Adam Liston, a Davis High School senior, was arrested and expelled for having a shotgun in his truck at school. What was the outcome or trial verdict and final sentence?
– Bert Campbell, Copperopolis
Adam Liston pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor for inadvertently leaving his unloaded shotgun in the truck that he drove to school in January 2004.
He was to pay a $708 fine and perform 40 hours of community service.
Liston initially was charged with two felonies and expelled from school. The Yolo County Board of Education overturned the expulsion.
According to a story in The Bee, the Yolo County deputy district attorney handling the case said the misdemeanor reflected "the appropriate balance of interests," stating that it was important to punish the act of bringing a gun to school but also to consider Liston's intent and clean record.
Two years ago there was an accident on Center Parkway at Cosumnes River Boulevard where three young men were killed in the early morning hours. Who was responsible, and was anyone charged?
– Amy, Sacto
Omar Carrasco pleaded guilty in the March 6, 2010, hit-and-run collision that killed three Sacramento men, according to Sacramento Superior Court online records.
Two vehicles, a Lincoln and an Acura, collided near the middle of the intersection of Cosumnes River Boulevard and Center Parkway about 3:30 a.m., according to a story in The Bee.
The Acura caught fire with two men inside, and both died. Two other men, believed to have been occupants of the Acura, were found outside the vehicles. One was pronounced dead at the scene.
Killed in the collision were Raoul Perez, 23; Manuel Ruiz, 25; and Gregory Valenzuela, 22.
Police arrested Carrasco, the driver of the Lincoln, after receiving a call from medical staff at Kaiser South Medical Center, where he had gone to be treated for injuries.
Carrasco, 26, was sentenced in November 2010 to four years in prison and is incarcerated at the California Institution for Men in Chino.
Back in the late '80s or early '90s there was a drug murder in the Fair Oaks area. I think the victim's last name was Probst. I was wondering if anyone has been caught for the crime. Also, the body of a Rancho Cordova man name of Bobby Reese was found in the Nevada desert shortly after this happened. I am wondering if the two incidents are related.
– Robert, Rancho Cordova
James David Majors was sentenced to death for the Jan. 26, 1989, gangland-style slayings of two men and a woman at a Fair Oaks residence.
According to stories in The Bee, Thomas Kenneth Probst, 30, Jeannine Annette "Twiggy" Copeland, 30, and Patrick James Mungavin, 24, were found shot to death in the Kaula Drive home that Probst used for drug distribution.
Majors argued that the evidence pointed to another man, Robert Reese, the initial suspect in the murder. Reese was found dead in the Arizona desert in March 1989. He reportedly had died of multiple gunshot wounds on Feb. 18 or 19, a few days before Majors was arrested.
Majors, 63, remains on death row at San Quentin State Prison.
– Cathy Locke
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