Crime & Law Stories for June 2012
Stories for Thursday, June 28
BART police try to unravel mystery surrounding assault victim
BART police are seeking the public's help in finding out what happened to a 46-year-old man who was found unconscious and bleeding at the El Cerrito del Norte BART station last week. The man was found by a station agent shortly after 7 p.m. on June 19 after a BART ...
SF mayor considering police stop-and-frisk policy
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee said he is considering implementing the controversial stop-and-frisk policy used in other major cities including New York and Philadelphia to reduce violent crime. Lee told the San Francisco Chronicle's editorial board on Wednesday that police officers need stop-and-frisk to get guns off the streets. "This ...
Bomb squad detonates suspicious object in downtown Oakland
A suspicious device found near Seventh and Franklin streets in Oakland Thursday morning appears to have been a bomb hoax, police said. Police received a call at 9:01 a.m. from an employee at the Salvation Army at 601 Webster St. reporting the discovery of a suspicious object. Police spokeswoman Johnna ...
SF man dies in overnight Ingleside District shooting
A 26-year-old man was shot and killed early Thursday morning in San Francisco's Ingleside neighborhood, police said. The shooting was reported at 12:18 a.m. in the 700 block of Mount Vernon Avenue. Officers responded and found the victim suffering from multiple gunshot wounds, including one to the head, according to ...
Suspect arrested, victim freed in San Jose robbery-carjacking
A Sunnyvale man was in custody Thursday after he allegedly robbed a San Jose credit union and then carjacked a woman as he fled the scene, authorities said. A police spokesman said the suspect, identified as Ricardo Daniel Sandoval, 28, was being held in the Santa Clara County jail. According ...
Walnut Creek police search for teenage girl stalker
Police were seeking the public's help Thursday in locating a man who harassed and exposed himself to a 14-year-old girl in Walnut Creek last week. The teen was walking along the Iron Horse Trail near Westcliffe Lane around 1:20 p.m. last Monday, June 18, when a man approached her and ...
Stories for Wednesday, June 27
Oakland homeowners protest banks over continuing foreclosures
Protesters marched on some Oakland banks Wednesday, angry about home foreclosures they said can be dangerous and even deadly. A case in point: a squatter died when a vacant house on Kingsland Avenue burned on Tuesday. With utilities cut-off, the men in the house may have been using candles for ...
Three injured, one seriously, in Oakland shooting
At least three people were shot Tuesday evening in Oakland during an incident not far from International Boulevard. Police said at least one of those victims was seriously wounded. At around 7:20 p.m., police responded to a report of shots fired in the area of 90th Avenue and Birch Street. ...
Raiders receiver Heyward-Bey to appear in court Thursday on DUI charge
An Oakland Raiders wide receiver is expected to appear in San Francisco Superior Court on Thursday to face misdemeanor DUI charges in connection with an April incident in which he was pulled over on the Bay Bridge after a night in San Francisco. Darrius Heyward-Bey, 25, was pulled over at ...
Orinda man allegedly killed longtime girlfriend, death caused by blunt force
Orinda man James Collin, 62, is in custody on suspicion of murdering his longtime girlfriend, a 51-year-old Orinda woman, a Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office spokesman said Wednesday afternoon. Collin told police that he killed his girlfriend when they arrived at his home in the 600 block of Moraga Way ...
Retired cop fires shots at suspected thieves outside Benicia supermarket
A retired law enforcement officer attempting to stop two suspected thieves fired shots at one of them after he attempted to hit him with a car in a Raley's shopping center in Benicia Wednesday, police said. The incident began when a woman shopping in the Raley's at 890 Southampton Road ...
Priest assault trial resumes with abuse allegation
The priest accused of molesting children has "pleaded the fifth." The judge has stricken his testimony and denials of abuse from the trial record. Three of the priest's alleged victims are no longer allowed to testify. And the man on trial for beating the priest he says raped him will ...
Pleasant Hill man arrested for reportedly stabbing teen girl, himself
Police arrested a man in Pleasant Hill Wednesday morning on suspicion of stabbing a 16-year-old girl, a police sergeant said. Around 9 a.m., staff at a local hospital reported that they were treating a teenage girl for stab wounds to her upper chest and hands, Pleasant Hill police Sgt. Tim ...
Jury finds Fairfield mother was sane when she killed twin daughters with sword
A Fairfield woman was facing life in prison without parole Wednesday after a jury found her to be sane when she killed her twin daughters with a sword back in October 2010. A Solano County Superior Court jury on Tuesday found that Monica McCarrick, 29, was legally sane when she ...
Two men arrested in Pacheco illegal fireworks busts
Two Pacheco men were arrested Wednesday morning after authorities discovered hundreds of pounds of illegal fireworks and dangerous explosives at their homes, Contra Costa County Fire Protection District officials said. Sheriff's deputies arrested Richard Tapia, 45, and Jessie Aron Payn, 19, after serving search warrants and locating a combined 400 ...
Oakland rapist sentenced to 24 years in prison
A man was sentenced to 24 years in state prison Wednesday after being convicted of raping a woman in East Oakland last year and then fleeing from a police officer who tried to arrest him two days later. Prosecutor Eddie Vieira-Ducey said Brian Young, 32, raped the victim early the ...
Pair escapes injury in Diamond Heights shooting
Two people escaped injury when someone fired a bullet into their car after an argument in San Francisco's Diamond Heights neighborhood early Wednesday morning, police said. The shooting was reported at 12:09 a.m. in the 5600 block of Diamond Heights Boulevard. The victims, a 40-year-old man and 33-year-old woman, had ...
Man injured in SF Richmond District hit-and-run
A man suffered a fractured pelvis when he was struck by a hit-and-run driver in San Francisco's Outer Richmond neighborhood early Wednesday morning, police said. The 40-year-old victim was walking in the roadway near Fulton Street and 43rd Avenue around 3:20 a.m. when he was struck by a car traveling ...
SF cab driver robbed at gunpoint
A taxi driver was robbed while parked in San Francisco's Mission District early Wednesday morning, police said. The robbery was reported in the 2200 block of Mission Street at about 3:30 a.m. The 38-year-old driver was parked at the curb when a suspect approached the passenger side window of the ...
Couple arrested for assaulting pregnant woman on BART train
Police arrested a man and a woman suspected of robbing and assaulting a pregnant woman on a BART train traveling between the Concord and Pittsburg stations last Thursday afternoon, a BART police spokeswoman said. The incident began at around 3:30 p.m. after the train left the Concord station. The two ...
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