On November 13th, 2017
EL DORADO COUNTY – On November 8, 2017, a jury in El Dorado County convicted Manuel Ovidio Ramos-Munoz of seven felony counts including kidnapping and sexual assault for the attack on a 22-year-old woman June 11, 2015. The victim had recently arrived at in the United States from Macedonia to work for the summer as […]
On July 5th, 2017
SANTA ROSA – When an armed robber fled an Exchange Bank in Santa Rosa back in November of 2016, he tossed off the cap and scarf he used to hide his identity. Those two pieces of evidence, collected by Sonoma County Sheriff’s detectives, were sent to a California Department of Justice Bureau of Forensics Lab […]
On March 27th, 2017
TEHAMA COUNTY - When a California Highway Patrol (CHP) Officer was shot on Interstate 5 late Saturday night, March 25, 2017, and returned fire, a lengthy investigation that included California Department of Justice (DOJ) criminalists and a CHP motor carrier specialist was conducted. “Our DOJ criminalists are often called out to collect, examine and process […]
On January 30th, 2017
MARYSVILLE – On January 26, 2017, two cousins who killed two young girls back in 1973 were sentenced to prison, more than 40 years after their cold-blooded crimes. DNA work by criminalists at several California Department of Justice labs led to the arrests of the two 65-year-old suspects, now convicted of killing Valerie Lane, 12 […]
On January 24th, 2017
RIVERSIDE - When you have a career that is often portrayed on television shows, you tend to have a captive audience when talking about what it is you do for a living. To make it even more interesting for hundreds of eighth grade girls learning about careers in forensics in Riverside County on January 12, […]
On January 24th, 2017
EUREKA - On January 19, 2017, a Humboldt County jury convicted Devin Lee James Schmidt, 24, of arson, following a trial that included testimony by California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) and Association of Criminalists-DOJ (AC-DOJ) Member Lynn Melgoza. Melgoza is criminalist supervisor at California Department of Justice Bureau of Forensic Services. Schmidt started a […]
