Burned woman in Discovery Park homicide identified by coroner
The Sacramento County Coroner's office has released the name of the woman whose burned body was found Tuesday in Discovery Park. She has been identified as Sharion Renay King, 43, of Sacramento. Her...
View ArticlePolice need help in finding developmentally disabled man
Police would like citizens to help them find a missing developmentally disabled man who is new to the Sacramento area. John Saechao, 30, was last seen walking out of his Del Paso Heights home in the...
View ArticleSheriff's Department needs help finding missing Folsom worker
Sacramento County Sheriff's deputies need the public's assistance in finding a missing woman who works in Folsom. Melodie Benton, 55, of Carmichael, left work Wednesday about 2 p.m. Sheriff's...
View ArticleMissing developmentally disabled man found in Sacramento County
Sacramento police say that a missing developmentally disabled man has been found. John Saechao, 30, was seen walking out of his Del Paso Heights home in the 3900 block of Dry Creek Road about 2 p.m....
View ArticleTruckee men plead not guilty to drug charges
TRUCKEE -- Two Truckee men charged with cocaine sales entered not guilty pleas Feb. 14 during arraignment at Nevada County Superior Court in Truckee. Salvador Ruvalcaba-Munoz, 36, and Conrado...
View ArticleJudge sentences sex killer to life without parole
A man who murdered a woman in Rancho Cordova during a sexual assault last year was sentenced today to life in prison with no chance of parole. Demetrius Shaffer, 33, also was sentenced to seven...
View ArticleConvicted murderer in 1991 Sacramento killings gets two life terms
A one-time Sacramento street gang member was sentenced to two life terms with no chance of parole today for the 1991 double killing of two men who were standing outside a club on Stockton Boulevard....
View ArticleJudge orders pair to stand trial in triple gang killing
Two reputed street gang members were ordered today to stand trial for murder in last year's shooting deaths of three bicyclists in Rancho Cordova. Saul Isidro-Aucencio, 25, and Francisco Ignacio...
View ArticleElk Grove man sentenced in mortgage fraud case
By Rick Daysog rdaysog@sacbee.com An Elk Grove man was sentenced today to four years and nine months in prison for his role in an $8 million mortgage fraud scheme. U.S. District Judge Edward Garcia...
View ArticleMan sentenced in hate-crime assault at Elk Grove bowling alley
A man who admitted to an assault at the Strikes Family Entertainment Center in Elk Grove last June was sentenced today. Joel Baltazar Olivarez pleaded guilty to assaulting Seth Parker and admitted to a...
View ArticleMan accused of stalking, threatening former court referee
A man who allegedly accosted people outside the home of a former juvenile dependency court referee arrested earlier this week was taken into custody this morning after he was observed by Sacramento...
View ArticleBurglars arrested after 12-year-old in closet calls 911
By Carlos Alcalá calcala@sacbee.com Sacramento police arrested a pair of juvenile burglary suspects Friday, after a 12-year-old girl called 911 and hid in a closet while on the phone with the...
View ArticleBrutal Elk Grove attack results in conviction
By Carlos Alcalá calcala@sacbee.com Lovie James was convicted by a Sacramento jury Friday in a violent 2011 attack on his then-69-year-old girlfriend. James, 54, assaulted his girlfriend in her Elk...
View Article2 union employees plead guilty to taking union funds
By Carlos Alcalá calcala@sacbee.com A Yuba City plumbing and pipefitters union treasurer and his wife pleaded guilty Friday to misappropriating at least $120,000 for personal use, according to a news...
View ArticleMissing Sacramento woman deemed at risk
By Carlos Alcalá calcala@sacbee.com The Sacramento County Sheriff's Department is looking for public help to find Donna Delgadillo, 43, who went missing Friday from her home in the 9100 block of...
View ArticlePolice seek witnesses in South Natomas accident
By Carlos Alcalá calcala@sacbee.com An accident initially described as a hit-and-run involving a pedestrian turned out to be a woman who was seriously injured after she leapt, fell or was pushed out...
View ArticleMissing Sacramento woman returns home
A Sacramento woman reported missing Friday has returned home, the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department said. Donna Delgadillo, 43, left her home Friday afternoon and had been considered at risk...
View ArticleSacramento police seek hit-and-run driver who struck pedestrian in crosswalk
A 45-year-old man was in critical condition in the hospital Sunday after he was struck in the crosswalk by a hit-and-run motorist at Stockton Boulevard this morning, the Sacramento Police Department...
View ArticleTwo suffer minor injuries in helicopter-plane collision over Delta
Federal aviation authorities are investigating a mid-air collision that took place tonight when an airplane clipped a helicopter while the two were flying over the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta....
View ArticleAirplane pilot in mid-air collision with helicopter is identified
Authorities have identified one of the pilots involved in the Sunday night collision over the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta in which an airplane clipped a helicopter near Rio Vista. Ronald Albert Gawer,...
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