A third of the four men charged in the 2019 murder of a Santa Cruz tech entrepreneur has been found guilty. Kaleb Charters was found guilty of home-invasion robbery, kidnapping, and the murder of Tushar Atre, according to the Santa Cruz County District Attorney’s Office. His sentencing date is scheduled for Dec. 17, 2025. Prosecutors said Kurtis Charters—along with Stephen Lindsay (a former Atre employee), Joshua Camps, and Kaleb Charters—kidnapped Atre from his Pleasure Point home in October 2019. Surveillance video from a neighbor captured the abduction. Atre’s body was found the next morning at one of his cannabis properties in the Santa Cruz Mountains.Lindsay was convicted in March of murder and related charges and was sentenced in April to life without the possibility of parole.Kurtis was convicted in September and was sentenced in October to life without the chance of parole. Camps’ jury trial is also ongoing and will resume in January of 2026.
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. —
A third of the four men charged in the 2019 murder of a Santa Cruz tech entrepreneur has been found guilty.
Kaleb Charters was found guilty of home-invasion robbery, kidnapping, and the murder of Tushar Atre, according to the Santa Cruz County District Attorney’s Office. His sentencing date is scheduled for Dec. 17, 2025.
Prosecutors said Kurtis Charters—along with Stephen Lindsay (a former Atre employee), Joshua Camps, and Kaleb Charters—kidnapped Atre from his Pleasure Point home in October 2019. Surveillance video from a neighbor captured the abduction.
Atre’s body was found the next morning at one of his cannabis properties in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
Lindsay was convicted in March of murder and related charges and was sentenced in April to life without the possibility of parole.
Kurtis was convicted in September and was sentenced in October to life without the chance of parole.
Camps’ jury trial is also ongoing and will resume in January of 2026.