A Watsonville man charged with murdering his housemate and spending hours in an agricultural field standoff with police has changed his plea to not guilty by way of insanity.
Law enforcement, seen in this video screenshot spend more than four hours in a standoff negotiating in August 2023 with suspected killer Hector Rocha, who remained sitting in a truck in a Pajaro agricultural field. and spending hours in an agricultural field standoff with police has changed his plea to not guilty by way of insanity.On the night of Aug.
The court suspended Rocha’s criminal proceedings in October 2023 and ordered him into the care of a state hospital to restore his competency. Rocha was deemed to beCrime and Public Safety |At a change-of-plea hearing Thursday, Santa Cruz County Superior Court Judge Denine Guy explained that Rocha may face back-to-back trials.
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