Two men received the state’s highest award for police valor on Monday, including — for the first time — one from San Bernardino.
Officer Marcus Pesquera, 24, was honored for his quick and life-saving action in the gunbattle that wounded his field training officer, Gabriel Garcia, in August 2014.
At the time, Pesquera had graduated only seven weeks earlier from the San Bernardino County sheriff’s training academy, but he calmly followed academy training, Gov. Jerry Brown’s office said in a written statement. Read More