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Man Sentenced To Prison For Assault With A Deadly Weapon, Resisting A Peace Officer With Force, And Brandishing A Replica Firearm
Defendant Jaime Tapia-Vasquez, 38 years-old of Santa Rosa, was sentenced earlier today by the Honorable Dana Simonds to serve 3 years and 8 months in state prison after having pled “no contest” in September of last year to felony charges of assault with a deadly weapon and resisting arrest with force, as well as misdemeanor charges of battery on a peace officer and brandishing a replica firearm. Read full story
Santa Rosa Man Sentenced to Six Years inPrison for Domestic Violence-Related Assault
DefendantRobert Anthony Ventura, 45 years old of Santa Rosa, was summarily sentenced tosix years in state prison on Thursday, December 26, by the Honorable MarkUrioste after pleading no contest to one count of felony domestic assault, andone count of felony vandalism. Read full story
Man Sentenced To Life In Prison For Multiple Felonies Including Attempted Sexual Assault, And Attempted Murder Of Peace Officer
Defendant Sean Seeman, 27 years old of New York and Alabama, and recently transient in Santa Rosa, was sentenced Tuesday morning by the Honorable Dana Simonds to serve 29 years and 6 months-to-life in state prison after having been convicted of multiple felonies in two separate jury trials earlier this year. Read full story
District Attorney Jill Ravitch Announces Consumer Protection Settlement withFashion Nova, Inc.
District Attorney Jill Ravitch announced today that her office, along with the District Attorneys of Alameda, Los Angeles and Napa Counties, settled a civil consumer protection action against a California company known as Fashion Nova, Inc. The judgment was filed in Alameda County Superior Court. Read full story
SantaRosa Man Receives Sentence of 24 Years for Child Molestation
Martin Fonseca, 55 years old of Santa Rosa, was sentenced yesterday by the Honorable Bradford DeMeo to serve 24 years in state prison after having been convicted by a jury in June of this year of eight counts of Lewd Acts Upon a Child, against three different children, all under the age of 14. Read full story
Santa Rosa Man Sentenced for 2017 Shooting
Defendant Yonas Tesfai Gebremariam, 40 years old of Santa Rosa, was sentenced yesterday to serve 18 years, plus 27 years-to-life in state prison following his conviction by a jury in April of committing multiple felonies related to a February 2017 shooting at a Santa Rosa residence. Read full story
Child Molester Denied Parole
District Attorney Jill Ravitch has announced that defendant Carl Hoyt Gibson, 89 years old and formerly of Sonoma, was denied parole on December 12, 2019, at a hearing at the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s California Healthcare Facility in Stockton. Read full story
Santa Rosa Man Sentenced to Prison for 35 Years for ViolentCrimes Committed over Two-Year Period
Defendant Bernabe Ramirez Martinez, 28 years old ofSanta Rosa, was sentenced Monday by the Honorable Peter Ottenweller to serve 35years and 4 months in state prison for his actions in three separate feloniescommitted over a two year period. Read full story
Santa Rosa Child Molester Sentenced to Prison forPossessing Child Pornography
Defendant Chad Allen Capitani, 48 years old of SantaRosa, was sentenced on December 5, 2019 to serve 8 years in state prison by theHonorable Mark Urioste after pleading in October of this year to charges ofpossession of child pornography. Read full story
Homeowners Reminded to Make Sure Contractors are Properly Licensed for all Jobs over $500
In 2017, theTubbs Fire struck Napa, Sonoma, and Lake Counties and nearly 6,000 structureswere destroyed, many of them homes. Santa Rosa communities are continuing torebuild and although the Contractors State License Board's (CSLB) attention hasbeen focused on protecting disaster survivors from being victimized byunlicensed contractors, folks not directly affected by the wildfires shouldalso stay on their guard when hiring someone for home improvement work. Read full story