A California employee of a federal penitentiary has been arrested after he allegedly kidnapped a child. The Merced Police Department said that Earl Stokes, 50, turned himself in after detectives investigated an incident that took place on last month. Police said that a group of kids was walking through a north Merced neighborhood on March …
A 30-year-old California man has been arrested after allegedly fatally shooting his parents in Fresno Sunday afternoon. Fresno police said they were called to the home in the northeast part of the city at about 3:30 p.m. and found the suspect on the front lawn with his dead father. Officers found the mother, also dead …
A California charter school teacher has been charged with 29 counts of lewd acts, including statutory rape, against seven boys aged 15 to 16. Anessa Paige Gower, 35, was arrested at Sacramento International Airport on Wednesday as she arrived back in California from Hawaii, KTVU reported. The Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office said Friday …
A California mother suspected of drowning her two children in the bathtub has been arrested, police said on Thursday. Courtney Williams, 26, was arrested on Wednesday after the father of the children — 5-month-old Holden and 2-year-old Ronin — called to report possible drownings, the Yuba County Sheriff’s Department said. Investigators said the father had …
Sacramento police arrested a third suspect in their investigation of the deadly mass shooting downtown early Sunday morning. Investigators have not, however, charged Daviyonne Dawson with anything directly related to the shooting, NBC News reported. Dawson “was seen carrying a gun in the immediate aftermath of the shooting” and later “recovered a handgun and arrested” …
Police in California have arrested a second suspect in the deadly shooting in downtown Sacramento early Sunday morning. The new suspect — the brother of a man arrested Monday in connect with the incident — was himself seriously wounded in the shooting, the Sacramento Bee said. Smiley Martin, 27, has been charged with possession of …
California authorities are investigating after a man was reportedly shot and killed on Saturday as he walked his dog. According to KNBC, Marcos Sandoval, 52, was fatally shot in Los Angeles after a neighbor’s surveillance camera filmed a dark-colored sedan approaching him and stopping at the northeast intersection of Genesee Avenue and Saturn Street. Someone …
The mother of a missing 8-year-old California girl has been charged with murder after investigators found a child’s body in her boyfriend’s home in Merced. Investigators have not said if the body they found was that of Sophia Mason, who was last seen on February 10, as CrimeOnline previously reported. Merced Police found the body …
The accused molester was released from custody days before the shooting
A California woman whose disappearance more than five years ago prompted a desperate three-week search was arrested on Thursday and charged with lying to federal agents about being kidnapping and defrauding California’s victim compensation board. Sherri Papini, 39, was reported missing on November 2, 2016, and found 22 days later just off Interstate 5 near …
The suspected shooter is reportedly on the run
The 39-year-old man who shot his three young daughters to death Monday during a supervised visit was armed with an AR-15 style rifle and had been arrested last week for assaulting a California Highway Patrol officer. David Mora killed the girls and their chaperone before turning the gun on himself Monday afternoon at The Church …
