By Liz Kellar | Staff Writer
A Nevada County judge found enough evidence during a Tuesday hearing to hold a homeless man on charges in three separate cases involving anti-law enforcement vandalism and the assault of a Back the Blue demonstrator in Grass Valley.
Adam Michael Cockrell, 35, has been in custody since August, jail records state.
In the first incident, Cockrell was arrested on July 31 after authorities said he threw a rock at the Grass Valley police department lobby door, shattering the glass. He also caused damage to interior equipment and broke a second large window, police said.
During a hearing into the evidence in Nevada County Superior Court, Officer Brian Hooper testified he was on patrol July 30 and discovered the damage, along with a rock nearly the size of a softball believed to have been used in the vandalism.