Crime

A federal grand jury has returned indictments against seven people in connection with a regional mortgage fraud scheme.

There was no shortage of tragedy Wednesday in Department 62 of the Sacramento Superior Court.

As Sacramento's chief of police, Sam Somers Jr. will be expected to address the latest crime trends and the demands of residents eager for results: Violent and property crimes rose last year for the first time in six years.

A 15-year-old boy has been arrested in connection with a sexual assault on a woman in February.

Yuba City police officers shot and killed a man Wednesday after a pursuit of a vehicle tied to two recent armed robberies, authorities said.

A Citrus Heights man previously convicted of sex offenses was arraigned today in federal court in Sacramento on charges of receiving child pornography and failing to register as a sex offender.

Carla Jean Walker's tears soaked up half a box of tissues Tuesday while she sorted through the pain and what-ifs of her husband's murder.

Sacramento County sheriff's deputies arrested a 28-year-old man early Tuesday morning after a robbery at a convenience store and a home-invasion robbery in the Fruitridge area.

Sacramento police seek the public's help in identifying a man who followed a woman home from a walk and prowled around her North Natomas residence.

A man has been taken to a local hospital for medical evaluation after he was found running naked at the Rio Linda Airport.

Public perception has not been kind to Sacramento's central city. A series of high-profile crimes has fueled the notion that the downtown and midtown areas are no longer safe – places where even unsuspecting people can fall victim to violent crime.

A woman was arrested Saturday afternoon after she bit an officer trying to intervene in a couple's argument, Sacramento police reported.

Sunrise Mall was evacuated Saturday afternoon, and a bomb squad was called in, after a suitcase was found unattended in one of the walkways, Citrus Heights police said.

On the day before Easter, Gov. Jerry Brown pardoned 65 people who served sentences years ago for various crimes.

California's top law enforcement agency is prosecuting one of its own, a Rancho Cordova man charged with felony conflict of interest over a contract made while he worked for the attorney general.

Ladonna Faye Chandler of Elk Grove pleaded guilty Thursday to 12 counts of felony bank fraud for raiding the treasury of a Sacramento County business where she worked by cashing checks she altered and stole.

If someone cheated you out of $18 million, you'd probably want a chance to get it back, even if the thief was broke and on his way to prison.

Two of six defendants in a shootout that claimed the life of a young mother as she sought to shield her child from flying bullets were sentenced Thursday in Sacramento Superior Court.

A Nevada County man pleaded guilty today in federal court to maintaining a marijuana dispensary in Sacramento.

An Oakland man has been sentenced to seven years in prison in a case involving the sex trafficking of a 14-year-old south Sacramento girl.

A man who died in a standoff with police in Washington state was wanted in Sacramento for alleged real estate fraud.

The teenager facing hate crime allegations in the brutal March 10 beating of a Davis man saw his bail increased nearly sevenfold to $520,000 Wednesday as prosecutors detailed his alleged victim's injuries.

Sacramento's new beer hall LowBrau will host a fundraiser Saturday night to contribute to a reward fund for information in the case of Josiah Humphreys, the 28-year-old man fatally beaten in midtown earlier this month.

An Irvine man has been arrested in a mortgage fraud case involving properties in Rocklin and Roseville.

One person was killed and two were wounded during a shooting at a party in a Natomas apartment early Sunday morning.

Walter Johnson was an active, 26-year-old man – a former high school track athlete, a tennis lover, an aspiring California Highway Patrol officer – when a bullet fired during an Oak Park robbery left him a paraplegic.

Step one in Delanie Walker's mission to combat drunken driving: Get the NFL to clean up its own act.

A former Sacramento police officer on Friday admitted falsifying three drunken driving reports and lying at a state Department of Motor Vehicles administrative hearing.

Sacramento County sheriff's deputies are investigating a double shooting in the Foothill Farms area that left a woman dead and a man injured.

As Josiah Humphreys' loved ones struggle to make sense of his brutal death, they wonder, too, how it is that his attackers remain free.

Prosecutors want to increase the bail and move up the arraignment of the Davis man held in an alleged hate attack, calling him "an extreme danger to the community."

A Sacramento Superior Court jury convicted Marquis Deonta Greenwood of felony murder Thursday in the shooting death of his partner during a Dec. 27, 2010, store robbery in Alkali Flat.

A reward of $100,000 is being offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of whoever killed Jessica Funk-Haslam, the Rosemont girl found dead a year ago.

A Sacramento man was arraigned in federal court Wednesday, charged with purchasing multiple firearms in Reno and illegally bringing them across state lines.

Californians are being warned about an online investment scam run by "Profitable Sunrise," a company that seeks to lure investor victims through biblical references.

They batted around the word "obvious" outside the courtroom Tuesday – as in, there was no question about the verdict that took very little time for a Sacramento jury to reach in finding Juan Carlos Orozco guilty in the Aug. 26, 2010, torture-and-robbery murder of Galen Joseph May.

A woman filed a claim against West Sacramento this month for "negligent supervision" of a former city police officer alleged to have sexually attacked her and five other women while on patrol.

Roseville contractor Steve Putnam, 48, says he's just a guy who likes to date escorts, one of whom slipped back into prostitution.

The robbery game came up snake eyes for Tiekarian "TK" Troutman. Trying to knock over a neighborhood market in Alkali Flat, he wound up shot and killed. Now it's his partner who is facing a hard fall, in a murder trial that went to the jury Tuesday.

A Citrus Heights resident and retired Prudential insurance agent is eager to alert fellow senior citizens to a likely medical card scam.

Photographs and the fragrance of fresh-cut flowers marked the midtown Sacramento corner where Josiah Humphreys was beaten to death early Sunday.

Sacramento police were searching Monday for two men who subjected a midtown pedestrian to gender slurs, then struck him with a baseball bat Sunday night.

A woman was shot at dinnertime Monday along a bustling section of eateries in Land Park, an apparent bystander in an argument that suddenly turned violent.

A man died after a fight in midtown Sacramento early Sunday, Sacramento police said. The Coroner's Office had not identified the victim as of late Sunday.

The body of a convicted graffiti "tagger" was found on the pavement below a Sacramento freeway bridge Saturday. Police say he may have been spray-painting on the bridge when he fell to his death.

Eighteen years after a federal court found that the mental health care inside state prisons was grossly substandard and a major factor in inmate suicides, California will return to a Sacramento courtroom March 27 to argue that the problems have been solved.

Three of every four California police agencies shrank during the last several years, collectively laying off thousands of cops, the latest FBI figures show.

Sacramento police officials on Friday promoted eight officers to new leadership positions, including a new deputy chief to fill the vacancy left by newly appointed Chief Sam Somers Jr.

No doubt about it. The judge, the professionals at the psychiatric hospital, the defendant's sister, even Jesus Julian Gallegos himself – they all said something was wrong inside the young man's head.

A former Web producer for KTXL Fox 40, a Tribune Co.-owned television station in Sacramento, was indicted Thursday in Sacramento for allegedly conspiring with members of the hacker group Anonymous to hack into and alter a Tribune Co. website.