California
Woodland kidnapping suspected indicted on child porn charges
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A federal grand jury returned a four-count indictment Thursday, charging 24-year-old Kyle Michael Hall of Woodland, with four counts of receipt and distribution of child pornography, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
According to the indictment, between May 10, 2012, and October 30, 2012, Hall distributed and/or received child pornography through the Internet. Hall was originally arrested by Woodland Police after attempting to kidnap a woman in Woodland. Charges are currently pending in Yolo County in that case.
After Hall’s initial arrest late last year for trying to kidnap a woman in the parking lot of the Westgate Shopping Center on West Main Street in Woodland, officers discovered images of children involved in sexual activity.
This case is the product of an investigation by the Woodland Police Department and the Yolo County District Attorney’s Office. Assistant United States Attorney Kyle Reardon is prosecuting the case.
If convicted, Hall faces a sentence of five to 20 years in prison, a $250,000 fine, and a lifetime of supervised release.
This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. Led by the United States Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to locate, apprehend, and prosecute those who sexually exploit children, and to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.usdoj.gov/psc. Click on the “resources” tab for information about Internet safety education.
Double homicide in Citrus Heights
Gladys Quinteros (R)
Photo: Facebook – Francisco Quinteros
Tuesday night at approximately 11:30 police were called to the 6000 block of Birdcage Street. Officers arrived to find a man and a woman inside a vehicle with multiple gunshot wounds. Both were pronounced dead at the scene.
The vehicle was parked between an apartment complex and shopping center.
The couple has been identified as Enrique Tobias and his girlfriend Gladys Quinteros.
According to witnesses a light-colored sedan was seen speeding away from the area. They also spotted a newer, white pickup truck leaving the vicinity during the same time.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Sacramento Crime Alert at (916) 443-HELP.
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Sacramento man calls 911 over 100 times
Jimmy Shao
Photo: Sacramento Police
According to the Sacramento Police Department, 56-year-old Jimmy Shao called 911 over 100 times in the past month with 60 of those calls making it to police dispatchers.
Read: Roseville honors dispatchers
Apparently that’s a no-no, as officers arrested Shao Monday night, in the vicinity of U Street, after receiving a 911 disturbance call. He was charged with falsely reporting emergencies and placing harassing calls to 911.
According to what appears to be Jimmy Shao’s website, this all may have started a number of years ago. Shao states in a blog post dated May 1 that he contacted the FBI back in 2007 “as a concerned citizen.” Shao suspected a college alumnus of being a high level Chinese spy who was traveling between the United States and China.
That was when it all fell apart for Shao, as he rambles on about the FBI watching his every move. In one blog post he writes, “My blackberry cellphone was burned through satellite after I complained numerous times to FBI agent that it would constantly flash.”
In his most disturbing revelation he wrote, “I suddenly felt strange movement within my body, and felt my brain, my chest, my neck, my heart and my nerve system being scanned by the satellite when I woke up at midnight in early October 2009. I suspected our government secretly using satellite technology to test on my body, and soon proved of my suspicion that my body and brain were totally controlled by the satellite on the evening of October 18, 2009.”
It appears from one of his posts that he’s been sending letters to numerous officials about his circumstances including, Congresswoman Doris O. Matsui, Congressman Tom McClintock, Senator Mitch McConnell and Senator Dianne Feinstein.
911 Reminder:
911 is meant for emergencies only, and no, getting Fluffy out of the tree is not an emergency worthy of 911.
Teaching your kids how to dial 911? Don’t show them by actually dialing 911 on the phone.
Keep your local law enforcement’s non-emergency phone numbers on-hand for those times when you do need assistance with Fluffy.
Roseville’s ‘Movies in The Park’ returns for 2013
Roseville’s ‘Movie In The Park’ returns this year with a great family line-up of movies that will be displayed at a park near you.
Enjoy an evening in the park with your friends and neighbors. Movies will begin at sundown on a 30ft. screen (weather permitting – check www.rcona.org). Come for dinner at 7:30pm with lawn chairs, blankets and pocket change for hot dogs, teriyaki, popcorn, snow cones and beverages. Tie Dyed booths will be joining us before the show. You may bring your own shirt to dye for $3. Closed captioning available on request.
No dogs are allowed at the parks.
