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Bail boosted to $4 million in car trunk kidnapping

Submitted by George Warren on Monday, May 20th, 5:05 pm

SACRAMENTO, CA - A judge quadrupled the bail to $4 million Monday for a convicted sex offender charged with forcing a 7-year-old girl into the trunk of his car in front of the child's mother.

Cedric Lain Holland, 25, faces charges of kidnapping to commit another crime and parole violation.

Previous story: Sex offender arrested in kidnapping of 7-year-old girl

In the May 11 incident, the girl and her mother were walking in the area of 54th Street and 47th Avenue when a man stopped his car, grabbed the child and forced her into the trunk.

A short time later, the child escaped from the trunk unharmed.

Holland, who previously was convicted of molesting a 5-year-old girl, was arrested a week later at a home about two miles from the scene of the kidnapping.

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UPDATE: Man, 85, missing after hospital visit located

Submitted by News10 Web Staff

Wednesday, May 8th, 2013, 11:27am

SACRAMENTO, CA - The Sacramento County Sheriff's Department says Ross Hightower, who went missing after he left a south Sacramento hospital Monday afternoon, has been found.

Hightower, 85, was safe, said sheriff's Sgt. Jason Ramos. No other details about where and when Hightower was found were made available.

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Calif. snowpack just 17 percent of normal

Submitted by News10 Web Staff

Thursday, May 2nd, 2013, 11:56am

ECHO SUMMIT, Calif. (AP) - California's last snow survey of the season is bad news for the millions of state residents who rely on the snowpack for their water.

The state Department of Water Resources found the water content in the snowpack on Thursday was 17 percent of normal, an ominous situation for a state that depends on a steady stream of snowmelt to replenish reservoirs throughout the summer.

In some places, there was no snow at all.

State officials are projecting they will deliver just 35 percent of the water that has been requested from the 29 agencies that rely on the snowmelt, which supplies more than 25 million Californians.

This year has been one of the driest rainy seasons on record in some parts of California.

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Fugitives accused of child abuse, manslaughter

Submitted by News10 Web Staff

Tuesday, April 30th, 2013, 3:37pm

SACRAMENTO, CA - A couple from Mississippi wanted for felony child abuse, child endangerment and manslaughter may be in Central or Northern California, according to the U.S. Marshals Service.

This isn't the first time Marshals have sought the public's help in finding Janet and Ramon Barreto. The pair are wanted in connection to the 2008 death of their toddler Enna Barreto in Mississippi. During a search of the Barretos' Mississippi home, law enforcement reported finding multiple children bound with duct tape and living in a trailer filled with feces. Some of the children were found to have food stored in their cheeks, because, they told investigators, they didn't know when they would next get food.

Also on the Barretos' property: malnourished puppies in a puppy mill the couple operated, according to investigators.

Ramon Barreto is believed to have a connection in Guatamala that involves child trafficking, the Marshal's news release said.

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Sacramento Kings should stay, recommends NBA panel

Submitted by News10 Web Staff

Monday, April 29th, 2013, 7:17pm

SACRAMENTO, CA - It's not the final decision but Monday, the NBA committee tasked with examining two competing bids for the Sacramento Kings recommended to the league's Board of Governors to deny the team's application to move to the Seattle.

The committee's vote was unanimous, 7-0 (some of the 12 members serve on both the relocation and finance committees which worked together on the reviewing the offers).

With the "all-in" vote, News10 Sports anchor Bryan May says that gives Sacramento at least 12 votes, more than the eight needed (to block a Seattle move) when the full vote by the Board of Governors (the 30 team owners or their representatives) is taken.

The owners have at least seven days to review the committee's recommendation before calling a meeting to vote. The NBA said Monday the owners would convene the week of May 13 to vote.

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Parents, global audience await decision in Sacramento custody case

Submitted by Paul Janes, News 10 Web Producer

Monday, April 29th, 2013, 3:55pm

CORRECTION April 29: Sacramento County Child Protective Services has not commented on the media attention or the legal process for this case. An earlier version of this story included incorrect information that has since been deleted.

SACRAMENTO - On Monday, a judge is expected to weigh in on a local custody case that has captivated people from Sacramento to Russia.

Sacramento County Child Protective Services removed baby Sammy Nikolayev from his parents' custody last Wednesday, after Anna and Alex Nikolayev took him out of Sutter Memorial Hospital without proper discharge.

Anna Nikolayev said she was taking her son to Kaiser Permanente after being displeased with the treatment her 5-month-old baby was receiving at Sutter Memorial Hospital, and was completely stunned by CPS' decision to take her son.

But CPS contends they removed the boy due to "severe neglect."

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