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Feds charge Colombo crime family in massive extortion plot

Mobsters shook down a Queens labor union for two decades, prosecutors say — A sweeping indictment was unsealed Tuesday in a federal court in Brooklyn, charging 14 defendants, including members and associates of the Colombo crime family, with labor racketeering, extortion, and money laundering in an alleged 20-year plot to take over a Queens labor union and its employee health insurance program. Those…

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May 12

ATF joins search for third suspect in Sacramento shooting

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms on Wednesday announced a $10,000 reward for accused K Street shooter Mtula Payton, who is currently at large following the chaotic shooting that killed 6 and littered the street with hundreds of bullets in early April. “Mtula Tashamby Payton is…

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ATF joins search for third suspect in Sacramento shooting

May 4

Former track star arrested following chaotic ghost gun raid in California

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A former Rio Americano High School running back who played football for American River College, before making the switch to track and field at Cal Poly Humboldt as a senior in 2016, was arrested Tuesday following a chaotic SWAT raid on his home. According to Kianti Gix’s…

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Former track star arrested following chaotic ghost gun raid in California

Apr 6

‘I Can’t Breathe’: Disgraced Sac PD officer kneeled on man’s neck for 5 minutes in 2019 — The Sacramento Update

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A Sacramento Police officer facing criminal charges for falsifying a police report was fired last year after the department’s internal affairs division found five incidents where she engaged in similar dishonest conduct, according to SB-1421 records recently released by the city of Sacramento. Alexa Palubicki was charged…

Sacramento

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‘I Can’t Breathe’: Disgraced Sac PD officer kneeled on man’s neck for 5 minutes in 2019 — The…

Jan 18

North Highlands man sentenced to 2 years in death of special needs brother — The Sacramento Update

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A man charged with involuntary manslaughter in the violent death of his little brother, who had Down syndrome, will spend the next two years in state prison. Akram Husain, 31, was sentenced late last month after pleading no contest to his sole involuntary manslaughter charge. Under the…

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North Highlands man sentenced to 2 years in death of special needs brother — The Sacramento Update

Oct 29, 2021

Iwamoto pleads guilty in CDPH fraud scandal — The Sacramento Update

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (The Sacramento Update) — Christine M. Iwamoto, a former employee with the Office of AIDS in Sacramento, pleaded guilty on Thursday to one count of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering. As The Update previously reported, the former analyst was accused to orchestrating a fraud scheme…

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Iwamoto pleads guilty in CDPH fraud scandal — The Sacramento Update

Oct 28, 2021

Sacramento man allegedly sold magic mushroom spores, fake pills through the darknet — The Sacramento Update

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (The Sacramento Update) — A man living in Sacramento allegedly dabbled in the seedy underworld of selling drugs through the darknet, a federal grand jury said in documents filed last week. Jonathan Patrick Turrentine has been indicted on 13 charges, which range from distributing MDMA to money laundering…

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Sacramento man allegedly sold magic mushroom spores, fake pills through the darknet — The…

Oct 21, 2021

Immigration judge to rule on Ameen deportation next month — The Sacramento Update

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (The Sacramento Update) — A US immigration judge is scheduled to rule on the possible deportation of Omar Ameen, a Sacramento refugee cleared in the 2014 murder of an Iraqi police officer earlier this year, next month. Ameen was accused of traveling with an ISIS convoy to the…

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Oct 20, 2021

Feds: Drug dealer busted on the way to crystal meth deal in North Highlands — The Sacramento Update

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (The Sacramento Update) — A California woman could face federal drug charges for allegedly trying to sell baggies of crystal meth in North Highlands last week. Federal officials are seeking to charge Virginia Garcia Lopez with possession with intent to distribute a mixture containing at least 50 grams…

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Feds: Drug dealer busted on the way to crystal meth deal in North Highlands — The Sacramento Update

Oct 20, 2021

Child porn case involving infant rape moved to Sacramento — The Sacramento Update

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (The Sacramento Update) — A federal child pornography case was moved on Tuesday to the Robert T. Matsui courthouse in Sacramento after a judge in Tennessee determined that the defendant, Andrew Calhoun, should be tried where he lives. Calhoun, 45, was charged in February with one count of…

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Child porn case involving infant rape moved to Sacramento — The Sacramento Update