Judge Agrees to Re-Open Cop’s File after Public Defender Argues City May Have Misled Court
By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – Hours before the Labor Day holiday began Friday, things…
NBA Game and Drinking, Recipe for Robbery at Light Rail Station? 3 Held for October Trial
By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – Watching a Sacramento Kings basketball game, having a few…
Defendant Charges Officers Lied – Police Say He ID’d Self as Trump Voter Who Wanted to Shoot Them
By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – A “Pitchess” motion heard Wednesday in Superior Court here…
New Immigration Court Opens in Sacramento to Adjudicate Asylum Cases, Removal Orders
By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – The Vanguard learned late Tuesday that the U.S. Dept…
Another Civil Rights Lawsuit Filed against Sac County Stemming from Brutal May Raid on Homeless Encampment
By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – An advocate for the homeless filed a civil rights…
Trump Justice Dept – Finally – Releases Alleged Terror Suspect Who Had Conviction Overturned
By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – The Trump Administration – more than a week after…
City Attorney, Sac Police Misled Judge about Officer’s Misdeeds? SPD Charged with Brutalizing Black Family
By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – The City Attorney and the Sacramento City Police Dept…
Trump Justice Dept. Holds Keys to Release of Terror Suspect Whose Conviction Was Overturned
By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – President Donald Trump – no friend of Muslims with…
Family, Supporters Ask to Have Lodi Terror Suspect Released after Conviction Overturned
By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – Several dozen family and friends wore looks of relief…
Federal Judge Tosses Conviction of Alleged Lodi ‘Terrorist’
By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – A young Lodi cherry picker, who just happened to…
Opponents of $100 Million Sac County Jails Expansion Burn Ears of Supes
By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – The Sacramento Board of Supervisors heard more than it…
Sacramento Anti-Racist Groups Support Dead Anti-ICE Activist’s Attack on Deportation Buses
By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – Anti-racist groups late Tuesday unfurled a banner over a…
Sacramento Rep. Matsui Threatened with Primary Challenge If More Not Done to Close Border Camps
By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – Migrant border activists – although acknowledging Rep. Doris Matsui…
New ‘Restorative Justice’ Program Promises to Reduce Crime, Save Taxpayers Money
By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – It was, no doubt, an unusual State Capitol press…
Use of Force Bill Can’t Come Soon Enough – Families Report Teens ‘Terrorized’ by Police
By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – The State Legislature sent controversial “use of force” legislation…
White Supremacist in Bloody 2016 Capitol Clash Released After ‘Time-Served’
By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Capitol Bureau SACRAMENTO – As reported first in the Davis Vanguard last May…
Inhumane Treatment of Children in Border Camps Echoes
ICE Detainees Hunger Strike at Yuba County Jail Over ‘Horrific’ Conditions By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau…
Anti-Fascist Trial Again Postponed in Bloody Clash at State Capitol in 2016
By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – It’s been more than three years since hundreds of…
Sac County Settles Massive Jail Lawsuit – Promises Millions, and Staff Improvements
By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – The lengthy consent decree – hundreds of pages, nearly…
Sacramento DA Thursday Blinks, and Dodges Expected Political Trial Over Columbus Statue at Capitol
By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – The Sacramento County District Attorney Office blinked first Thursday,…
