A report of people seen walking into an East Oakland house with guns Tuesday afternoon led to the arrest of a parolee and the recovery of four firearms, police said.

A caller told police about 12:50 p.m. that there were people who had guns inside a house in the 2400 block of 90th Avenue.

More than 20 officers responded to the scene and shut down 90th Avenue between MacArthur Boulevard and Hillside Street while they established contact with the people inside...

Brandon Scott Wisuri, 29, and Robert Ray Guillory, a 27-year-old parolee-at-large,  were both arrested Tuesday afternoon at a home in the 300 block of West Alameda Street by street crimes unit officers after having to force open the front door.

Both men were transported to the San Joaquin County Jail where they are being held without bail on parole holds.

Manteca Police had reportedly received information that Wisuri was at the Alameda Street address.  It was also discovered that the residence had someone living there that was on searchable probation...

Long Beach Police Department Homicide detectives and the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office have launched an investigation into an officer-involved shooting of a parolee and suspected gang-member who allegedly pulled a gun on a patrolman, police said Friday morning.

The incident occurred at about 11:55 p.m. in North Long Beach, said Nancy Pratt, a Long Beach Police Department spokeswoman.

The officer was patrolling the area of Atlantic Avenue and East 51st Street when he spotted a vehicle traveling at a high rate of speed, Pratt said...

On 5/8/12 at 12:07 am, Walnut Creek Police Officers contacted four suspicious persons in a parking lot near Vice Ultra Lounge. Upon contact one subject (later identified as Pittsburg resident Terrance Hornbeck) ran from the officers and discarded a loaded firearm. Officers caught Hornbeck who began to fight with them. Officers used a taser to stop Hornbeck and he was taken into custody. The firearm, with an illegal high capacity magazine, was recovered.

Another subject (later identified as Hercules resident David Gideon) was arrested for an outstanding warrant for a weapons violation...

Police recovered a stolen 9mm Glock handgun from the roof of a carport in east-central Fresno Monday night after catching up with a parolee who tossed the weapon while running from officers, authorities said.

The chase began about 8 p.m. when officers saw two men loitering in a parking lot and turned around to check on them, police Sgt. James Fowler said. Both men began to run and one of them threw something as he took flight. A witness directed officers to the carport, where the weapon was recovered...

A Bulldog gang member is in jail after police say he snatched a necklace from a cashier at an East Central Fresno market.

Fresno Police arrested Gerald Kane Tuesday morning. Investigators say Kane was armed when he walked in to a Get N Go Market on Tulare and Peach in East Central Fresno Monday night...

A University of Southern California campus police officer has shot an armed parolee who tried to rob a group of students.

Wednesday's shooting comes a week after two USC international students from China were shot to death several blocks away. There's a Wednesday evening memorial service for them at the Shrine Auditorium...

Police are looking for a carjacking suspect accused of taking a vehicle from a woman at gunpoint Thursday night.

Police said David Hernandez, 25, of Earlimart approached the woman in the Target shopping center at 1363 W. Henderson Ave. about 7:20 p.m. and ordered her out of her car. Hernandez threatened to kill the woman if she reported the incident, police said.

Officers went to the Earlimart area, where they found the woman's car and the suspect's vehicle. The suspect led police on a short chase and eluded officers...

One Yucaipa deputy was injured and a suspect deceased after a shooting that took place in the Highland/San Bernard­ino area on Thursday morning March 29.

The suspect, a parolee-at-large, later identified as Brandon James Morrow, 40 of unknown residency, was wanted for questioning of a rape that occurred in Muscoy and a robbery that occurred in Yucaipa on March 22.

The Yucaipa incident took place about 10:05 a.m., on March 22, in front of Sail Drug Store, where the victim agreed to meet Morrow to exchange illicit drugs...

Two male parolees and a female companion were arrested Tuesday night in a Vallejo motel, a police department spokesman said Wednesday.

