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24-year-old woman charged with killing Vacaville police officer
The 24-year-old woman who is suspected of striking and killing Vacaville Police Officer Matthew Bowen last week in a roadside collision made her first Solano County Superior Court appearance on Monday....
View ArticleJury finds Bay Area man guilty of rape, kidnapping, attempted torture
A Solano County Superior Court jury earlier this month found a 30-year-old Vacaville man guilty of 13 felonies, among them forcible rape, kidnapping and torture. Michael Milad Behnamnia heard the...
View ArticleBay Area man pleads to assaulting FBI agents with a firearm and vehicle
A 37-year-old Vallejo man has pleaded guilty to assaulting federal officers with a deadly weapon and a vehicle, a U.S. Attorney reported. Sean Thomas Delapp entered the plea Thursday in a federal...
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Last child abuse charge against Bay Area attorney dismissed, but federal...
Former Vacaville attorney James Glenn Haskell, acquitted on June 13 of all but one allegation in a child sex assault and abuse trial, had the final count dismissed earlier this week in Solano County...
View ArticleNew trial date for East Bay woman accused of 2021 Fairfield killing
A Solano County Superior Court judge on Wednesday set a January jury trial for a 27-year-old San Pablo woman charged with a 2021 Fairfield murder. During the morning session, Judge Wendy Getty ordered...
View ArticleJurors find Bay Area man guilty of killing missing girlfriend
A Solano County Superior Court jury on Thursday found a 45-year-old Fairfield man guilty of the first-degree murder of his girlfriend last year in Fairfield. The panel of nine women and three men...
View ArticleBay Area man facing kidnapping and child cruelty charges sent to competency...
A 26-year-old man accused of felony kidnapping and other related charges after a March 28 domestic violence incident in a Fairfield park has been admitted to a state mental competency treatment...
View ArticleCalifornia Department of Education plans to develop housing on school...
The state Department of Education is poised to get into the housing business, to pitch in to ease the chronic shortage of housing, which has become California’s top economic, social and political...
View ArticleFormer Bay Area correctional officer pleads to accepting bribes
A 44-year-old former California Medical Facility correctional officer pleaded guilty earlier this year to bribery concerning programs receiving federal funds and will be sentenced in September. Stephen...
View ArticleCause of the 2020 Markley Fire? Arson, says a CAL FIRE battalion chief
The official cause of the Markely Fire, allegedly set by Victor Serriteno of Vacaville, to conceal the death of a Vallejo woman? “Arson,” said CAL FIRE Battalion Chief Joseph Baldwin, looking directly...
View ArticleBay Area lawmakers announce resolution to designate ‘Willie Mays Highway’
Say Hey Kid, will there be a Willie Mays Highway? Yes, for a designated portion of Interstate 80 on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, if and when a state Senate resolution takes effect. State Sens....
View ArticleFormer Bay Area man pleads to bilking former employer out of $3.2 million
A former Benicia man on Tuesday pleaded guilty to embezzling $3.2 million from his former employer, a U.S. Department of Justice official said. Euan David MacGregor, formerly known as David Joseph...
View ArticleCharged with stabbings on a Bay Area-bound Amtrak train, man faces competency...
A 23-year-old Sacramento man arrested Sunday in Fairfield on suspicion of stabbing two people aboard an Amtrak train faced arraignment Tuesday in Solano County Superior Court; however, a judge...
View Article‘Doctor’s report’ still pending for Bay Area woman accused of killing cop...
A Solano County Superior Court judge on Tuesday again rescheduled a mental competency report for the woman accused of the July DUI-related killing of Vacaville Police Officer Matthew Bowen. Seated at...
View ArticleBay Area man gets 170 years to life for sexually abusing two children
A Solano County man likely will die in state prison after a judge on Thursday sentenced him to 170 years to life for sexually abusing two children. Javier Mendez-Alvaro, 35, heard Judge Wendy Getty...
View ArticlePregnant Bay Area mother struck by vehicle and severely injured; unborn child...
A pregnant woman pushing a stroller was struck and severely injured by a vehicle Wednesday evening while crossing a Fairfield roadway, the vehicle narrowly missing the toddler inside the stroller, but...
View ArticleJury finds Bay Area man guilty of beating his girlfriend to death in 2016
A Solano County Superior Court jury on Wednesday convicted a 35-year-old Vallejo man guilty of killing his girlfriend in 2016. Troy Lamar Austin heard the 12-member panel’s decision in Department 23 in...
View ArticleCHP arrests East Bay man in connection with I-780 shooting
California High Patrol detectives on Saturday arrested a Richmond man believed to be the suspect in a freeway shooting that left one person injured early Saturday morning in Vallejo. Officers assigned...
View ArticleEast Bay man accused of I-780 shooting pleads not guilty to attempted murder
A 39-year-old Richmond man alleged to have shot and injured another person last week on a Vallejo freeway pleaded not guilty on Tuesday in Solano County Superior Court. The attorney for Mohammad Ahmed...
View ArticleTrio indicted for robbing 10 Bay Area banks
A federal grand jury last month indicted three Northern California residents, charging them with conspiracy to commit bank robbery and bank robbery in the East Bay, including Solano County, and...
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