A retired Pittsburg police officer who held Pleasant Hill police at bay during two standoffs over a 36-hour period is a "polite, pleasant, kind, calm" man who had a mental health crisis and not a monster who wanted to kill police, his attorneys said Thursday.
Lawyers for a former cop who got into a standoff with officers in Pleasant Hill last week are criticizing the police response, accusing them of having a.
A retired Pittsburg police officer who held Pleasant Hill police at bay during two standoffs over a 36-hour period is a "polite, pleasant, kind, calm" man who had a mental health crisis and not a monster who wanted to kill police, his attorneys said Thursday.
Chunliam Saechao is being charged with multiple counts of attempted murder of peace officers and assault with a deadly weapon on peace officers in relation to the lengthy standoff outside his Pleasant Hill home.
(KRON) — Prosecutors filed criminal charges against a U.S. Marine and retired East Bay police officer who allegedly shot his wife, barricaded himself inside his Pleasant Hill home for three days, prompted a neighborhood-wide shelter-in-place order, and shot at SWAT team vehicles. Chunliam Nai Saechao, 40, is being held without bail in Martinez Detention Facility. […]