Month: August 2026

By Kayla Moeller

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    FAIRFIELD, California (KOVR) — A 37-year-old Fairfield woman has been missing for more than a month, and police say they believe foul play may be involved.

Chantel Brooks was last seen July 17 after leaving work in San Francisco shortly after midnight. Surveillance video later captured Brooks at a CVS in Fairfield before 2 a.m.

Her family says Brooks’ black Infiniti SUV was later captured by a Flock license plate reader in an East Oakland neighborhood that same day.

The search for Brooks has since expanded across Solano, Alameda and San Francisco counties.

Brooks’ family recently celebrated her 37th birthday without her.

“She’s just the life of the party to us,” her brother, Kevin Robinson, said. “It’s like a big piece of my heart is missing right now, trying to put it back together.”

Fairfield police began investigating the case July 28 after receiving a request for a welfare check. On Monday, police held a news conference and reiterated that investigators suspect foul play.

Fairfield Police Department spokesperson Michelle Belyea said investigators have devoted hundreds of hours to the search.

“Over the last 28 days, Fairfield police employees have spent over 500 hours working diligently to locate Chantel,” Belyea said.

Police said several vehicles that may be connected to the investigation have been located and towed. Investigators are processing those vehicles for possible evidence.

Police also addressed social media posts circulating about who may be responsible for Brooks’ disappearance. Authorities said no suspects have been identified at this time.

For Brooks’ family, the lack of answers has made the past month especially difficult.

“As a family, it’s been almost 36 days for us,” Robinson said. “It’s scary. We need a sign of life. We need something.”

Despite the uncertainty, Robinson said the family is continuing to search for Brooks and remains hopeful she will be found.

“We’re still feet to the ground,” he said. “It doesn’t stop until we get her home. We can’t stop what we’re doing. Our hope is still there.”

Police and Brooks’ family are asking anyone who may have seen her or has information about her disappearance to contact the Fairfield Police Department’s tip line at 707-428-7300.

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By Richard Ramos, Steve Large

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    SACRAMENTO, California (KOVR) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom and his family are selling their Sacramento-area home as the governor prepares to leave office in January 2027.

Newsom’s approximately 12,700-square-foot home on Tobia Way in Fair Oaks was listed Monday for $7.5 million.

Newsom spokesperson Izzy Gardon said the family began transitioning to Marin County in 2024, when they purchased a home there to provide continuity for their children’s education.

“The sale of their Sacramento home is the next step in that transition,” Gardon said.

Real estate appraiser Ryan Lundquist is watching to see how many possible buyers will try and meet the asking price for the Newsom home.

The Newsoms bought it for a Fair Oaks record $3.9 million in 2018. The record still stands as it now hits the market for $7.5 million.

“This is outlier territory. Very few people compete at this level,” Lundquist said.

Newsom’s office said he is the third consecutive California governor to split his time between Sacramento and another part of the state, though the Fair Oaks property is roughly 15 miles from the State Capitol.

Former Gov. Jerry Brown commuted from his home in Oakland for part of his time in office, while former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger commuted from Los Angeles throughout his tenure.

Rob Stutzman worked for Schwarzenegger.

“Remarkably, California does not provide its governor with a residence,” Stutzman said. “The problem is no one wants to be the governor that comes in and says, ‘hey taxpayers, buy me a house to live in,’ so it’s been a difficult problem.”

The sale of the Tobia Way property comes as the governor enters the final months of his second term. California limits governors to two terms, meaning Newsom was unable to seek reelection.

Sally Dunbar lives near the governor’s Fair Oaks home. Newsom once wrote a handwritten note to her after protesters descended on their block.

“It’s hard to read his writing: ‘I’m so sorry about all the disruption I have brought to the neighborhood, all my best, Gavin,’ ” Dunbar said, reading the letter.

Dunbar hopes whoever the next governor is they might consider making this their home too.

“It has a tennis court, swimming pool, great neighbors, awesome neighbors, I have to say,” Dunbar said.

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By Matthew Rodriguez

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    LOS ANGELES, California (KCAL, KCBS) — A security guard at LAX faces a federal charge after he was allegedly caught with 24 pounds of fentanyl in an airport bathroom.

Miguel Angel Tuz-Noh, 24, was charged with possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance. The Department of Justice also charged Los Angeles County resident Anthony Olvera, 23, with the same felony. They face a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years in federal prison and a maximum of life in prison.

Federal prosecutors said the Drug Enforcement Agency and the Los Angeles Airport Police carried out the investigation into the duo. Investigators said they watched Tuz-Noh and Olvera attempt to exchange the drugs in a men’s bathroom in Terminal 6 on Aug. 19.

In the criminal complaint, investigators noted that the restroom was “known for drug trafficking.”

Officers detained the two men after they left the bathroom. Investigators seized Olvera’s duffle bag and found 10 “brick-type packages” filled with roughly 11 kilograms, or 24.3 pounds, of fentanyl inside.

Police said Olvera allegedly agreed to fly with the illicit drugs to Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.

DEA agents said they believed Tuz-Noh had ties to a larger drug-trafficking organization and helped smuggle more than 100 kilograms through LAX since October 2025.