Below is the schedule for 2013:
June 8 Cresthaven Park
401 Community Drive
“Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory”
June 22 Maidu Regional Park
1550 Maidu Drive
“Puss-N-Boots”
July 13 Santucci Park
1831 Morningstar Drive
“Second Hand Lions”
July 27 Royer Park
190 Park Drive
“Brave”
August 10 Lockridge Park
2601 Eureka Road
“Megamind”
August 24 Buljan Park
150 Hallissy Drive
“Happy Feet”
10-year-old killed may have been targeted
According to the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department, the shooters who killed 10-year-old Elvira Campos while she was sitting in her living room, may have been targeting the young girl.
Investigators believe the two gunmen were able to see through a window looking into the living room before opening fire through the window and a door, killing Campos.
“She was viewable through the window, and based on the proximity of the shooter, no doubt they knew they were shooting a child,” Sacramento County Sheriff’s Detective Jeff Wallace told CBS13.
Read: 10-year-old shot killed in North Highlands
Sheriff’s spokesman Sgt. Jason Ramos told the Sacramento Bee the killers who targeted the house could see who was watching TV in the family’s living room because there was plenty of ambient light.
According to the Sacramento Bee, the window that was fired through was barely a foot from the back of the girls head.
“The shooters standing outside the front door absolutely knew they were shooting into a room with a child sitting on a chair on the other side of the window where this guy pumped four rounds into her,” Ramos said. “This was especially callous. There was no regard for the child’s life.”
Homicide investigators are looking into the possible connection with the shooting of 10-year-old Eric Raya-Ramirez while he was attending a birthday party on April 20. Ramirez was shot five times. Ramirez survived the shooting.
The two homes involved in the shootings are about a mile apart.
“We have nothing definitive to establish a connection, but that may be why Elvira’s family could have been targeted, the mentality being, ‘You got our family, we’re going to get yours,’ ” Ramos said.
According to Ramos, Elvira or her parent’s 47-year-old Ernesto Campos and 45-year-old Imelda Tinoco were not involved in any activities that would have made them a target.
Anyone having information regarding this incident is asked to contact the Sheriff’s Homicide Bureau at (916) 874-5115. Tip information may also be left anonymously at www.sacsheriff.com, by texting to 274637 (CRIMES) and entering the keyword SSD, or by calling (916) 874-TIPS (8477).
Couple identified in Auburn plane crash
The couple flying a single engine Cessna that went down near the Auburn Airport early Sunday morning have been identified.
The Placer County Sheriff’s Department said Susanville residents, 59-year-old Bruce Aldridge Rhymes and his wife 58-year-old Kathy Lorraine Rhymes died when their Cessna went down in a heavily wooded area near the Auburn Airport. The crash occurred just after midnight on Sunday morning and officials are still trying to determine what caused the fatal crash.
According to the Federal Aviation Administration, it is not known if the plane was taking off or landing at the airport.
Commercial airliners in the vicinity reported receiving a distress signal from the aircraft’s emergency locating transmitter at the time of the crash.
The California Highway Patrol and Placer County Sheriff’s Deputies working with air support were able to successfully locate the crash site.
The NTSB and FAA are investigating the crash.
10-year-old shot killed in North Highlands
SACRAMENTO, CA – A 10-year-old girl was shot to death and her parents hospitalized after gunmen went to the front door of the girls home and fired shots into the home, this according to the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department.
The shooting occurred in the 6300 block of Channing Drive in Citrus Heights. The parents were in the house with their daughter and her 14-year-old brother when, at approximately 10:30 p.m., the gunmen came to the door and opened fire, killing 10-year-old Elvira Campos and injuring both parents, after firing at least a dozen rounds into the home.
Elvira’s parents, who are both in their 40s were transported to a local hospital with minor injuries.
Elvira was watching television in the living room of the home when the attack occurred. The bullets penetrated the outside of the home with visible bullet holes in the front window and door, ultimately hitting her as she was sitting in a love seat facing the television.
According to investigators Elvira has two older brothers, a 14-year-old who was home at the time of the shooting, and a 20-year-old who was not home at the time.
It’ unclear how many shooters were involved. Sacramento homicide detectives and CSI were combing the scene for any evidence.
Sheriff spokesman Jason Ramos stressed this was not a drive-by shooting, but the home was targeted by the gunmen as they walked up to the house and shot inside.
Ramos added that the family has not been forthcoming with information and believe there is more to the story then the family is telling.
