Monterey County Sheriff’s Office makes several arrests in county and beyond

Los Angeles, Chowchilla, Hawthorne, Sacramento and Boise and Payette, Idaho are all places Monterey County Detectives have traveled to this month to find suspects in Monterey County crimes.

These are some of the cases the Investigations Division of the Sheriff’s Office has been working on:

At the 17000 block of Kearney Street in East Garrison Thursday Investigators served a search warrant for the Agriculture Crimes Unit for a case involving a local Ag company. 26-year-old Edgar Montes Espinoza and 34-year-old Alfredo Montes were arrested for having stolen property, grand theft and burglary. Montes was also a felon with ammo and a gun. Both are booked into the Monterey County Jail.

Investigators searched the 1600 block of Noche Buena Street in Seaside Friday. They were looking for Uriel Ruvalcaba, who was on parole for a robbery and wanted for a home invasion from November 2018. In that case, an elderly man was severely beaten and robbed in his home in the middle of the night. Ruvalcaba was arrested and booked into the Monterey County Jail for attemted murder, robbery, elder abuse and a parole hold.

Earlier this month, Salinas resident Ignacio Ramirez was arrested in Hawthorne. The Sex Crimes Unit tracked him there and he confessed to inappropriate sexual contact with a minor. He was arrested for unlawful sex with a minor under the age of ten and continual sexual abuse of a minor. Investigators brought him back to Monterey County and booked him into jail.

The Sex Crimes Unit served a search warrant on the 400 block of Hidden Valley Road late last month. They were investigating 22-year-old Lane Harley Lewis of Watsonville, who they believed had pornographic photos of a child. During the search, they found photos and arrested Lewis for having child pornography. He was booked into the Monterey County Jail.