(FOX40.COM) — Two people have been arrested after a police investigation revealed them to be responsible for stealing about $20,000 in property from a church in Auburn. According to the Auburn Police Department, a burglary took place at a local church on July 26. Suspects were identified after the incident took place, police added. •Video […]
A 23-year-old Rocklin man died Tuesday evening when his motorcycle rear-ended a pickup in a suspected drunk driving crash on Highway 65 in Placer County, authorities said. The crash was reported about 6:50 p.m. in the southbound lanes of Highway 65, just south of Twelve Bridges Drive near Lincoln, the California Highway Patrol reported. The […]
The man accused of killing his ex-fiancee at a well-known Roseville restaurant is facing new charges after he allegedly assaulted a correctional officer last week while in custody, the Placer County District Attorney’s Office said. Johnnie Jordan IV, 51, was arraigned in Placer Superior Court for a felony charge of battery on a custodial officer, […]
The Placer County Sheriff’s Office is looking for help to identify a thief accused of stealing two diesel engine generators worth about $30,000 from a popular Newscastle brewery. It happened between Dec. 29 and Dec. 31, when a person allegedly stole a pair of Kubota GL14000 Lowboy Pro diesel engine generators worth $15,000 apiece from […]
(FOX40.COM) — As snow falls in the Sierra Nevada, California Highway Patrol is now requiring all vehicles, except 4-wheel-drive vehicles with snow tires on all 4 wheels, to have chains on their tires. The agency said the controls will be in effect on the I-80 from Cisco Grove (Placer County) to Truckee (Nevada County). CHP […]
The Placer County Sheriff’s Office announced Friday deputies arrested a suspect in their homicide investigation after a man was found dead outside an Ace Hardware Distribution Center. Deputies initially went Wednesday to Industrial Avenue and Cyber Court to investigate a “suspicious death” and found a dead man. It was later determined he was shot, said […]
(FOX40.COM) — A sentence was delivered on Tuesday for the 2021 case of a Rancho Cordova man who used the online dating application known as Tinder to meet one victim who he tortured and another he murdered in Placer County. Placer County District Attorney reported that 31-year-old Damon Allen Benson was sentenced to 71 years […]
A Placer Superior Court judge on Tuesday handed down the maximum prison sentence for a Sacramento County man who tortured a woman in a jealous rage and then shot to death her lover in a violent Tinder dating “love triangle,” prosecutors said. Judge David Penney sentenced 31-year-old Damon Allen Benson of Rancho Cordova to 71 […]
The California Highway Patrol was investigating a fatal single-vehicle crash Sunday morning after a car crashed into a cinder-block wall. The crash was reported about 1:18 a.m. on eastbound Douglas Boulevard, heading toward Seeno Avenue in Auburn. A Placer County sheriff’s sergeant witnessed the 2014 Honda Accord traveling about 130 mph in a 55-mph zone, […]