Press Releases

Press Release (Woodland, CA) – December 17, 2020 – On December 16, 2020, the Honorable Judge Paul Richardson sentenced 43-year-old Buck Maldonado Thomas to 37 years and 4 months to life in state prison after a jury convicted him of multiple crimes including forcible...

Press Release (Woodland, CA) – December 14, 2020 –The Yolo County District Attorney’s Neighborhood Court (NHC) Program is seeking volunteer panelists. Trainings are set to take place virtually in January, 2021. NHC, which has been in operation since June of 2013, is...

Press Release (Woodland, CA) – December 11, 2020 – On December 10, 2020, the Honorable Judge Paul Richardson sentenced 29-year-old Taylor Lewis Gholar to three years in State Prison after a jury convicted him of “Going to a Meeting with a Minor for the Purpose of Lewd...

Press Release (Woodland, CA) – December 10, 2020 – On December 8th and 9th, 2020, Yolo County prosecutors virtually attended three lifer parole hearings for inmates in three separate prisons across the state. The Yolo County District Attorney averages about 15 lifer...

Yolo DA Uses New Law to Reduce Sentence of Prison Inmate Press Release (Woodland, CA) – December 7, 2020 – On December 3, 2020, Yolo County Assistant Chief Deputy District Attorney Ryan Couzens was in court to ask visiting Judge Roy Hashimoto to take five years off...

New Offenses Include Attempted Murder, Robbery, Assaults, Domestic Violence, and Weapons Offenses Press Release (Woodland, CA) – December 1, 2020 –As a result of Yolo County Superior Court’s continued use of $0 bail, over 442 new crimes have been committed. In April,...

Press Release (Woodland, CA) November 30, 2020 – Yolo County District Attorney’s Neighborhood Court Program, Step to Success, held its graduation for seven participants on November 30, 2020, at 1:30pm. Step to Success (S2S) is an expansion of the existing Neighborhood...

Press Release (Woodland, CA) – November 25, 2020 – The Yolo County District Attorney Office Multi-Cultural Community Council recently held the 4th Annual Youth Leadership Academy virtually via Zoom on November 14 & 15, 2020. The mission of the Multi-Cultural...

Press Release (Woodland, CA) – November 2, 2020 –West Sacramento woman, Melinda Gonzales, has been charged with multiple felonies after being arrested on three separate occasions in four days following her release from jail $0 Bail. Gonzales, 47, was originally...

Press Release (Woodland, CA) – October 31, 2020 - A Yolo County jury convicted 58-year-old Eduardo Castro, of Knights Landing, of fourteen counts of child molestation. The verdicts were read in open court yesterday. The Yolo County Sheriff’s Department began the...