Jose Rendon, 30, of Vallejo was arrested at about 6:30 p.m. for violating the conditions of his parole by having a loaded concealed weapon in a room at the motel, Sgt. Herman Robinson said. Rendon was also wanted on a parolee-at-large warrant, he said...

A third man is behind bars in connection to a carjacking which took place over the weekend, San Bernardino County Sheriff's Hesperia station officials said on Wednesday.

Parolee Robin Vanhaastert, 33, of Hesperia was arrested late Tuesday night at a home in the 9200 block of Sixth Avenue, according to a release.

Authorities received a 911 call on Saturday night reporting an assault and a carjacking, officials said. The victim stated he was attacked and carjacked at knifepoint...

A 30-year-old Napa man was arrested during a Saturday night traffic stop for possessing a set of metal knuckles, police said.

Napa police said Paul Burnett was stopped for a vehicle code violation at 12:29 a.m. and found to be on parole and out on bail for a pending stolen property case....

U.S. District Court Judge Janis L. Sammartino sentenced on March 23 defendant Salvador Villegas Jr. to 64 months in prison and three years of supervised release, according to a press announcement Thursday by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms.

Villegas entered his guilty plea Aug. 11 and faced a maximum term of 10 years in prison and a maximum fine of $250,000...

Santa Cruz County Jail took in Capitola's William McKeen Veyl on Tuesday when the parolee was found to unlawfully be in possession of a firearm.

A parole search was conducted on Veyl's Rosedale Avenue home shortly after 9 a.m., and the sheriff's department recovered a Smith & Wesson 9MM pistol, a magazine and ammo, Sheriff's Deputy April Skalland said. Such possession is prohibited for parolees...

A parolee was behind bars today on suspicion of leading police on a foot chase in Thousand Palms and possessing a gun that was stolen from a Palm Desert home.

Honoro Hernandez, 35, of Thousand Palms was arrested just before 7 p.m. Tuesday in the 31000 block of Monte Vista in Thousand Palms, according to Sgt. Robert Brooker of the Riverside County Sheriff's Department.

Members of the Sheriff's Special Enforcement Bureau had been patroling the area when the driver of a green Honda Accord got out, threw a black bag as he ran along the side of a house and jumped over a fence, Brooker said...

Members of a regional gang task force investigating recent thefts in Corona arrested a parolee after finding him in possession of ammunition and later finding a revolver that the ammunition fit.

Joseph Paul Vega, 26, of Corona, was booked at the Presley Detention Center in Riverside for investigation of being a felon in possession of a firearm, participating in criminal street-gang activity and violating parole, Corona police said in a news release...

The U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force arrested 21 year old Jacory Noel Brown in Citrus Heights. Brown was wanted for Parole Violation and Assault with a Deadly Weapon.

Brown was convicted on March 1st 2010 of Unlawful Sex with Minor and Prostituting Children under the age of 14. He was sentenced to 4 years in prison but was paroled in March of 2011. Soon after Brown absconded and failed to report to his Parole Agent. On January 12th 2012 an additional warrant was issued by the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office for Brown who was wanted for Assault with a Deadly Weapon...

Deputies arrested a parolee spotted with a gun Saturday following a standoff of nearly two hours, authorities said.

William Lemus, 28, was ultimately taken into custody and was expected to be booked on charges including violating parole and weapons violations, Los Angeles County sheriff's Sgt. Dianna Woodward said...

A parolee was in custody Monday morning in the shooting Sunday night of a woman in her car in Pico Rivera.

Randy Avalos, 30, of Whittier, was arrested by deputies who responded to a report of a shooting in the 9400 block of Beverly Road at about 9:50 p.m. Sunday. A woman suffered a single gunshot wound to her leg, said Sgt. Richard Hernandez of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department Pico Rivera station...

The Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office is considering 33 year old Joshua Lee of Montague to be “armed and dangerous” after he allegedly assaulted his wife and drove her towards Hawkinsville Tuesday night, Jan. 31, 2012.

