Theft suspects nabbed in back seat of driverless getaway car
Yolo County Sheriff's deputies arrested a mother and son suspected of burglary after their driver bolted on foot, leaving them stranded in the back seat of a stolen car at a West Sacramento auto parts...
View ArticleSacramento police shut down suspected gambling establishment
Sacramento police shut down a storefront they say was masquerading as a copy shop but was actually a front for an illegal gambling den. Police said when they raided Copy Planet at 24th Street and...
View ArticlePlacer County coroner says Newcastle man died in crash
The Placer County Coroner's office has released the name of an 81-year-old man who was killed Wednesday morning in a collision on Indian Hill Road in Newcastle. He was identified as Robert L. Fidler of...
View ArticleJudge orders Sacramento jail to distribute magazine
By Denny Walsh dwalsh@sacbee.com A federal judge today ordered the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department to quit interfering with delivery to jail inmates of a legal publication designed specifically...
View ArticleFormer head of El Dorado County deputies' group arrested
The former head of the El Dorado County Deputy Sheriff's Association was arrested today and charged with embezzling from the organization and with stealing from a person who loaned him $100,000 that...
View ArticlePlacerville airplane dealer sentenced for accepting drug proceeds
A Placerville airplane dealer was ordered today to forfeit illegal profits and to pay a fine for accepting apparent drug proceeds. On Feb. 16, Stancil Enterprises Inc. pleaded guilty in federal court...
View ArticleDriver critically injured when car hits tree in Citrus Heights
A driver was critically injured this afternoon after the vehicle he was driving slammed into a tree on Madison Avenue near Sunrise Boulevard. Citrus Heights police officers were called to the 7000...
View ArticleCalistoga woman sentenced in Yolo County embezzlement, elder abuse case
A Calistoga woman has been sentenced to 16 months in prison for embezzlement, elder abuse and tax evasion in a case involving a Yolo County resident. Denise Ann Conophy, 51, pleaded guilty in January...
View ArticleJury convicts man of murder in stabbing death of his grandfather
A Sacramento Superior Court jury today convicted Arondrei Abel-Bey of first-degree murder in the Jan. 18, 2011, stabbing death of his 83-year-old grandfather, Isaac Williams. Abel-Bey, 34, had...
View ArticleTehama County man sentenced for molesting child during cruise
A Tehama County man has been sentenced to eight years in prison for sexually molesting a child during a cruise. Thomas Sherman Endicott, 74, formerly of Corning, was sentenced Thursday in Sacramento by...
View ArticleDriver involved in Madison Avenue crash dies
A driver whose car hit a tree on Madison Avenue near Sunrise Boulevard on Thursday afternoon has died. Anthony Hernandez, 21, of Fair Oaks, was pronounced dead at a hospital four hours after the crash,...
View ArticleWeekend upgrade work may affect phone calls to Grass Valley police
People calling the Grass Valley Police Department's non-emergency business line may experience a delay or loss of connection this weekend as the city upgrades its telephone and email system. The...
View ArticleMan on Highway 99 in Chico run over by motorist
A man lying down in a lane of Highway 99 in Chico was run over early this morning, according to the California Highway Patrol. Todd Meshekey, 38, of Chico, suffered major injuries as a result of being...
View ArticleLouisiana murder suspect picked up in Sacramento County
The Sacramento Sheriff's department took a murder suspect wanted in Louisiana into custody early this morning. Marcus Heard, 40, wanted for murder in Baton Rouge, La., peacefully surrendered this...
View ArticleEl Dorado Hills bank robber sought
El Dorado County Sheriff's officials are searching for a man who held up a Morgan Chase Bank branch in El Dorado Hills Thursday. According to officials the man, described as in his 20s or early 30s,...
View ArticleTomato king Salyer pleads guilty in federal conspiracy case
By Denny Walsh and Sam Stanton dwalsh@sacbee.com Indicted tomato king Frederick Scott Salyer pleaded guilty today in the federal government's massive bribery and conspiracy case that accused him of...
View ArticlePlacer County investigators working to establish identity of skeletal remains
Placer County Sheriff's Department investigators are following up on leads today in an effort to identify skeletal remains found near the Morgan Creek Golf Course. The remains appear to have been...
View ArticleJudge lays stiff terms on convicted gang murderers
Two men convicted in the gang murder of an innocent south Sacramento teenager who was walking to his bus stop on Mack Road to go to school were sentenced today to stiff prison terms. Sacramento...
View ArticleGang associate who killed two at quinceanera in Galt gets 80-to-life
A gang associate who shot and killed two men at a quinceanera celebration in Galt three years ago was sentenced today to 80 years to life in prison. Alfredo Daniel Tafoya, 21, received the term from...
View ArticlePlacer County autopsy of skeletal remains reveals no foul play
An autopsy of skeletal remains found Thursday in Placer County have failed to turn up any obvious signs of foul play, according to sheriff's officials. Placer County Sheriff's Department investigators...
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