Brother and Sister pair up on Workers’ Comp and Employment fraud
SACRAMENTO – 37-year-old Michael George Mello and his sister, 38-year-old Mary Catherine Rodriguez (also known as Mary Mello) are the owners of the Green Valley Landscaping Services company. They have...
View ArticleVictims Turn the Tables on Auto Burglar
Ventura – 23-year-old Ricardo Navarro, a resident of Oxnard, just might be the most hapless and hopeless auto burglar among his peers, and is anticipated to be a finalist in this year’s race for the...
View ArticleRedding man arrested busting up his mobile home
What set Brian James Willis off twice in a week’s time, getting him thrown into jail once, and then back again? Perhaps it was living in a small, single wide mobile home for so long. Willis has lived...
View ArticleChowchilla teen arrested for domestic violence, false imprisonment
A young man has been arrested for multiple felonies in Chowchilla on Tuesday, September 8. According to the Madera County Department of Corrections, Nicholas Kyle Ray Brand, 18, was apprehended by the...
View ArticleMadera man arrested for enabling a minor
What’s wrong with sharing your drugs with a teenager? 29-year-old Fidelio Paz has hopefully figured it out. According to the official media report from the Madera County Department of Corrections, Paz,...
View ArticleMotive Remains Unclear in Animal Shelter Vandalism, One Man Arrested
JURUPA VALLEY – In the early hours over the weekend, a suspect broke into the Jurupa Valley animal shelter, releasing dogs and resulting in the death of four of the canines. When employees arrived at...
View ArticleTwo Riverside County Men Discover That ATM Crimes Don’t Pay
MOUNTAIN CENTER – Early Monday morning, sheriff’s deputies located and arrested two suspects believed to have been perpetrators in a rash of ATM thefts in two counties. Riverside Sheriff’s Deputies...
View ArticleMan Burglarizes Business Offices at the Warner Center
Business employees and owners in Los Angeles offices should think about locking their doors whenever they leave the room unsupervised. According to a police report, a man had entered at least four...
View ArticleCHP Officer Nabs Los Angeles Murder Suspect
Suspect was Living in Castroville Under an Assumed Name SALINAS—An officer with the California Highway Patrol who works out of the Salinas location pulled over a vehicle for a broken headlight near...
View ArticleBrother shot and killed just three years after sister was shot by her ex-husband
The San Jose Police Homicide Detectives have released a sketch of the possible homicide suspect responsible in the shooting death of 33-year-old Rafael Espinoza. According to SJPD Press Information...
View ArticleMan Arrested in Attempted Murder Attack
Suspect used Taser on female victim The San Luis Obispo Police arrested a man for attempted murder on Friday morning. According to SLOPD, officers responded to a call at around 6:50 a.m. regarding a...
View ArticleVictim Escapes Attacker
The San Luis Obispo Police are searching for a man who allegedly attacked a lone female victim early Wednesday morning. According to SLOPD, officers responded to a call at around 1:40 a.m. to the 1600...
View ArticleMonterey Taskforce Arrests Known Gang Member
Arrest Came From a Month-Long Investigation GREENFIELD—Agents from the Southern Monterey County Violence Suppression Collaboration (S.M.C.V.S.C.) served a state search warrant in the city of Greenfield...
View ArticleFailure to Appear Results in Felony Bust
Ventura County – Saul Arceo, a 27-year-old resident of El Rio—just east of the City of Ventura—is, one would think, old enough and intelligent enough to know what day of the month it is, but apparently...
View ArticleBloody Broccoli Field Stabbing
Santa Barbara County – The pastoral settings of the rolling hills in northern Santa Barbara County, through which tourists and locals alike travel on wine tours and scenic excursions throughout the...
View ArticleProducers charged with running a Ponzi scheme
Mel Brooks struck comedy gold when he made the film “The Producers” starring Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder in 1967. The idea behind the film was that Mostel’s character, Max Bialystock would produce a...
View ArticleNovato PD Earns Back-to-back CLEC Awards
NOVATO – On Thursday September 17, the Novato Police Department (NPD) issued a Community Bulletin announcing that the department has achieved top honors for its traffic safety program. Hundreds of law...
View ArticleMan in Sac City College Brawl Returns to Court
SACRAMENTO—The suspect in a brawl earlier this month at Sacramento City College, which resulted in his being stabbed and another man fatally shot, appeared for a second time in court this week before...
View ArticlePolice Still Looking For Watsonville Shooting Suspect
Stay Bullet Entered Martial Arts Studio WATSONVILLE—The Watsonville Police Department is still trying to answer the question of who fired five shots into a vehicle Monday evening on East Lake Street in...
View ArticleMan with Hammer Arrested for Domestic Violence
The San Luis Obispo Sheriff’s Office arrested a man for assault with a deadly weapon after he allegedly threatened his girlfriend and her family with a hammer on Tuesday. According to the sheriff’s...
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