NET-5 Reports Impressive 2023 Numbers
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NET-5 Reports Impressive 2023 Numbers

(Yuba-Sutter, CA) – NET-5, Yuba-Sutter’s local Narcotics & Gang Enforcement Task force has released their 2023 report, showing some impressive numbers, including 145 arrests, 75 for drug-related offenses.In total last year, 116 lbs. of meth was seized by NET-5 in Yuba-Sutter, along with “846 pounds of marijuana, 8,818 marijuana plants, 64 grams of heroin, 394…

Weekend Rain Brings Lake Oroville Near Capacity
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Weekend Rain Brings Lake Oroville Near Capacity

(Lake Oroville, CA) – Weekend precipitation has Lake Oroville very near the top, 899 feet – within a foot – and now 99% capacity with officials noting that there’s the potential for “some waves” to splash over the crest of the emergency spillway “if there are any windy days.” DWR also notes that visitors to…

Placer County Deputy Wounded After Shootout In Colfax
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Placer County Deputy Wounded After Shootout In Colfax

(Placer County, CA) — A Placer County Sheriff’s deputy is critically wounded following a shootout Thursday night in Colfax. The incident happened in a McDonald’s parking lot after deputies spotted a van connected to a burglary that occurred in the area on Wednesday.The man inside the van shot at the deputies, hitting one of them.Authorities…

High School Student Fatally Shot in Sacramento
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High School Student Fatally Shot in Sacramento

(Sacramento, CA) — An 18-year-old high school student was fatally shot early Sunday in Sacramento, according to police. Jeremiah Walker, who had recently attended prom and was due to graduate from Grant Union High School, was found with life-threatening injuries on Buchman Street near Tourbrook Way.The Twin Rivers Unified School District expressed condolences.The circumstances leading…

Murder in Marysville Yesterday, Suspect Arrested
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Murder in Marysville Yesterday, Suspect Arrested

(Yuba-Sutter, CA) – The Yuba County Sheriff’s office reports a murder in Marysville yesterday and the arrest of a suspect, less than an hour later.Deputies responded at 3:15 yesterday afternoon to a call of shots fired at Remington Way and Silvergate Court. The victim had at least one gunshot wound and lifesaving efforts were unsuccessful….

Marysville and Olivehurst Women Arrested for Alleged Mail Theft
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Marysville and Olivehurst Women Arrested for Alleged Mail Theft

(NorCal, CA) — The Lincoln Police Department reports the arrests of 38-year-old Violet Johnson of Marysville and 45-year-old Christy Olson & 38-year-old Mai Thao, both of Olivehurst, for mail theft. A police department spokesperson tells Fox 40 that they have located 53 mail theft victims and “115 additional identified property owners of the mail that…

Loma Rica Man Arrested for Alleged Poaching, Streambed Diversion & Illegal Firearms
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Loma Rica Man Arrested for Alleged Poaching, Streambed Diversion & Illegal Firearms

(Yuba-Sutter, CA) – A Loma Rica man has been arrested for alleged poaching, streambed diversion and being a felon in possession of firearms & ammunition, as well as psilocybin mushrooms & meth pipe possession.A search of James Ledbetter’s Loma Rica property on Los Verjeles Road turned up the rotting carcass of a buck Ledbetter allegedly…

Fairfield Man Pleads Guilty to Yuba City Auto Dealership Theft
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Fairfield Man Pleads Guilty to Yuba City Auto Dealership Theft

(Yuba-Sutter, CA) – In Federal Court in Sacramento, 48-year-old Steve Miller of Fairfield pled guilty yesterday to one count of bank fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft for using another person’s social security number to complete a credit application and steal a 2018 Dodge Challenger, from a Yuba City auto dealership. The vehicle…

Seven People Arrested In Olivehurst, Northern California Mail Thefts
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Seven People Arrested In Olivehurst, Northern California Mail Thefts

(Sacramento, CA) — Seven people have been arrested in Northern California for possessing mail stolen from various community mailboxes throughout Sacramento. The Lincoln Police Department has located 53 victims and 115 additional property owners of the stolen mail.According to the department, mail had been stolen from various cluster mailboxes in the Sacramento, Olivehurst, and Lincoln…

California Sues Rocklin Unified Over Gender Notification Policy
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California Sues Rocklin Unified Over Gender Notification Policy

(Rocklin, CA) — The state is suing a Northern California school district over what it calls a controversial gender notification policy adopted last year. The Rocklin Unified School District approved a policy in September that requires schools to notify parents if their kids request to be identified as anything other than their biological sex, if…