Crime & Law Stories for December 2011
Stories for Friday, December 23
Two women stabbed outside Martinez bar
Two women were stabbed Thursday night near a Martinez bar and the suspected assailant was arrested after calling police about the stabbing. Officers responded just before 10 p.m. to a fight at Ferry and Main streets. Callers advised there was possibly a stabbing during the fight, police said. After police ...
Man who posed as doctor and performed liposuction charged
A San Francisco man who allegedly posed as a doctor and performed liposuction on an unsuspecting woman then flushed the fat down her toilet was arrested Thursday and is facing several felony charges, prosecutors said. Carlos Guzmangarza, 49, also known as Carlos Guzman, allegedly operated a dermatology clinic in the ...
Gunfire sends Nike shoppers scrambling at East Bay mall
A man – among the 2,000-3,000 people waiting for a chance to buy retro Air Jordan XI Concord collectible sneakers at Richmond's Hilltop Mall – pulled out a gun and fired a single shot into the air, sending the shoppers scrambling for cover early Friday, authorities said. The Richmond police ...
Mount Diablo Unified School District janitor arrested for lewd acts with a minor
A Mount Diablo Unified School District custodian was arrested Thursday evening on charges of lewd acts with a child under 14 years old, police said. Forty-four year old John Astor from Walnut Creek was arrested around 7 p.m. in the 500 block of Jones Place in Walnut Creek, near his ...
Gunfire erupts again at San Leandro Walmart
In an incident that police said might have been gang-related, a man was shot in his leg Thursday night in the same San Leandro Walmart parking lot where a man was shot and wounded on Black Friday last month. The 22-year-old victim was shopping with his family around 10:20 p.m. ...
Stories for Thursday, December 22
Sunnyvale woman arrested for ripping off convent
A former lay employee of a Roman Catholic convent in Los Gatos has been indicted in federal court in San Jose on charges that she embezzled $100,000 from the organization. Linda Gomez, 65, of Sunnyvale, worked for the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary Catholic Convent from ...
Man dies in West Oakland shooting
A 23-year-old man was killed after being shot while driving near Children's Hospital in Oakland Thursday morning, police said. Officer Johnna Watson said police received several calls from residents in the vicinity of 46th and West streets at 10:24 a.m. reporting that they heard gunfire. Watson said officers who responded ...
Antioch man faces murder trial for punch that killed infant son
An Antioch man accused of fatally punching his 2-month-old son in the head is facing trial on a murder charge. A judge ruled at the end of a preliminary hearing on Wednesday that there was sufficient evidence for 24-year-old Sigifredo Lua to stand trial on that and other charges, including ...
Stories for Wednesday, December 21
Pittsburg man suspected of lighting more than 50 fires in store dumpsters
A Pittsburg man has been arrested and charged with felony arson for allegedly setting more than 50 fires in eastern Contra Costa County over the past two years, authorities said. Police arrested 53-year-old Thomas Hartman on Dec. 15 after a lengthy investigation indicated that he lit fires at seven shopping ...
Stories for Tuesday, December 20
Woman indicted on charge of murdering student nurse
In a bid to move her case closer to trial, prosecutors have obtained a grand jury indictment of Giselle Esteban on charges that she murdered nursing student Michelle Le. Le, a 26-year-old San Mateo woman who was attending Samuel Merritt University in Oakland, disappeared from Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in ...
SF man arrested for DUI after driving down 100-foot embankment
A San Francisco man was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving after he drove his car down a 100-foot embankment in Daly City early Tuesday morning, a California Highway Patrol officer said. Around 3:30 a.m., officers responded to reports of a car over an embankment near Carter Street and Guadalupe ...
Armed carjacking suspect remains at large in San Jose
A carjacking suspect considered armed and dangerous remained on the loose in the South Bay Tuesday after he evaded arrest by San Jose police and escaped in a vehicle stolen from a local resident. Police asked residents of a south San Jose neighborhood to shelter in place Tuesday morning as ...
Suspected car thieves arrested after afternoon high speed chase
Suspected car thieves led police in Pleasanton on a high-speed chase on Monday afternoon, but the alleged thieves eventually crashed their car and were taken into custody, police said. Officers were investigating an auto burglary in the Stoneridge Mall parking lot when a witness described a vehicle and two occupants ...
Stories for Monday, December 19
Ford Explorer carjacked outside Novato movie theater
Two men carjacked an SUV outside the Century Rowland Plaza movie theater in Novato on Sunday night, a police sergeant said. The 19-year-old victim, an employee of the theater at 44 Rowland Way, said he was leaving work around 10:25 p.m. when a van pulled in front of his parking ...
Man killed in officer-involved shooting last week identified
A man who was fatally shot by police as he exchanged gunfire with officers in San Francisco's Lower Nob Hill neighborhood on Wednesday has been identified by the medical examiner's officer as 33-year-old Steven Young. Young, a San Carlos resident, was shot in a confrontation with police near Larkin and ...
Two shootings Sunday and one early Monday morning cap violent weekend
Two shootings on Sunday and one early the next morning capped off a violent weekend in Oakland, police said. Oakland police responded to reports of a shooting at around 1:30 a.m. Monday on the 5400 block of International Boulevard. Officers found one victim at the scene suffering from a gunshot ...
Stories for Sunday, December 18
Police arrest 6 after early morning shootout in Menlo Park
After an exhaustive search by Menlo Park police for suspects in an early morning shootout with law enforcement, police reported that six men had been arrested in connection, and three of them were identified as being from East Palo Alto Sunday. At 1:15 a.m. Sunday, police were responding to a ...
High speed crash in Richmond kills 49-year-old man
A 49-year-old man was killed in a crash in Richmond early Sunday morning, a police spokeswoman said. Richmond resident Jimmy Jinter was driving west on Esmond Avenue when he lost control of his vehicle near 15th Street, police Lt. Lori Curran said. Jinter was apparently driving at high speed and ...
Police arrest suspect in Oakley kidnapping
San Francisco police arrested a man on Saturday suspected of the Dec. 10 kidnapping and rape of a woman in Oakley, according to the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office. Stephen Clark, 45, of Oakley was taken into custody at around midnight Saturday near the corner of Gough Street and Geary ...
Stories for Friday, December 16
Santa Rosa transient arrested for trying to rob shoppers with toy gun
A transient was arrested Thursday night after he allegedly brandished a replica firearm at a shopping center in west Santa Rosa, a police sergeant said. Police went to Dutton Plaza, located at Dutton Avenue and Sebastopol Road, around 8 p.m. in response to a report of a man with a ...
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