It is unclear why the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department and the San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office have not taken action to jail, imprison or otherwise institutionalize a psychotic and sociopathic repeat offender who is simultaneously stalking women he knows to be vulnerable.
Jason Michael Tagle, who was last known to be living on the west side of Cucamonga and is also known to frequent a specific neighborhood in east Upland, has been arrested 30 times in San Bernardino County since March of 2016.
He nevertheless has managed to avoid being locked up for long.
As an adult, the now-41-year-old Tagle has 32 recorded convictions against him in San Bernardino County since 1999. His adult criminal record in San Bernardino County alone since the time he reached the age of majority in 1998 includes at least 39 arrests.
Tagle’s juvenile criminal record is not available.
While the lion’s share of the charges and convictions against Tagle pertain to drug offenses, no fewer than eight of his convictions pertain to acts of violence, stalking or firearms charges. At least eleven of his convictions were recorded as felonies.
In recent years, he has shown a propensity to stalk women he has purposefully sought out on the basis of their being alone or living alone.
This stalking has an undeniable sexual element, including incidents of indecent exposure which have been caught on video.
In 1999 he pleaded guilty to a charge of battery upon a spouse or domestic partner filed against him in 1998, when he was 18 years old.
In 1999 Tagle was charged with and pleaded guilty to a charge of burglary while armed,
In 1999 Tagle was charged with being a convict in possession of a firearm, but that case was dismissed.
In 2004 he was convicted of being drunk in public on a case originally filed against him in 2001.
In 2004 he was convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm filed against him earlier that year.
In 2005 he was charged with battery and fighting. The battery charge was dismissed later that year, and he was convicted of fighting.
In 2010 he was charged with making criminal threats, being a felon in possession of a firearm, carrying a concealed firearm and exhibiting a firearm in making a criminal threat of violence. In 2011 he was convicted of the carrying a concealed weapon and making criminal threat counts.
In 2011 Tagle pleaded no contest to driving under the influence in 2010.
In 2016 he was charged with and convicted of threatening a victim with death or great bodily injury.
In 2016 he was arrested for and convicted of being under the influence of narcotics.
During 2017, in May, August, September and twice in October, Tagle was charged with using or being under the influence of a controlled substance. He pleaded guilty or no contest to four of those charges.
In 2017 he was twice charged with and admitted to being in violation of his parole.
In 2017 he was charged with obstructing an officer and trespassing. He was adjudged guilty of both in 2018.
Twice in 2018 he was charged with and convicted of felony parole violations.
In 2018 he was was twice charged and convicted of being in possession of dangerous drugs, and twice charged and convicted of being in possession of paraphernalia.
In 2019 Tagle was charged with criminal contempt and willful disobedience of process an a court order.
In 2019 he was charged with and convicted of being under the influence of drugs and being in possession of paraphernalia.
In 2019 he was charged twice with and admitted being in felony violation of his parole.
In 2020 he was charged with and convicted of being in violation of his parole.
In 2020 Tagle was twice arrested for, charged with and convicted of being under the influence of a controlled substance.
In 2020 he was charged with and in 2021 convicted of being under the influence of a controlled substances
In 2020 he was charged with and admitted to being in violation of his parole.
In 2020 he was charged with and in 2021 admitted to being in violation of his parole.
In 2020 he was charged with making repeated harassing and annoying phone calls.
In 2021 he was charged with and convicted of being in possession of a dangerous drug/controlled substance
On July 20, 2021, Tagle was charged with a count of being in possession of a controlled substance and one count of being under the influence of a controlled substance, stemming from a January 11, 2021 incident.
On June 4 and August 18, 2021, Tagle was arrested for being under the influence of a controlled substance.
On July 22, 2021, he was arrested for trespassing on private property.
On August 6, 2021, Tagle was arrested for stalking.
A week ago, on August 20, two days after he was previously arrested on a similar charge, Tagle was arrested for being under the influence of a controlled substance while near St. Joseph’s Catholic Elementary School on Campus Avenue north of 11th Street in Upland.
According to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department’s on-line inmate locator, Tagle is not currently in custody.
A recently recorded Ring video provided to the Sentinel shows Tagle having relations with himself on the front doorstep of the residence of a single woman who lives alone in Rancho Cucamonga.
The woman, armed with the video evidence, approached the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, which provides law enforcement services under contract to the City of Rancho Cucamonga, serving, essentially as the Rancho Cucamonga Police Department. Detectives with the department told the woman she should seek a restraining order against Tagle.
The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department was unable to explain how a civil restraining order or even a criminal protective order against someone such as Tagle, with his propensity for disobeying the law, would serve to protect the victim from Tagle.
According to the woman, two other Rancho Cucamonga women have obtained restraining orders against Tagle. The Sentinel could not find any record of the issuance of those orders.
Tagle has an abiding affinity for methamphetamine, which leaves him in a lethargic and nearly catatonic state when he is not juiced up, and highly volatile when he is amped up or spun out.
At five foot six inches tall and 220 pounds, he is known by the nicknames Li’l Speedy and Speedy.
Tagle’s most recently known address is 7740 Vineyard Avenue in Rancho Cucamonga. He was previously domiciled at 581 East 13th Street in Upland.
Neither the sheriff’s department nor the district attorney’s office chose to engage with the Sentinel on why enforcement and prosecutorial efforts against Tagle have not been initiated in an effort to effectuate his removal from polite society.
-Mark Gutglueck