Press Releases
Yolo County Becomes First District Attorney’s Office in Nation to Offer Life-saving De-escalation Technology to First Responders
West Sacramento and Winters police officers, Winters firefighters, Yolo probation officers and Yolo DA Investigators will begin using the Vitals™ App this fall Press Release September 9, 2020 – As a District Attorney serving nearly 220,000 residents, Jeff Reisig...
247 New Crimes Committed by Individuals Released on $0 Bail
(New Offenses Include Robbery, Assaults, Domestic Violence, and Weapons Offenses) Press Release (Woodland, CA) - (September 1, 2020) – District Attorney Jeff Reisig announced today the ongoing impacts related to California Judicial Council’s Statewide Emergency “0”...
Assessor, Clerk-Recorder, Registrar of Voters along with District Attorney to Begin Waiving Fees Relating to the Recording of Offensive Restrictive Covenant Modifications
Joint Press Release (Woodland, CA) - (August 25, 2020) – Yolo County Assessor, Clerk-Recorder, and Registrar of Voters Jesse Salinas, along with Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig, announced that fees related to the recording of Restrictive Covenant (CC&Rs)...
Beware of Fake Tax Lien Notifications
Press Release (Woodland, CA) - (August 18, 2020) – Now that tax season has come and gone, scammers are coming up with new ways to attempt to scam Yolo County residents. A new twist on the tax scam is the Tax Lien Letter which seeks to scare recipients by claiming...
Woodland Man Sentenced to 10 years in Prison for Pimping and Pandering Multiple Victims
Press Release (Woodland, CA) – August 13, 2020 - On August 7, 2020, the Honorable Paul Richardson of the Yolo County Superior Court sentenced a 41-year-old West Sacramento man, Ray Lawler Jr., to 10 years in state prison after his conviction for pimping and pandering...
Beware of Family Emergency Scam During COVID-19
Press Release (Translated into Spanish below) (Woodland, CA) - (August 5, 2020) – There is a common trick used by scammers who call posing as relatives or friends and need you to wire money for an emergency: to get out of jail, leave a foreign country, or pay a...
Man Convicted of 2001 Assault with a Deadly Weapon On Peace Officer and Reckless Evading Agrees to Stay in Prison for Three More Years
Press Release Woodland, CA) – July 30, 2020 On July 30, 2020, 56-year-old Phillip Arasa appeared before a two-commissioner panel of the Board of Parole Hearings for his first lifer parole hearing. Arasa was sentenced to 29 years-to-life in State Prison in 2007. At the...
Man Convicted of 2001 Assault with a Deadly Weapon and Criminal Threats is Denied Parole
Press Release (Woodland, CA) – July 27, 2020 On July 24, 2020, a two-commissioner panel of the Board of Parole Hearings denied parole to 42-year-old Gregory McKay who was sentenced to prison for 88 years-to-life in State Prison in 2004. At the time of the crime, McKay...
State Prison Approves Early Release of Inmate Serving Life Sentence for Arson and Threats to Rape and Kill, as a Result of Covid-19 Concerns
Zero Bail Releases since April have resulted in over 157 new crimes in Yolo County Press Release (Woodland, CA) - (July 24, 2020) -- The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) has released Santiago Cruz, 65, of Sacramento, from state prison despite Cruz’s...
Four More Individuals Previously Released as a Result of California Judicial Council’s Statewide Emergency “0” Bail Schedule are Arraigned on New Charges
Press Release (Woodland, CA) – July 22, 2020 – Over the past several weeks, four more individuals previously released from custody as a result of California Judicial Council’s Statewide Emergency “0” Bail Schedule were charged with new felony crimes. The “0” Bail...