Vallejo City Councilmember Hakeem Brown Targeted With Racist Graffiti
VALLEJO (CBS SF) — A City of Vallejo councilmember has been targeted with racist graffiti sprayed outside an office he uses, according to police. The graffiti was found on a building on the 600 block...
View ArticleVallejo Chief Turns to Outside Investigators to Determine If Officers Bent...
VALLEJO (AP) — The chief of the Vallejo police department, under scrutiny for several deadly shootings, said Friday he is launching an independent investigation after two people in the department said...
View ArticleCivil Rights Attorney Burris To File Federal Lawsuit Against Vallejo Over...
VALLEJO (CBS SF) – Oakland attorney John Burris plans to file a federal civil rights lawsuit on Thursday against the city of Vallejo and one of its officers over the shooting of a San Francisco man...
View ArticleProposal Would Allow Families Of Police Brutality Victims To Seek Compensation
SACRAMENTO (CBS SF) – A group of state and local officials on Thursday joined two family members of a man fatally shot by Vallejo police in June to announce a bill that would allow the families of...
View ArticleFamily Of SF Man Killed By Vallejo Police Demands Justice, Files Civil Rights...
VALLEJO (CBS SF) — Oakland attorney John Burris filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city of Vallejo and Vallejo Police Officer Jarrett Tonn on Thursday for the fatal shooting of San...
View ArticleVallejo Police Investigate 2 Separate Fatal Shootings In Space Of 8 Hours
VALLEJO (CBS SF) — Police in Vallejo on Thursday announced they are investigating two separate fatal shootings that happened since Wednesday night. The two incidents are the 20th and 21st homicides...
View ArticleTear Gas Deployment Ends Vallejo Police Standoff; Suspect Arrested
VALLEJO (CBS SF) — A suspect wanted in an assault with a deadly weapon case kept Vallejo officers at bay outside his home for three hours Tuesday and resisted attempts to communicate before tear gas...
View ArticleVallejo Police Department Fires Officer Involved In Two Fatal Shootings
VALLEJO (CBS SF) — The Vallejo Police Department fired an officer Wednesday who was involved in two fatal shootings within the past two years. The department announced Thursday that it fired Ofc. Ryan...
View ArticleVallejo Police Launch Investigation Into Employee’s Alleged Use Of A Swastika
VALLEJO (CBS SF) — Vallejo Police Chief Shawny Williams confirmed Monday that his department has ordered an outside investigation into the alleged use of a swastika by an employee. While not divulging...
View ArticleVallejo Declares Public Safety Emergency After Alarming Spike In Crime During...
VALLEJO (KPIX) – With a unanimous vote, the Vallejo City Council has declared a public safety emergency giving unprecedented powers to the City Manager to get around local laws and regulations to fight...
View ArticleVallejo Police Chase Yields Illegal Weapons, Marijuana, Halloween Masks
VALLEJO (CBS SF) — A police chase in Vallejo led to two arrests and the discovery of illegal weapons, marijuana and several Halloween masks. Vallejo police said officers saw a vehicle speeding on...
View ArticleJudge Rules Against Vallejo Police Union in Reform Battle
VALLEJO (CBS SF) — Vallejo’s declaration of a public safety emergency, which opened the city to a slate of intended policing reforms, survived a legal battle Wednesday after a judge ruled against the...
View ArticleVallejo Activates Emergency Operations Center Ahead Of Election Day
VALLEJO (CBS SF) – The city of Vallejo will be opening an Emergency Operations Center next week in anticipation of any potential election-related civil unrest. “While there is no immediate threat of...
View ArticleVallejo Stolen Car Suspect Eludes Police, Holds Home Residents At Gunpoint...
VALLEJO (CBS SF) — A stolen vehicle suspect in Vallejo was arrested after a police chase Wednesday and an attempted escape which involved holding a home’s residents at gunpoint until they forcefully...
View ArticleMan Dies Of Injuries In Vallejo Shooting; City’s 28th Homicide Of 2020
VALLEJO (CBS SF) — Police in Vallejo were investigating a fatal shooting in which the victim was driven to the hospital by associates but died of his injuries. Vallejo police said officers responded to...
View ArticleUPDATE: Vallejo Police Arrest 3 Suspects In Connection With September Fatal...
VALLEJO (CBS SF) — Police in Vallejo on Thursday confirmed the recent arrest of three suspects in connection with a fatal shooting in early September. On September 2 at approximately 8:18 p.m., Vallejo...
View ArticleSuspect In 2018 New Mexico Murder Arrested In Vallejo
VALLEJO (CBS SF) — A suspect in a 2018 murder in New Mexico was arrested in Vallejo last week, authorities announced Tuesday. Vallejo police said the department was contacted by the Albuquerque Police...
View ArticleShooting In Vallejo Neighborhood Sends 2 Victims To Hospital
VALLEJO (CBS SF) — Two men suffered serious injuries in a shooting in a Vallejo neighborhood Thursday afternoon. Vallejo police said the shooting was reported at about 5:30 p.m. along Kentucky St. near...
View Article1 Dead, 1 Injured In Vallejo Shooting On Same Block Where Double Shooting...
VALLEJO (CBS SF) — One person was killed and another injured in a shooting in a Vallejo neighborhood where another shooting last week on the same block injured two people. Vallejo police said the...
View ArticleUPDATE: California Justice Department To Review Sean Monterrosa Killing By...
OAKLAND (CBS SF) — California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced Thursday the state Department of Justice will investigate the fatal shooting last June of Sean Monterrosa by a Vallejo police officer....
