Stolen-property bust nets three arrests
A Davis woman is among three suspects arrested last week following an investigation into a countywide series of thefts and burglaries, the Yolo County Sheriff’s Office announced Monday. On Friday,...
View ArticleFour hurt in Highway 50 crash
Three drivers and a passenger were injured — one of them severely — Monday morning in a rear-end collision in West Sacramento that ultimately involved four vehicles, according to the California Highway...
View ArticlePolice: More women report possible druggings at bars, parties
Just days after announcing an investigation into three reported sexual assaults that occurred in town between April and August, Davis police disclosed receiving seven additional reports from women who...
View ArticlePolice activity triggers Kaiser shutdown
A high-risk vehicle stop by Davis police on Cowell Boulevard led to a partial shutdown of a nearby Kaiser clinic Tuesday afternoon, the police department reported on social media. “Today’s high risk...
View ArticleFederal court filing seeks to maintain local, state immigration authority
Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig, along with 42 other elected district attorneys and Attorneys General from across the country, have filed an amicus curiae brief in federal court urging the...
View ArticleShots fired at West Sacramento police officer
West Sacramento police continue to investigate a shooting in which an officer was fired at Wednesday morning while driving an unmarked police car. No suspects had been identified as of Thursday, but...
View ArticleMan arrested on robbery charge
A man is facing robbery charges after allegedly threatening a convenience-store clerk early Wednesday morning, Davis police said. Police were summoned shortly before 3 a.m. to the Loop Neighborhood...
View ArticleFire damages Woodland fuel station; firefighters hurt
Two firefighters sustained minor injuries Thursday night while battling a fire at a compressed natural gas fueling station in Woodland, city officials announced. The report of fuel tanks on fire at the...
View ArticlePolice: Man lunged at others with knife
Davis police arrested a 47-year-old man Saturday after he allegedly lunged at people with a knife during a reported domestic violence incident in the downtown area. Deputy Police Chief Paul Doroshov...
View ArticlePolice investigate pair of robberies
Davis police arrested two alleged robbers Friday and are seeking the suspect in a second, unrelated robbery that occurred two days later. The first incident occurred late Friday morning at a recycling...
View ArticleUpdate: DUI checkpoint west of Woodland cancelled
The California Highway Patrol announced Thursday that the DUI checkpoint scheduled for Friday night, Aug. 23, at Highway 16 and County Road 97, west of Woodland, has been cancelled. The checkpoint will...
View ArticleTwo killed in fiery I-5 crash
Two people died in a fiery collision early Friday morning near the town of Zamora, the California Highway Patrol reported. The crash occurred at about 12:15 a.m. on northbound Interstate 5 south of...
View ArticleNo parole for attempted-murder convict
WOODLAND — On Aug. 22, a two-commissioner panel of the Board of Parole Hearings denied parole to convicted 60-year-old Javiad Akhtar, who was convicted of attempted murder by a jury in 2002. In 2001,...
View ArticleUPDATE: Scene cleared after Davis police investigate ‘suspicious package’
UPDATE: Police cleared the scene shortly before 10:30 a.m. after finding nothing suspicious inside the ammunition canister, which according to Lt. Art Camacho contained old tools and other various...
View ArticleWoodland murder indictment dismissed, charges refiled
WOODLAND — Court proceedings in a Woodland murder case began anew this week after Yolo County prosecutors sought the dismissal of a grand-jury indictment obtained back in June and refiled the charges....
View ArticleWinters man facing assault, parole violation charges
Davis police arrested a Winters man Monday night after he allegedly assaulted employees at Sutter Davis Hospital. Lt. Art Camacho said Bernardo Manuel Ibarra was about to be discharged from the...
View ArticleUC Davis grad fatally stabbed in random D.C. attack
Margery Magill, a 27-year-old graduate of UC Davis, was stabbed to death Tuesday evening in Washington D.C. Police there say the stabbing appears to have been a random attack. After hearing screams,...
View ArticleDavis man faces sexual battery, false imprisonment charges
A month-long investigation into a sexual-battery report led to the arrest Wednesday of a 27-year-old Davis man, according to the Davis Police Department. Seyyed Ehsun “Taba” Tabatabaifar was booked...
View ArticleCHP joins six-state Labor Day DUI crackdown
Labor Day weekend is one of the busiest on the highways, which makes impaired driving even more dangerous. To help keep the roadways safe, the California Highway Patrol is joining forces with five...
View ArticleFires reported at two Davis residences
Davis firefighters responded to two structure-fire reports Friday. The first incident, reported shortly after 4:30 p.m. in the 3200 block of Bermuda Avenue, turned out to be smoke coming from a heating...
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