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Ex- El Camino hoops coach pleads in child porn case

Submitted by News10 Web Staff
Monday, October 31st, 2011, 4:52pm

SACRAMENTO, CA - A former high school basketball coach entered a no contest plea to using youths for making videos and photos of a sexual nature.

Melvin Flemings, who coached freshman hoops at El Camino High School in Sacramento until his dismissal earlier this year, was charged with six counts involving six different victims he knew through various coaching activities, according to the Sacramento County District Attorney's Office.

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Under a plea agreement, Flemings will be sentenced to four years, four months in prison and must register as a sex offender, said D.A. spokeswomann Shelly Orio.

Flemings will be sentenced Nov. 29 in Sacramento County Superior Court.

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Sacramento copper thieves caught in the act

Submitted by Paul Janes, News 10 Web Producer
Friday, October 21st, 2011, 9:11am

SACRAMENTO - Sheriff's deputies responded to a call of a copper theft at a strip mall in the 5400 block of Watt Avenue Friday morning.

Sheriff's spokesman Jason Ramos said the caller informed deputies that he saw a man on top of a strip mall throwing items down to a woman with a truck.

Ramos said two men fled when deputies arrived at  the scene. The woman was detained and copper was recovered from the truck where she was waiting.

About 15-20 deputies searched the area for the two men who ran from the scene, said Ramos. As of 9:00 a.m. Friday, they were still at large. 

 

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Sacramento copper thieves caught in the act

Submitted by Paul Janes, News 10 Web Producer
Friday, October 21st, 2011, 9:11am

SACRAMENTO - Sheriff's deputies responded to a call of a copper theft at a strip mall in the 5400 block of Watt Avenue Friday morning.

Sheriff's spokesman Jason Ramos said the caller informed deputies that he saw a man on top of a strip mall throwing items down to a woman with a truck.

Ramos said two men fled when deputies arrived at  the scene. The woman was detained and copper was recovered from the truck where she was waiting.

About 15-20 deputies searched the area for the two men who ran from the scene, said Ramos. As of 9:00 a.m. Friday, they were still at large. 

 

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Sac law enforcement to hire 50 officers with federal money

Submitted by News10 Web Staff
Thursday, September 29th, 2011, 12:04am

SACRAMENTO, CA - Law enforcement agencies around the nation competed for federal funding for community oriented policing, but it's the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department that has won the largest slice of the pie. 

At a news conference in Sacramento Wednesday afternoon, Sheriff Scott Jones said his department would use its $11.3 million grant to combat youth and gang violence.

"We will not waste this opportunity," Jones said.

Jones also said the department would use the money to fill 25 positions and give first priority to deputies who had been laid off.

The grant is coming from COPS, or the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services hiring program, which is part of the U.S. Department of Justice. 

The Sacramento Police Department will receive $8.1 million and use the money to hire 25 officers. Chief Rick Braziel also said his department's priority would be fighting youth and gang-related crime.

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Attempted robbery of pot garden leads to murder

Submitted by Dave Marquis on Friday, September 23rd, 3:00 am

NORTH SACRAMENTO, CA - An attempt to steal marijuana plants from a
backyard garden early Thursday morning ended with the murder of the
intruder, according to Sacramento police.

Vue Cheng, 29, was shot once and had trauma to his upper body
consistent with blunt force, according to police, who received a call to
the 600 block of Morey Avenue at 3:11 a.m.

Cheng was declared dead at the scene.

Detectives believe two residents at the home were awakened by noise
in the backyard. The residents went outside and confronted Cheng. The
cause and circumstances of his death are under investigation in what
police are calling a murder investigation.

A family friend who did not want to be identified said the grandson
of the home's owners was the one who confronted Cheng and that he'd
been taken in by Sacramento police for questioning.

Neighbor Rigo Vivanco said there are plenty of similar pot gardens in the area.

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Car passenger shot driving through Sacramento neighborhood

Submitted by Paul Janes, News 10 Web Producer
Thursday, September 15th, 2011, 8:45am

SACRAMENTO - A person was shot while in a car driving through a Sacramento neighborhood in the 40 block of Ford Road around 3 a.m. Thursday.

The shooting victim was in the car with three other individuals.  One of the people in the car said they were driving along the street when they heard gunshots. Soon thereafter, the group realized the person had been hit.

The driver of the car transported the victim  to one of the involved individual's homes about a block away and contacted authorities, said police.

Police said the gunshot victim was taken to hospital in serious condition.

Police did not release the identities of persons involved or an suspected motive for the shooting.

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North Highlands standoff ends with no arrest; Elem. school lockdown lifted

Submitted by News10 Web Staff
Friday, August 19th, 2011, 10:59pm

NORTH HIGHLANDS, CA - A police standoff ended with no results after an armed robbery suspect ran into duplex on the 4000 block of Renick Way.

Nearby Madison Elementary School was placed on lockdown as a precaution, Twin Rivers police spokesman William Cho said.

Parents were able to pick up their children in groups of five until the lockdown was lifted around 6 p.m.

The suspect robbed the Aztilan Recycling on Madison Avenue then ran from the scene into a duplex, Sacramento County sheriff's Deputy Jason Ramos said.

It was unclear to deputies if the suspect was in fact inside the duplex, Ramos said. Deputies contacted the resident, who did not give them permission to enter, but said she would return home with a key.

Ramos said the resident never showed up and the standoff had to be called off.

Deputies continue to look for the suspect.

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