Perris man who murdered partner in stolen-goods scheme gets 50 years to life

Perris man who murdered partner in stolen-goods scheme gets 50 years to life

A felon who fatally shot his partner in a stolen goods fencing operation and buried the victim’s remains in a Mead Valley field was sentenced Friday, June 6, to 50 years to life in state prison. A Riverside jury in May deliberated roughly three days before finding 41-year-old Ricardo Pardo of Perris guilty of first-degree murder in the 2021 slaying of 27-year-old Joshua Crosier of Hemet. Along with murder, the jury convicted Pardo of sentence-en…