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Help! My wife and kids are being held hostage! I need all your money! SIKE

Robbery at NotePoint from SacMav Rapid Media on Vimeo. This guy thought he had a fool-proof plan; walk into a business and hand a clerk a note saying that if they didn’t give him all their money, kidnappers would hurt … Continue reading

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23 Occupy Sacramento protesters arrested during “1st Amendment Party”

Occupy Sacramento demonstrators defied park hour’s rules and continued what they called a “1st Amendment Party” until the early morning hours of Thursday before they were peacefully arrested by Sacramento police officers wearing riot gear. In all, some 23 protesters … Continue reading

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Sacramento Police Department to conduct DUI Checkpoint Friday night

The Sacramento Police Department will be conducting a DUI Checkpoint in South Sacramento on Friday night. From 8:00 p.m. Friday and until 2:00 a.m. early Saturday morning, uniformed officers will be checking for impaired drivers and valid driver’s licenses in … Continue reading

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Four windows shot out at Sacramento Police Building

An unknown shooter used a BB gun to shot out at least four windows on a building used by the Sacramento Police Department building this morning. No one was injured in the incident. According to reports, the shooting took place … Continue reading

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Occupy Sacramento at City Hall again tonight

Activists from the Occupy Sacramento group will be at tonight’s weekly council meeting at Sacramento’s City Hall to ask for an exemption to the “no-camping” ordinance that has landed dozens of their members in jail over the past few weeks. At … Continue reading

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Dad leaves 5-month-old alone in a hot car to go on a date

The father of a 5-month-old baby girl was arrested on Friday after Sacramento Police officers say that he left his daughter in a locked and unattended car for over thirty minutes. According to news reports, the man left his daughter … Continue reading

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Man arrested for shooting himself

Talk about adding insult to injury (or is it incarceration to injury?) A Sacramento man was arrested early Sunday morning after entering a hospital to receive treatment for a gunshot wound. 34-year-old Johnny Ray originally told police officers that he … Continue reading

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SacPD car crashes into Oak Park home

A Sacramento Police Department patrol car that was attempting to stop a reckless driver crashed into the side of an Oak Park home early this morning. No injuries were reported. Around 3:00 a.m. Saturday morning, a Sacramento Police officer witnessed … Continue reading

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DNA sample leads to arrest of suspect in Natomas sexual assault

The Sacramento Police Department arrested 31-year-old Keith Wright last night after evidence left at the scene of a Natomas sexual assault matched his DNA sample in the DOJ national database. In the early morning hours of August 21st, cops responded … Continue reading

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10-year-old Sacramento girl steals police bait car

A police bait car placed in a Sacramento neighborhood to lure would-be car thieves was stolen by a 10-year-old girl yesterday. Officers think the young lady did it after being dared by her friends. It all went down near Tamoshanter … Continue reading

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Copper thief caught in the act stripping wire he had just stolen

Another day, another copper theft story. On Friday morning the Sacramento Police Department responded to a call near the Sacramento Softball Complex on Longview Drive. A person in the park reported seeing a man stripping wire near the baseball scoreboard. … Continue reading

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Local law enforcement to participate in “Intensive DUI Crackdown”

The Sacramento Police Department is joining with other law enforcement agencies all across the nation in an intensive DUI crackdown now through Labor Day. The name of the operation says it all: “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over.” Now through … Continue reading

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Disastrous duo get DUI’s after dumb decisions

A pair of Sacramento residents racked up additional charges to each of their lengthy rap sheets after they both got DUI’s in outrageous fashion. In the first case a witness called the police around 6 a.m. (!) Wednesday morning to report … Continue reading

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Man who had his neck sliced open on Alhambra dies from wounds

The man who was attacked by his “friend” on a busy Sacramento street last week has died from the knife wounds he sustained to his throat. Police have charged 41-year-old Kenneth Vega in connection with the brutal attack which occurred … Continue reading

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Police on foot, bicycle, and horse chase man in SUV

Sacramento Police will do whatever they need to do to get their man. Take for example yesterday’s case involving the driver of an SUV who was blaring his music on J and 13th Streets around noontime. An officer on his … Continue reading

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