First Five Camp Fire Fatalities Confirmed in Vehicles Overrun By The Fire

First Five Camp Fire Fatalities Confirmed in Vehicles Overrun By The Fire

Paradise, CA…As reported at yesterday’s press briefing, the Butte County Sheriff’s Office (BCSO) has received reports of fatalities due to the Camp Fire. BCSO investigators are still working to confirm the reports. The task is difficult due to the fact that the fire is still active and there are many hazards in areas where fatalities […]

Calaveras Deputies Assisting in Butte County Evacuations and Resues

Calaveras Deputies Assisting in Butte County Evacuations and Resues

San Andreas, CA…From the Calaveras Sheriff’s Dept…”Our thoughts are with Butte County. A few Calaveras County Sheriff’s Office Deputies deployed there immediately yesterday when we received the law enforcement mutual aid request to assist with evacuation and rescues. A couple more of our deputies are up there this morning. Our community knows the devastation of […]

Thousand Oaks – Procession for Sgt. Ron Helus

Thousand Oaks – Procession for Sgt. Ron Helus

Thousand Oaks, CA…Procession for Sgt. Ron Helus. A procession will take place at 10:00 am today for Sgt. Ron Helus. He was shot and killed by a suspect who committed a mass shooting at the Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks late last night. Sgt. Helus will be transported via motorcade from Los Robles […]

13 Dead Including Gunman in Shooting at California Bar

13 Dead Including Gunman in Shooting at California Bar

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) — A hooded gunman wearing all black opened fire at a country dance bar holding a weekly “college night” in Southern California, using a handgun and a smoke device to kill 12 people and sending hundreds fleeing, authorities said Thursday. Terrified revelers used barstools to break second-floor windows and jump to […]

Another Round of Marijuana Eradications

Another Round of Marijuana Eradications

San Andreas, CA…From the Calaveras Sheriff’s Office…”On November 1, 2018 the Calaveras County Sheriff’s Office Marijuana Enforcement Team served a search warrant in the 5000 block of Del Sol Lane in San Andreas. Upon the arrival of the team, no persons or vehicles were present, although evidence was recovered from a travel trailer on site. […]

Governor Brown and Attorney General Becerra Honor Five Public Safety Officials with Medal of Valor Awards

Governor Brown and Attorney General Becerra Honor Five Public Safety Officials with Medal of Valor Awards

Sacramento, CA…Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. joined Attorney General Xavier Becerra on October 29th to present the Public Safety Officer Medal of Valor to five public safety leaders from the California Highway Patrol (CHP) and the Yuba County Sheriff’s Department who went above and beyond the call of duty. “American democracy is not going to […]

Major Injuries to Rancho Cordova Man in Burson Road Collision

Major Injuries to Rancho Cordova Man in Burson Road Collision

Valley Springs, CA…On November 3, 2018, at approximately 1850 hours, Chueyee Yang from Rancho Cordova was driving southbound on Burson Rd., south of Camanche Pkwy South. For an unknown reason, Yang attempted to turn around within the roadway to travel northbound on Burson Rd. At the same time Caywood was traveling southbound on Burson Rd., […]

Felony DUI Collision and Arrest in Sonora Area

Felony DUI Collision and Arrest in Sonora Area

Sonora, CA…On Saturday, November 3, 2018, at approximately 8:10 pm, 31 year old San Leandro resident, Christian Vargas-Zermeno was driving a 2003 Ford Focus westbound on State Route 108, west of Mono Way. 32 year old Soulsbyville resident, Andrew Wilson, was driving a 2015 Toyota Tundra eastbound on State Route 108, east of Old Wards […]

Sad Ending to Search for Bradford Dozier…He Perished in Climbing Accident

Sad Ending to Search for Bradford Dozier…He Perished in Climbing Accident

Markleeville, CA…The search for missing person Bradford Dozier ended on November 3, 2018, when his body was found at the base of a cliff in Alpine County, California. Mr. Dozier died as a result of his injuries when he fell approximately two-hundred feet as he attempted to free climb steep terrain on the north side […]

Major Injuries to 17 Year Old Groveland Woman in Overturned Vehicle Collision

Major Injuries to 17 Year Old Groveland Woman in Overturned Vehicle Collision

Groveland, CA…On Thursday, November 1, 2018, at approximately 1:37 am, CHP Merced Communications Center received a call of a traffic collision on Ferretti Road west of Lumsden Road. The reporting party had located a solo vehicle overturned off the roadway. The driver, solo occupant, 17 year old Groveland Resident, was driving a 2012 Volkswagen Passat […]

Update on Search for Bradford Dozier

Update on Search for Bradford Dozier

Markleeville, CA…Updates from the Alpine Sheriff’s Office on Missing Bradford Dozier…October 31, 2018 Spencer Case, Undersheriff Search and Rescue update regarding missing person Bradford Dozier. The search for missing person Bradford Dozier continues. As of 2:00 pm, October 31, 2018, no clues have been found. Currently the search is concentrated west of Blue Lakes near […]

