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Mendocino County drug arrests
The Mendocino Sheriff’s Department has announced a few recent drug arrests of three people all caught in their vehicles. On Monday, October 13, a patrol deputy was on duty in the town of Covelo, a...
View ArticleLong Beach Man Busted for West Coast Chop Shop
HAWTHORNE, CA—It was the end of the line for loads of stolen vehicles—and the end of the line for the man who received them. Gamaliel Barajas, 22, was arrested on Wednesday, October 15 at approximately...
View ArticleThree Men Get Eight Criminal Charges
HAWTHORNE, CA—It’s nearly midnight, and what’s a man to do but get arrested? Raymoan (sic) John Biddle, 55; Darrell West, 31; and Shiab Cunningham, 40, were picked up by Hawthorne Police Department...
View ArticleThree Women Arrested for Fightin’ Words
HAWTHORNE — Any allusions to William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe and Sir Francis Bacon and are not intentional in the following account. Tesa Leona Crockett 19, Tanesha Renna Crockett, 25, and...
View Article“Dunne” Got Guns
HAWTHORNE, CA—How many charges can one man get done up for a single handgun? Rontae Dunn, 40, may be able to answer the above question owing to his recent arrest. The Oxford Avenue, Hawthorne resident...
View ArticleHanford Parks and Rec Employee Accused of Sexually Abusing Teens
HANFORD – Police arrested a part-time Hanford Parks and Recreation Department employee on Wednesday afternoon on suspicion of sexually abusing two teenage girls. Jose Alberto Morales Donastorg, 29, was...
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Sacramento Women Sentenced to 3 Years for Fraud and ID Theft
SACRAMENTO—A Sacramento woman has been sentenced in federal court to three years in prison for identity theft and defrauding a bail bond company after pleading guilty. On Wednesday, October 22, U.S....
View ArticleOnline fashion retailer Justfabulous, Inc. to settle lawsuit for $1.8 million
Online fashion retailer Justfabulous, Inc. has paid $1.8 million this week to settle a consumer protection lawsuit alleging its popular personal shopper websites were illegally misleading customers. A...
View ArticlePolice Arrest 2 for Attempted Murder on Knife Attack
REDLANDS – Two people were arrested for attempted murder on Saturday, Oct. 18, though police weren’t contacted for two days after the incident. Ezra Ernesto Alvarez, 18, along with a 17-year-old...
View ArticleHighland Deputies Break up Armed Robbery, Extortion Attempt
HIGHLAND – San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Deputies, tipped off to an armed robbery in progress earlier this week, arrived in time to arrest eight men, including one that tried to flee. The call came...
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Mendocino Deputies have their hands full
Most arrests involve an officer locating their suspects and taking them into custody without further incident, but every day those who serve in law enforcement know that some of the suspects are going...
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Two Suspects Arrested Following Sacramento Area Crime Spree
Two suspects are in custody after a crime spree in Sacramento this past Friday that left two officers dead and another officer and a civilian wounded, according to various news reports. According to...
View ArticleCar Thief Drives, Runs, Swims…and is Busted
Ventura - Robert Salazar, a 43-year old Oxnard resident may have been hoping to create a new triathlon category on October 20th, when he attempted to evade arrest by first driving a car recklessly,...
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Two Sunday DUI Crashes In Petaluma Result in Two Arrests
PETALUMA – Multiple 911 calls on Sunday afternoon (October 26) alerted Petaluma Police dispatch to a vehicle that had left the roadway and crashed into a property at the corner of Graylawn Avenue and...
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3 Out-of-towners up to no good…
“You ain’t from around here, are you boy? Well, we don’t take kindly to strangers in these parts” – a stereotypical B-movie theme, usually involving a big bellied southern sheriff and a long haired kid...
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California Sheriffs recommend no vote on Prop 47
The California State Sheriffs’ Association issued a letter to the citizens of the state urging a no vote on November’s proposition 47, the “Reduced Penalties for Some Crimes Initiative.” The ballot...
View Article$1.7 Million Warrant Finds Extortionist in Mexico
Santa Barbara - The fifth suspect in an alleged criminal street gang extortion operation, Edgar Cordova, 29-year old resident of Santa Barbara, has been successfully hunted down and arrested. As...
View ArticleTwo Fresno Residents Arrested in Cross-Country Drug Conspiracy
FRESNO – Eight individuals from California, Louisiana, Florida and Ohio are expected to appear in federal court in Fresno I the coming weeks to be charged with conspiring to distribute marijuana,...
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Lovebird Botches Illegal Entry Via Chimney
Ventura County - The hoary adage that “love is blind” may have to undergo slight editing in the case of Genoveva Nunez-Figueroa, a 30-year old woman and resident of Thousand Oaks, for whom the more...
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High on coke, he cranks up the tunes
Studies have shown that people on cocaine can suffer from numerous psychiatric conditions, including paranoia – the feeling that someone is out to get you. Paranoid people will sometimes watch anyone...
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