A sexually violent predator will not be released in Merced County after all.
The decision came after local and state officials spoke out.
Driving the news: Kevin Gray, 72, was scheduled to be released on parole in Ballico, which is located northwest of Merced.
- But last month Sen. Marie Alvarado-Gil (D–Jackson), Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke and Merced County District Attorney Nicole Silveira held a press conference speaking out against Gray’s scheduled parole.
- They said at the time that a judge in Stanislaus County did not follow state law by moving to house Gray in Merced County when he is released from a state hospital.
- Silveira announced last Friday that Gray will not be released in Ballico after successfully arguing in court that Gray should not come to Merced County.
