The San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office has charged Donald Robert Prestwood (Age 58 of Fontana) with elder abuse.
CASE SYNOPSIS
On Monday, September 28 2020, officers from the Fontana Police Department responded to a residence in the 8000 block of Palmetto Avenue in Fontana. At the conclusion of the investigation, Mr. Prestwood was arrested.
After reviewing this case, our office has charged Mr. Prestwood with violating the following section of the California Penal Code:
Penal Code Section 368(b)(1) – Elder Abuse (Felony)
A person who knows or reasonably should know that a person is an elder or dependent adult and who, under circumstances or conditions likely to produce great bodily harm or death, willfully causes or permits any elder or dependent adult to suffer, or inflicts thereon unjustifiable physical pain or mental suffering, or having the care or custody of any elder or dependent adult, willfully causes or permits the person or health of the elder or dependent adult to be injured, or willfully causes or permits the elder or dependent adult to be placed in a situation in which his or her person or health is endangered, is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, or by a fine not to exceed six thousand dollars ($6,000), or by both that fine and imprisonment, or by imprisonment in the state prison for two, three, or four years.
CASE INFORMATION
DA Case Number: 2020-00-0045370
Court Case Number: FWV20003434
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