SANTA CRUZ – Public health officials in Santa Cruz County are warning that a dangerous sedative is being detected in illegal opioids with alarming rates. Xylazine, a powerful animal painkiller not approved for human use, is added to the street opioids fentanyl and heroin to enhance the drugs’ effects, often without the users’ knowledge, making […]
Investigators have arrested an Idaho resident on suspicion of murdering a San Rafael woman in 1973, the Marin County Sheriff’s Office announced Thursday. Michael Eugene Mullen, 75, was linked through DNA evidence to the case of Nina Fischer, who was murdered in her Point San Pedro Road home. Fischer was 31 years old. Authorities took […]
MARTINEZ — Two Norteño gang members were convicted earlier this month of murdering a 38-year-old man in a beating so brutal that some investigators initially believed the victim had been hit by a car, court records show. Jesse Addison, 24, and Erick Ruiz, 29, were convicted of first-degree murder and gang-related crimes in the death […]
