Placer County Sheriff’s deputies have arrested Sacramento Kings’ Ron Artest on domestic violence charges.
Deputies say they got a call from Artest’s wife at 9:23 a.m. this morning.
Deputies responded and arrested Artest. He was taken to the Placer County jail in Auburn.
At this point I would like to retract 95% of my statements about the dog abuse thing…
UPDATE: CSI Sac provides the mugshot info
A little late in the day for this, but here’s a little game, sure to be as wildly successful as Make Us Laugh. It’s called Where’s that dateline? I’ll give you a news snippet and you pick the dateline. Ready? Of course not:
A pregnant woman was shot in the back. A 17-year-old girl was shot in the head, rendered blind. A 20-year-old man was shot and killed behind the wheel of a moving car; his 15-year-old female passenger was shot as well.
So what’s my dateline? (No fair guessing if you read the paper or any other local news source before 4:30 today…) Is it…
A. Baghdad, Iraq
B. Sarajevo
C. wherever “Children of Men” takes place, or
D. a few hours in South Sacramento over the weekend?
Do I really have to answer? Bet the Police Chief is wishing he could have squashed that recent story about Sacramento having the lowest number of uniformed offers per capita…
Does anybody else smell a big fat rat?
Nearly four decades after some of the most infamous serial killings in U.S. history, Vallejo Police investigators have submitted new DNA evidence to a California crime lab in hopes of catching the Zodiac killer.
The search for new evidence coincides with the release of a new film chronicling the hunt for the Zodiac killer. “Zodiac,” starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Robert Downey Jr. opens March 2.
Although I am least happy that this story does not involve someone named Britney or Anna Nicole…
Lost in all the blah-blah over King Ron’s dog problems and astronaut love-triangles was this little gem about a state worker accused of using her procurement card to spend hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dough on everything she could think of:
A state Department of Child Support Services analyst used a state credit card to embezzle $320,000, buying a flat-screen television, hot tub, gazebo, iPods, handcuffs, chains and whips, according to California Highway Patrol officials.
Carey Renee Aceves, 34, later fenced many of the items to buy a new Lexus, officials said. But even as her bosses began probing her purchases in January, Aceves was being trained to be make purchases for another state agency.
Wow, that’s some haul! Especially since, as recounted in the local beancounters blog, it can be difficult under normal circumstances for state workers to buy day planners.
Frankly, I think Ms. Aceves has a future with Halliburton.
Well with a cute title like this, you’re sure to get great turnout: Presenting the next Sac County Citizen’s Academy presentation: Learn Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About CPS but Were Afraid to Ask (PDF).
But I kid the county. There probably isn’t much about CPS that doesn’t scare most of us.
Here’s an interesting little tidbit:
Sacramento ranks last in a list of the country’s 50 largest cities for the number of uniformed police officers per capita, according to the figures compiled by the FBI.
Seems to explain a few things, doesn’t it?
Anybody know a good copyright lawyer out there? I can’t tell but I think The Sac Rag’s copyright is being infringed by “ralph myree,” registered owner of “Free Traffic Counter” which as pictured is reprinting an article by sac-eats without attributing it to our site. However, the link for “Original post” does point to our post. Is there a name for this type of site? I assume it is just built to generate Adsense revenue. Maybe I’ll sue Google too, for allowing its service to be used in such a manner!
While we are on the topic, I wanted to mention this story about a lawsuit that has been filed against News Corp. (the owners of the popular social networking site MySpace.)
Four families have sued News Corp. and its MySpace social-networking site after their underage daughters were sexually abused by adults they met on the site, lawyers for the families said Thursday.
I know, shocking right? Nevertheless, the debate rolls on whether society should hold organizations like MySpace or 107.9 The End accountable for incidents like this. The site provides the forum for chaos and mayhem, but people themselves actually provide the chaos and the mayhem, right?
“In our view, MySpace waited entirely too long to attempt to institute meaningful security measures that effectively increase the safety of their underage users,” said Jason A. Itkin, an Arnold & Itkin lawyer.
Ah, interesting. But, shouldn’t the underage girls know better than to visit the site and chat it up with older dudes? I mean, no one puts a gun to these girl’s heads (if you read the story you’ll find that comes later) and forces them to log on.
I was reading this story today about how the new freeway message boards encouraging drivers to call 911 if they suspect someone is driving under the influence were very effective this holiday season and couldn’t help but wonder.
Has anyone ever called 911 to report a suspected drunk driver? Is it an easy process? If so, I have to think this can really get out of hand in a jif. Get cut off this morning on the W-X? Fix their wagon by dropping the 9-1-1 on their ass! Have a buddy that is always one-upping you? Here’s a way you can have the last word. What about the night club scene? I can see it now. A dude sees a gal that he is really sweet on. He walks over to buy her a drink but is intercepted at the last minute by a larger, buffer dude who closes the deal. They take off together and dude decides to let his fingers do the walking.
But seriously, folks, what’s the deal with this program? If anyone knows the 4-1-1 on the 9-1-1 feel free to drop a comment and get the word out.
A telling quote from Mayor Fargo in the Bee’s report today on the railyard sale:
“I never thought I’d be spending most of my political career on this site,” Fargo said of her longtime role as railyard booster.
With 59 murders in Sacramento this year, easily the highest total in a decade, including at least 3 in the last week, along with other horrible stories of assaults, unidentified bodies turning up almost daily, and gunfire at the entrance to Arden Fair (that’s just this week), really, what else could she be remembered for? I bet you a Sac Rag t-shirt we bust through 60 by the end of the year.
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