Davis police investigating two robberies
Davis police are continuing to investigate a pair of robberies that occurred in the city late last week. The first occurred at about 3:40 p.m. Thursday on the Mace Boulevard overpass. The victim told...
View ArticleDriver in fatal Yolo crash identified
A motorist who died in a wrong-way collision Thursday in Yolo has been identified as Bashir Abdul Shetab, a 51-year-old Sacramento resident, Yolo County coroner’s officials said Monday. Shetab was at...
View ArticleChain-reaction crash kills motorist near Davis
A West Sacramento woman was killed Friday in a three-car collision on Interstate 80 just west of Davis, according to the California Highway Patrol. The crash occurred at about 6:10 p.m. when an...
View ArticleGoFundMe aids scholar after robbery
A visiting scholar at the UC Davis Bohart Museum of Entomolog was robbed at gunpoint Friday night, Sept. 20 when he was walking home along a bike path on Russell Boulevard in West Davis. The Bohart...
View ArticleDid Yolo deputies dump homeless man in Sacramento? Sheriff says no; Sac mayor...
Sacramento’s mayor says he is “awaiting answers” from the Yolo County Sheriff’s Office after a video surfaced that appears to show two Yolo deputies dropping off a homeless man in the capital city....
View ArticleDavis man faces life sentence for child-molest conviction
It took a Yolo County jury less than two hours to convict a Davis man of molesting four children in acts that prosecutors said dated back more than two decades. Mario Roberto Rodas, 40, faces a state...
View ArticleCouple arrested on domestic violence charges
An altercation last week between a Davis couple led to both being arrested on domestic violence and other charges, Davis police said Friday. According to Lt. Art Camacho, the couple — identified as...
View ArticleRobbery reported on Alvarado Avenue
Davis police are investigating an armed robbery that reportedly occurred on Alvarado Avenue on Thursday night. A woman called police shortly before noon Friday to report that her son was robbed by two...
View ArticleTruck burns on I-80
Davis firefighters put out a burning pickup truck in the shoulder off eastbound Interstate 80, just west of the Pole Line overpass. All eastbound traffic was stopped as firefighters worked to put out...
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‘I just flourished’: Drug-treatment program gains another graduate
WOODLAND — You could say Crystal Reta’s road to recovery had a few detours, and some potholes to boot. She first fell into methamphetamine addiction at age 16, and “the relationship that I was in kind...
View ArticleUC Davis releases annual crime statistics
Earlier this week UC Davis released an annual report on campus-related crime statistics, as is required by the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act of 1998...
View ArticleLocal man arrested on drug, weapon charges
Davis police arrested a 33-year-old local man early Thursday morning after allegedly finding him with drugs, weapons, burglary tools and personal information that didn’t belong to him. According to a...
View ArticleWoodland police warn of new phone scam
The Woodland Police Department is warning the public about a phone scam in which the caller claims to be Woodland Finance Department, saying that a water-bill payment is overdue and urging victims to...
View ArticleTrial date set for two defendants in Yolo missing teens case
The trial for a pair of suspects accused of killing two Yolo County teens over a $300 marijuana robbery has been scheduled to begin March 23, 2020. Chandale Shannon, 22; and Jesus Campos, 20; also will...
View ArticleWoman robbed at gunpoint; suspects remain at large
Davis police are searching for several suspects who remain at large after robbing a woman at gunpoint Friday night. Lt. Art Camacho gave the following account: The woman was walking alone in the area...
View ArticleKitchen fire results in smoke damage to Davisville apartment unit
Davis firefighters responded to a fire in the Davisville apartments on Kennedy Place in east Davis Saturday afternoon. Firefighters arrived on the scene following the 1:44 p.m. call to find smoke...
View ArticleWest Sacramento school district employee convicted of embezzlement
A Yolo County jury convicted 46-year-old Mary Ann Elizabeth Colby of West Sacramento on Friday of embezzling more than $16,000 from the Washington Unified School District in West Sacramento over a...
View ArticleCrashed truck lands on Davis railroad tracks
Train travel through Davis was delayed Monday night after a delivery truck left the freeway and came to rest on the railroad tracks along Second Street. Davis Fire Department Capt. Richard Moore said...
View ArticleDavis police investigate another robbery
A man reported being robbed at gunpoint Tuesday night in Davis, marking the city’s second armed holdup in five days and the fifth to occur over the past three weeks. The latest incident occurred at...
View ArticleYolo law-enforcement agencies launch major-crimes task force
Yolo County’s longtime regional drug-enforcement team has morphed into a task force focusing on major crimes, a move that law-enforcement leaders say reflects statewide efforts in recent years to...
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