Vacaville hires former Fairfield police chief as interim chief
VACAVILLE Former Fairfield police Chief Joseph Allio has been hired as the interim chief at the Vacaville Police Department.
He starts his duties Monday, the city announced in a statement released Thursday. Those duties will include working with an outside consultant to audit the department’s internal culture, training, policies, procedures and community engagement.
Allio worked at the Fairfield Police Department from 1987 to 2017, serving as chief from 2015 to 2017. He took a leave in 1996 to complete a pastoral internship.
“I look forward to the opportunity to serve my hometown as interim police chief,” Allio said in the city statement.
Vacaville Police Department
(NEW YORK) On Aug. 16, 2020, Priscilla Castro, a 32-year-old from Vallejo, California, headed to nearby Vacaville for a first date with a man she met on a dating app, according to police.
She was never seen again, Vacaville police said.
Now her date, who was charged with murder, is also accused of setting a wildfire to cover up the crime which ignited a massive blaze that claimed two more lives, officials said.
Here’s how the alleged crimes unfolded
Castro’s family reported her missing after they were unable to reach her for two days, police said. Castro’s car was found abandoned in Vacaville on Aug. 18, police said.
It was a first date out of a horror movie, authorities say.
Priscilla Castro, a 32-year-old from Vallejo, was headed to Vacaville on a Wednesday evening in August to meet Victor Serriteno, a 28-year-old she’d met through an online dating app.
But instead of romance, the interlude ended in multiple deaths and hundreds of thousands of fire-scorched acres, prosecutors say.
The person behind all the crimes, authorities say, is Serriteno, whom Solano County sheriff’s deputies arrested again Wednesday on suspicion of arson and murder in connection with the Markley fire, which killed two people and merged into last year’s devastating LNU Lightning Complex fire. Serriteno was already in the county jail after authorities alleged he killed Castro.