Crime & Law Stories for January 2012
Stories for Friday, January 27
Man fatally stabbed in SF Mission District
A man was fatally stabbed in San Francisco's Outer Mission neighborhood on Thursday night, police said. At about 9 p.m. Thursday, the 25-year-old victim was found lying on the street in the first block of Regent Street near Alemany Boulevard, according to police. The victim was taken to San Francisco ...
Judge rules convicted Millbrae killer sane at time of slaying
A judge ruled Thursday that a man convicted a day earlier of fatally shooting his friend in Millbrae after a night of drinking in 2008 was sane at the time of the crime, prosecutors said. Teyseer "Terry" Najdawi, 28, was found guilty by a San Mateo County Superior Court jury ...
Police ID suspect in San Jose State dorm room groping case
A Hispanic male suspect who allegedly groped at least four female students as they slept in their beds at a dorm on the campus of San Jose State University early Friday was arrested, according to authorities. KTVU learned at around 12:30 p.m. that a suspect matching the description given by ...
Stories for Thursday, January 26
Family of homeless man killed by BART police files lawsuit
The family of a homeless man who was fatally shot by a BART police officer last July has filed a wrongful death and civil rights lawsuit claiming that he didn't pose a serious danger even though he was armed with two knives and a bottle. The suit, filed in U.S. ...
Money and shoes stolen from Mission District robbery victim
A robbery victim was punched and kicked and had her money and shoes stolen by a group of attackers as she walked in San Francisco's Outer Mission neighborhood late Tuesday night, police said. The robbery was reported at about 11:45 p.m. Tuesday in the 5600 block of Mission Street. The ...
Redwood City high school student charged with attempting to rape teacher
A Redwood City high school student charged with trying to rape one of his teachers at knifepoint is being held on $1 million bail, according to the San Mateo County District Attorney's Office. David Velasquez, 19, was arrested after the attack, which occurred at about 5:15 p.m. Monday in a ...
Illegal smoke leads to murder suspect's arrest
Authorities say a man suspected of a slaying in Oakland was arrested after sheriff's deputies confronted him for smoking a cigarette in a prohibited area. The Oakland Tribune reports that 30-year-old Franklin Bean is facing a murder charge in the Dec. 17 killing of Jeremy Johnson. The 25-year-old Johnson was ...
Emotions broil over as surviving son testifies at Ramos Murder Trial
The lone survivor of a 2008 traffic shooting that killed his father and two brothers tearfully testified that the alleged gang member on trial for the triple murders committed the crimes alone. Andrew Bologna broke down several times on the witness stand while recalling the deadly encounter involving defendant Edwin ...
Stories for Wednesday, January 25
Concord woman suspected of suffocating her boyfriend charged with murder
A Concord woman was arrested last week and charged with killing her boyfriend in November, police said. Police responded to the 3600 block of Wren Avenue on Nov. 25 on reports that man there had stopped breathing. Officers and firefighters attempted to save the man's life, identified as 47-year-old Danny ...
Richmond police brutality case wraps up, jurors to begin deliberations
Attorneys in Martinez Wednesday delivered closing arguments in the felony case of a former Richmond police officer accused of punching a handcuffed suspect during an arrest and trying to cover it up. Prosecutors said that Dedrick Riley, now 42, used excessive force "under the color of authority and without legal ...
Heinous attack gets SF man 205 years in prison
A San Francisco man accused of fatally stabbing the mother of his daughter in 2007 and sexually assaulting two of the woman's other daughters was sentenced Wednesday to 205 years to life in state prison. Umar Hudson, 35, was convicted of murder on Nov. 30 for stabbing Jernell Scott, 32, ...
Surviving son points out Ramos as shooter in triple-murder trial
A son whose father and two brothers were fatally shot in San Francisco's Excelsior District as they drove home from a family outing in Fairfield in 2008 testified Tuesday that he saw alleged MS-13 gang member Edwin Ramos fire the shots. Andrew Bologna said he saw Ramos shoot his father ...
Man found guilty of first-degree murder for killing friend
A man accused of shooting his friend 11 times in the head in Millbrae after a night of drinking in San Francisco in July 2008 has been found guilty of first-degree murder. After a day and a half of deliberations, the jury handed down the guilty verdict to Teyseer "Terry" ...
Road rage may have triggered deadly Highway 80 crash
The driver of a minivan was killed in an apparent road-rage crash on Interstate Highway 80 early Wednesday, a California Highway Patrol spokesman said. The crash was reported around 5:40 a.m. on westbound I-80 just west of Carlson Boulevard. CHP Officer Sam Morgan said two vehicles were involved, a 1989 ...
Stories for Tuesday, January 24
Pair killed in Fremont car crash identified
Authorities released the names of two people Tuesday who were killed in a crash in Fremont the afternoon before that also left a third person in critical condition. The Alameda County coroner's bureau identified the victims as Fremont residents Wayne Dutra, 35, and Julie Ann Frary, 36. The accident happened ...
College student shot and killed in Richmond
A man killed in a shooting in Richmond on Monday night has been identified as 22-year-old college student Edwin Arnold Martinez, according to police and the Contra Costa County coroner's office. Martinez was shot shortly before 6:50 p.m. while sitting in a parked car with his sister in the 2100 ...
Teens arrested for attempting to steal computers from SF high school
Three teenage boys were arrested for allegedly trying to steal computers from a high school in San Francisco's Potrero Hill neighborhood on Sunday afternoon, police said. The burglary was reported at about 3 p.m. Sunday at the International Studies Academy at 655 De Haro St., a small high school that ...
Young tourist rescued during brazen Fisherman’s Wharf attack
A Southern California teenager was arrested early Tuesday after police interrupted a brazen attack of a foreign tourist near San Francisco’s famed Fisherman’s Wharf, authorities said. San Francisco police said Christopher Dutel, an 18-year-old resident from Southern California, was in custody after his arrest around 4 a.m. in the at ...
Stories for Monday, January 23
Three-car collision sends two off cliff near Hwy 101
At least one person was hospitalized after a three-vehicle collision sent two cars off of U.S. Highway 101 near Candlestick Park in San Francisco and onto the rocks by the Bay, a California Highway Patrol officer said. The crash was reported at around 3:35 p.m. on northbound Highway 101 near ...
Police: 11Yo girl assaulted by her abductor
A man who was killed in confrontation with a San Jose SWAT team was armed with a gun that only fired blanks and had sexually assaulted an 11-year-old girl he had abducted from his ex-girlfriend’s home, police said Monday. Police Chief Chris Moore told a morning news conference that the ...
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