Suspected gambling dens shuttered in Woodland
Woodland police shut down suspected gambling operations on Thursday. Members of the state Department of Justice and the Yolo County High Tech Task Force joined Woodland police to serve search warrants...
View ArticleAlleged 'homeless hitman' acquitted in woman's killing
A Sacramento Superior Court jury today acquitted Teng Thao, the alleged "homeless hitman," of murder charges in the Jan. 9, 2011, shotgun shooting death of Jenny Cha. The jury returned its verdict...
View ArticleUPDATE: Man arrested in kidnapping of girl from S. Sacramento street is...
A man previously convicted of sex offenses has been arrested in connection with the mid-day abduction of a 7-year-old girl on a south Sacramento street nearly a week ago. Cedric Lain Holland, 25, was...
View ArticleJudge orders murder trial in animal control officer's death
A man accused of fatally shooting a Sacramento County animal control officer in Galt late last year will have to stand trial on special-circumstance charges that he murdered a public official in the...
View ArticleCouple charged in 2010 arson of Antelope home
A couple were arraigned Thursday in federal court in Sacramento on charges related to the arson of their former home in Antelope. Alexander Sakhanskiy, 39, and Larisa Sakhanskiy, 43, of Sacramento...
View ArticleFormer plumbers union business manager, wife sentenced for misappropriating...
A former business manager of a Yuba City plumbers union and his wife were sentenced today in federal court in Sacramento for misappropriation of funds. Robert L. Carr, 58, was sentenced to 30 months in...
View ArticleAsk Sacto 911 crime Q&A: What happened to Citrus Heights man arrested in...
Bee reporters answer questions about area crime news, trends and other issues. QUESTION: What happened in court to Michael Gomes, who was one of the men accused of the Mariposa County gem heist?...
View ArticleShooting kills 1, injures 1 in South Sacramento
By Edward Ortiz eortiz@sacbee.com An early morning South Sacramento shooting that left one person dead and another injured has Sheriff's Homicide detectives looking for clues. Sheriff's deputies around...
View ArticleTwo killed in plane crash near Auburn Airport, officials say
Bee staff Two people in a single engine airplane died early today when their aircraft crashed near Auburn Airport, according to the Placer County Sheriff's Department. At 12:30 a.m. today, the...
View Article10-year-old North Highlands girl gunned down watching TV with family
By Stephen Magagnini magagnini@sacbee.com A 10-year-old girl was shot to death Saturday night while watching TV in the living room of her North Highlands home, Sacramento Sheriff's investigators said...
View ArticleHazardous materials leak reported in Norwood industrial park
Sacramento fire officials are responding to a hazardous material leak reported tonight in an industrial park in the Norwood neighborhood. A level 2 hazmat situation was declared around 9:15 p.m. at...
View ArticleSuspected Carmichael pharmacy robber recovers enough to be booked
A man shot last week when he allegedly attempted to rob a Carmichael pharmacy at gunpoint has been cleared to be booked into Sacramento County Jail. Zechariah Abraham Scholes, 36, had been in the...
View ArticleVandalism at Woodland church hall includes threat against police
Woodland police said that a Catholic church hall was vandalized with graffiti, including a threat against officers. Police were dispatched to the Holy Rosary Community Center, 575 California St., about...
View ArticleTwo who died in Auburn plane crash are identified
The two people killed when their single-engine airplane crashed in Placer County over the weekend have been identified as a couple from Lassen County. Bruce Albright Rhymes, 59, and his wife, Kathy...
View ArticleDeath of Yolo County inmate reported by sheriff
Yolo County Sheriff's officials say that an inmate died Saturday after being found in his cell with labored breathing. Todd Alexander Phillips, 29, was pronounced dead at Woodland Memorial Hospital...
View ArticleLodi police arrest man on suspicion of knifepoint rape of minor
Lodi police said they have arrested a man for sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl at knifepoint in a hotel. John Ganoe, 44, pictured, who police said is a registered sex offender, was arrested on...
View ArticlePolice arrest man for allegedly calling 911 at least 100 times
Sacramento police have arrested a man who they say has made more than 100 calls to 911 in the past several weeks. Jimmy Shao, 56, was booked into Sacramento County Jail on suspicion of falsely...
View ArticleGarzon faces trial in alleged Davis hate attack
Clayton Garzon will face trial on assault and hate crime allegations connected to the March 10 beating of a gay Davis man, a Yolo Superior Court judge ruled Tuesday. "We have evidence of a severe...
View ArticleCitrus Heights police investigate Monday drive-by shooting
Citrus Heights police are investigating a drive-by shooting that injured a 19-year-old man late Monday, authorities said. The teen suffered a non-life-threatening gunshot to his ankle, said Citrus...
View ArticleAsk Sacto 911 crime Q&A: What happened to drunken driver who struck pedestrian?
Bee reporters answer questions about area crime news, trends and other issues. QUESTION: What happened to the man that hit a pedestrian, not in the crosswalk, on Northgate a few years ago and killed...
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