Press Releases
District Attorney’s DUI Program Visited by NHTSA Administrator Heidi King
Press Release (Woodland, CA) – November 20, 2017 – Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig announced today that the Director of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Heidi King visited the Yolo County District Attorney’s Office to recognize the...
Woodland Man Convicted of Torture and Rape
Press Release (Woodland, CA) - November 16, 2017 - District Attorney Jeff Reisig announced that on November 15, 2017, a Yolo County jury convicted Elmer David Rodriguez, 26, of Woodland, of torture, felony domestic violence, infliction of great bodily injury and use...
Washington Man Sentenced to Life in Prison for Murder
Press Release (Woodland, CA) - November 16, 2017 - District Attorney Jeff Reisig announced today that on November 15, 2017 Yolo County Superior Court Judge David Reed sentenced 23-year-old Thomas Phillip Leae of Renton, Washington to life in state prison. On October...
West Sacramento Gang Members Convicted of Multiple Armed Robberies
Press Release (Woodland, CA) - November 15, 2017 - District Attorney Jeff Reisig announced that on November 9, 2017, a Yolo County Jury convicted 22-year-old West Sacramento resident Joshua Armond Cadenaz-Lopez and 20-year-old West Sacramento resident Ricky Gomez...
Killer from 1989 West Sacramento Murder Denied Parole Again
Press Release (Woodland, CA) - November 3, 2017 - Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig announced that yesterday a two-commissioner panel of the Board of Parole Hearings denied the parole of 60-year-old Carl Williams. Williams is serving a life sentence with the...
Yolo County DA’s Multi-Cultural Community Council Offers Weekend Youth Leadership Academy
18 high school students completed the program over a full weekend. Press Release (Woodland, CA) - November 2, 2017 - Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig announced that this past Friday through Sunday, students from Woodland Senior High School, Cache Creek...
Yolo DA will announce that Frank T. Rees pled no contest to crimes in Connection with Death of Baby Justice Rees
Notice of Press Conference – October 31, 2017 Press Release (Woodland, CA) – October 31, 2017 – The Yolo County District Attorney will hold a press conference today at 4 pm to announce that this morning in court 31-year-old Woodland resident Frank T. Rees pled no...
Neighborhood Court Team Receives Democracy Works Award from League of Women Voters of Woodland
Press Release (Woodland, CA) - October 27, 2017 - District Attorney Jeff Reisig announced that on October 25, 2017, the League of Women Voters of Woodland presented their annual Democracy Works Award to the Yolo County District Attorney’s Office’s Neighborhood Court...
Davis Student Sentenced to State Prison for Non-Stranger Rape
Press Release (Woodland, CA) – October 26, 2017 – Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig announced that yesterday that the Honorable David Reed sentenced Najee A’Ve, of Detroit, to 44 months in state prison after being convicted after a court trial of Rape of an...
Three Men Convicted in Hate Crime at the University of California at Davis
The defendants directed racial slurs at the African American victim while two threw candies at her. Press Release (Woodland, CA) - October 23, 2017 - Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig announced that on October 18, 2017, the third and final defendant pled no...