http://blogs.sacbee.com/crime/ The Sacramento Bee's Crime blog is a comprehensive report of crime news, trends and information for your community and beyond. en Copyright 2012 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:56:18 -0800 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification A thorough Sacramento police officer followed up on a good eyewitness description and netted a strong-arm robbery suspect Thursday. A couple staying in a motel near East Sacramento was robbed at a store on 30th Street around 7:30 p.m., when the husband was pushed to the ground by an assailant, http://blogs.sacbee.com/crime/archives/2012/02/eyewitness-ids-sacramento-suspect-by-his-eyes.html#mi_rss=Sacto%209-1-1 http://blogs.sacbee.com/crime/archives/2012/02/eyewitness-ids-sacramento-suspect-by-his-eyes.html#mi_rss=Sacto%209-1-1 Property Crime Sacramento Sacramento County Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:56:18 -0800 Sacramento police have arrested a man in connection with the Thursday shooting death of 20-year-old Christopher Kai Sisoukchaleun, officials announced this morning. Antoine Blessett, 36, was arrested Thursday after police found him driving in the vicinity of the shooting, according to a release from the Sacramento Police Department. Blessett was http://blogs.sacbee.com/crime/archives/2012/02/suspect-arrested-in-north-sacramento-shooting.html#mi_rss=Sacto%209-1-1 http://blogs.sacbee.com/crime/archives/2012/02/suspect-arrested-in-north-sacramento-shooting.html#mi_rss=Sacto%209-1-1 Homicide Sacramento Sacramento County Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:10:23 -0800 Local pastor Cornelius Taylor was convicted Thursday on eight counts of sexual assault on a minor, the Sacramento County District Attorney's office reported. A troubled teen with no family support was befriended by Taylor at his church. She moved in with the pastor and his wife when she was 16 http://blogs.sacbee.com/crime/archives/2012/02/sacramento-area-pastor-convicted-in-sex-assault-on-minor.html#mi_rss=Sacto%209-1-1 http://blogs.sacbee.com/crime/archives/2012/02/sacramento-area-pastor-convicted-in-sex-assault-on-minor.html#mi_rss=Sacto%209-1-1 Sacramento County Sex Crime Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:15:53 -0800 Sacramento police have arrested a suspect in the shooting death of 20-year-old Christopher Kai Sisoukchaleun, police announced this morning. Antoine Blessett, 36, was arrested without incident Thursday after police found him driving near the scene of the crime, according to a release from the Sacramento Police Department. Blessett is believed http://blogs.sacbee.com/crime/archives/2012/02/north-sacramento-shooting-victim-identified.html#mi_rss=Sacto%209-1-1 http://blogs.sacbee.com/crime/archives/2012/02/north-sacramento-shooting-victim-identified.html#mi_rss=Sacto%209-1-1 Homicide Sacramento Sacramento County Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:06:22 -0800 A 13-year-old girl who was reported missing from her Florin-area home Monday morning has been located in Fresno. According to the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department, Madison Watson (pictured) was found earlier this evening. Officials said she was safe and in the custody of FBI agents, who assisted the Sheriff's Department http://blogs.sacbee.com/crime/archives/2012/02/teen-missing-from-florin-area-home-found-safe-in-fresno.html#mi_rss=Sacto%209-1-1 http://blogs.sacbee.com/crime/archives/2012/02/teen-missing-from-florin-area-home-found-safe-in-fresno.html#mi_rss=Sacto%209-1-1 Sacramento County missing person Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:14:11 -0800 A man sought for outstanding felony warrants fell through a ceiling and into the hands of waiting deputies this morning after he tried to elude a sheriff's dog. Sacramento County sheriff's deputies went to a residence int he 3600 block of A Street in North Highlands about 8 a.m. in http://blogs.sacbee.com/crime/archives/2012/02/suspect-falls-through-ceiling-to-audience-of-waiting-deputies.html#mi_rss=Sacto%209-1-1 http://blogs.sacbee.com/crime/archives/2012/02/suspect-falls-through-ceiling-to-audience-of-waiting-deputies.html#mi_rss=Sacto%209-1-1 Sacramento County Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:43:47 -0800 An Elk Grove man has entered a no-contest plea in a case involving the illegal collection of upfront fees for loan modification services. Rodney Andrews, 57, pleaded no contest to two felony violations of embezzlement, two felony violations of theft by false pretenses, one felony violation of diversion of construction http://blogs.sacbee.com/crime/archives/2012/02/elk-grove-man-pleads-no-contest-to-illegal-conduct-in-loan-modification-con.html#mi_rss=Sacto%209-1-1 http://blogs.sacbee.com/crime/archives/2012/02/elk-grove-man-pleads-no-contest-to-illegal-conduct-in-loan-modification-con.html#mi_rss=Sacto%209-1-1 Courts Elk Grove News Sacramento Sacramento County Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:46:59 -0800 A Sacramento Superior Court jury failed to reach a verdict today on three defendants accused of