Crime & Law Stories for July 2012
Stories for Monday, July 30
Jury selected in trial over iPhone, iPad patents
A jury was selected Monday to decide the merits of Apple Inc.'s claims that Samsung Electronics Co.'s smartphones and computer tablets are illegal knockoffs of the iPhone and iPad. Lawyers for both sides were expected to deliver their opening arguments Tuesday morning in a San Jose federal courtroom, followed by ...
CHP investigating Santa Cruz party bus death
The California Highway Patrol was still investigating the weekend death of 25-year-old Santa Cruz woman, who was killed after she and another woman were ejected from a party bus, a CHP spokesman said. The fatal accident occurred just before midnight on Highway 17 near state Highway 9 in Los Gatos, ...
Taxi driver sought after allegedly robbing passenger at knifepoint
A San Francisco taxi driver is being sought for allegedly robbing a passenger after a dispute over payment on Saturday night, police said Monday. The robbery was reported at about 11:40 p.m. Saturday near the intersection of Fillmore and Hayes streets in the city's Alamo Square neighborhood. The 30-year-old victim ...
Weakness exposed in state's electricity trading market
A big electricity trader may have figured out a way to exploit vulnerabilities in the state's $8 billion-a-year electricity market, just as Enron Corp. did a decade ago, state officials said. Authorities were investigating a subsidiary of the New York investment bank JPMorgan Chase & Co., which might have grabbed ...
Teen found fatally shot in Diamond Heights Sunday morning
A teenager was found dead in an apparent homicide in San Francisco's Diamond Heights neighborhood on Sunday morning, police said Monday. Officers responded at 9:38 a.m. to a report of a dead body in the first block of Carnelian Way. Police found the victim dead of an apparent gunshot wound ...
Colorado mass slaying suspect formally charged with 142 counts
Colorado prosecutors on Monday charged a former neuroscience graduate student with 24 counts of murder and 116 counts of attempted murder in the shooting rampage at the midnight showing of the new Batman movie. James Holmes appeared just as dazed as he did in his first court appearance last week, ...
Stories for Sunday, July 29
Friend: Md. man held in shooting plot gentle giant
To his friends, Neil E. Prescott was a "gentle giant" -- a physically towering young man with a background in computers and electronics and a sarcastic, even biting, sense of humor that people close to him knew to shrug off as innocuous. But police say they had no choice but ...
Man arrested after allegedly selling forged race tickets on Craigslist
A Palo Alto man was arrested in Monterey County Saturday after he was allegedly caught selling forged tickets to a race at Raceway Laguna Seca near Salinas, according to the county sheriff's office. At about 10:30 a.m. Saturday, customers at the raceway reported that tickets they had purchased from a ...
Monterey Co. teen believed taken by homicide suspects
A man turned himself in after being identified as a person of interest in the disappearance of a 16-year-old girl from a double homicide scene on Saturday, but his son is believed to have kidnapped her and may be on his way to Mexico, according to the Monterey County Sheriff's ...
SF Police worry homeless man planned mass shooting
San Francisco Police fear a homeless man may have been planning a mass shooting. The San Francisco Chronicle reported Sunday that officers had several run-in's with the suspect Robert Johns. The first time, they found a loaded 12-gauge shotgun and a 22-caliber rifle in his car at Golden Gate Park. ...
Two arrested in Oakland shooting that injured three
Two suspects were arrested in a shooting in East Oakland early Sunday morning that sent three victims to the hospital, an Oakland police officer said. The triple shooting was reported at 3:18 a.m. in the 900 block of 87th Avenue, Officer J. Moore said. The three people struck by the ...
Stories for Saturday, July 28
San Leandro BART station reopens 2 hours after shooting
The San Leandro BART Station reopened and fully restored service more than two hours after a shooting was reported there Saturday night, a BART spokesman said. Police received reports of shots fired in the station's concourse level just before 9:50 p.m., BART spokesman Jim Allison said. No one was injured ...
Fund established to aid 3 children orphaned by double homicide
The San Jose Police Officer's Association Charitable Foundation has started a fund to help the three children left orphaned by a double homicide in San Jose on Monday. The victim's assistance fund has been established to aid the children of Marybel and Pedro Jimenez who were murdered inside a residence ...
Fight on party bus blamed for fatal crash on Hwy 17
An argument on a Santa Cruz party bus may have led to a woman being killed on Highway 17 and the roadway subsequently being shut down near Los Gatos early Saturday morning. The CHP said that around midnight, a few drunken passengers began arguing on the bus while it was ...
Burglars target SF homes displaying Asian decorations
Burglars in San Francisco are striking during daylight hours and targeting certain homes, those displaying Asian characters or decorations. The Portola district is one of several in the city that has seen many of these types of burglaries. And in the Ingleside District, there have been up to 15 home ...
Stories for Friday, July 27
Man accused of ramming car into authorities ordered to stand trial
A 19-year-old man was ordered to stand trial Thursday on five charges connected to ramming a stolen car into law enforcement vehicles in East Palo Alto and then fleeing, according to the San Mateo County District Attorney's Office. Tywaun Livingston was arrested in Fremont on June 25 after he drove ...
WWII-era Navy shell found in SF deemed harmless
An old artillery shell that shut down the area near San Francisco's AT&T Park Friday afternoon was determined to be harmless by munitions experts, a police spokesman said. Construction crews at a site near 3rd and Mariposa streets apparently uncovered the shell while sifting through dirt and transported it several ...
Scotts Valley police seize over 35 grams of crystal meth
Police arrested a 26-year-old Santa Cruz woman after finding approximately 35 grams of crystal methamphetamine and a large amount of cash in her vehicle in Scotts Valley on Thursday night. Police searched the vehicle of Melissa Nicole Tate around 7:45 p.m. after discovering she had a suspended license and was ...
Sonoma County SWAT team frees hostages, arrest drunken suspect
An intoxicated man was arrested after shooting off a gun inside a residence, taking multiple hostages and declaring terrorist threats during a standoff with sheriff's deputies in an unincorporated area in Sonoma County Thursday night, a sheriff's sergeant said. The sheriff's office has identified the suspect as 48-year-old Michael Albini, ...
San Jose double homicide suspect flees to Southern California
The man wanted in the murder of a young San Jose couple who were gunned down while their children slept has fled to Southern California and may be on the run to the Mexican border, authorities announced Friday. San Jose police say Pedro Castellon Medina may be driving a 2006 ...
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