She got away and was picked up on Hwy 263 by a passing “good samaritan,” who kept driving, dragging Lee along, after he lunged into the car through an open passenger window, according to a press release from Sheriff’s Office public information officer Allison Giannini...

A 27-year-old Corning parolee was arrested early this morning by Tehama County sheriff's deputies for allegedly carrying an illegal billy club.

About 1 a.m., deputies pulled over Jonathan Michael Stamper in a traffic stop on Hall Road in Corning, deputies said...

Residents in the quiet historic Uptown Whittier neighborhood said they heard gunshots Friday afternoon on Washington Avenue just south of Beverly Boulevard.

Whittier Police officials said that at approximately 12:15 p.m., U.S. Marshals were shot at during the surveillance and attempted arrest of a male parolee wanted for carjacking in Whittier.

The incident took place in the 6000 block of Washington Ave in Uptown Whittier...

U.S. marshals trying to arrest a parolee in Whittier early Friday afternoon were fired on by the man, who then barricaded himself, police said.

The incident took place in the 6000 block of Washington Avenue, where marshals had been conducting surveillance of the man, who was wanted for a carjacking in the City of Industry.

When they tried to arrest him about 12:15 p.m., the man allegedly opened fire on them, according to a Whittier police statement...

A Santa Rosa gang member, out of prison on parole, was back in custody Wednesday after police detectives found he was carrying a gun and drugs for sale.

Mario Ochoa Gonzalez, 26, was known to police as a parolee and a gang member, reported Sgt. Ray Navarro.

Gonzalez was seen driving Wednesday in Santa Rosa, followed by a car also registered to him...

A 28-year-old man was arrested after officers conducting a parole compliance search turned up ammunition, a firearm and drugs, according to Sheriff's deputy April Skalland.

Officers conducted the search at the Santa Cruz residence of Daniel James Mendoza just before 1 p.m. Tuesday. Mendoza was suspected of being under the influence when officers arrived at the residence...

Milpitas Police Department officers arrested 53-year-old Milpitas resident Johnny Munoz on charges of being a felon in possession of weapons and drugs on Jan. 17 at about 11 a.m.

Munoz, a known parolee, and Ramon Garcia, a 21-year-old transient, were stopped by officers on the 900 block of Jacklin Road. Officers allegedly found brass knuckles in Munoz's possession. He was arrested for possession of an illegal weapon.

Garcia, who was also on parole, was allegedly in possession of several baggies of methamphetamine, police said...

An investigation was under way today into the death of a wanted parolee and suspected gang member who turned out to be unarmed when he was shot and killed by Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies in Lancaster while allegedly running away and appearing to reach for a weapon.

The man killed late Saturday night was Christian Cobian, 26, of Lancaster, the Los Angeles County coroner's office said this morning.

Cobian was on probation following felony convictions and was wanted on a narcotics warrant, according to the Sheriff's Department...

Two men were arrested in Milpitas this week, and police officers seized firearms, other illegal weapons and drugs in their possession.

On Tuesday, Jan. 17 at approximately 11:06 a.m., Milpitas Police officers performed a traffic stop on the 900 block of Jacklin Road. The vehicle they stopped contained 53-year-old Johnny Munoz of Milpitas - a former convicted felon out on parole - and 21-year-old Ramon Garcia, a transient...

The man shot during a violent struggle with a Sacramento County sheriff's deputy last weekend has been booked into jail, according to authorities.

After treatment for his non-life-threatening injuries, 23-year-old Lonnie Hammett, pictured at left, was arrested and booked on suspicion of resisting a peace officer, possession of stolen property, unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and violating parole, said sheriff's spokesman Deputy Jason Ramos.

On Sunday morning, a deputy patrolling the Arden-Arcade area saw two men walking away from a closed county building on Fulton Avenue, Ramos said. As the deputy tried to talk to them, one of them, later identified by authorities as Hammett, punched the deputy and ran, Ramos said...

A parolee and reputed gang member was charged with capital murder Tuesday in the 2011 slaying of an Inglewood nightclub owner.