murder in the shooting death of a man who prosecutors say was targeted over a $16,000 win he had scored at a local Indian casino. Judge Roland L. Candee then declared a mistrial in http://blogs.sacbee.com/crime/archives/2012/02/jury-hangs-in-sacramento-murder-trial.html#mi_rss=Sacto%209-1-1 http://blogs.sacbee.com/crime/archives/2012/02/jury-hangs-in-sacramento-murder-trial.html#mi_rss=Sacto%209-1-1 *Location Homicide Sacramento County Andy Furillo Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:30:30 -0800 An Antelope man was indicted today by a federal grand jury in Sacramento on charges of wire fraud and money laundering. Leonid Yakovlev, 41, through his corporation 24 Hour Corp., fraudulently charged more than 20,000 American Express cards in small amounts 40,000 separate times, according to the 11-count indictment. As http://blogs.sacbee.com/crime/archives/2012/02/antelope-man-accused-of-fraudulently-charging-american-express-cards.html#mi_rss=Sacto%209-1-1 http://blogs.sacbee.com/crime/archives/2012/02/antelope-man-accused-of-fraudulently-charging-american-express-cards.html#mi_rss=Sacto%209-1-1 Courts Sacramento Sacramento County Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:21:04 -0800 Sacramento police have located the truck used as a getaway vehicle in today's early morning shooting in North Sacramento. A 20-year-old was shot and killed around 2 a.m. after an argument broke out between two groups on Del Paso Boulevard, Sacramento police reported. The suspect, described as an African American http://blogs.sacbee.com/crime/archives/2012/02/argument-led-to-fatal-north-sac-shooting-suspect-sought.html#mi_rss=Sacto%209-1-1 http://blogs.sacbee.com/crime/archives/2012/02/argument-led-to-fatal-north-sac-shooting-suspect-sought.html#mi_rss=Sacto%209-1-1 Homicide Sacramento Sacramento County Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:50:00 -0800 Truckee police have arrested two men found in possession of a half-pound of cocaine and $10,000 in cash. The arrests Tuesday were the product of a four-month investigation, according to a press release from the department. The arrests came after police and Drug Enforcement agents executed warrants in downtown Truckee, http://blogs.sacbee.com/crime/archives/2012/02/truckee-police-arrest-two-for-cocaine-sales.html#mi_rss=Sacto%209-1-1 http://blogs.sacbee.com/crime/archives/2012/02/truckee-police-arrest-two-for-cocaine-sales.html#mi_rss=Sacto%209-1-1 Drugs Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:16:27 -0800 In what could be a watershed moment in the Davis "sweethearts" murder trial, a judge today denied a motion by defense lawyers to delay the case to mid-June. Jury selection is currently scheduled to begin on March 19 for defendant Richard Hirschfield, who is accused in the Dec. 20, 1980, http://blogs.sacbee.com/crime/archives/2012/02/judge-holds-to-march-19-trial-date-in-davis-sweethearts-case.html#mi_rss=Sacto%209-1-1 http://blogs.sacbee.com/crime/archives/2012/02/judge-holds-to-march-19-trial-date-in-davis-sweethearts-case.html#mi_rss=Sacto%209-1-1 *Location Davis Homicide Sacramento County Sex Crime Andy Furillo Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:09:23 -0800 California Highway Patrol officers have arrested three suspects parked in an area near Cisco Grove that had been the site of wire thefts and equipment vandalism. The suspects, all from North Highlands, were in possession of stolen copper wire and tools used for taking the wire. Officers Schuyler Bell and http://blogs.sacbee.com/crime/archives/2012/02/wire-theft-suspects-nabbed-by-chp-along-i-80.html#mi_rss=Sacto%209-1-1 http://blogs.sacbee.com/crime/archives/2012/02/wire-theft-suspects-nabbed-by-chp-along-i-80.html#mi_rss=Sacto%209-1-1 *Location Property Crime Sacramento Sacramento County Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:08:18 -0800 One victim has died in a shooting along Del Paso Boulevard at Fairfield Street in North Sacramento early this morning. As of 6 a.m., police were still out on the scene investigating, and portions of Del Paso Boulevard were closed off. No further details were available. http://blogs.sacbee.com/crime/archives/2012/02/one-killed-in-shooting-in-north-sacramento.html#mi_rss=Sacto%209-1-1 http://blogs.sacbee.com/crime/archives/2012/02/one-killed-in-shooting-in-north-sacramento.html#mi_rss=Sacto%209-1-1 Homicide Sacramento Sacramento County Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:51:51 -0800 Davis police have arrested two people in connection with robberies Tuesday night in south Davis in which victims reported being threatened with a knife. About 7:58 p.m., officers were dispatched to the area of the Sorrento Apartments at 1540 Valdora Drive regarding a robbery that had just occurred. The victim, http://blogs.sacbee.com/crime/archives/2012/02/two-arrested-in-tuesday-night-robberies-in-south-davis.html#mi_rss=Sacto%209-1-1 http://blogs.sacbee.com/crime/archives/2012/02/two-arrested-in-tuesday-night-robberies-in-south-davis.html#mi_rss=Sacto%209-1-1 Davis Violent Crime Yolo County Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:29:46 -0800