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By Scott Thomas Anderson While Amador County Sheriff’s deputies have been on the look-out for a group of thieves from Calaveras County, who they think may soon target western Amador, it was a Stockton man they captured in that very area last week — confronted by deputies in the immediate aftermath of an alleged burglary. [...]
By Gwen Bohdan Ledger Dispatch Contributor If a story has a mugshot, Scott Thomas Anderson has the byline. He’s been the crime writer for the Amador Ledger Dispatch for the past five years — a beat that’s led him to some rather dangerous and disturbing scenes. The alleged Days Inn killer, the Oxycontin sting, gang [...]
By BIll Lavallie & Scott Thomas Anderson The winter storms that blew in this week were not the only thing that got violent, as a California Highway Patrol Officer found himself in a roadside struggle with a DUI suspect — at the same time some of his fellow officers were dealing with a rash of [...]
By Scott Thomas Anderson & Bill Lavallie Residents from Plymouth to Somerset are grieving the loss of Christine Robinson, a local business personality who was killed in a head-on collision while driving home last Saturday. News that the other driver involved in the catastrophe was arrested for felony DUI now has Robinson’s friends and family [...]
By Scott Thomas Anderson Whatever fears accused murderer Justin Bergo may have going into his trial, being strapped down for a lethal injection will not be one of them. Amador County District Attorney Todd Riebe confirmed today that a death penalty review team had recently advised him not to seek the death penalty against Bergo. [...]
By Scott Thomas Anderson The sloping ranches and riverbanks of south El Dorado County have long been plagued by drug-related crime. This week, agents from the Amador County Combined Narcotics Enforcement Team announced they had arrested an alleged methylenedioxymethamphetamine trafficker, who was bringing large quantities of the drug into the Plymouth area. Meanwhile, Amador County [...]
By Scott Thomas Anderson What could have turned into an identity-theft nightmare for one woman was evidently stopped in its tracks over the New Year’s weekend by the Ione Police Department. Now, a 26-year-old female suspect from Hayward is sitting in the Amador County Jail, while her probationer boyfriend is fleeing an arrest warrant. The [...]
By Scott Thomas Anderson Amador Sheriff’s deputies are trying to get a final total on the number of citizens who lost money in what authorities are describing as an embezzlement plot on the part of Pioneer Travel agency. On Wednesday, Sheriff’s officials said the owner of the business, Pat Thurin, confessed to taking more than [...]
By Scott Thomas Anderson Raul Garza was led into Amador County Superior Court Friday morning dressed in more than his prison jumpsuit: the convict’s head was bagged entirely in dark netting, while his face — from nose to chin — was blocked by a thick, wrapping pillow covering. Garza was soon held to answer for [...]
By Scott Thomas Anderson Attorneys appeared in Amador Superior Court on Tuesday to debate a vortex of legal issues swirling around Justin Bergo — the man accused of lying in wait for his mother in a hotel room and then cutting her to death with a knife. Questions soon arose in the proceedings about which [...]
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