Jocelyn Moran, KPIX VALLEJO (CBS SF) — The outside walls of the gym at Hogan Middle School in Vallejo are painted with images of sports. One is leaving an impact on students even beyond the school hallways: Wrestling. “The one thing about wrestling is it’s all about readjustment. Nothing is always perfect. It’s about how you adjust yourself to your situation or your problem,” said Anthony Bonifacio, a former student of Coach Peter Trave. Bonifacio said he joined wrestling in the 8th grade, and he uses the lessons he learned then even now as a 20-year-old. “The analogy to life is life is going ..read more

VALLEJO (BCN) – The location of a proposed new police station appears to have shifted after Tuesday’s Vallejo City Council meeting when discussion on the proposed relocation of the headquarters pivoted from a waterfront location to the building currently housing the library. The council voted unanimously to explore the library site option. Public opposition to moving the department to 400 Mare Island Way on the waterfront has been pronounced. The council appeared to bend to the backlash and is now reviewing the relocation of the police department to the John F. Kennedy Library on Santa Clara S ..read more

VALLEJO (CBS SF) — It’s an issue that has shaken the Vallejo community. Since 2010, 19 people have been killed in officer involved shootings by Vallejo Police. On Wednesday night, officers sat down with the community in an effort to make reforms. The use of force policy has been in the works since 2019, even before Chief Shawny Williams joined the department. Williams has already seen positive changes within the department. “I would want them to know and what I believe is important is that we care,” he told KPIX. “We want to work with them so they can begin to see the changes that they’ve been ..read more

VALLEJO (CBS S/BCN) — An elderly woman and her daughter died after a fire ignited in a basement and swept through a Vallejo home, officials confirmed Thursday. The blaze at a single-story home in the 100 block of Bayview Avenue was reported at 4:47 p.m. Tuesday. When crews arrived, the fire had already engulfed the basement and spread to the house above. Firefighters searched the inside of the home while trying to bring the blaze under control. They found three residents, who were rescued and taken to hospitals. Shortly after arriving, two of them, an 81-year-old woman and her 50-year-old daug ..read more

VALLEJO (KPIX) — A plan to invest millions into refurbishing the Mare Island dry dock could lead to hundreds of new jobs in the East Bay, officials said Wednesday. Those jobs would come from what officials are hoping will be new contracts with the U.S, Navy. For years, the city of Vallejo has been discussing what the future of the island should look like. Now there’s a push to bring more ships and more workers to the old waterfront. “Mare Island is a very disparate bag of parts,” said Thomas D’Alesandro of Southern Land Company. “You’ve got kind of a residential neighborhood on one side, acros ..read more

VALLEJO (CBS SF) — Three people were rescued from a two-alarm fire at a Vallejo home Tuesday afternoon, but not before two them of suffered critical injuries, the fire department said. The fire burned a home on the 100 block of Bayview Ave. in a neighborhood just west of Interstate 80 and south of Redwood Ave. The Vallejo Fire Department said crews were dispatched at 4:47 p.m. and the fire was knocked down at 5:15 p.m. Aside from the 2 adults with critical injuries, a third adult suffered minor injuries, the fire department said. The cause of the fire was not immediately disclosed ..read more

VALLEJO (CBS SF) – A Vallejo man who once worked as a mentor to youth has pleaded guilty to child sexual exploitation, the Department of Justice announced. According to U.S. Attorney Phillip Talbert’s office, 43-year-old Tariq Arrhamman Majid entered guilty pleas on two counts at a court hearing on Monday. Majid was arrested on December 31, 2018 following an investigation into the sharing of child pornography. According to court documents, investigators found images and videos of Majid sexually abusing two minors. Investigators also found that Majid had contact with other minors, some of whom ..read more

VALLEJO (CBS SF/AP) — Matthew Muller, who sexually assaulted a Vallejo woman who was kidnapped from her home in what police initially thought was a hoax, was sentenced Friday to 31 years in state prison. Muller, who already is serving a 40-year sentence for federal crimes, was sentenced in Solano County Superior Court after pleading no contest to two counts of forcible rape of Denise Huskins, who was dragged from her Vallejo home in 2015, the county district attorney’s office said. He also pleaded guilty to robbery of an inhabited dwelling, residential burglary and false imprisonment. His stat ..read more

VALLEJO (CBS SF) – Police in Vallejo are investigating after a man was found fatally shot in a vehicle late Wednesday afternoon, in the city’s seventh homicide of the year. Around 5:10 p.m., officers were called to the 400 block of Mark Avenue, north of Highway 37, on reports of a shooting. When officers arrived, they found the victim sitting in the vehicle with at least one gunshot wound. Medical personnel were called in, but the victim was pronounced dead at the scene. Police on the scene following a fatal shooting on the 400 block of Mark Avenue in Vallejo on March 16, 2022. (CBS) The vic ..read more

VALLEJO (BCN) — The Vallejo Police Department identified the woman found stabbed to death Friday as 59-year-old Donna Marie Villanueva, who was living unsheltered when she was killed. Police found her body near Tennessee and Monterey streets at about 4:20 p.m., after responding to a report of a dead body. Villanueva’s death was the sixth homicide in Vallejo this year. Police said they had notified her next-of-kin. Police said this is an ongoing investigation and urged anyone with information about this crime to contact Detective Josh Caitham at (707) 658-4342 or Detective Yanette Hernandez at ..read more