A Solano County Superior Court jury on Friday found a woman, Karakia Williams, guilty of a 2023 second-degree burglary, grand theft, organized retail theft, and receiving stolen goods from a Vacaville store.
After a four-day trial jurors rendered its verdict against Williams, and Judge Wendy Getty ordered her to return at 8:30 a.m. March 21 in the Justice Center in Fairfield for a pre-sentencing report and sentencing.
At sentencing Williams – also known as Karakia Letisha Williams – may receive as much as five years in county jail or several years in state prison.
According to a news release from the office of Solano County District Attorney Krishna Abrams, the jury also found it true that the crime involved “planning, sophistication, or professionalism and involved an actual taking of great monetary value.”
Court records showed that on Dec. 15, the Sunglass Hut in the Nut Tree Plaza suffered a $39,957 loss in less than a minute.
Williams and two other people entered the store, pulled out trash bags from their