year-old Genesis Gonzalez and recommended a sentence of 40 years to life. Adair confirmed the jury’s sentence and added four years for Lozano’s additional conviction on two charges of attempted murder with use of a deadly weapon.

District Court Judge Donald Mosley sentenced Monique Maestas to consecutive sentences of life in prison with parole after 20 years this morning. In addition, the jduge imposed a sentence of 7 to 32 years for a charge of attempted murder with a deadly weapon. The sentencing come following Maestas’ guilty plea to murder and attempted murder in connection to a 2003 knife attack that left Brittney Bergeron paralyzed and her 3-year-old sister Kristyanna Cowan dead. The 20-year-old Maestas apologized to Bergeron in court. Maestas will serve a minimum of 47 years in prison.

A Clark County Jury unanimously decided this morning to sentence 22-year-old Beau Maestas to death for the murder of 3-year-old Kristyanna Cowan and the attempted murder of 11-year-old Brittney Bergeron. Maestas pled guilty in 2005 to murder and attempted murder for the 2003 attack in a Mesquite trailer park that left Cowan dead and Bergeron paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair. Maestas will be formally sentenced by Judge Donald Mosley at 9 a.m. on August 30, 2006.

District Court Judge Valerie Adair sentenced former Nevada Highway Patrol Trooper Joshua Corcran today to two to 12 years in the Nevada Department of Corrections.

Corcran crashed his speeding patrol car into the back of a Cadillac killing four of the occupants and critically injuring a fifth person. Corcran was traveling 113 miles-per-hour when he slammed into the back of a Cadillac on I-15 in February. During the emotional hearing, Corcran apologized to the victim’s families. Also, a victim’s family member testified about the impact of Corcran’s actions on his family.

Judge Nancy Saitta sentenced Terrell Young this morning to Life in Prison Without the Possibility of Parole for the kidnapping of four young men in 1998. Young was convicted by a jury this past June of kidnapping and murdering 20-year-old Tracey Gorringe, 20-year-old Peter Talamantez, 19-year-old Matthew Mowen and 19-year-old Jeffrey Biddle.

Judge Saitta sentenced Terrell to Life in Prison for the kidnappings of Gorringe, Talamantez, Mowen and Biddle. Following the penalty phase for Young in June, a jury recommended that he receive Life With the Possibility of Parole after 40 years for the murders.

Judge Saitta also sentenced Young this morning on the remaining 6 counts to sentences totaling 40 to 180 months in the Nevada Department of Corrections to be served consecutive to the life sentences.

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Judge Stewart Bell sentenced Jose Estrada (06-C-220092-C) this morning to 24-60 months in the Nevada Department of Corrections. Estrada pled guilty May 26, 2006 to one count of Placing Graffiti On or Otherwise Defacing Property with the Intent to Promote, Further or Assist a Criminal Gang and a second count of Battery with Use of a Deadly Weapon.

Estrada will serve 24 to 60 months for the first count with a concurrent sentence of 24 to 60 months for the second count. He also must pay restitution in the amount of $15,301.40.

Count One: Placing Graffiti On or Otherwise Defacing Property with the Intent to Promote, Further or Assist a Criminal Gang (Sentence: 12-30 months, plus 12-30 months gang participation enhancement, served consecutively);

Count Two: Battery with Use of a Deadly Weapon (Sentence 24-60 months, served concurrent to Count One).

This morning District Court Judge Nancy Saitta sentenced William G. Barney to three consecutive terms of 2 to 6 years in the Nevada Department of Corrections for three charges of Lewdness with a Child under the Age of 14.

Barney will serve a minimum of 6 to 18 years in prison. He was credited with 147 days for time already served.

Barney pled guilty on May 17, 2006 to three counts of Lewdness with a Child under the Age of 14. He was arrested in Mexico and extradited back to Las Vegas to face the charges for crimes that took place sometime between July 1995 and February 2000.

Barney was the subject of an FBI Manhunt and was featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show. A viewer recognized him as an acquaintance and turned him in to the police.

Susan Aguilar appeared in front of District Court Judge Stewart Bell this morning to be sentenced on a charge of Voluntary Manslaughter with Use of a Deadly Weapon, a class B Felony. Judge Bell sentenced Aguilar to a sentence of 2-10 years in the Nevada Department of Corrections.

Aguilar pled guilty on May 11, 2006 to the charge of Voluntary Manslaughter with Use of a Deadly Weapon in connection with the shooting death of Guadalupe Hernandez.