Yolo County observes National Public Defense Week
Today marks the 55th anniversary of Gideon v. Wainwright, and the third nationwide celebration of Public Defense Week. The Yolo County Public Defender’s Office is joining forces with national, state...
View ArticleFighting deportation without a lawyer
Rottanak Kong got lucky: His family found a lawyer. Most immigrants facing deportation get no legal help but might be able to resolve their cases if they did. Immigration law is complicated and...
View ArticleYolo DA settles with illegal marijuana cultivators
Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig announced Monday that to preserve a fair playing field for licensed cannabis growers and protect the environment, the District Attorney’s Office reached an...
View ArticleDriver hurt in rollover crash
Reckless driving believed to be the cause of a solo vehicle rollover that injured a motorist in Davis on Tuesday morning. According to the California Highway Patrol, the unidentified driver was exiting...
View ArticleSacramento man arrested for lumber theft
A 35-year-old Sacramento man was arrested last weekend after allegedly stealing $2,500 in lumber from a local business, Davis police reported Tuesday. Weston Blaze Willard is suspected of loading the...
View ArticleFBI seeks serial bank robber who struck Davis
The FBI is seeking the public’s help in identifying a man who has robbed banks in multiple cities, including Davis. He struck the Wells Fargo branch inside Safeway, 2121 Cowell Blvd. in South Davis, at...
View ArticleColusa doubles reward fund in search for murder suspect
The reward fund in the search for a Colusa man suspected of killing his ex-girlfriend and leaving her body inside a parked vehicle in Woodland last month has doubled from $5,000 to $10,000, Colusa...
View ArticlePlea deal made in crash that killed UCD professor
WOODLAND — A plea agreement has resolved the case of a West Sacramento garbage truck driver who was involved in a fatal collision with a UC Davis professor as he was biking to work in the summer of...
View ArticleRain to blame for eight-car mishap on I-80
Heavy rain and slick road conditions were the apparent causes of a multi-vehicle crash on Interstate 80 in Davis early Wednesday morning, according to the California Highway Patrol. Solano CHP Officer...
View ArticlePolice: Rancho Yolo deaths possible murder-suicide
The deaths of an elderly couple discovered Thursday afternoon at the Rancho Yolo mobile home park in East Davis may have been the result of a murder-suicide, Davis police said as the investigation...
View ArticleDavis man arrested for burglary
Davis police arrested a 28-year-old man Wednesday morning on suspicion of vehicle burglary. According to Lt. Paul Doroshov, the victim interrupted the burglary at about 6:20 a.m., discovering the...
View ArticleMan dies in Woodland hit-and-run collision
Woodland police are investigating an apparent hit-and-run collision that left a man dead Friday morning. It was a passing motorist that discovered the victim’s body shortly before 7 a.m. along the east...
View ArticleThree arrested following Knights Landing shooting, pursuit
Yolo County sheriff’s deputies arrested three people Thursday following a late-night shooting into a Knights Landing garage that injured three victims. Sgt. Kurt Zeiler said dispatchers received...
View ArticleCoroner: Davis hotel suicide result of toxic chemicals
A Vacaville man who committed suicide at a downtown Davis hotel in November succumbed to a toxic combination of hydrogen sulfide, according to report released Friday by the Yolo County coroner’s...
View ArticleVictims of Rancho Yolo murder-suicide identified
Yolo County coroner’s officials on Friday identified the couple who died in a Rancho Yolo murder-suicide last week as William Kaufman, 82, and his wife Beverly Kaufman, 79. The Kaufmans were longtime...
View ArticleCrash leads to DUI arrest
A Davis man faces felony drunken driving and hit-and-run charges following a crash early Friday that injured one of his passengers, Davis police said. Rafael Ralston, 26, was at the wheel of a car that...
View ArticleMan convicted of West Sacramento vehicle assault
A Yolo County jury last week convicted 38-year-old Kareem Kento Washington of Sacramento of multiple crimes including assault with a deadly weapon, domestic violence with a deadly weapon enhancement,...
View ArticleWoodland man arrested following injury DUI crash
A suspected drunken-driving crash in Davis left two people hospitalized and the driver under arrest, police said. The collision occurred at about 3 a.m. Sunday at Villanova Drive and Caron Place, where...
View ArticleTwo arrested on burglary, drug charges
Davis police reported Monday the arrests of two Solano County men last week on burglary and drug-possession charges. Lt. Paul Doroshov said officers were dispatched Friday morning to the 2600 block of...
View ArticleFour busted at illegal marijuana grow site
Three people were arrested and a fourth cited last week following the discovery of an illegal marijuana growing operation in Capay, the Yolo County Sheriff’s Office reported Tuesday. Deputies with the...
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