Crime & Law Stories for March 2012
Stories for Wednesday, March 28
SF Sunset District scam artists targeting Chinese women
Scam artists have been targeting Chinese women in San Francisco’s Sunset District neighborhood, stealing money and jewelry from them in return for promises of good fortune and protection from evil spirits. San Francisco police said there have been a number of reported thefts from older Chinese females involving jewelry and ...
ATM card reader scam lands man in state prison
A man who placed card readers in several Chase Bank ATMs and stole passwords, account information and money from several customers has been sent to state prison for nearly four years, Attorney General Kamala Harris announced Wednesday. Gervork Aroutiounyan, 48, was sentenced in San Luis Obispo County Superior Court to ...
Prosecution rests at Ramos triple murder trial
The trial of Edwin Ramos, an alleged MS-13 gang member accused of killing a father and two sons in San Francisco in 2008, will enter a new phase next week after the prosecution rested its case on Tuesday. Ramos, 25, of El Sobrante, is charged with fatally shooting Tony Bologna, ...
Bike-riding bandits targeting downtown Oakland streets
Oakland police are investigating several downtown street robberies committed by two young men on bikes in the past week. Since March 20, there have been four cases in which men on bikes ride up to their victims and rob them, police said. Two of the robberies were reported on March ...
Pillar Point Harbor thieves steal 400 pounds of fish
More than 400 pounds of fresh fish and crab was stolen over the weekend from a fishery at Pillar Point Harbor in San Mateo County, sheriff's officials said. Sometime between 7 p.m. on Saturday and 7 a.m. on Monday, suspects entered Morningstar Fisheries at 3 Johnson Pier near Half Moon ...
San Pablo Bay fisherman grazed by stray drive-by bullet
A fisherman casting his line on San Pablo Bay ended up spending the night in the hospital after being grazed by a stray bullet from a drive-by shooting nearly a quarter mile away, according to the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office. Sheriff's spokesman Jimmy Lee said emergency dispatchers received "numerous" ...
Stories for Tuesday, March 27
Slaying suspect charged, records show a violent past
Prosecutors filed murder charges Tuesday against a man accused of brutally killing five people in a house in San Francisco’s Ingleside district the week before, as KTVU learned details of the man’s criminal past. Binh Thai Luc, 35, was arrested Sunday morning in connection with the grisly killing of three ...
Detectives say Morgan Hill teen was likely abducted
Detectives investigating the disappearance of 15-year-old Sierra LaMar now believe the Morgan Hill teenager was likely abducted, the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office announced Tuesday afternoon. After interviewing those who know her best, investigators believe it is highly unlikely that LaMar, who went missing a week and a half ago, ...
Concord parents warned about man approaching middle school students
A Concord middle school is alerting parents about an incident in which two female students had a close encounter with two unknown men Monday morning. El Dorado Middle School Principal Robert Humphrey said a staff member overheard two girls talking in the hallway about the incident, in which two men ...
Man ordered to stand trial for Highway 580 shootout with CHP
A Tuolomne County man who allegedly was on a mission to attack liberal groups in San Francisco was ordered Tuesday to stand trial on the premeditated attempted murder of a peace officer and other charges for a confrontation with police on an Oakland freeway two years ago. At the end ...
Hundreds of volunteers join search for missing teen
Hundreds of volunteers showed up in Morgan Hill Tuesday to lend a hand in the ongoing search for 15-year-old Sierra LaMar, who went missing a week and a half ago. The KlaasKids Foundation, an organization that provides search-and-rescue services for families of missing people, was on hand at Burnett Elementary ...
Two stabbed in as many days near Occupy SF camp
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee said Tuesday there was no plan to alter the city's policy toward Occupy protesters in the wake of stabbings on two consecutive nights at an encampment along Market Street. The stabbings occurred on Sunday and Monday nights outside the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco ...
Suspect in SF murders faced deportation to Vietnam
Six years ago, an immigration judge ordered the deportation of Binh Thai Luc, the man now suspected of killing five people in a San Francisco home last week, according to federal authorities. Luc was to return to his native Vietnam after serving time in prison for armed robbery and assault, ...
Authorities: Man shot after entering wrong house
A San Francisco Bay area man is in intensive care after being shot when authorities say he walked into the wrong house. Police say the 24-year-old South San Francisco man thought he was entering a friend's Foster City home early Sunday after a night of drinking. Foster City police Capt. ...
Stories for Monday, March 26
Man in Oakland car accident shot in the back
A car accident in north Oakland Monday night is at the center of a shooting that hospitalized a young man. According to police, at around 8:30 p.m., two cars collided at the 1000-block of 54th St., just a few blocks from San Pablo Ave. A man in his 20s who ...
Former Giants payroll manager sentenced to prison for embezzling $2.2 million
A former San Francisco Giants payroll manager was sentenced in federal court in the city Monday to a year and nine months in prison for embezzling $2.2 million from the team in 2010 and 2011. Robin O'Connor, 42, of American Canyon, a payroll manager for the baseball club from 2007 ...
Police: Foster City shooting was likely a case of mistaken identity
Police in Foster City believe that a 24-year-old man who was shot as a suspected intruder early on Sunday morning was simply looking for his friends at the wrong address, a spokesman said Monday. Officers responded to a report of a break-in at a home in the 600 block of ...
San Jose teen escapes kidnap attempt
On Monday, San Jose police were investigating the Friday evening attempted kidnapping of a 16-year-old girl from San Jose's Willow Glen neighborhood, a police spokesman said. The incident occurred on the 2100 block of Coastland Avenue in San Jose's Willow Glen neighborhood around 5:20 p.m. San Jose police Officer Jose ...
ICE: Vietnam never sent needed docs to deport SF slaying suspect
The suspect in last week's slayings of five people in San Francisco had been ordered to be deported by an immigration judge six years ago, after he served a prison sentence for armed robbery, federal officials said Monday. But they said he remained in the U.S. because the Vietnamese government ...
Police having difficulty unraveling Napa country club melee
Two Fairfield men were stabbed during a melee at a party at the Chardonnay Golf Club southeast of Napa on Friday night, a Napa County sheriff's captain said. There were between 500 and 800 people at the party, which was advertised online as a combination birthday party and "Spring Bling," ...
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