A former San Diego County probation department employee who used her position to try to help her son evade capture while he was wanted for murder was sentenced Wednesday.
Carla White, 54, faces one year in county jail, plus probation. Prosecutors said she drove her son Hunter Randall White from the scene of a shooting in East County and later shared a be-on-the-lookout flyer with him.
The law enforcement flyer accusing her son of the crime was information she was able to access through her job. She was prohibited from disseminating it to the general public, according to prosecutors. She had worked for the probation department since 2006 and was most recently a senior office assistant.
Hunter White, 22, and Kristian Thomas Wolf, 24, face murder charges for the 2023 death of Javier Medina, 27, in an unincorporated area near El Cajon.
Sheriff’s deputies found Medina suffering from gunshot wounds on East Bradley Avenue just before 10 p.m. Nov. 13. He was taken to a hospital, where he died two days later.
A preliminary hearing in the murder case is set for next month.
Carla White pleaded guilty to a felony count of being an accessory after the fact and a misdemeanor count of unauthorized furnishing of information.
At White’s sentencing, Deputy District Attorney Drew Garrison described her actions as “an egregious abuse of public trust” and said she made “prolonged, detailed, repeated attempts” to hide her son.
Deputy Public Defender Graydon Rose asked Superior Court Judge CJ Mody to consider alternatives to jail, such as home detention, citing his client’s lack of criminal history, early guilty plea. Her actions, he said, “while certainly not excusable or a legal defense,” were motivated by wanting to help her son.
Mody said when he originally took the defendant’s change of plea, he agreed to a sentence no longer than one year. However, after learning additional “egregious” facts about the case, he said he would have considered a sentence with the possibility of state prison time. The judge ultimately decided to honor the original plea agreement, but said custody was appropriate.
The District Attorney’s Office requested that following her release that White’s probation time not be supervised by anyone she directly worked with at the county department.
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