P. v. Campos
On April 10, 2009, two members of the Monterey County Joint Gang Task Force, Monterey County Sheriff’s Deputy Jesse Pinon and Salinas Police Officer Jeffrey Alford, watched as defendant Raymond Campos, a long-time Norteño, emerged from a Salinas apartment and engaged in two consecutive hand-to-hand transactions with the drivers of two vehicles who had just pulled into the parking lot of the apartment complex. Before the second driver left the lot, the officers got out of their parked, unmarked car to question Campos about this conduct. Before they reached him, Campos got into his own car and began to back out of the lot. Officer Alford got Campos to stop momentarily by hitting the driver’s side of the car with his hand and opening the driver’s door. In disregard of Alford’s instructions to stop, Campos resumed backing up. Deputy Pinon was knocked to the ground by the open driver’s door and dragged underneath the car for a short distance. Campos fled in his car as Alford fired several shots.
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