The San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office has filed charges against Tarik Rashad Howie (Age 27 of Victorville) and Kevin Douglas Jackson, Jr., (Age 26 of Victorville) for multiple crimes, including assault on a peace officer.
CASE SYNOPSIS
On Friday, July 17, 2020, deputies from the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department were conducting an investigation at Hook Park in Victorville. During the investigation, one of the deputies was assaulted. Tarik Rashad Howie and Kevin Douglas Jackson, Jr., were arrested.
After reviewing this case, the following charges were filed against Howie and Jackson, for the following violations of the California Penal Code
Penal Code Section 245(c) – Assault Upon Peace Officer Or Firefighter
Any person who commits an assault with a deadly weapon or instrument, other than a firearm, or by any means likely to produce great bodily injury upon the person of a peace officer or firefighter, and who knows or reasonably should know that the victim is a peace officer or firefighter engaged in the performance of his or her duties, when the peace officer or firefighter is engaged in the performance of his or her duties, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, four, or five years.
(1) Count against Howie
(1) Count against Jackson
Penal Code Section 243(c)(2) – Battery With Injury On A Peace Officer
(c)(1) When a battery is committed against a custodial officer, firefighter, emergency medical technician, lifeguard, process server, traffic officer, or animal control officer engaged in the performance of his or her duties, whether on or off duty, or a nonsworn employee of a probation department engaged in the performance of his or her duties, whether on or off duty, or a physician or nurse engaged in rendering emergency medical care outside a hospital, clinic, or other health care facility, and the person committing the offense knows or reasonably should know that the victim is a nonsworn employee of a probation department, custodial officer, firefighter, emergency medical technician, lifeguard, process server, traffic officer, or animal control officer engaged in the performance of his or her duties, or a physician or nurse engaged in rendering emergency medical care, and an injury is inflicted on that victim, the battery is punishable by a fine of not more than two thousand dollars ($2,000), by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, or by both that fine and imprisonment, or by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170 for 16 months, or two or three years.
(2) When the battery specified in paragraph (1) is committed against a peace officer engaged in the performance of his or her duties, whether on or off duty, including when the peace officer is in a police uniform and is concurrently performing the duties required of him or her as a peace officer while also employed in a private capacity as a part-time or casual private security guard or patrolman and the person committing the offense knows or reasonably should know that the victim is a peace officer engaged in the performance of his or her duties, the battery is punishable by a fine of not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year or pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170 for 16 months, or two or three years, or by both that fine and imprisonment
(1) Count against Howie
(1) Count against Jackson
Penal Code Section 69 – Resisting Executive Officer
Every person who attempts, by means of any threat or violence, to deter or prevent an executive officer from performing any duty imposed upon the officer by law, or who knowingly resists, by the use of force or violence, the officer, in the performance of his or her duty, is punishable by a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170, or in a county jail not exceeding one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
(1) Count against Howie
(1) Count against Jackson
CASE INFORMATION
DA Case Number: 2020-00-0033835
Court Case Number: Jackson: FVI20001918, Howie – FVI20001919
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