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October 18, 2018 | Office of the District Attorney

Admiral Callaghan Professional Center and Related CompaniesOrdered to Pay Penalties of $50,000, Restitution to Tenants And InvestigativeCosts Of $10,000 in Price Gouging Case

District AttorneyJill Ravitch announced today that Admiral Callaghan Professional Center, LLC;Admiral Callaghan Professional Center II, LLC; JMFGEM, LLC; ACPC 1, LLC; andACPC 2, LLC agreed to a Stipulated Judgment, approved and ordered by SonomaCounty Superior Court Judge Rene Chouteau, requiring the corporations to pay$50,000 in civil penalties, $10,000 in investigative costs. Read full story


October 17, 2018 | Office of the District Attorney

SantaRosa Man Sentenced to 7 years 8 Months for Possession of 12 Pounds ofMethamphetamine

DefendantErsain Alcantar-Reyes, 21 years old of Santa Rosa, was sentenced today by theHonorable Robert LaForge to serve seven years eight months in state prison afterpleading no contest in August to a charge of possession of methamphetamine forsale. Read full story


October 17, 2018 | Office of the District Attorney

Petaluma Man Enters Guilty Plea to Attempted Robbery and Possession of Stolen Property Charge for Stipulated Prison Term

Defendant RandyAnthony Solares, 27 years old of Petaluma, pled guilty earlier today in frontof the Honorable Dana Simmonds to felony charges of attempted robbery involvingthe use of a weapon, and felony possession of stolen property. Read full story


October 05, 2018 | Office of the District Attorney

Cloverdale Man Sentenced To Ten Years In Prison For Elder Theft

DefendantTheodore Smith Hudson III, 54 years old of Cloverdale, was sentenced today toten years in state prison by the Honorable Julie Conger following a two-month-longMay trial in which a Sonoma County jury found Hudson guilty of nine counts oftheft from an elder adult. Read full story


October 04, 2018 | Office of the District Attorney

Man Sentenced in Felony Assault of Bicyclist on Joe Rodota Trail

DefendantMichael Anthony Howard-Lafond, 20 years old of Sonoma County, was sentencedtoday by the Honorable Christopher Honigsberg after pleading no contest inSeptember of this year to felony assault by means of force likely to producegreat bodily injury. The charges were the result of a May, 2018 incident whereHoward-Lafond punched a bicyclist in the face on the Joe Rodota Trail. Read full story


October 04, 2018 | Office of the District Attorney

Petaluma Man Sentenced in Robbery of Petaluma Business Owner

DefendantJason Lloyd Bryson, 47 years old of Petaluma, wassentenced today by the Honorable Jennifer Dollard to 20 years in state prisonafter he was found guilty by a jury in July of this year of committing robberyand making criminal threats. Read full story


October 02, 2018 | Office of the District Attorney

Investigation ongoing into Potential CriminalCharges Following Trespass of Petaluma Poultry Farm

On September29, 2018 at approximately 1:30 p.m. Sonoma County Sheriff’s Department deputiesresponded to multiple 911 calls of trespassers on the private property of theMcCoy’s Poultry Services, located in the 100 block of Jewett Road in Petaluma,CA. Read full story


September 26, 2018 | Office of the District Attorney

Judge Sentences Mother of Son Who Died of DrugOverdose to the Maximum Term in Prison

DefendantDanielle Foernsler, aka Danielle Falleto of Santa Rosa, was sentenced onSeptember 25, 2018 by the Honorable Judge Bradley Demeo to the maximum term of 19years 4 months in state prison after she pled no contest in July of this yearto negligently contributing to the death of her sixteen year old son on April16, 2018. Read full story


September 25, 2018 | Office of the District Attorney

Gang Member Sentenced for Attempted Murder

Defendant KevinAnthony Torres, 18 years old of Santa Rosa, was sentenced today by theHonorable Patrick Broderick to serve 19 years in state prison after having pledno contest in July of this year to charges of attempted murder. Read full story


September 19, 2018 | Office of the District Attorney

Petaluma Man Sentenced to Prisonfor Pimping and Sex Crimes Against Minors

DistrictAttorney Jill Ravitch has announced that Defendant Laiken James, 21 years oldof Petaluma, was sentenced in two cases today by the Honorable Brad DeMeo to a termof seven years and four months Read full story