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Here’s a quick roundup at the top Sacramento-area stories you may have missed over the weekend, including a thrift store closure, drunken driving prison sentence and 17 men arrested in an undercover child exploitation sting. Here’s what to know
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Here’s what to know
- Sacramento’s movie-famous Valley Thrift Town — featured in Greta Gerwig’s 2017 film “Lady Bird” — will close at the end of August following its July sale to new owners. Recent owner Neeko Lalkakos, who bought the El Camino Avenue shop from Norquist Salvage and rebranded it in 2021, declined to name the buyer or explain the decision to sell. Most clothing, shoes and bags are 85% off for the rest of the month.
- A Butte County judge sentenced Fernando Martinez Lynch, 39, to 20 years to life in prison Friday for the 2025 drunken driving death of 19-year-old California State Parks worker Zohie Lonsberry, according to the Butte County District Attorney’s office. Lynch had four prior DUI convictions dating to 2005 and was on active DUI probation at the time of the July 30, 2025, crash near Oroville, which also seriously injured Lonsberry’s 23-year-old brother.
- The Sutter County Sheriff’s Office arrested 17 men, ages ranging from 18 to 68, in a three-day undercover sting called Operation Cyber Shield, targeting suspects allegedly seeking to sexually exploit children online, Sheriff Brandon Barnes announced Friday. Deputies posed as minors 13 or younger on various online platforms and lured suspects to a local hotel, where they were taken into custody.
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