Tahoe City, CA…On November 15, at 5:05pm emergency personnel responded to a hit and run traffic collision involving a vehicle vs bicyclist. When the California Highway Patrol personnel arrived on scene, information gathered from witnesses indicated that a dark colored SUV had been traveling westbound on SR-28 westbound up Dollar Hill on the right shoulder. […]
San Francisco, CA…Attorney General Kamala D. Harris today announced a settlement with J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. over its misrepresentations in residential mortgage-backed securities sold to California’s public employee and teacher pension funds, CalPERS and CalSTRS, between 2004 and 2008. According to the terms of the settlement, California will recover $298,973,000 in damages. “JP Morgan […]
FOLSOM – California State Prison-Sacramento (CSP-SAC) officials are investigating the attempted murder of a correctional officer that occurred this morning in one of the maximum-security units. On November 18, 2013, at approximately 8 a.m., inmate Alberto Cortez, 22, tried to murder a 40-year-old correctional officer by repeatedly slashing him with an inmate-made weapon. A second […]
Incline Village, NV…orge Miranda-Rivas received a sentence of seven to 23 years in prison today for his part in the armed robbery of a Chevron in Incline Village earlier this year. Miranda-Rivas, a resident of Incline Village, was sentenced in the Second Judicial District Court after being found guilty on one count each of Robbery […]
Reno, NV…. Update: The Washoe County Medical Examiner’s Office has completed formal identification of the deceased subject from an Officer Involved Shooting that occurred on October 24 on Highway 80 east of Winnemucca, and next of kin notification has been made by law enforcement. The decedent has been identified as John Robert Dellafiora, age 46, […]
Sacramento, CA…California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) parole agents arrested 90 of the 1,267 sex-offender parolees who were contacted during compliance checks or searches as part of the 20th annual Operation Boo Child Safety Project on Halloween night 2013. Most of the arrests were for violations of special conditions of parole; however some offenses […]
South Lake Tahoe, CA…The South Lake Tahoe Police Department has been awarded a $33,200 grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) for a year-long program aimed at preventing deaths and injuries on our roadways through special enforcement and public awareness efforts. The grant received by South Lake Tahoe will aid in the city’s […]
Sacramento, CA…The California Highway Patrol (CHP) has honored Daryl Junnila and Officer Thelma Matthews with the Commissioner’s Medal of Distinction—an award recognizing heroic acts of civilians and non-CHP public safety officers—after they saved the life of Anibal Rubina, an off-duty CHP employee, in September 2013. “The Commissioner’s Medal of Distinction honors the selfless acts of […]
RENO- Col. Jeffrey Burkett, the Nevada Air Guard’s 152nd Airlift Wing Commander, will comment and answer military-related questions surrounding Master Sgt. Michael Landsberry, the Nevada Guard Airman who was a victim of the shooting at Sparks Middle School on Monday, today at noon at the Nevada Air National Guard base in Reno. WHAT: Military press […]
From Reno Gazette-Journal… Sparks Middle School shooting: Video details eyewitness account from inside school 10:18 AM Kyle Nucum, 13, said he witnessed another student shoot his teacher at Sparks Middle School Monday morning.
