A man who attempted to stab San Diego County sheriff’s deputies in a pair of attacks that occurred months apart has pleaded guilty to charges of attempted murder and assault on a peace officer.<\/p>\n
Ernesto Olea, 31, admitted Monday to the May 9, 2025, attack on a deputy at the San Diego Central Courthouse in downtown San Diego, and the Oct. 20, 2025 attack on another deputy at the George Bailey Detention Facility in Otay Mesa.<\/p>\n
Olea is slated to be sentenced next month to 19 years to life in state prison for both incidents.<\/p>\n
The first attack at the courthouse happened after Olea spoke with his attorney in a counseling room, prosecutors wrote in court documents.<\/p>\n
A deputy was then tasked with moving Olea back to a holding area, at which point Olea attempted to stab and slash at the deputy’s neck with an improvised weapon, court documents state. Nearby deputies rushed in and helped restrain Olea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who attempted to stab San Diego County sheriff’s deputies in a pair of attacks that occurred…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1794,66938,23,100,74,34420,76,75],"class_list":["post-399407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-attack","tag-kogo-news","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-county-sheriff","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}