Sharon Bernstein

2 weeks ago | sacbee.com | Sharon Bernstein

A Citrus Heights man pleaded guilty in federal court in Sacramento on Thursday to mail fraud in connection with a scheme to collect unauthorized unemployment benefits prosecutors said netted about $1 million, federal court records show. DeShawn Oshaea Campbell, 36, was the second defendant to plead guilty in the case, which prosecutors said involved more than 50 fraudulent unemployment claims.

2 weeks ago | sacbee.com | Sharon Bernstein

A Granite Bay man arrested on suspicion of cyberstalking, identity theft and posting sexually explicit photos online of his former girlfriend over a span of 14 years is scheduled to appear in federal court in Sacramento on Thursday. Jason David Campos was indicted in Oregon, where his former girlfriend moved after the pair were in a relationship in the Sacramento area, according to an April 9 indictment in federal court in Oregon.

2 weeks ago | sacbee.com | Sharon Bernstein

When the deadly Camp Fire swept through communities near his home in Lovelock in 2018, Rod Hass had only one means of communication — his old but reliable landline telephone. The Butte County resident was one of about 50 people who came from across the north state and beyond to a hearing room in Roseville on Wednesday, the vast majority of them making the trip to beg California communications regulators not to allow telephone companies to end landline services.

3 weeks ago | sacbee.com | Sharon Bernstein

A Sacramento County woman was sentenced Tuesday to just over a year in federal prison for cashing a stolen check at a Sacramento bank, part of a larger case that prosecutors said involved stealing multiple checks from mailboxes and cashing them throughout the area. Windy Lund pleaded guilty in November in federal court in Sacramento to one count of bank fraud, admitting that she altered a stolen mortgage check to add herself as a payee, and deposited it at a Bank of America ATM in Sacramento.

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Sharon Bernstein

A Sacramento County woman was sentenced Tuesday to just over a year in federal prison for cashing a stolen check at a Sacramento bank, part of a larger case that prosecutors said involved stealing multiple checks from mailboxes and cashing them throughout the area. Windy Lund pleaded guilty in November in federal court in Sacramento to one count of bank fraud, admitting that she altered a stolen mortgage check to add herself as a payee, and deposited it at a Bank of America ATM in Sacramento.