View ArticleMan Shot Dead In Vallejo Neighborhood
VALLEJO (BCN) — Police were investigating after a man was fatally shot Wednesday night in Vallejo’s Chabot Terrace neighborhood. Officers responded shortly before 9 p.m. to the 100 block of Violet...
View ArticleUPDATE: Mother, 8-Year-Old Child Found Shot In Car Outside Vallejo Temple
VALLEJO (CBS SF) — A mother and child were hospitalized after being shot while sitting in a car outside a Vallejo temple late Wednesday night, police said. The shooting happened at the Evangelist...
View ArticleVallejo To Pay $270,698 To Settle Excessive Force Lawsuit Against Off-Duty...
VALLEJO (BCN) — The city has agreed to pay $270,698 to settle an excessive force lawsuit brought by a man who was allegedly struck in the head by an off-duty Vallejo police officer outside a Walnut...
View ArticleVallejo Police Receive $900K In Federal Funding For Mental Health Response Unit
VALLEJO (BCN) – The Vallejo Police Department is in line to receive $900,000 in federal funding to launch a pilot program aimed at the response to people suffering from mental health issues, the...
View ArticleVallejo Police Break Up Sideshow Activity; 6 Arrested Following Chase,...
VALLEJO (CBS SF) — A large sideshow that broke out on the streets of Vallejo over the weekend resulted in arrests following confrontations between police and participants, police said Monday. The...
View Article6 Arrested After 2 Sideshows In Vallejo
VALLEJO (CBS SF) — Six people were arrested on suspicion of felony offenses following two sideshows in Vallejo Saturday night, police said. Arrested were 26-year-old Eric Cacho, 22-year-old Devon...
View ArticleVIDEO: Vallejo Suspects Arrested After High-Speed Police Chase, Attempted...
VALLEJO (CBS SF) — Two suspects led Vallejo police officers on a high-speed chase which ended after their car became disabled and they unsuccessfully tried to carjack vehicles while on Interstate...
View ArticleMan Shot To Death In Vallejo
VALLEJO (CBS SF/BCN) — Police said Monday that a 21-year-old man was fatally shot Sunday evening in Vallejo. The shooting was reported about 7:30 p.m. in the 1600 block of Fairgrounds Drive, near the...
View ArticleWanted Parolee Arrested in Murder of 15-Year-Old in Vallejo
VALLEJO (CBS SF) — A parolee sought in the July murder of a 15-year-old boy in Vallejo was arrested in Las Vegas, authorities announced Tuesday. The Vallejo Police Department said it partnered with the...
View ArticleVallejo Police Seek Public’s Help Investigating June 2020 Birthday Party...
VALLEJO (BCN) — Police in Vallejo are seeking the public’s help in the investigation of a shooting outside a birthday party last year that left two women dead and injured three others, including a...
View ArticleVallejo Disturbance Leads To Discovery of Multiple Ghost Guns, Explosives,...
VALLEJO (CBS SF) — Police responding to a disturbance in Vallejo arrested two men who were found with an arsenal of unserialized “ghost guns,” explosives and ammunition. police said. Vallejo police...
View ArticleMan Found Shot Dead in Vallejo
VALLEJO (BCN) — Police in Vallejo are investigating a shooting that left one person dead Friday night. Officers with the Vallejo Police Department responded Friday at 11:38 p.m. to a report of shots...
View ArticleVallejo Man Arrested In Armed Robbery, Carjacking At San Francisco Mission...
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — A Vallejo parolee was arrested following an armed robbery and carjacking at a business in San Francisco, police said Wednesday. The incident happened on Monday at around 6 p.m....
View ArticleMan’s Death At Vallejo Church Investigated As Suspicious
VALLEJO (BCN) — Police in Vallejo are investigating after a man was found dead on the steps of a church Sunday night. The man, possibly in his early 60s, was discovered about 9:20 p.m. in front of a...
View ArticleInvestigation Finds Vallejo Officer’s Use of Deadly Force Not ‘Reasonable’
VALLEJO (KPIX) — An independent investigation into the 2020 police shooting death of Sean Monterrosa concluded that the use of deadly force by a Vallejo officer was not “objectively reasonable.” For...
View ArticleWoman Found Stabbed To Death on Porch of Vallejo Home
VALLEJO (CBS SF/BCN) — A woman was found dead on Monday in Vallejo in what appears to be a stabbing attack, according a police log. Nitsa Green, 40, was found dead on Monday evening after the Vallejo...
View ArticleVigil Marks 3 Years After Fatal Vallejo Police Shooting Of Willie McCoy;...
VALLEJO (BCN) – February 9th is a particularly hard day for the family of Willie McCoy, a 20-year-old man shot dead by six Vallejo police officers on that date three years ago as he sat in his car at a...
View Article18-Year-Old Shot Dead While Driving in Vallejo
VALLEJO (CBS SF) — An 18-year-old man was shot and killed while driving in Vallejo Friday, police said. The shooting happened at about 12:49 p.m. along the 100 block of Olympic Dr. between Whitney Ave....
View ArticleVallejo Police Identify Fatal Stabbing Victim
VALLEJO (BCN) — The Vallejo Police Department identified the woman found stabbed to death Friday as 59-year-old Donna Marie Villanueva, who was living unsheltered when she was killed. Police found her...
View ArticleVallejo Council Pivots Towards Moving Police Headquarters To Library Site...
VALLEJO (BCN) – The location of a proposed new police station appears to have shifted after Tuesday’s Vallejo City Council meeting when discussion on the proposed relocation of the headquarters pivoted...
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