, December 03, 2024
Oct 16, 2024
All nine were involved in at least one fatal on-duty shooting....
Sep 27, 2024
The lawsuit alleged that Officers Zachary Sandoval and Dustin Joseph violently arrested a couple and used force to prevent them from filming the encounter....
Jan 25, 2024
Attorney tells Sun to "not do a story" on records publicly posted to the federal court's website....
Apr 10, 2023
Joanna Schwartz, a professor of law at UCLA, wrote in her new book Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable that a federal judge “had firsthand knowledge of a pattern of substantial claims of constitutional violations by Vallejo police.”...
Dec 14, 2022
In an interview with the Sun on Wednesday, McConnell said the amount of destruction “is not yet fully and truthfully known.”...
Dec 01, 2022
The records were destroyed in early 2021 before their destruction was allowed under city policy....
Sep 19, 2022
The comments came during a candidates’ forum hosted by the 411 Series Vallejo Seeking Solutions group held at the Griffin Drive Church of Christ on Saturday....
Jul 13, 2022
Officers may have obtained refurbished or replacement badges to obscure a tradition of bending the tips of their badges to mark on-duty shootings....
Mar 31, 2022
For the last two decades, some members of the Vallejo Police Department have bent the tips of badges belonging to officers after they were involved in an on-duty shooting....
Jan 04, 2022
The city of Vallejo has paid $12.7 million in settlements in 23 civil rights lawsuits for incidents since Jan. 1, 2012....
Dec 07, 2021
The lawsuit names Vallejo police officers Jerome Bautista, who has since been promoted to lieutenant, Kevin Barreto, and Detective Jarrett Tonn, who shot and killed Sean Monterrosa last year....
Oct 05, 2021
The lawsuit alleges that Jose Villalobos was walking to the bathroom inside St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church when officers in plainclothes approached and wrestled him to the ground....
