Kern County Jury Convicts Three in September 2022 Drug-Related Murder Case

KERN COUNTY, CA — “Kern County Jury found Juan Carlos Toscano, Javier Angel Ontiveros, and Garret Sebastian Cole guilty of first-degree murder and found true the special circumstance that the murder occurred during the course of a robbery, among other charges.

The case was prosecuted by Deputy District Attorney Cyrus Shahbazian.

On October 27, 2025, a fourth person prosecuted in the same case, Edrich Esquer Rubio, plead no contest to first degree robbery in concert with others…

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