By Lorraine Jewett | Special to The Union
Paws on Patrol. Canine cop Rüdiger is back on the beat after a severe injury, complicated surgery, and lengthy recovery. Rüdiger has been out on five months of “sick leave” from the Grass Valley Police Department. “One morning last fall, Rüdiger was awkwardly climbing the stairs, started falling backwards, and luckily I caught him,” recalls GVPD Canine Handler Jesse Cloyd, who has worked and lived with Rüdiger for three years. “Veterinary examinations revealed he had a sciatic nerve injury, likely incurred before he joined our force. The pinched nerve, inflammation, and bulging disc ultimately made it difficult for him to walk.” Rüdiger endured a multi-hour surgery and 20-plus staples to close the foot-long incision in his back. Jesse who still had to perform his own job while Rüdiger recuperated at home thanks his wife for helping keep Rüdiger calm, quiet, fed and medicated properly during the K9’s recovery…
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.
A Nevada County judge on Thursday found enough evidence to hold a 19-year-old on formal charges of robbery after a preliminary hearing into the evidence.
Joseph Richard Pasadava is accused of luring a 12-year-old into a Grass Valley apartment in September and then robbing him of headphones at gunpoint. The gun, which the boy testified resembled a Glock, was found later to be a pellet gun, police said.
Pasadava remained in custody Thursday on a $102,500 bond, jail records state. He was set for formal arraignment on Dec. 18.
Earlier Thursday, a felony charge of making criminal threats was reduced to a misdemeanor at the request both of the prosecutor and defense counsel.