A San Joaquin County couple was sentenced Monday in the stabbing and shooting death of Justin Peoples at a Tracy gas station in 2022.
Christina Lyn Garner, 45, was sentenced to 50 years to life in prison. Probation was denied because she personally used a firearm during the crime, Judge Charlotte Orcutt said. Garner’s co-defendant and boyfriend, Jeremy Wayne Jones, 53, was sentenced to 27 years to life in state prison. The judge also found him unsuitable for probation.
The last defendant in the case, Christopher Dimenco, who is charged in a separate case with being an accessory after the fact, entered a guilty plea Monday morning. Dimenco assisted the defendants – Garner is his niece – in fleeing and knew about the murder, Orcutt said…