The Brief
- All but one of the charges against Alameda County sheriff’s deputies involved in a high-profile, in-custody death at Santa Rita Jail have now been dismissed.
- Only one charge remains: falsification of a document by one deputy.
- The case was originally charged with 11 defendants.
DUBLIN, Calif. – All but one of the charges against Alameda County sheriff’s deputies involved in a high-profile, in-custody death at Santa Rita Jail have now been dismissed, nearly closing a chapter on a case where 11 defendants were originally criminally charged.
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Three deputies now mostly clear
What we know:
(L-R) Alameda County sheriff’s deputies Andre Gaston, Mateusz Laszuk, Robinderpal Singh Hayer, Thomas Mowrer, Donall Rowe, Christopher Haendel make first court appearance after being charged with Santa Rita Jail death of Maurice Monk. Nov. 18, 2024.
On Friday, Alameda County Superior Court Judge Clifford Blakely dismissed the criminal cases against deputies Robinderpal Singh Hayer, Thomas Mowrer, and Donall Rowe, who were charged with dependent elder abuse of Maurice Monk, an Oakland man with mental illness who lay dying for several days in 2021 as food trays piled up in his cell until someone noticed he was actually dead. …