Yolo sex offender arrested in unemployment fraud scheme
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A former West Sacramento after-school teacher convicted of luring a minor for sex is facing new charges after fraudulently receiving unemployment benefits with his girlfriend’s help while in Yolo County Jail custody, the Yolo County District Attorney’s Office announced Monday.
Taylor Lewis Gholar, 29, was sentenced on Dec. 10 to three years in state prison for his conviction on counts of communicating with a minor for the purpose of lewd or lascivious conduct and going to a meeting with a minor for the purpose of lewd or lascivious conduct, all involving a 12-year-old former student. He’s currently serving his sentence at the Yolo County Jail.
Convicted sex offender, accomplice charged in Yolo County EDD fraud case Share Updated: 12:36 PM PST Dec 22, 2020 Hope Miller Share Updated: 12:36 PM PST Dec 22, 2020
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Show Transcript THE VIGIL HAS BEEN HELD. DEIRDR A CONVICTED SEX OFFENDER IS FACING NEW CHARGES OF TRYING TO DEFRAUD. HE WAS ARRESTED LAST YEAR. INVESTIGATORS FOUND OUT HE HAD RECEIVED OVER $11,000 IN UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE PAYMENT
TRACKING THE COVID-19 VACCINE Share Updated: 12:36 PM PST Dec 22, 2020 Hope Miller A man jailed for luring a child for sex and an outside accomplice have been charged in a California Employment Development Department fraud case out of Yolo County in which the pair is accused of swindling more than $11,000, officials announced this week. The events unfolded earlier this month when Taylor Lewis Gholar, 29, of West Sacramento, was sentenced to three years in state prison after being convicted of luri
Arizona softball coach gets prison for sexually abusing underage athletes, Yolo DA says
Sacramento Bee 12/18/2020 Rosalio Ahumada, The Sacramento Bee
Dec. 17 A Yolo County judge has sentenced a 43-year-old youth softball coach from Arizona to 37 years and 4 months to life in prison for sexually abusing underage athletes he was hired to train, prosecutors said.
As part of his sentence, Yolo Superior Court Judge Paul Richardson on Wednesday ordered the softball batting coach, Buck Maldonado Thomas, to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life, according to a news release from the Yolo County District Attorney s Office.
Prosecutors said the coach s victims included athletes from Arizona and Nevada who came forward after hearing news of his criminal charges in Yolo County.
Former teacher who lured child for sex sentenced
A Yolo Superior Court judge sentenced 29-year-old Taylor Lewis Gholar to three years in state prison Thursday after a jury convicted him of meeting and communicating with a minor for the purpose of lewd or lascivious conduct, according to the Yolo County District Attorney’s Office.
Gholar, a Sacramento resident, will also be required to register as a sex offender for life.
At trial, the jury heard evidence that Gholar met the victim when she was in second grade while employed as her after-school teacher. Gholar was the victim’s teacher for the next three years, resuming contact with her two years later when she was in seventh grade.
‘I’m a survivor’: 27 years later, Davis victim confronts her assailant
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Mark Manteuffel, 60, was sentenced Friday to 35 years in prison for 1990s sexual assaults in Davis and Sacramento. Courtesy photo
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WOODLAND For more than a quarter-century, Kristen Escamilla pushed law-enforcement officers to find her attacker the masked stranger who snatched and sexually assaulted her along a South Davis greenbelt in January 1994.
Her efforts came to fruition on Friday, when a Yolo County judge sentenced Mark Jeffrey Manteuffel to six years in state prison part of an overall 35-year sentence stemming from three 1990s rapes solved recently through DNA science.