Alonzo Ester, 67, also known as Dicky McKnight, was found shot to death inside a Rolls-Royce in front of his Baldwin Hills home last May.

Police say he was driving home from his club, Dynasty, around 3 a.m. when he was shot several times from the passenger side of the car...

A SWAT team took up positions around a Del Cerro motel today after federal agents heard what sounded like gunfire sounding from inside a room believed to be occupied by a parolee-at-large and another person.

Deputy U.S. marshals reported the possible shooting at Days Inn & Suites Mission Valley, 5343 Adobe Falls Road, shortly after 11:30 a.m. and requested assistance from the San Diego Police Department, SDPD Detective Gary Hassen said. It was not immediately clear if anyone was wounded...

An 18-year-old parolee was found hiding a handgun under a mattress during a search, the County Gang Task Force reported.

About 6:45 p.m. Wednesday, Gang Task Force members went to the home of 18-year-old Hulysis Martinez on the 900 block of Trafton Road near Watsonville in North Monterey County, said Gang Task Force Commander Mario Sulay. An officer noticed Martinez hide a loaded, 9mm semi-automatic handgun under a mattress, Sulay said. The gun was seized and found to be registered to someone else, Sulay said...

A parolee arrested in the shooting of a parole officer in Lake View Terrace will be charged with attempted murder of a police officer, authorities said Thursday.

Steven Hoff, 45, evaded officers after he shot and seriously wounded a patrol agent Wednesday afternoon, authorities said. He was arrested in Lake View Terrace after an hours-long manhunt that shut down part of the busy 210 Freeway and forced two schools to be locked down.

Law enforcement officers were looking for the suspect Wednesday because he had allegedly violated his parole. They were near a trailer in Lake View Terrace when they heard gunfire about 1:30 p.m., and a parole agent was struck in the face...

A 21-year-old Petaluma man believed to have fired a gun at a pursuing patrol deputy New Year's Eve was arrested in San Francisco late Wednesday night as he prepared to board a Greyhound bus for Arizona, the Sonoma County Sheriff's Office said.

Connor Timothy Woods, who already was on parole for a weapons violation that earned him a short stint in state prison, is being held without bail in the wake of his 9:30 p.m. arrest at the Folsom Street bus depot, sheriff's Sgt. Mike Raasch said.

Woods is believed to have been the subject of a manhunt begun around 11:45 p.m. Saturday after the unidentified deputy pulled over a car for a traffic infraction on Stony Point Road at West Hearn Avenue, Raasch said...

A known gang member and parolee was stabbed by multiple men in a north Gilroy gang attack, police said.

Just before 10:15 p.m. Wednesday, the 20-year-old man was walking alone on the 8100 block of Murray Avenue when the attack occurred, police said. After the attack, police received a call from the man saying that he had been stabbed, police said. Police responded to Grant Court to find him lying in the road...

A 21-year-old parolee is in custody on charges of stealing a handgun and knife from a vehicle in Big Bear City.

Robert Standard was arrested Dec. 22 on suspicion of stealing the weapons, according to Detective Lonnie Siebert. Deputies from the Big Bear Sheriff’s Station were notified at 9:59 a.m. Dec. 22 about the missing items from a vehicle in the 400 block of East Country Club Boulevard in Big Bear City. Detectives were aware that Standard, a parolee at large, was in the Big Bear area, and was a suspect in the theft. Standard was wanted on other parole violations as well, Siebert said...

A bicyclist was arrested Tuesday for allegedly running away from police and for having a gun and bullets in his bag.

Police later found out he was a parolee with a warrant for violating parole.

An officer tried to pull over the bicyclist in the 200 block of South Azusa Avenue shortly after 8 p.m., Azusa police Sgt. Xavier Torres said. He said the traffic stop was for a "lighting equipment violation."

The bicyclist rode away then later abandoned the bike and ran...

Dos Palos Police Officer Cliff Battles on Monday arrested a subject considered armed and dangerous on Monday for a parole violation.