Detectives believe the shooting may be gang related and it appears one of the family members has ties to a gang.
In a separate, but possibly related shooting, a gang member was shot multiple times at a nearby location. The 32-year-old victim in that shooting is expected to survive. Official believe the two shootings may be related.
Anyone having information regarding this incident is asked to contact the Sheriff’s Homicide Bureau at (916) 874-5115. Tip information may also be left anonymously at www.sacsheriff.com, by texting to 274637 (CRIMES) and entering the keyword SSD, or by calling (916) 874-TIPS (8477).
Brazen kidnapper of 7-year-old had past record
Cedric Holland – 2006 mugshot
Photo: Megan’s Law Database
SACRAMENTO, CA – On Thursday the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department arrested 27-year-old Cedric Holland for last Saturdays attempted kidnapping of a 7-year-old girl. It turns out Holland was arrested in 2006 for Lewd and Lascivious Acts on a Child.
The 7-year-old girl was lucky enough to get away from Holland, as he threw the little girl into his trunk and took off down the street. The girl was able to jump to safety from the open trunk before Holland made it out of the area.
According to the Megan’s Law database, Holland was arrested back in 2006 and in 2012 was assigned a risk assessment score of 4 (moderate-high risk). The risk rating system was implemented in 2012 to provide Parole Officers, and others, insight into the possibility of an individual’s proclivity to re-offend. According to the California Department of Justice website, they peg the accuracy of the risk ratings between 70-75 percent.
CBS13 spoke to the mother of the first victim from Holland’s 2006 conviction. “Prosecutors at the time told me since he was an adult then he would be looking at 25 years,” she told the station. That never materialized, as Holland pleaded no-contest to the charges and served six years. He was sentenced as a juvenile and not an adult since his crimes were as a juvenile.
The mother concluded, “If he had been serving 25, he wouldn’t have had access to this little girl.”
A sketch artist, with the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department, working with the girl and witnesses, was able to come up with an eerie likeness of Holland.
Man arrested in failed kidnapping of 7-year-old
The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department announced Friday the arrest of 25-year-old Cedric Holland in the brazen kidnapping attempt of a 7-year-old girl on Saturday.
The Major Crimes Bureau arrested Holland at his residence yesterday afternoon. The vehicle believed to have been used during the attempted kidnapping was located at his residence and has been impounded for evidentiary purposes.
Original sketch of Suspect
Sketch: Sacramento Sheriff
Read: 7-year-old girl escaped kidnapper
Last Saturday the 7-year-old girl was walking with family members near 54th Street and 47th Avenue, when the suspect drove up and grabbed the victim, placing her in the trunk of his car. The girl was able to escape the vehicle when the trunk opened and was helped by a woman who witnessed her escape.
Evidence taken at the scene of the attempted kidnapping linked Holland to the incident. Detectives also discovered that Holland attempted to lure the girl out of a business just prior to snatching her off the street.
Because of the ongoing investigation Holland’s mug shot has not been released.
Holland is currently in custody on a charge of kidnapping and being held on $1,000,000 bail.
Deputy shoots robbery suspect at Carmichael CVS
Tuesday at approximately 5 p.m., Sacramento County Sheriff’s responded to a CVS Pharmacy on Marconi Avenue after receiving a report of a robbery in progress. The caller reported that an armed man was inside the store robbing the pharmacy. The suspect was described as a white male in his 30s, with dark hair and goatee.
Deputies arrived and quickly determined that the suspect was still inside and employees had locked themselves inside an office.
Entering, deputies proceeded toward the rear of the store, where they observed a man matching the description of the suspect holding a handgun as an employee stood a few feet away.
After ordering the suspect to drop his gun several times with no response, and the fact there was an employee in imminent danger, deputies shot the suspect, hitting him in the upper body. Deputies immediately took the suspect into custody and secured the building. Nobody else was injured.
CVS on Marconi Ave in Carmichael
Photo: Google Maps
Deputies later determined that the handgun in possession of the suspect was a replica and not a real gun. The suspect was taken to a nearby hospital and is expected to survive.
As with any officer involved shooting, there will be a thorough investigation into the incident by the Sheriff’s Homicide Bureau and Professional Standards Division.
The deputy involved in the shooting is a 25-year veteran of the department, assigned to the Field and Investigative Services division. The deputy has been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation, as is customary in this type of situation.
The suspects name has not been released.
