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.
SF News Vallejo Police Chief Shawny Williams Abruptly Resigns With No Explanation Despite (or because of?) a drop in police shootings on his watch, the Vallejo Police Officers Association wanted Chief Shawny Williams out. On Friday, they got their wish when he suddenly resigned.
SF News Vallejo Cop Who Fatally Shot Sean Monterrosa In 2020 Is Finally Fired A Vallejo police detective who fired the gun that killed 22-year-old Sean Monterrosa during civil unrest at a Walgreens in June 2020 has been fired following the conclusion of a third-party investigation into the incident.
SF News Vallejo High Football Coach Shot Trying to Break Up Fight Between Students and Adults The Vallejo High School football team’s defensive coordinator Joe Pastrana took a bullet Tuesday afternoon when off-campus adults fired into a crowd of Vallejo students, but his injuries are not life-threatening and he remains in stable condition.
SF Politics Whack Vallejo City Council Meeting Goes Off Rails, Mayor Threatens to Arrest Councilmember What started as a discussion about a new Vallejo police station turned into free-for-all with one public commenter being physically hauled out by police, then threats from the mayor to do the same to a councilmember, who in turn speculated about certain parts of the mayor's anatomy.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Vallejo Mayor Weighs In on Strange Death The mayor of Vallejo has made a public statement about a death that he says should not have been ruled a suicide, Newsom's CARE Court idea probably needs a lot more funding, and Joe Rogan has chimed in about the South Bay MMA vigilante case.
SF News Vallejo PD Moves to Fire Officer Who Shot and Killed Sean Monterrosa Detective Jarrett Tonn was placed on paid leave a year after the 2020 shooting of SF resident Sean Monterrosa, and in the wake of new findings, the chief of police is looking to fire him.
SF News Matthew Muller, Man Charged In Bizarre 2015 'Gone Girl' Kidnapping and Rape, Now In State Mental Hospital It's been several years since we had an update on Matthew Daniel Muller, the Harvard-educated, mentally ill man who pleaded guilty in a federal case to kidnapping a Vallejo woman, Denise Huskins, in a case that received national attention in 2015.
SF News Vallejo Police Officers Association Claims Crisis Over ‘Unprecedented Rate’ of Officers Quitting The union for one of the Bay Area’s most scandal-plagued police forces says the sky is falling over officer attrition rates, conveniently ignoring that department’s own massive, self-inflicted reputational damage.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Massive Brawl Breaks Out At Vallejo Theme Park Around 100 juveniles were involved in a huge brawl at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom on Saturday, the DEA is warning about a spike in fentanyl-laced pills, and health officials say they did not see many COVID cases linked to the BottleRock festival.
Business & Tech Vallejo Woman Sues Lyft Over Alleged Kidnapping By Driver With Meth Pipe A Vallejo woman has filed suit against Lyft over an April 2019 ride gone wrong in which she had to climb out of the car's window to escape a creepy driver.
SF News Special Prosecutor Decides No Charges Will Be Filed Against Vallejo Officers Who Fatally Shot Willie McCoy After the Solano County District Attorney recused herself last year, a special prosecutor was assigned to review the February 2019 officer-involved shooting case in Vallejo that left 20-year-old rapper Willie McCoy dead following 55 rounds that were shot into his car.
SF Politics Vallejo Mayoral Candidate Hakeem Brown Doubles Down In Denial of Domestic Violence Allegations Allegations are that Brown, now 45, was far from just a troubled young man who got caught up with the law, as he has publicly portrayed himself.
SF News Vallejo Declares State of Emergency Over Pandemic Crime Wave and Police Misconduct Vallejo City Council thinks gangs are engaged in a turf war, but their emergency declaration sets off a turf war between the city’s police and its police officer’s association.
SF News Vallejo Approves Largest-Ever Settlement for a Police Shooting, $5.7 Million, for the Family of Ronell Foster A Vallejo Police officer is on paid administrative leave after killing two people in less than a year, as police misconduct settlements are piling up in Vallejo.