The California Department of Corrections issued a warrant with a caution of “armed and dangerous” for Tony Anthony Civitillo, 44.

Civitillo was considered a “high-control parolee” with a history of assaults, battery, drug use and possession of firearms, according to a police department news release...

A man wanted in connection with an Oroville shooting death has been arrested in Sacramento.

According to a press release issued Sunday by the Oroville Police Department, Derrick Michael Blanton, 23, of Oroville, was arrested at about 6 p.m. Saturday at the home of a relative in Sacramento.

The arrest came in a joint operation of Sacramento police, U.S. Marshals Office and the state Department of Corrections Fugitive Task Force...

Sacramento police arrested a man early this morning, after he was discovered to be a parolee in possession of a Japanese throwing star.

Police conducted a traffic stop at Franklin Boulevard and 26th Avenue around 12:30 a.m. this morning.

The driver, Tom Vang, 27, was on parole...

Deputies arrested a McKinleyville parolee who was parked on a residential street in the Eureka area early Tuesday morning with a loaded Tec-9 assault style rifle, a loaded sawed off shotgun and a black ski cap in his vehicle.

Sheriff's deputies responded to Starland Court in Eureka after receiving a call at about 3 a.m. from a resident about a possible prowler in her backyard, according to the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office...

A driver got more than a ticket Wednesday when he allegedly handed over a gun to his passenger who dropped it in plain view of a deputy.

Both were arrested.

The incident was reported at 6:15 p.m. at Vicki Drive and Choisser Street in the unincorporated county area of West Whittier.

Sheriff's Lt. Jerry Cummins said a deputy pulled over a driver for running a stop sign...

A parolee was arrested Friday morning for allegedly possessing a firearm.

State parole asked the Merced Police Department to see if parolee Sergio Valdez, 40, was within his parole conditions, according to Lt. Tom Trindad of the Merced Police Department...

A parolee whom Oxnard police describe as a gang member is sitting in the Ventura County Jail without bail after being arrested Thursday on charges of possessing a handgun.

On Nov. 3 around 3:15 p.m., officers with the Oxnard Police Department Special Enforcement Unit arrested Antonio Medina, 19, near Alexander Street and MacArthur Place. Medina was seen reportedly tossing a handgun over a fence as officers approached.

In California, it is illegal for a felon to possess a handgun. Police also determined that the gun was loaded...

Police arrested a man who was waiting to turn himself in outside the police station with a hammer, authorities said.

Joshua Johnson, 40 of Morgan Hill and a parolee-at-large, was seen on surveillance camera outside the police station at 16200 Vineyard Blvd. about 11:59 p.m. Friday, Sgt. Shane Palsgrove said.

Johnson was "acting suspiciously" outside the station's front doors, and dispatchers from inside asked the man via intercom if he needed any help, police said...

The Monterey County Sheriff's Department S.A.F.E. Task conducted probation/parole searches and compliance checks of registered sex offenders in the Salinas and North Monterey County areas.

43-year-old Francisco Alcala was found to be possession of a controlled substance and a deadly weapon.  Alcala was arrested and booked into Monterey County Jail for related charges and violation of probation...

A La Puente parolee who ran a stop sign was arrested Saturday night after fleeing from police and being caught with a stolen handgun, authorities said Monday.

According to a news release from the Azusa Police Department, an officer was patrolling the area near Fifth Street and Rockvale Avenue about 10 p.m. when he saw Robert Patino, 36, ride on his bicycle through a stop sign.

The officer tried to stop Patino, but he rode north of Rockvale in an attempt to elude capture. Several block later, the officer blocked Patino's path. Patino then ditched the bicycle and took off on foot...

Orange County Sheriff's deputies descended on a San Clemente home because they feared a parolee at large with access to weapons had holed himself up in his Calle Real residence.

The incident began unfolding at about 9:15 a.m. Monday when a parole agent asked deputies for help in finding the man. Deputies found a vehicle owned by the parolee near his residence, but it was being driven by the man's landlord, leading authorities back to the Calle Real home...

