Emery Kauanui
After being convicted of murdering professional surfer Emery Kauanui, "Bird Rock Bandits" gang member Seth Cravens will be re-sentenced as per a judge's ruling today.
Orlando Osuna Wright, 24, Matthew Yanke, 23, and Eric House, 22, were all taken into custody by agents with the San Diego Fugitive Task Force on Monday and Tuesday and are being held in county jail without bail, Deputy U.S. Marshal Omar Castillo said.
In the suit, Emery Kauanui Sr. accuses the men of battery and wrongful death, stemming from the May 2007 death of his 24-year-old son, Emery Jr. The father also points a finger at the La Jolla Brew House...
The sad and senseless story of Emery Kauanui and his untimely demise come to an end with the sentencing of the man who killed him with a punch to the head—Seth Cravens.
After the verdict was read, Cravens, who was shaking his head, muttered "I'm not ready to go" but was nonetheless handcuffed by bailiffs and led back to jail where he will await sentencing scheduled for January 12, 2009.
San Diego: A judge ordered jurors into further deliberations Monday after they were unable to reach a verdict on a charge of second-degree murder against a man accused of throwing a fatal punch at a professional surfer.
Jurors in the trial of a young man accused of causing the death of a professional surfer by punching him once in the head during a fight in La Jolla last year will deliberate for a fifth day Monday.
A fourth day of jury deliberations is planned today in the trial of a La Jolla man charged with second-degree murder for throwing a punch that resulted in the death of a professional surfer last year.
A jury will hold a third day of deliberations today in the trial of a La Jolla man charged with second-degree murder for throwing a punch that resulted in the death of a professional surfer last year.
Jurors began deliberations Monday in the trial of Seth Cravens, the La Jolla man accused of punching and killing professional surfer Emery Kauanui.
SAN DIEGO COURTS – Seth Cravens was described by a prosecutor yesterday as a bully who crashed parties, started fistfights and seriously injured those who crossed him.
SAN DIEGO COURTS – A man convicted of manslaughter in the beating death of a La Jolla surfer last year testified yesterday that the surfer was the aggressor in a brawl that left him fatally injured.
A witness testified Monday that one of the so-called Bird Rock Bandits attacked him at a popular beach the year before a professional surfer was fatally struck outside his La Jolla home in May 2007.
SAN DIEGO – A longtime friend and neighbor of a La Jolla surfer who was fatally injured during a fistfight last year testified Tuesday that he heard screaming and stomping outside his home the morning of the incident.
Some pretty heavy shit was found by the police searching Seth Cravens's (the accused killer of Emery Kauanui) house in La Jolla.










