41 Elected District Attorneys Challenge Early Release of 76,000 State Prison Inmates. El Dorado County District Attorney Vern Pierson announced today that he and 40 elected District Attorneys across California, have filed a petition with the Secretary of the...
An El Dorado County judge sentenced an impaired driver who caused the deaths of two persons in a vehicle collision to life in state prison following a guilty plea to Penal Code section 187, murder in the second degree, Vehicle Code section 191.5 (a), gross vehicular...
PRESS RELEASE Known only as Jane Doe for four decades, Rebecca Dinkel is finally returned to her family In 1974, thirty-seven-year-old Nancy Webster was at a cafe with her nineteen-year-old daughter, Rebecca Dinkel, in the Garden Valley area of El Dorado County. The...
PRESS RELEASE Solved Using Genetic Genealogy Two Separate Decades-Old Murder Cases Solved Using Genetic Genealogy Twenty-seven year old Brynn Rainey was killed in 1977. Her body was found in a shallow grave by passing horseback riders near Stateline Stables in South...
March 29, 2021—A coalition of California district attorneys, police, business leaders andcrime victims will hold a news conference on Tuesday, March 30 at 11:00 a.m. PST toexpress their strong opposition to SB 82, a bill that would downgrade some felonyrobberies to...
As homelessness increases in El Dorado County, we are going to have to be creative about a solution. “As a society, we need to have a credible conversation about how we can draw a balance between over-institutionalization of people and throwing homeless folks in jail...