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By Michele Gile

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    SAN CLEMENTE, California (KCAL, KCBS) — A San Clemente man is paralyzed after he jumped into the ocean to rescue two kids caught in a rip current.

With his wife Rose by his side, Josh Collette has been in the ICU for 10 days after the accident at San Clemente’s Riviera Beach. Unable to talk, his wife Rose read her husband’s lips as he recalled what happened on Saturday.

The father of 5, a swimmer and a surfer, said he jumped into the ocean after he spotted the rip current pulling the children.

“I dove head first, and that’s my fault,” Josh said. “I should not have.”

The 42-year-old said he didn’t realize the swell and rip currents created a wall of sand before he dove in headfirst.

“I could feel myself dying,” he said. “I couldn’t breathe and they pulled me up out of the water.”

He felt his body tingle as bystanders rushed toward him and his wife started mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.

“We knew right away,” Rose said. “He looked at me dead in the eyes and said, ‘I broke my neck. I cannot breathe.'”

Doctors at Providence Mission Hospital said he broke two vertebrae and badly damaged his spinal cord. Josh said he can’t feel anything below his shoulders. Family members started raising money online to help him move to a Colorado facility that specializes in these types of injuries.

In the meantime, the community has stepped up to help the family by caring for the kids, delivering meals, helping with schoolwork and walking the dog.

“My spirit, my heart, is so full,” Josh said. “I’ve never felt so much love.”

Josh said he’d do it all over again to help someone in need. The children struggling in the surf got out safely.

“He’s always loved to save the day,” Rose said. “I just feel like he’s our family hero.”

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By Logan Smith

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    SALIDA, Coloraod (KCNC) — Three members of a violent Venezuelan gang who are believed responsible for a frightening, rage-fueled pursuit of a Colorado man remain free as a single member of the group begins serving a prison sentence.

Two months ago, Daviler Brito Ibarra was ordered to serve three years in the Colorado Department of Corrections.

According to case records, Ibarra led the other three men from a party in Buena Vista to a hotel room in Salida in search of revenge. Ibarra and an unspecified number of his friends reportedly groped a woman at the Buena Vista party. That woman’s husband came to her defense and confronted Ibarra, according to the arrest affidavit.

Ibarra attacked the husband with a rock and injured him, per the report. The man escaped the assault and fled in his vehicle toward Salida.

Ibarra and the others followed, but not before Ibarra told the woman that he was going to kill her husband, according to the affidavit.

Her husband later told investigators that he “began hiding because he knew how dangerous these guys were and feared for his life.”

Ibarra’s group went to the Sinawav Lodge in Salida. There, at 3 a.m. on Nov. 2, 2025, Ibarra began kicking a car and stabbing it with a six-inch knife that was parked in front of a resident’s room. Inside that room was another woman, an acquaintance of Ibarra’s from their workplace, who had been at the same party in Buena Vista. But, according to the affidavit, that woman said she had left the party four hours earlier and knew nothing of the conflict.

She told investigators that while Ibarra was stabbing the car, he “was explaining this was how he was going to kill someone.”

She also said Ibarra appeared extremely intoxicated.

Ibarra then kicked down the door to the room. It was a solid-core wood door, investigators noted, and was found in several pieces inside the room.

Once inside, Ibarra and his friends terrorized the woman and an unidentified person, holding them at gunpoint and knifepoint, per the report. Ibarra yelled that he was going to kill them both if they did not tell him where the man who had fled from the party was hiding. He also tackled the woman onto her bed and held a knife near her face, repeating his demands, according to the affidavit.

The affidavit did not describe how the incident ended. Later press releases from both Salida and Buena Vista police departments stated Ibarra and the three other men – Miguel Polo, Carlos Reyes, and their alleged driver, Wisan Ruiz – fled to the Front Range after the attack.

The woman and the other person inside the hotel room were scared but uninjured, per the police report.

The affidavit did not state how or why Ibarra’s group chose to drive to the Sinawav Lodge to pursue the man who fled the party, but their instincts were correct. It stated that the man did drive there but hid some distance from the building. He witnessed Ibarra’s arrival, his yelling and stabbing of the car, and the kicking down of the door.

The affidavit also did not explain whether the man knew either of the people inside the lodge’s room. It also did not describe the severity of his injuries from the attack at the party.

Ibarra was arrested four days later in the Denver area by Salida PD officers and agents from the Colorado Bureau of Investigation’s Fugitive Task Force. His arrest warrant called for two counts of attempted murder and six other felonies, but he was sentenced to three years behind bars after pleading guilty to a single count of felony burglary.

The other three men have not been found.

Separately, the police chiefs of the Buena Vista and Salida police departments expressed their concern to CBS Colorado for the safety of the victims.

In fact, the Salida officer who wrote Ibarra’s affidavit noted the suspects are reportedly “members of a Venezuelan gang, likely Tren de Aragua.”

“Many persons related to this case,” he wrote, “refused to provide witness statements because they were under the influence of fear if Daviler or his friends found out. Specifically, (the husband) stated that when these guys figured out they spoke with police, they would be killed.”

