60-day sentence becomes 1 year for EDC man

An El Dorado County man amy be spending a year in prison for failing to serve a 60-day sentence.

A jury on April 26 found Cesar Caballero, 46, of Diamond Springs guilty.

According to court documents, on Aug. 30, 2011, Caballero was convicted of obstruction of mail for submitting change of address forms to the U.S. Postal Service for the purpose of diverting mail addressed to the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians to himself. Caballero appealed, and the Ninth Circuit affirmed his conviction on two of the three counts. He was resentencedJune 29, 2015, to 60 days behind bars.

He was ordered to surrender to begin serving his sentence by Sept. 8, 2015, but never showed up.

Caballero was then arrested Feb. 28.

Caballero is scheduled to be sentenced May 17. He faces a maximum sentence of one year in prison, a $100,000 fine, and a one-year term of supervised release.

— Lake Tahoe News staff report