A parolee at large and his accomplice are behind bars after Victorville SMASH Gang Team members found drugs and a firearm in their vehicle, San Bernardino County Sheriff's Victorville station officials said Saturday.

Parolee at large Ricardo Quintana, 32, of Adelanto, and Cody Cazares, 25, of Hesperia, were arrested for a variety of charges including transportation of drugs and possession of methamphetamine. Gang enhancements will be sought, according to a news release.

SMASH team members had served a search warrant at the Queen’s Motel on Thursday night when they learned a drug transaction was going to take place later that night in the 16200 block of Bear Valley Road, officials said...

An early Thursday morning traffic stop by Manteca Police yielded one parolee, another man on searchable probation, with two guns, ammunition, burglary tools, plastic gloves, drugs and binoculars that sent both men to jail.

Officer Aaron Montoya made the stop on Highway 120 near Airport Way at about 2:30 a.m.  He was soon backed up by officers Mark Rangel and Kirk Doty, according to police spokesman officer Jason Hensley...

A Santa Clara County sheriff's deputy shot and wounded a parolee after the suspect pointed a BB gun at him in Cupertino, authorities said today.

The incident happened at about 9:10 p.m. Monday at the corner of Stevens Creek Boulevard and Tantau Avenue, south of Interstate 280, where Santa Clara County sheriff's Deputy John Gonzalez saw Kevin Quinnette, 32, looking into a car that turned out to be stolen, authorities said...

Good pursuit, WCPD. A parolee from Oakland led the WCPD on a sneaker chase through backyards, over fences, that ended up on Overlook Drive and Harvard Circle. A handgun and a high-capacity magazine were found in his car, police said. The parolee, Branden Smith was arrested for various charges. Officers from Concord, Danville and Sheriff’s department assisted in the arrest. 

After arresting a Temecula parolee, Riverside County Sheriff's deputies searched his home, finding drugs, guns, a system for monitoring police, and a gas mask, a news release said Thursday.

The Sheriff's Special Enforcement Bureau arrested Michael Ortiz, 32, about 2 p.m. Wednesday. The Temecula Police Department's Special Enforcement Team then used a warrant to search his home in the 29600 block of Monte Verde...

A tip led investigators to a paroled felon's South Los Angeles home where they found a weapons cache that included an AK-47 assault rifle, a Ruger .223 caliber Mini-14 rifle and a .45 caliber pistol, a sheriff's lieutenant said Saturday.

There were also numerous rounds for each weapon and spare magazines for both rifles, loaded with live rounds, at the home of Luis Placido, 31, in the 11200 block of Grape Street, said sheriff's Lt. Richard Westin of the department's Operations Safe Streets Bureau...

The Sheriff's Department uncovered several weapons at a home west of Bakersfield.

Officials loaded up more than a dozen rifles Monday night from a home on Stockdale Highway, west of Interstate Five.

Authorities say a parole officer went to the home Sunday to check on a parolee identified as 46-year-old Mason Snow, Jr. The officer found several boxes of ammunition...

A 24-year-old man was arrested at 4:35 a.m. today after police saw him in a 1988 Toyota Camry on the less-than-100 block of White Road in Salinas with a red jacket draped over his head and the steering wheel.

Police said Guillermo Martinez, a registered Norteno gang member on state parole, had a methamphetamine pipe he had tried to destroy, methamphetamine and a loaded .32-caliber semi-automatic handgun.

Martinez has been arrested on other occasions related to illegal possession of handguns, police said. He was booked into Monterey County Jail on suspicion of twelve violations of California penal codes….

Sunday at approximately 12:08 p.m., a riot involving two Hispanic prison gang factions, Northern and Southern Hispanics occurred in the Facility-C Maximum Security General Population yard at the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and state prison resulting in injuries to 11 inmates who were transported offsite to area hospitals for medical attention.

The incident involved approximately 75 inmates, some of which utilized inmate manufactured stabbing and slashing type weapons. One of the 11 inmates sustained serious enough injuries, requiring helicopter transportation to a nearby hospital. That inmate is listed in stable condition.

