Press Releases
Walmart Agrees to Settlement Prohibiting Sales of 14 Products in Oversized Packages
Press Release Woodland, CA – April 1, 2019 – The Yolo County District Attorney’s Office along with the Shasta, Fresno, Placer, Tulare and Santa Cruz County District Attorneys’ Offices reached a settlement with Walmart, Inc. in a civil enforcement action related to...
Davis Murderer Denied Parole
Daniel Wehner executed two UC Davis students in 1980 Press Release (Woodland, CA) – March 28, 2019 - Convicted murderer Daniel Wehner was denied parole for the twelfth time on Wednesday, March 27, 2019 by a two-commissioner panel of the Board of Parole Hearings. The...
Yolo County District Attorney’s Neighborhood Court Program Seeks Volunteers and Community Input on Program Expansion
Press Release (Woodland, CA) – March 25, 2019 –The Yolo County District Attorney’s Neighborhood Court (NHC) will hold volunteer panelist trainings this spring. NHC is the core program in the Yolo County District Attorney’s restorative justice diversion suite, which...
Yolo County Mental Health Court Team Presents at Forensic Mental Health Association Conference
Press Release (Woodland, CA) – March 19, 2019 – Kristi Abbott, the Clinical Supervisor of Yolo County’s Forensic Mental Health Court team, and Supervising Deputy District Attorney Chris Bulkeley presented on the innovative Restorative Justice component of Yolo...
West Sacramento Woman Convicted of Auto Insurance Fraud
Press Release (Woodland, CA) – March 13, 2019 - On March 11, 2019, 44-year-old West Sacramento woman, Ana Griffith, was convicted of filing a fraudulent auto insurance claim. On April 4, 2016, Ana Griffith, filed a claim with 21st Century Insurance indicating her 1999...
Yolo County District Attorney’s Office Cites Five for Tobacco Sales to Minors
Press Release (Woodland, CA) – March 12, 2019- Investigators from the District Attorney’s Office conducted 27 undercover decoy operations in Davis, CA over the weekend and cited five individuals for the illegal sale of tobacco products to minors. In an effort to...
Yolo DA’s Office Honors Crime Victims
Crime Victims’ Rights Week is April 7 - 13, 2019 Press Release (Woodland, CA) – March 11, 2019 - Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig and the Yolo County District Attorney Victim Services Program will recognize 2019 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week with the...
West Sacramento Man Convicted of Shooting Gun in Neighborhood
Sokcheat Pin fired the weapon towards both residences and a local church Press Release (Woodland, CA) – March 8, 2019 – On March 8, 2019, Sokcheat Pin, a 32-year-old resident of West Sacramento, was convicted of both being a Felon in Possession of a Firearm and...
Sacramento Woman Graduates from Mental Health Court Ashley Crimmins goal now is to become a social worker
Press Release (Woodland, CA) – March 6, 2019 – On March 5, 2019 29-year-old Ashley Crimmins successfully graduated from Mental Health Court in Department 14 of the Yolo County Superior Court. Ashley was born and raised in Woodland and now lives in Sacramento. Mental...
Davis Woman Convicted of Auto Insurance Fraud
Press Release (Woodland, CA) – March 6, 2019- District Attorney Jeff Reisig announced today that on February 21, 2019, 48-year-old Davis woman, Megan Watkins, was convicted of two separate DUI’s, filing a fraudulent auto insurance claim, and violation of her DUI...