Amador Unit California Highway Patrol Officer Marsac had a busy morning yesterday, with two collisions in the span of just a few hours. According to the report the accident occurred at 7:20 in the morning, on Michigan Bar Rd when an Ione man reached for his cell phone to check a message. In the process he drifted over the center line and struck a vehicle head on that had stopped in the roadway for a…
District Attorney Todd Riebe says, former California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitations Officer Steve Andrew Felter, has been ordered to pay 122-thousand-dollars in restitution. He was previously sentenced to 100 days in jail, and placed on five-years formal probation after pleading guilty to two felony counts of workers’ compensation fraud in Amador County Superior Court.
Some police work Monday night resulted in the arrest of an Ione man for helping himself to some tires. CHP Officer Jeremy Dobler noticed a vehicle parked at Jackson Tire around 9:30 in the evening.
The Public Comment period on the adequacy of the Draft EIR for the City of Jackson’s Land Use, Circulation and Zoning Project was discussed by the Jackson Planning Commission this week.
Monday night Amador County emergency personnel responded to reports of a single vehicle collision on Camanche Rd., near the San Joaquin County Line. Multiple units responded to the crash only to find an abandoned vehicle in a filed wrecked into a tree. C-H-P was able to piece together the crash and locate the driver. According to the report, the wreck occurred when Phil Bolek was driving eastbound on Camanche Parkway while intoxicated. When attempting to…
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Another destructive fire destroyed several homes in Tahoe City this weekend and Amador County had yet another close call with potential destruction Sunday afternoon.
Amador County Sheriff’s Deputies had a pursuit on their hands yesterday morning when a driver failed to yield to a Deputy attempting a routine traffic stop.