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Arrest made in Shingle Springs fentanyl death El Dorado County sheriff’s detectives arrest Kamaal Babatunde Agboola Yusuf in Elk Grove Jan. 23 on suspicion of dealing counterfeit fentanyl pills.
Mountain Democrat staff A man who El Dorado County sheriff’s narcotics detectives suspect distributed fentanyl that killed a 20-year-old Shingle Springs woman was sitting behind bars Monday night. Kamaal Babatunde Agboola Yusuf, 22, was taken into custody by county law enforcement at his parent’s home in Elk Grove’s Lakeside community. He faces a second-degree murder charge in connection to the May 2022 death in which sheriff’s officials say the victim ingested a counterfeit pill she did not know contained a lethal dose of fentanyl. Yusuf is also charged with distributing a controlled substance to minors as there may have been additional victims under the age of 18, sheriff’s Sgt. Alexander Sorey told
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the Mountain Democrat. Inmate records show no bail listed for Yusuf, who is scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday at 1 p.m. in Department 7 of El Dorado County Superior Court. Detectives identified a suspect out of West Sacramento as the supplier of the counterfeit pills. “The suspect was initially arrested the day after the overdose at his West Sacramento residence, where detectives reportedly recovered more than 5,000 pills containing fentanyl and cocaine, as well as an illegally possessed shortbarreled rifle,” states a social media post from sheriff’s officials. Sheriff’s officials warn, “Fentanyl is an extremely dangerous drug that has been the cause of multiple local overdose deaths.”
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New El Dorado County Chamber of Commerce President Leonard Grado takes the helm as 2022 President Adam Anderson signs off after two terms. The chamber installed new leadership last week at the Cameron Park Country Club.
Chamber of Commerce’s 2023 mission:
Success Through Service
Eric Jaramishian Staff writer
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what’s unique about El Dorado County. President and CEO of Grado Construction Inc., Leonard Grado recounted the story of how James Marshall discovered gold on the American River in 1848 as Grado officially took his post with the rest of the 2023 chamber
leadership during an installation and awards dinner Jan. 19 at the Cameron Park Country Club. Marshall’s discovery changed the area forever and Grado shared an estimate that 90,000 people subsequently moved into the area over a three-year period.
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“What we have in El Dorado County is not just gold in the rivers, streams, mountains and the hillsides, but it’s the people that live here. It’s in everyone of you,” Grado told the audience. “What makes this culture in our county
Early planning stages for next steps on the Trip to Green project have begun following the pilot program that ran multiple weekends in 2022. A community workshop was held Thursday evening at Placerville’s Town Hall which shared data collected from the test sessions and presented concepts for where to go next. Trip to Green, a program that alters Placerville traffic and sets the westbound and eastbound signals on Highway 50 to green from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. on busy weekends, was met with support from a majority of the 559 individuals who responded to a survey regarding the project. The workshop presentation was given by Brian Gant, a project manager on Trip to Green, who showed that the three intersections on Highway 50 as it passes by Main Street act as a bottleneck that “significantly contribute to traffic congestion.” Taking available data and survey results into account while considering other possible roadblocks, the El Dorado County Transportation Commission and a consulting firm have settled on two possible avenues to consider, according to Gant. “We’ve focused on two scenarios; obviously, there are millions of possible scenarios to choose from, but we’ve chosen two specific main concepts to explore,” Gant said. The two new scenarios Gant presented are the “big infrastructure answer” or the “small infrastructure Trip to Green answer.” The big infrastructure plan as laid out in information provided to those who attended the
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