Roseville contractor headed to prison for defrauding investors
Roseville building contractor Leo Wheeler was sentenced today in Sacramento to four years and three months in prison for defrauding investors in a real estate project. Wheeler, 56, was sentenced by...
View ArticleCoroner identifies man found Wednesday in Land Park
A man found dead Wednesday in the Land Park area has been identified by the Sacramento County Coroner's Office as Joseph Knowles, 61, of Sacramento. The Coroner's Office on Thursday sought the public's...
View ArticleModesto Bee: Gunman who killed deputy, 2nd man in Modesto is presumed dead
Investigators are examining the area outside a home destroyed by fire overnight where a gunman shot and killed a sheriff's deputy and another man. Federal agents are expected to go inside soon. The...
View ArticleYolo DA's Office warns of phony text messages targeting cell phone users
The Yolo County District Attorney's Office advises people to be alert to a scam involving phony text messages to cell phone users. Officials cite two messages in particular. The first begins: "Dear...
View ArticleSacramento man pleads guilty in child exploitation case
A Sacramento man has pleaded guilty to child exploitation charges. Phillip J. Colwell, 52, entered the pleas today in federal court in Sacramento, admitting to producing child pornography, transmitting...
View ArticleSuspect in Olivehurst market robbery jailed in Sacramento
A man suspected of the April 4 robbery of the Olivehurst Mini-Mart is in Sacramento County Jail. Yuba County sheriff's investigators believe that John Xiong, 29, of LInda entered the market and fired a...
View ArticleWoodland police seek information in stabbings
By Denny Walsh Police officers are seeking help in their investigation of two stabbings at a party late Friday night in the 1300 block of Leo Way in Woodland. according to a city news release. It was...
View ArticleSacramento court gives man 26 years to life in grandfather's death
By Denny Walsh Arondrei Abel-Bey has been sentenced to 26 years to life in prison for stabbing to death his 83-year-old grandfather, Isaac Williams, District Attorney Jan Scully announced Friday....
View ArticleSacramento pastor gets 7 years in sexual assault of minor
By Denny Walsh Cornelius Taylor, pastor of the Whole Life Revival Center in Sacramento, has been sentenced to seven years and eight months in prison for sexually assaulting a minor, District Attorney...
View ArticlePerson of interest arrested in Sunrise Mall shooting
By Chris Macias A "person of interest" has been arrested in a possible gang related shooting which occurred Saturday afternoon in the Sunrise Mall parking lot. Citrus Heights police were dispatched to...
View ArticleRT train hits, kills woman in midtown Sacramento
By Chris Macias cmacias@sacbee.com A Regional Transit train has hit and killed a pedestrian near 19th Street in midtown Sacramento. Traffic on 19th Street is being diverted between Q and S streets....
View ArticleSacramento Police investigate shooting death of man in his 30s
A man in his early 30s was shot to death shortly before midnight Saturday in the 3900 block of 62nd Street, the Sacramento Police Department reported today. Authorities said police discovered the...
View ArticleTraffic starting to clear near Sacramento Airport exit
Traffic was clearing near the off ramp to Sacramento International Airport, but travelers were still backed up on Interstate 5. All vehicles had been moved to the right hand shoulder of the road on...
View ArticleCrash on Highway 50 in Folsom kills Washington man
An early morning crash on Highway 50 left one man dead near Folsom Boulevard. The accident occurred about 2 a.m. when a pickup truck that was traveling westbound on Highway 50 overturned, according to...
View ArticleNaked walkabout by Sacramento man ends in arrest
A Sacramento man, whose naked stroll along Rio Linda Boulevard was stopped by police, allegedly punched an officer in the head. Police said that Aaron Aceves, 47, who lives in the 900 block of Harris...
View ArticleFolsom police say escaped convict tried to steal a car in getaway
Authorities are searching for an inmate who escaped from a Folsom prison last night and allegedly tried to steal a citizen's vehicle. Prisoner Marco Cabrera, convicted of assault with a firearm, turned...
View ArticleFolsom police seek identity of East Bidwell bank robber
Folsom police need help in identifying a robber who held up a bank on East Bidwell Street. The robber entered the El Dorado Savings Bank, 300 East Bidwell, around noon on Friday and handed the teller a...
View ArticlePrisons system tries new method to stop contraband cell phones
By Sam Stanton sstanton@sacbee.com State corrections officials say they have come up with a no-cost plan to stop the illegal use of cell phones inside prisons by inmates, a problem that has plagued the...
View ArticleTahoe Park man's death not a homicide
Homicide has been ruled out in the death of a man found with a gunshot wound shortly before midnight Saturday in the southern Tahoe Park. The Sacramento County Coroner's website rules out homicide as...
View ArticleCoroner release name of woman killed on Sacramento rail tracks
The Sacramento County Coroner's office has released the name of the pedestrian killed by a Regional Transit light-rail train over the weekend. Leandra Lee Voss, 60, of Sacramento, was hit and killed...
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