Wednesday, August 16, 2017 
Latest Citrus Heights police logs include $1,800 worth of tequila being stolen from Costco, multiple burglary reports, a man being arrested after reports of indecent exposure in front of multiple businesses, and trouble with an Uber passenger.
The following is a summary of select incidents listed in the Citrus Heights Police Department’s daily incident bulletins for August 1 through August 8.
A 38-year-old Citrus Heights man was arrested on Friday after detectives seized about $10,000 in heroin from a residence near San Juan and Madison avenues.
Police said approximately 4.5 ounces of heroin and “evidentiary items related to the sales of heroin” were seized while serving a narcotics search warrant on Friday evening at a residence on the 7400 block of Willowcreek Drive, off San Juan Avenue. The department estimated the…
Citrus Heights police announced the arrest of a 24-year-old man who is suspected of stabbing a woman while robbing her home early Wednesday morning. Police credited fast-acting neighbors with aiding in the arrest after the suspect was tackled to the ground by a nearby resident.
Officers responded to a residence on the 6000 block of Rowan Way around 5:40 a.m. Wednesday, located near Greenback Lane and San Juan Avenue. Upon arrival police said officers found neighbors were holding the suspect down and quickly took the man into custody, according to a police news release…
Citrus Heights police have arrested one man after neighbors reportedly tackled a suspected burglar to the ground following a stabbing at a home near Greenback Lane and San Juan Avenue, according to area news reports.
The incident reportedly occurred sometime around 6 a.m. Wednesday on Rowan Way, leaving a woman in her 40s with several stab wounds…
Latest Citrus Heights police logs include trouble with an “erratic” employee at Stones Casino, a man reportedly walking through Burlington Coat Factory holding a kitchen knife, vandalism and assault threats from a woman’s ex-boyfriend, and transients strewing garbage on a residential side street.
The following is a summary of select incidents listed in the Citrus Heights Police Department’s daily incident bulletins for July 27 through July 31.
More than a dozen neighborhoods in Citrus Heights celebrated National Night Out on Tuesday, with barbecues, ice cream socials, and even a small parade. The annual event is held around the country on the first Tuesday in August, with the goal of bringing neighbors and police together in the common cause of fighting crime.
Karen Bearman, a 27-year resident of Citrus Heights, organized a barbecue and potluck in her Miravale Court neighborhood on Tuesday night. Welcoming neighbors, police, and Councilman Albert Fox, she told The Sentinel she…
Automated red light cameras are commonly accused by motorists of being “revenue generators,” but how much money do they actually generate?
After the Citrus Heights city council voted 4-1 to expand the city’s red light camera program in July, Councilman Bret Daniels accused the program of being a moneymaker, but said he hadn’t seen actual figures on the revenue generated from the tickets…
Latest Citrus Heights police logs include a trio of residential firearm thefts, a grab-and-run attempt at Kohl’s, domestic violence on Autumn Oak Court, grade-school panhandlers on Tupelo Drive, and a loitering homeless woman “yelling at a tree” outside a pet hospital.
The following is a summary of select incidents listed in the Citrus Heights Police Department’s daily incident bulletins for July 22 through July 26.
Police and neighborhood groups across Citrus Heights are once again preparing for National Night Out, an annual crime-fighting effort held around the country on the first Tuesday in August.
Billed as “America’s night out against crime,” the effort seeks to prevent crime by connecting neighbors and building local partnerships between communities and police. National organizers say more than 16,000 communities will be involved this year, with local police reporting that various neighborhood events are on schedule in Citrus Heights…
At first glance, surveillance images released this week by Citrus Heights police appear to show a group of kids in a Sunday school room with a teacher. But with the church reporting stolen property and a time stamp on one image showing 1:50 a.m., Citrus Heights police confirmed the images show the burglary of a local church on Old Auburn Road — involving an adult suspect and what appears to be several young children.
“This burglary in particular is concerning to us because it looks like the suspect brought several juveniles with him, which put them in harms way,” Lt. David Gutierrez told The Sentinel on Friday. “At least a couple of those children appear really young and likely weren’t there for the purpose of burglarizing.”
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