Modesto Man Arrested After Tuolumne County Check Fraud Spree

Modesto Man Arrested After Tuolumne County Check Fraud Spree

Sonora, CA…An arrest was made only a few hours after surveillance footage was shared with the community, regarding a local check fraud investigation. A Black Oak Casino Security Officer alerted law enforcement after spotting 37-year-old Josiah Silveira of Modesto who matched the description of the wanted man. Responding Deputies arrested Silveira and a search of […]

Arrests Made After Assaults in Sonora

Arrests Made After Assaults in Sonora

Sonora, CA…From the Sonora Police Dept….”Last night about 10:45 p.m., we received multiple reports of a disturbance involving a vehicle and several people near the 100 block of Lyons Street. Officers responded and ultimately arrested 25-year-old Francisco Rico of Sonora and a 16-year-old male Tuolumne resident for felony battery. The investigation revealed that a white […]

Chinese Intelligence Officers and Their Recruited Hackers and Insiders Conspired to Steal Sensitive Commercial Aviation and Technological Data for Years

Chinese Intelligence Officers and Their Recruited Hackers and Insiders Conspired to Steal Sensitive Commercial Aviation and Technological Data for Years

Washington, DC…Chinese intelligence officers and those working under their direction, which included hackers and co-opted company insiders, conducted or otherwise enabled repeated intrusions into private companies’ computer systems in the United States and abroad for over five years. The conspirators’ ultimate goal was to steal, among other data, intellectual property and confidential business information, including […]

Mountain Ranch Property Targeted for Cleanup

Mountain Ranch Property Targeted for Cleanup

Mountain Ranch, CA…From the Calaveras Sheriff Dept…”On October 26, 2018, the Calaveras County Sheriff’s Office Investigations Unit contacted several people in the area of Ponderosa Way near Doster Way in Mountain Ranch. The area was strewn with trash and vehicles, and a 30 foot travel trailer was parked on Ponderosa Road and being lived out […]

School Custodian Arrested for Threats to Co-Worker

School Custodian Arrested for Threats to Co-Worker

San Andreas, CA…On 10-29-18 at about 7:50pm, Calaveras County Sheriff’s Office deputies took a report from a Toyon Middle School Administrator regarding a possible threat with a firearm by a custodial staff member. Deputies were told that 72 year old Fred Westbrook of Mokelumne Hill works on the custodial staff at Toyon Middle school and […]

Pair Arrested and Crime Spree Stopped in its Tracks.

Pair Arrested and Crime Spree Stopped in its Tracks.

Jamestown, CA…From the Tuolumne Sheriff’s Office…..”Deputy Vince Lee was patrolling the Jamestown area just before 3 o’clock Sunday morning when he received information about a purse that had just been stolen from a parked car in East Sonora. The suspects were reportedly driving a silver Toyota truck and headed west toward him. The truck was […]

CAL FIRE Tuolumne-Calaveras Unit Law Enforcement Officers make an Arson Arrest

CAL FIRE Tuolumne-Calaveras Unit Law Enforcement Officers make an Arson Arrest

San Andreas, CA…On Saturday, October 27th, 2018 at approximately 5:23 AM CAL FIRE responded to a wildland fire located on Lake Road approximately 1.3 miles south of Highway 132 near the community of La Grange in Stanislaus County. The fire burned approximately three acres of grass and oak woodlands. The cause was determined to be […]

Ione Woman Passes Away from Injuries Sustained in Collision that sent Her Vehicle into Pardee Reservoir

Ione Woman Passes Away from Injuries Sustained in Collision that sent Her Vehicle into Pardee Reservoir

San Andreas, CA…CHP has issued a sad update that Autumn Hernandez, 35 of Ione has passed away from her injuries. From our earlier report on the collision…”An Ione Woman was driving her Hyundai northbound on Sandretto Road (Pardee Dam Rd), north of Campo Seco Road, traveling at an unknown speed. As she was entering a […]

Additional Information Regarding Robbery in Mokelumne Hill Yesterday

Additional Information Regarding Robbery in Mokelumne Hill Yesterday

Mokelumne Hill, CA…The following is to update information regarding the reported robbery in Mokelumne Hill yesterday (10-23-18): On 10-23-18 at approx. 0930 hours Deputies responded to the intersection of Highway 26 and Campo Seco Turnpike Road in Mokelumne Hill where a female victim reported that her vehicle tire had been shot after she followed robbery […]

FBI on Investigation of Suspicious Bomb Packages

FBI on Investigation of Suspicious Bomb Packages

Washington, DC…Between October 22 and 24, 2018, suspicious packages were received at multiple locations in the New York and Washington, D.C., areas and Florida. The packages are being sent for analysis at the FBI Laboratory in Quantico, Virginia. “This investigation is of the highest priority for the FBI. We have committed the full strength of […]

Potential Explosive Devices Intercepted Before Being Delivered to Former President Obama and Former First Lady Clinton

Potential Explosive Devices Intercepted Before Being Delivered to Former President Obama and Former First Lady Clinton

Washington, DC…The U.S. Secret Service has intercepted two suspicious packages addressed to Secret Service protectees. Late on October 23, 2018, the Secret Service recovered a single package addressed to Former First Lady Hillary Clinton in Westchester County, New York. Early this morning, October 24, 2018, a second package addressed to the residence of Former President […]