Crime & Law Stories for June 2012
Stories for Saturday, June 30
20-year-old man dies in early morning shooting
A 20-year-old man was killed in a shooting in Antioch early Saturday morning, police said. Officers were dispatched to the 800 block of L Street at 4:18 a.m. after police received a report of a shooting victim lying in the street, Antioch police said. They arrived and found that the ...
Cold case cracked in 1991 American Canyon homicide
Investigators have reanalyzed evidence to solve the 1991 murder of a 38-year-old woman in American Canyon. Business owner Kin Ko was working at Sam's Market with her 14-year-old daughter on March 23, 1991, when two suspects entered the convenience store, investigators said. The first suspect stayed at the door, possibly ...
Driver arrested in SF after chase across Bay Bridge
A driver was arrested around midday Saturday after leading a California Highway Patrol officer on a chase across the Bay Bridge, a CHP spokesman said. The chase began a few minutes before noon in Oakland when the officer spotted a vehicle with no license plates and tried to pull it ...
Vallejo Police shoot, kill armed robbery suspect
Vallejo police say an armed robbery suspect was shot and killed during a pursuit Saturday morning after he pointed a handgun at officers. The pursuit began after an armed robbery was reported around 9:15 a.m. on Wilson Avenue, according to Lt. Jim O'Connell. The suspect, described as a white male ...
Oakland man shot, robbed at backyard dice game
One man was injured in a shooting over a dice game in an Oakland backyard Friday afternoon, police said. A group of people were playing dice and gambling in a backyard in the 1700 block of 12th Street at around 2 p.m. One man in the group pistol-whipped one of ...
49ers LB Aldon Smith stabbed at party at his South Bay home
San Francisco 49ers linebacker Aldon Smith was stabbed at a house party in a rural hilly area east of San Jose, where two other people were also shot, early Saturday morning, a Santa Clara County sheriff's spokesman said. Smith sustained minor injuries during the incident and he is recovering comfortably. ...
Stories for Friday, June 29
Four men are charged in connection with shooting incident
Petaluma police are searching for four men who robbed a Petaluma store at gunpoint Friday morning. The four suspects, all wearing masks and armed with handguns, entered the Joyeria Los Pinos, a salon and jewelry store that also offers check cashing and DVD rental services, on the 400 block of ...
Former girls' high school basketball coach pleads no contest to sex with teen
A girls' basketball coach at Cardinal Newman High School in Santa Rosa pleaded no contest Thursday in Sonoma County Superior Court to having oral sex with a 16-year-old student. Andrew John Medeiros, 25, of Santa Rosa, was charged with two sex offenses with a person under age 18 on April ...
Santa Rosa man gets four years for hit-and-run death of child in crosswalk
At an emotional hearing, a Sonoma County Superior Court judge sentenced a Santa Rosa man Friday morning to four years in prison for the felony hit-and-run death of a 4-year-old boy in a crosswalk last August. Marcos Lopez-Garcia, 23, was also sentenced by Judge Kenneth Gnoss to one year for ...
San Francisco men convicted on carjacking and murder charges
After six days of deliberations, a jury has convicted two men in the murder and carjacking of a San Francisco man outside a Mission District bar in 2009, the district attorney’s office announced Friday. District Attorney George Gascón said Sammy D. Frasier and Timothy Walker were convicted on Thursday of ...
SF mayor: Working with sheriff would be difficult
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee said Friday that he would find it "extremely difficult" to work again with Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi if the suspended lawman gets his job back. Lee made his remarks while testifying before the city's Ethics Commission, which has convened a trial-like hearing to determine whether to ...
Lynch admits attacking priest, describes alleged molestation
William Lynch testified Friday that he punched the priest he accuses of molesting him after memories of the alleged sexual abuse came flooding back across the decades and were so vivid that he felt threatened. Lynch is on trial in San Jose after pleading not guilty to one count of ...
Two dead, two wounded in Salinas shopping center shooting
Two bystanders and two targeted victims were shot outside a shopping center in Salinas on Thursday afternoon, police said. Officers were dispatched around 2 p.m. to a report of a shooting in the 600 block of Williams Road. When police arrived at the scene, they found four people had been ...
Fairfield pastor arrested on child molestation charges
A pastor at a church in Fairfield has been arrested on suspicion of molesting at least five victims as far back as 1994, police said Friday. Fairfield police were contacted Thursday by clergy of the diocese represented by St. Timothy Orthodox Church, located at 4593 Central Way. The diocese had ...
Stories for Thursday, June 28
4 shot, wounded in Salinas shopping center shooting
Police say four people have been wounded, including one seriously, following a shooting at a shopping center in Salinas. Salinas police Sgt. Christopher Lane says officers were called to an auto parts store after getting calls that several people had been shot outside the store around 2 p.m. Thursday. Lane ...
Fairfield double-murder suspect arrested in Los Angeles
A suspect in a double murder in Fairfield in March was arrested in Los Angeles on Tuesday, a Fairfield police lieutenant said Thursday. Marcel Rutherford Chew, 18, of East Palo Alto, was wanted for the murders of Vedell Jamar Chew, 24, of Fairfield, and Bernard Francis Knight, 18, of East ...
Oakland man who killed his ex-lover sentenced to 26 years to life
A 35-year-old man was sentenced Thursday to 26 years to life in state prison for the bludgeoning and stabbing death of his former lover two and a half years ago. Sean Rooney was convicted of first-degree murder earlier this month for the death of 54-year-old John Frum at Frum's apartment ...
Sixty-eight arrested in San Francisco crime sweep
San Francisco police have arrested 68 people during a multi-agency citywide sweep targeting wanted suspects, police Chief Greg Suhr announced Thursday. Police arrested 53 people on felony charges or warrants and 15 others for misdemeanors. They also confiscated a number of weapons during the 10-hour operation, Suhr said. The enforcement ...
Stripper allegedly targets Warriors coach in naked photo extortion plot
Golden State Warriors coach Mark Jackson said Thursday that he and his family were the targets of an extortion attempt related to an extramarital affair he had six years ago. The Smoking Gun reported that a 28-year-old former stripper, Alexis Adams, possessed nude photographs of Jackson and wanted money to ...
Slain Orinda woman died of head injury
Contra Costa County prosecutors filed charges Thursday afternoon against a man accused of murdering his live-in girlfriend at their Orinda home Tuesday, according to the Contra Costa County District Attorney's Office. James Collin, 62, was charged with one count of murder with an enhancement for use of a deadly weapon ...
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