Crime & Law Stories for May 2012
Stories for Wednesday, May 30
Police investigate poisonous gas death of Fremont woman
A Fremont woman was found dead early Wednesday inside a car filled with poisonous gas parked underneath her apartment complex, authorities said. Authorities got a 911 call at 1:30 a.m. from the woman’s husband telling them he had found her in her car in the underground parking lot. He said ...
Stories for Tuesday, May 29
Friends of family devastated by Concord fatal accident impatient for action
Police in Concord have not yet decided whether to recommend charges against a teenage driver whose SUV struck and killed a father and daughter who were out riding their bicycles almost two months ago. The slow pace of the investigation is due in part to a question of speed. When ...
Arsonist in San Jose elementary fire sentenced to 8 years in prison
Almost two years after an intentionally set fire caused $10 million in damage to San Jose's Trace Elementary School, one of the two teens charged with burning down the school has been sentenced to eight years in prison. According to the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office, Lazarus Reavallez, now ...
Committee meets to determine rules for Mirkarimi hearing
The San Francisco Ethics Commission Tuesday night decided on the rules and format of suspended Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi's administrative hearing on official misconduct charges, which will begin witness testimony next month. Mirkarimi pleaded guilty in March to a misdemeanor false imprisonment charge in connection with a Dec. 31 incident in ...
Parents outraged over teen attacks caught on tape at Vallejo school
Two recent incidents of bullying at a Vallejo junior high school caught on tape left parents outraged, including one who is contemplating pressing criminal charges against her child's assailant. Parents from Hogan Middle School have called KTVU with a number of stories about their children being bullied and beaten. In ...
Vallejo OIS victim praised as good worker, had pending battery case
The Vallejo man who was fatally shot by Vallejo police early Monday morning was a valued, 10-year employee, an executive at a Napa winery said Tuesday. Anton Barrett was a foreman in the barrel room of the Domaine Carneros Winery in Napa County, the winery's CEO Eileen Crane said. Barrett ...
Man arrested after choking SF cab driver, driving off in taxi
A man was arrested after allegedly choking a taxi driver and then trying to drive away in the cab in San Francisco's Mission District early Tuesday morning, police said. The attack was reported around 1 a.m. and involved a cab driver who had picked up three people near 18th and ...
ATF: 90 arrested, guns and drugs seized in three-month crackdown
A four-month undercover operation in Oakland that resulted in 90 arrests and the seizure of 92 guns and a large quantity of illegal drugs was so successful that it will continue indefinitely, Police Chief Howard Jordan said Tuesday. Jordan said the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives led ...
Divers searching for missing person find man's body in San Jose pond
A man's body was found in a pond in South San Jose Tuesday morning by a dive team searching for a missing person, police said. At about 6:30 p.m. Monday, police received a missing-persons report from concerned friends and began searching percolation ponds near Blossom Hill Road and Sanchez Drive, ...
San Francisco school principal pleads not guilty to DUI charge
A San Francisco school principal accused of driving drunk and trying to flee after hitting two cars near the Golden Gate Bridge earlier this month pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor charges Tuesday. Sheila Sammon Milosky did not appear in court for her arraignment this morning, but her attorney, Sam Ware, ...
Young victim of suspected Berkeley DUI crash dies of injuries
The 6-year-old son of a woman killed when her boyfriend crashed his car into a tree on a Berkeley street last week has died of his injuries, authorities said. The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office Coroner’s Bureau said Xavier Chevez died of his injuries last Friday at Oakland’s Children’s Hospital. He ...
Stories for Monday, May 28
SF Ethics Commission to address rules for Mirkarimi hearing
The San Francisco Ethics Commission is set to meet early Tuesday evening to discuss the case involving suspended Sheriff Ross Mirkirimi, sorting some important decisions before the commission can even begin to hear from witnesses. Mayor Ed Lee suspended Mirkarimi without pay after he was convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence ...
SF school principal to be arraigned Tuesday on DUI, hit-and-run charges
A San Francisco school principal arrested earlier this month on suspicion of DUI and hit-and-run near the Golden Gate Bridge is set to make her initial appearance in court Tuesday, a district attorney's office spokesman said. Sheila Sammon Milosky, the principal at Paul Revere School in the city's Bernal Heights ...
Police arrest suspect in Salinas hit-and-run
Salinas police have arrested Jose Cordova, 20, in connection with a hit-and-run that seriously injured a 14-year-old girl on Sunday. At 8:40 p.m. on Sunday police responded to reports that a white compact sedan had hit a pedestrian in the crosswalk of North Main Street and Bernal Drive and then ...
Man arrested after fleeing traffic stop, crashing into other vehicle
A man was arrested after he fled in his vehicle from a traffic stop and collided with another vehicle in unincorporated Monterey County near Royal Oaks on Saturday night, sheriff's officials said. Deputies observed a white 1998 Saturn with expired tags and pulled the vehicle over near the intersection of ...
Man stabbed in Petaluma during fight with rival gang members
A man was injured in an apparent gang-related stabbing in Petaluma on Sunday afternoon, police said. The stabbing was reported around 2 p.m. in the 200 block of North McDowell Boulevard. The victim and three teenage boys began fighting and the victim was stabbed twice with a knife, according to ...
Driver arrested after running red light, slamming into OPD patrol car
An alleged drunk driver slammed into an Oakland police patrol car early Monday morning after running a red light, a police officer said. The collision occurred just after midnight in the 500 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Way, where a car crashed into a patrol car with two officers ...
Vallejo Police: victim in fatal officer-involved shooting was unarmed
A police pursuit of a speeding car resulted in the second fatal Vallejo officer-involved shooting in four days, and in both cases the Vallejo Police admitted that the victim was unarmed. The pursuit began shortly after midnight when officers on a DUI saturation patrol saw a white 1999 Lexus driving ...
San Jose pedestrian, 63, fatally struck while crossing the street
A 63-year-old man was fatally struck by a car Sunday night while crossing a street in East San Jose, police said. Police said the crash was reported just before 10 p.m. Sunday at Jackson Avenue south of Alum Rock Avenue. Emergency responders located the pedestrian at the scene and took ...
Stories for Sunday, May 27
San Jose teen, 16, killed in apparent gang-related shooting
A 16-year-old boy was killed in what appears to be a gang-related shooting in San Jose late Saturday night, a police lieutenant said early Sunday morning. Police received reports of a shooting around 11:55 p.m. in the 1600 block of Virginia Avenue, according to San Jose police Lt. Jason Dwyer. ...
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