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By Jermont Terry

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    CHICAGO, Illinois (WBBM) — A community alert is warning residents, especially seniors, about a ruse burglary on the city’s Southwest Side.

Neighbors say they’re left shaken after an elderly couple was lured out of their home by thieves, who ransacked their house and stole from them.

Sam Washington says he’s keeping an extra eye out for anything out of the ordinary.

“With me, you know, I’m always checking my surroundings,” he said. “You have to really be careful who you let in or even talk to.”

Last week, near 115th and Campbell, a man knocked on an elderly couple’s front door.

“I believe in this case it was some type of landscaping discussion. We can take care of these overgrown trees,” said Ald. Matt O’Shea (19th).

An investigation revealed that when the husband and wife in their 80s stepped out to listen to the estimate, another man slipped into the house.

A neighbor spotted the second man going inside and tried getting the couple’s attention, but it was too late. The thieves still got away with cash, jewelry and other valuables.

“The car was parked down the block, which is typical in these cases. They don’t park right out in front. There was a decent description and detectives are working the case,” O’Shea said.

The thieves removed the license plate. While this is the only crime reported recently, O’Shea insisted Chicago police put out an alert because the crime targeted seniors.

“These types of crimes we see a lot in the suburbs. We don’t see very often in our community,” he said.

Washington was more disturbed because it wasn’t a random door knock.

“They followed them from the grocery store,” he said.

Washington says there are clusters of seniors still living alone in their homes within the community.

For that reason, the alderman is reminding seniors to never open their door for anyone soliciting. He says if you hear a knock, lock the door and call 911.

“That’s why we usually see in our community … nosy neighbors. Nosy neighbors are the best defense,” he said.

The neighbor who spotted the burglar is a retired CPD officer. His actions reduced the time the crooks had inside the house.

Police are encouraging people to stay alert, especially when returning home.

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By Briauna Brown

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    ROYSE CITY, Texas (KTVT) — The officer involved in a viral confrontation with a Black family in Royse City has been fired, the department announced in a news release Monday.

The officer, who has not been publicly named, was being investigated for excessive force after body camera and dash camera footage showed him pulling a woman by the hair and other officers pushing a woman who was holding a child. An officer was also seen punching a young woman in the face multiple times.

Internal Affairs said the officer who had been on administrative leave since the incident “did violate department standards, policies and procedures” and was terminated, the department said.

The actions of three other officers seen in the video were found to be justified, according to officials.

One of the alleged victims, an 18-year-old who was arrested at the scene, will not be facing charges, Royse City Police said. The department said it will refer the case of a second woman who was taken into custody for interfering to the Collin County District Attorney’s Office.

“Today’s announcement confirms that serious misconduct occurred and that the family’s and community’s concerns were warranted. Terminating this officer is an important step, but it cannot be the final step,” Next Generation Action Network said in a statement. “NGAN remains deeply concerned that the department has announced its intention to refer criminal charges against a 35-year-old woman involved in the encounter while simultaneously acknowledging that the conduct of one of its own officers violated departmental standards to such a degree that termination was warranted.”

Royse City Police is also investigating an unidentified third suspect who allegedly struck an officer in the face.

NGAN, who has been advocating for the family since the incident, has continued to call for the full public release of the body-camera and dash-camera footage connected to this incident.

Videos show a chaotic scene The incident happened at the Creekside community pool on Aug.3. Royse City Police said officers were responding to a disturbance call.

“We were at the pool or whatnot, and there was a couple, an older couple, there,” Amaiyah Allen-Smith said. “It was me, my sisters, all of us, or whatnot. The rest, they’re not here. And there was an older couple there. We were listening to music.”

Allen-Smith said the woman in the couple alerted a pool attendant, then called police.

In a video that began circulating online, at least five officers can be seen, and shrieks, screams, and cries are heard.

A young woman holding a child approached another officer, he pushed her, she struck him, and he shoved her in the face.

Feet away, another officer struck a shirtless person multiple times in the face. The officer is also seen putting a woman in a patrol car, the same woman who is shown on the ground having her hair yanked by an officer.

CBS News Texas was present when two of the women involved, Janiaca Wheeler and Zoey Manning, spoke to the public, calling for officers to be fired.

What happens next Royse City Police said the internal investigation is now closed, while the criminal investigation into the incident remains open.

“The Royse City Police Department will not condone misconduct by any member of the police department and will take appropriate action when misconduct occurs,” the department said in a statement.

NGAN said while it does recognize the decision that Royse City Police made to take disciplinary action, “transparency must now accompany accountability. The termination of one officer does not close the larger conversation.”

NGAN said the family involved deserves a fair process and the public deserves to see all of the evidence of the actions of the Royse officers.

“Today we learned that the Royse City Police Department has fired Officer Robert Crider following his use of excessive force against Janiaca Wheeler and her family,” said Blerim Elmazi, one of the attorneys for the family. “This is a step in the right direction. However, one officer’s termination does not undo what the Wheeler family endured, and it does not answer the larger questions about why this was allowed to happen. We intend to see those questions answered.”

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