Jailed accused killer allegedly found with shank

By Larry Judkins

Glenn County Observer

Stanley Scott Grundy, one of five men believed to be involved in the murder of Brandon Dawson in 2019, was on Monday allegedly found to be in possession of an “improvised weapon” while in the custody of the Glenn County Jail.

Dawson was kidnapped, tortured, and murdered on March 8, 2019. On July 28, 2021, suspects Grundy and Clayton Shane Humphrey were arrested and booked into the Glenn County Jail, and two days later another suspect, John Cornelis Poldervaart, was taken into custody.

On August 24, 2021, the “fourth and final” suspect in the killing of Dawson was arrested. Lane Cleo Walker, Jr., was booked into the Glenn County Jail.

There was a fifth person believed to be involved in Dawson’s murder. However, Michael Paul Oliveira was himself murdered on July 29, 2019.

At about 9:45 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 1, Glenn County Sheriff’s Deputy Sheldon was dispatched to investigate a report that an inmate in the jail was in possession of a possible weapon. After an investigation, it was learned inmate Stanley Scott Grundy was in possession of an “improvised weapon” while in the custody of the Glenn County Jail.

Jail Commander Lt. Justin Gibbs informed The Glenn County Observer during a brief telephone conversation on Tuesday, Nov. 2, that the “improvised weapon” was a “sharpened object,” or “shank.” Inmates in jails and prisons have been known to sharpen items ranging from toothbrushes to plastic kitchen cutlery into offensive or defensive weapons.

The sheriff’s log item for this incident names Lane Cleo Walker as a “witness.” Walker is known to have been in the proximity of Grundy when the shank was found.

According to Lt. Gibbs, neither man is talking to members of the sheriff’s office. The investigation is continuing.

A report was forwarded to the Glenn County District Attorney’s Office, however.