Responding correctional staff discharged pepper spray, rubber baton rounds, and two warning shots from a mini-14 rifle to stop the fighting. Following the incident, officers recovered 28 inmate manufactured stabbing and slashing type weapons from the scene.

None of the correctional officers received any injuries as a result of this incident…

Nevada prison officials have confiscated hundreds of portable typewriters from inmates who have used them for decades to tap out legal briefs to appeal their convictions, arguing parts of the machines could be converted into weapons.

The Department of Corrections cited two incidents of violence in recently changing the policy — one when an inmate died and another when a guard was threatened.

Inmates have filed a growing pile of lawsuits protesting the new rule, saying officials are using the security argument as an excuse to try to slow their legal complaints about overcrowded prisons and difficult living conditions…

Saturday, July 22, 1978, began as a peaceful day. Pontiac residents were going about their typical Saturday routine, some were playing golf, some were shopping. Lawns were being mowed.

Nothing seemed out of the ordinary. Nothing, that is, until about 9:45 a.m.

It was at that time when armed inmates began a riot that lasted for most of the day. Three guards were killed and three more injured in what has been described as the worst riot in Illinois Department of Corrections history…

As a tribute to his mother, Donna Fitzgerald's only son wore a pink tuxedo jacket to her funeral Wednesday, the coat a vibrant spot in the sea of blue, dark green, black and brown uniforms worn by hundreds at the slain corrections officer's funeral.

The 50-year-old Fitzgerald was murdered by an inmate on June 25 at Tomoka Correctional Institution, corrections officials said. Enoch Hall, 39, who is serving two life sentences for rape and kidnapping, is charged with first-degree murder in Fitzgerald's death.

According to reports, Hall stabbed Fitzgerald several times with a piece of sheet metal he fashioned into a knife. The night she died, Fitzgerald was supervising Hall and several other inmates who were on an overtime work detail in the prison's PRIDE program…

Hundreds of law enforcement officials paid their respects to U.S. Penitentiary Atwater correctional officer Jose Rivera during a service Friday at St. Patrick's Parish in Merced.

Rivera, 22, of Chowchilla was killed June 20 after being attacked by two inmates and stabbed with a homemade shank. The two U.S. Penitentiary Atwater inmates suspected in the killing are from Guam.

Jose Palacios, director of the Guam Department of Corrections, identified the two inmates suspected in the killing as James Leon Guerrero and Joseph Cabrera Sablan, 40. Palacios said they were transferred off the small Pacific island because of their violent behavior at the prison there. Guerrero was implicated in the death of a correctional officer in Guam in 1987, though he was not convicted…

A California State Prison, Solano inmate stabbed Tuesday at the facility continues to recover at John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek, prison officials said Thursday.

The inmate, whose name was not released, had brawled with two fellow members of the southern Hispanic group at the prison and was repeatedly stabbed in the back and kidney area, officials said.

One wound resulted in a collapsed lung, officials said, describing the other cuts as superficial…

ST. CLAIRSVILLE — A dozen homemade knives were found Tuesday during a prison search by 180 corrections officers.

Belmont Correctional Institution spokeswoman Kathy Cole said the search, known as a clearout, was a routine operation — something that is done at state prison facilities on a rotating basis. The officers are part of specially trained tactical teams.

She noted what initially was thought by union representatives to be a diagram of the jail and surrounding area was actually a sketch of an inmate's neighborhood…

A four-hour standoff in East Oakland between police and an armed parolee who didn't want to leave his grandfather's home ended peacefully Sunday night after police negotiators succeeded in talking the man into surrendering, officials said.

The incident began shortly after 7 p.m. when the man's grandfather and brother called police to report that after being told to leave the home, the man waved a loaded handgun and threatened violence, according to Lt. Ken Whitman. Police determined that the man was a convicted felon who had served time for assault with a deadly weapon and possession of a firearm…