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Posts from ‘July, 2009’

Three People Arrested in Downtown Murder

The Sacramento Police Department has arrested Jeremy Ackerman, Johnathan Baker, and Nadine Klein for the murder of 23-year-old James Arthur.

South Area Armed Robbery

The Sacramento Police Department is looking for the community’s help to identify a robbery suspect.

Police Need Your Help to Solve Cold Case Homicide

The Sacramento Police Department is seeking the community’s help to solve the homicide of Elizabeth Nichols.

Police Investigate Downtown Homicide

On Wednesday, June 10, 2009, at 5:18 p.m., the Sacramento Police Department responded to the 600 block of 22nd Street regarding a possible dead body.

Crocker to keep two works by noted artist

Detail from “Untitled” (Madonna) artwork by Martin Ramirez, circa 1950. Since the early 1950s, Sacramento’s Crocker Art Museum has been in possession of five works by Martin Ramirez – a self-taught artist who spent much of his adult life in the former Dewitt State Hospital in Auburn, diagnosed as a schizophrenic. Last week, the Sacramento City Council approved returning three of those works to the Ramirez estate

Cold Case Homicide solved

The Sacramento Police Department has arrested four people for the 2004 murder of 37-year-old Clayton Skinner.

Images wrested from a ‘black hole’

“Fantasy Is a Place Where It Rains” by Ricardo Rivera is on view at the Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento. Ricardo Rivera has no formal scientific background, yet his show at the Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, draws on science to explore the enigmas of anamorphic drawing and Einsteinian black holes

Sexual Assaults Increase for 1st Quarter of the Year

Thus far in 2009, the Sacramento Police Department has seen a reduction in crime rates in all categories with the exception of sexual assaults.

2008 Crime Rate Dropped Despite Hard Times

The Sacramento Police Department has seen a decrease in uniformed crime rates for the past two years of almost 15% despite hard economic times and overall staffing shortages.

$50,000 Reward Offered in Unsolved Downtown Homicide

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the murder of Sio Meng Lai.