On October 14, 2015, at Ponderosa High School, an El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office school resource officer (SRO) learned of a video depicting two juvenile high school students engaged in sex acts. An investigation was initiated and it was learned that on October 10, 2015 a male and female, both minors, were filmed by a third male minor, all three Ponderosa High School students. After further investigation, the two male students were arrested and booked into the El Dorado County Juvenile Hall on charges of possession and distribution of child pornography, sexual exploitation of a child and conspiracy to commit a felony crime. The Sheriff’s Office wants to remind children that decisions they make now could affect them negatively in the future.

The logging employee killed Wednesday morning in the El Dorado National Forest has been identified as 55 year-old Jeffrey Jones of Lincoln. Jones was working at a logging operation off of Wentworth Springs Rd. when he sustained fatal injuries from a log that fell from his trailer and struck him in the head.

The El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office has identified the two occupants that were located inside of a plane that crashed in a South Lake Tahoe neighborhood on October 10, 2015. With the assistance of a forensic odontologist the occupants were identified as 73 yr. old Conrad Yu of Oakley, Ca. and 66 yr. old Mary Choy of San Francisco, Ca. Yu was the owner and pilot of the plane that crashed. NTSB and the FAA continue their investigation in order to determine the cause of the crash.