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May 16, 2019 | Office of the District Attorney

Man Who Committed Aggravated Sexual Assault Denied Parole

Fifty-eight-year-old California prison inmate Carl Dick was denied parole by the state board of parole on Tuesday following a hearing related to the sexual assault of his three young daughters between 1996 and 1998. Dick pled guilty in 1999, and was thereafter sentenced to fifteen years to life in prison. Read full story


May 16, 2019 | Office of the District Attorney

Man Who Committed Aggravated Sexual Assault Denied Parole

Fifty-eight-year-old California prison inmate Carl Dick was denied parole by the state board of parole on Tuesday following a hearing related to the sexual assault of his three young daughters between 1996 and 1998. Dick pled guilty in 1999, and was thereafter sentenced to fifteen years to life in prison. Read full story


April 25, 2019 | Office of the District Attorney

Sawmill Death Leads to Filing and Resolution of Case for Unlawful Worker Safety Practices

District Attorney Jill Ravitch has announced that defendant Pacific States Industries dba Redwood Empire Sawmill has resolved a civil case against it for unlawful business practices regarding worker safety laws as a result of the death of Raul Lule at the mill on April 10, 201 Read full story


April 22, 2019 | Office of the District Attorney

Gang Member on ParoleSentenced to Prison Following High Speed Pursuit and Recovery of a Firearm

Defendant Mateo Julian Sandoval, 22 years old of Santa Rosa, was sentenced to a seven year four month prison term by the Honorable Dana Simonds on April 16 following his no contest plea in March of this year to charges of felony evading, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and unlawful possession of ammunition. Read full story


April 10, 2019 | Office of the District Attorney

Guerneville Man Sentenced to 9 Months Jail for Homophobic Hate Crime

On Wednesday morning,The Honorable Peter Ottenweller sentenced defendant Vincent O’Sullivan to serve9 months in jail for a criminal threat constituting a hate crime whichO’Sullivan made in May of 2018. Read full story


April 08, 2019 | Office of the District Attorney

April 7-13 is NationalCrime Victims’ Rights Week

OnApril 2, 2019 the Board of Supervisors approved a Gold Resolution proclaimingNational Crime Victims’ Rights Week, which is commemorated April 7–13, 2019. Read full story


April 03, 2019 | Office of the District Attorney

Environmental ViolationsResults in $245,000 Civil Judgment forCannabis Cultivation

District Attorney Jill Ravitch announced that defendantsBlack Mountain Developers LLC, Darryl Crawford, Cold Creek Group Inc., and ClintGerber have resolved a civil environmental enforcement action with theEnvironmental and Consumer Law Division of the Sonoma County DistrictAttorney’s Office. Read full story


April 02, 2019 | Office of the District Attorney

Convicted Child Molester Denied Parole

CaliforniaDepartment of Corrections and Rehabilitation inmate Nathan Stephens, 60 yearsold previously of Santa Rosa, was given a five year denial of parole bythe State of California Board of Parole Hearings following a hearing on March26, 2019 at Avenal State Prison, in Avenal California. Read full story


April 02, 2019 | Office of the District Attorney

Convicted Sex Offender Larry Jones Denied Parole

California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitationinmate Larry Jones, 65 years old of Santa Rosa, was given a seven year denialof parole by the State of California Board of Parole Hearings following ahearing on March 27, 2019 at the Salinas Valley State Prison in SoledadCalifornia. Read full story


March 27, 2019 | Office of the District Attorney

Santa Rosa Man Sentenced for Double Murder

DefendantDalton James Carlson, 33 years old of Santa Rosa, was sentenced today by theHonorable Robert LaForge to serve 75 years-to-life in state prison for killinghis wife Jessica Carlson and his father Dale Carlson after having pled nocontest in February to two counts of first degree murder, and a firearmenhancement. Read full story