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Popular Rocklin teacher arrested for molestation

Rocklin Police have arrested Whitney High School physics teacher Matthew Scott Yamamoto, a 33-year-old Rocklin resident, on charges of child molestation and arranging to meet a minor for purposes of

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Roseville detectives bust Sacramento drug dealer

On Wednesday, September 5th, detectives from the Roseville Police Vice and Narcotics Enforcement Team arrested a Carmichael man who is suspected of selling drugs in Roseville and other cities in

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Cache of Drugs, Guns Found in Home

Placer County – The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Special Enforcement Detail served a warrant on a home in western Placer County on September 6th and came out with a large cache

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Trio of women arrested in Dollar Tree Holdup

Rocklin Police have arrested three women in the Rocklin Dollar Tree armed robbery last week. As reported here, on August 27th, three women had entered the Dollar Tree store near

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Fugitive wanted by the Secret Service nabbed in traffic stop

Rocklin police inadvertently captured a federal criminal wanted by the Secret Service while making a simple traffic stop. According to a press release, officers pulled over Jamal Shaw on Sierra

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3 Women wanted for armed Robbery at Rocklin Dollar Tree –

ROCKLIN – Three women entered the Dollar Tree store at 6656 Lonetree Blvd. Monday night at about 9:21 pm, just before the store’s closing time, committed armed robbery and escaped before

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Drunk driver kills one, injures another after police encounter

ROSEVILLE – A man fleeing police on suspicion of reckless driving struck three other vehicles and a pedestrian, who died at the scene. At 8:04 pm, Tuesday evening, Roseville police

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Roseville man arrested for child abuse

Michael Scott Nodine of Roseville was arrested on June 26th on suspicion of sexual abuse on a child over a period of ten years. Nodine, 45, is under further investigation

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Mail-bomber sentenced to 13 years in prison

FRESNO – A man from Oklahoma was sentenced on Tuesday to 13 years in prison for mailing a pipe bomb to a Visalia business in 2009. Vernon Dale Mustin, 52,

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Arrest made after triple murder in quiet town

LOOMIS — An old law enforcement ploy was used to hold a suspect long enough on one charge as homicide investigators worked to link the man to a triple murder