Two people and a Canister of Tear Gas
INGLEWOOD, CA—What do you get when you mix people with tear gas, marijuana and a plethora of other odd devices? The answer is yet to be sorted out, but Frances Cummings, 42, and Landon Whitmore, 27,...
View ArticleAgencies Collaborate in Arrest of Armed Suspects of Violent Home Invasion
SANTA ROSA – Shortly before noon Wednesday on Highway 101, Windsor Police Officers working a special enforcement in the vicinity of Geyserville stopped a vehicle for a traffic violation. The car reeked...
View ArticleCar Thief Gets Too Ambitious, Lands in Jail
Palm Desert Police officers spotted a stolen vehicle Wednesday, October 8, 2014 in the early morning hours traveling in the area of Country Club and Portola. When the officers attempted to pull the...
View ArticleTwo charged with attempted robbery in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park
San Francisco is a popular city for tourists. Unfortunately, not all people in the Bay Area make good hosts. Take the recent case of an Egyptian tourist robbed at gunpoint in broad daylight by three...
View ArticleFederal, State and Local Authorities Crack Down on Major Drug Ring
SAN BERNARDINO – Police have arrested 21 out of 52 San Bernardino’s largest gang on narcotics-trafficking charges that include details on hundreds of transactions over a two-year period. Members of the...
View ArticleMan Arrested In Double Homicide
One Victim Was A 4-year-old Child WATSONVILLE—the Watsonville Police Department arrested 31-year-old Michael Angelo Escobar for his part in a disturbance in the parking lot between the Fish House Bar...
View ArticleBakersfield Purse Snatcher Arrested
BAKERSFIELD — A Bakersfield purse snatcher is behind bars after being arrested by police last Friday morning. Gerald Anthony Davis, 33-years-old of Bakersfield, was booked into the Kern County Jail on...
View ArticleSuspected Meth Dealer Arrested in Tehachapi
TEHACHAPI — A man suspected of dealing methamphetamine in the small mountain community of Tehachapi, in eastern Kern County, was arrested last Thursday afternoon. Edward Hughes Sr., 48, was booked into...
View ArticleOne Suspect Arrested in Recycling Bin Death
BAKERSFIELD – A man accused of killing another man and dumping his body in a recycling bin in south Bakersfield was arrested last Friday morning. Peter Garcia Jr., 50, was booked into the Kern County...
View ArticleMurder Suspect Turned Over to FBI at U.S.-Mexican Border
SAN BERNARDINO – A murder suspect who fled to Mexico was returned last week and is scheduled to face three counts for attempted murder and another count of murder. It took a collaborative effort of...
View ArticlePolice Looking for Third Suspect in Strong-Arm Robbery
FRESNO – Having already caught two women believed to be involved in stealing a cell phone from a pharmacy store, police are now searching for the third suspect. The strong-arm robbery incident happened...
View ArticleTwo arrested in birthday party fight
The Garcia River Casino in Point Arena POINT ARENA – MENDOCINO COUNTY – The Garcia River winds through the foothills of southern Mendocino County, and empties into the sea at the famous Point Arena...
View ArticleHollywood Stuntmen Die in Sacramento Crash
SACRAMENTO—The identities of two men killed in a car crash on Saturday afternoon, October 11 in Rancho Cordova have been released. They are Robert Orrison, 86, of Sacramento and Gary McLarty, 73, of...
View ArticleMarin and Sonoma PDs Team Up to Charge Prolific Gas Station Robber
SAN RAFAEL – On September 30 at approximately 3:35 am, an armed unknown suspect entered the Shell Gas Station at 950 Del Presidio Boulevard in San Rafael and robbed the store of cash and lottery...
View ArticleRobbery Suspect Shot by Police
LA QUINTA – While pursuing an armed man fleeing from the scene of a robbery, a police officer shot and injured the suspect. A man was robbed in La Quinta in front of his home on Saturday around 3:00...
View Article11 Arrested in Marijuana Operation Across Sacramento Region
Residents in this upscale Elk Grove neighborhood probably had no idea a marijuana operation was going on in this home. ELK GROVE—Elk Grove police arrested 11 suspects on Thursday, October 9, 2014, for...
View ArticleSpeeding Leads To Arrests For Car Theft In Davis
One clue led to another after a routine traffic stop for speeding, which enabled Davis police to solve related stolen vehicle and car burglary cases on October 6. According to Davis P.D. spokesman...
View ArticleTroublemaker rolls his parents’ SUV
A Santa Rosa police officer who signed up to work security at a high school dance could not have imagined the evening ending like this, and the teenage young man and his friends could have made things...
View ArticleWoodland Woman’s Attacker Faces Attempted Murder Charges
The suspect, a Woodland resident was arraigned in Yolo Superior Court on attempted murder charges on October 8 after he attacked the woman whom Woodland police later identified as his aunt, on the...
View ArticleHit-and-Run Driver Identified and Arrested Thanks to Facebook
Social media has become an important crime-fighting tool for police departments across the country, both for getting information about criminal activity out to the public and for helping citizens...
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