SF News Rampant Sideshows in Vallejo Early Sunday Morning, One Participants’ Pants Catch on Fire A swarm of sideshows in Vallejo brought multiple injuries early Sunday morning, including one participant who managed to get his pants caught on fire, and Vallejo’s mayor released an odd statement asking “Why don’t these brats do this where their momma lives.”
SF News Sideshow With Cars, Snake, and a Ring of Fire Leaves One Dead In Vallejo In Vallejo, one person is dead after a sideshow early Saturday morning that included lasers, drones, cars drifting around a ring of fire, and guns fired.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Two Women and Two Dogs Die In Vallejo House Fire Two women died in a house fire in Vallejo last night; Oakland police were in a standoff with a suspect Monday afternoon that ended peacefully; and Donald Trump is chatting with Elon Musk on a Twitter livestream.
SF News Vallejo Sideshow Ends With Man Shot, Pickup Truck Torched, 7-Eleven Looted Sunday night saw a particularly lawless sideshow, even for Vallejo, as a man was shot, a pickup truck was set on fire, and a 7-Eleven was ransacked of its beer and lottery scratchers.
SF News Vallejo Suspect Leads CHP on 50-Mile Car Chase, Doesn’t Stop Even When Tires Are Spiked A high-speed chase that originated in Vallejo Wednesday night went all the way down to Hayward, featuring wrong-way driving, and a suspect who didn’t even stop after his tires had been spiked.
SF News More Vallejo Police Department Chaos, As Interim Chief is Reportedly Resigning for Another Job The Vallejo Police Department is reeling from a series of scandals and a highly unflattering new Netflix documentary, and interim Police Chief Jason Ta is reportedly leaving the department for a permanent job in Salinas.
Arts & Entertainment Netflix Documentary 'American Nightmare' Shines New Light on Vallejo Detective Who Botched Huskins Case A central figure in the disastrously bad investigation into the 2015 kidnapping of Denise Huskins in Vallejo, Detective Mat Mustard, remains on the force, and a popular new Netflix documentary casts him as a villain.
SF News Report: Vallejo PD Considering Unbendable Badges, So Cops Can’t Bend Them to Celebrate Killing People Since the Vallejo Police Department has been dogged by scandals for the better part of a decade now, the department is reportedly considering a rebrand with new badges — badges that can’t be bent to celebrate fatal police shootings.
Arts & Entertainment Bay Area 'Gone Girl' Case Gets New Documentary Treatment on Netflix, 'American Nightmare' The almost-too-nutty-to-be-believed 2015 rape and kidnapping case involving Denise Huskins and then boyfriend Aaron Quinn, who lived on Mare Island near Vallejo, has been turned into a new docu-series from the team behind 2022's 'The Tinder Swindler.'
SF News Vallejo Couple Finally Going to Trial for Alleged 2018 Murder-Robbery, Six Years After Crime Occurred The wheels of justice have moved stunningly slowly in the case of a man found dead in a Vallejo hotel room in 2018, but the pair accused of killing and robbing him finally has a trial date set that will begin more than six years after the killing itself.
SF News City of Vallejo Settles for $5 Million In Case of Willie McCoy, Whom Police Shot 55 Times Another huge settlement for the family of a victim shot by Vallejo police, or in this case the family of a victim shot 55 times by Vallejo police, as the city has agreed to pay $5 million to the family of Willie McCoy for his 2019 shooting.
SF News Vallejo Officer Who Killed Sean Monterrosa Won't Be Charged; California DOJ Says There's Not Enough Evidence The 2020 killing of San Francisco native Sean Monterrosa by a Vallejo police officer remains a painful memory for Bay Area residents and a tragedy for Monterrosa's family. And now, after a review by the state attorney general, the criminal case against the officer is not moving forward.
SF News Vallejo Police Publish Photos of Unmasked, 'Smiling' Assailants Sought In Theft of $12K In Levi's Jeans A case of organized retail theft in Vallejo over the holiday weekend left investigators with some pretty clear photographic evidence, but they still need the public's help in identifying the assailants.
SF News Vallejo Police Arrest 'Red Bull Thief,' Who Allegedly Stole $15K Worth of Vodka, Red Bull, and Other Goods Police in Vallejo have arrested an alleged repeat offender who targeted the same store for repeated thefts, and his favorite things to steal, police say, were cases of Red Bull and bottles of vodka.
SF News State AG Rob Bonta Announces Five-Year State Oversight of Scandal-Plagued Vallejo Police Department The troubled and some would say trigger-happy Vallejo Police Department is looking at state Department of Justice oversight for the next five years, as California Attorney General Rob Bonta looks to curb the department’s very frequent use of force.
SF News DNA Evidence Reopens 1987 Cold Case of Abused and Murdered Solano County Boy, New Suspect Arrested While both the victim and the wrongly accused are now deceased, Solano County prosecutors have identified and arrested a suspect in the 1987 kidnapping and murder of a six-year-old boy thanks to new DNA evidence.
SF News A Retired Riverboat In Vallejo Caught On Fire Saturday, 4 Occupants Rescued The once-famous tour boat, a replica 19th-century paddle-wheel riverboat that had been evicted from Long Beach around 2018, had apparently fallen into ruin before the blaze at its Vallejo anchorage Saturday.
SF News Former Vallejo Police Captain Gets $900k Settlement After Whistleblowing on Badge-Bending Scandal A former Vallejo police captain was ousted after alleging that officers were bending their badges to celebrate fatal shootings, but he just got a $900,000 settlement, and it now appears the allegation was true.
SF News Large Sideshows Break Out Overnight In Vallejo, Shots Fired Shots were fired into the air and a couple of spectators were reportedly injured overnight in Vallejo during a mobile sideshow there that took place at two different locations.
SF News Fired Vallejo Cop Who Killed Sean Monterrosa Gets His Job Back — With Back Pay and Benefits, Too It took the Vallejo Police Department 15 months to fire the officer who shot and killed 22-year-old Sean Monterrosa. But now less than ten months after that firing, the officer is getting his job back, and with back pay to boot.
SF News More Details Emerge In Fatal High-Speed Fairfield Crash; Teen Victims Had Allegedly Been On Crime Spree We already knew that a fatal February 22 100-mph rollover crash in Fairfield involved an allegedly carjacked vehicle, but we’re now learning that the three who died were teenagers whom authorities say had been on a three-day crime spree that left one man shot and paralyzed.
SF News Two Alleged Squatters Charged In Vallejo Death of Friend and Sword Attack on Landlord It had apparently been three years since some suspect squatters had paid any rent to stay on property belonging to an 80-year-old man in Vallejo. And their stay ended in tragedy, and now two of them have been charged with murder and attempted murder.
SF News Vallejo Squatters Whom Neighbors Referred to as 'The Cult' Implicated In Crazy Sword Incident and Shooting An elderly property owner in Vallejo who was close to evicting some squatters got into an altercation with those squatters early Sunday morning in which he ended up with a sword through his chest and one of the squatters was fatally shot.
SF News Vallejo Settles Lawsuit With Family of Angel Ramos, Who Was Killed By Police One of five men fatally shot by Vallejo police in recent years, Angel Ramos, will be getting some kind of justice after the city has agreed to pay his family $2.8 million to settle a wrongful death case.
SF News Sideshows Sprang Up Saturday In Multiple East Bay Cities and Vallejo Saturday was a big night for sideshows in multiple places in the Bay Area, as police chased down gatherings of hundreds of cars in Vallejo, Richmond, Rodeo, and Hayward in a span of hours.
