Crime & Law Stories for September 2012
Stories for Thursday, September 27
Suspect in roadside assaults of female drivers in Sonoma County pleads no contest
A Cotati man charged with the roadside groping and sexual assaults of three female drivers in Sonoma County pleaded no contest Thursday morning to three of the 10 felony charges he was facing. Thomas Boccaleoni, 47, pleaded no contest in Sonoma County Superior Court to forcible anal or genital penetration ...
Joseph Naso serial murder trial delayed
A judge has delayed the serial murder trial of a former photographer charged with the decades-old slayings of four prostitutes, all of whom had matching initials, in Northern California. The Marin Independent Journal reported that a judge pushed jury selection in the 78-year-old Joseph Naso's trial back to Jan. 14 ...
Chef found guilty of murder in boiled body case
A chef who told police he boiled his wife's body for four days to hide evidence of her death was convicted Thursday of second-degree murder. David Viens showed no reaction as the verdict was read. The sister of his victim burst out sobbing. In a recorded interrogation presented by prosecutors ...
Richmond police officer arrested on domestic violence charge
A Richmond police officer was arrested this week on suspicion of domestic violence, authorities said. Officer Thomas Hauschild, a 6-year veteran of the Richmond Police Department, was arrested Tuesday morning in Alameda County for an alleged domestic violence offense, Richmond police Lt. Bisa French said. Dirk Manoukian, Hauschild's attorney, said ...
19-year-old arrested in connection with shooting on El Camino Real
A 19-year-old San Bruno man has been arrested on suspicion of shooting at a vehicle on El Camino Real on Wednesday afternoon, a police spokesman said. Officers responded to a report of a shooting in the 600 block of El Camino Real at about 1:50 p.m., San Bruno police Lt. ...
Oakland police arrest suspect after morning manhunt
A search of a West Oakland neighborhood for a suspect considered armed and dangerous ended Thursday morning with the suspect being taken into custody, an Oakland police spokeswoman said. An officer on patrol in West Oakland this morning saw a male who was wanted on a warrant around 8 a.m., ...
Albany teacher arrested on suspicion of lewd conduct with a child
An Albany middle school teacher was in jail Thursday after being arrested on suspicion of a lewd act with a child under 14, police said. Police arrested James Izumizaki, 28, of Albany at his residence shortly after 7 a.m. on Wednesday morning. The arrest warrant was the result of an ...
Stories for Wednesday, September 26
Abuse victim files suit against East Bay school district for negligence
An East Bay woman has filed a civil lawsuit against the Moraga School District over sexually abuse she suffered as a teen at the hands of two former teachers at Joaquin Moraga Middle School. Kristen Cunnane of Moraga told KTVU she suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and copes with the ...
Man shot and killed in Oakland's Grand Lake neighborhood
A man was shot and killed in Oakland's Grand Lake neighborhood Wednesday evening, an Oakland police officer said. Police responded to the 800 block of Vermont Street, about a block from Grand Avenue, at 6:34 p.m. The victim was found there suffering from at least one gunshot wound. He was ...
Barricaded suspect talked out of law office in San Jose
Police in San Jose talked a barricaded suspect with a gun out of a law office Wednesday evening, according to police. An employee at a law office in the 1000 block of Taylor Street told police that a distraught male with a gun walked into the office at 5:43 p.m. ...
Suspect in San Mateo school abduction charged with eight felonies
New security measures are being put in place at Parkside Elementary School in San Mateo just days after a 25-year-old man wandered onto campus and abducted a nine-year-old student. School officials did not return a call for comment Wednesday afternoon, but Parkside Principal Lori Fukumoto said in a statement on ...
Man accused of poisoning girlfriend was providing mineral supplement
A San Jose man suspected of poisoning his girlfriend in a nursing home defended himself and the liquid supplement he gave her to a KTVU reporter Wednesday morning. Bob Lochridge, 67, was back home Wednesday after spending three nights in a Marin County jail, having been arrested by San Rafael ...
Three in custody after SF robbery and multi-vehicle crash
Fleeing robbery suspects were arrested after they caused a traffic collision that left several injured in San Francisco's Hayes Valley neighborhood Wednesday. Police responded to reports that a victim had a backpack containing an iPad robbed near the corner of Sacramento and Fillmore streets at about 5 p.m., police Officer ...
Father of Sierra Lamar murder suspect convicted of molestation
The father of a man accused in the disappearance of a 15-year-old Northern California girl has been convicted of sexually molesting a younger female relative. Prosecutors say 51-year-old Genaro Garcia Fernandez repeatedly raped his relative beginning when she was 7 years old. A jury in Morgan Hill on Wednesday found ...
Jury hears tape of SF crime lab technician admitting taking small amounts of cocaine
A federal jury in the cocaine-fraud trial of former San Francisco police crime laboratory technician Deborah Madden heard a tape Wednesday in which she admitted taking small amounts of cocaine from the lab in 2009. Madden, 62, of San Mateo, is on trial in the court of U.S. District Judge ...
SJ police officer whose son shot himself will not face criminal charges
A San Jose police officer whose son accidentally shot and killed himself with his father's gun will not face criminal charges, the Santa Clara County District Attorney's office announced Tuesday. Three-year-old Preston Orlando shot himself the afternoon of July 5 with a Glock 30 that belonged to his father, Brandon ...
Concord Police nab burglary suspect after brief foot chase
A 19-year-old man was arrested in Concord Wednesday morning after fleeing from police during a traffic stop, a police lieutenant said. Around 11:20 a.m., a motorcycle officer attempted to pull over a two-door Honda Civic at Juniper and Sharon drives for several vehicle code violations, Concord police Lt. Robin Heinemann ...
SF LGBT activist charged with six counts of child pornography
A former employee of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission was charged Wednesday with multiple felony counts of possessing and distributing child pornography, District Attorney George Gascon said. Larry Brinkin, 66, was charged with four counts of possessing child pornography and two counts of distributing child pornography, Gascon said. Brinkin ...
Morning raid targets backyard pot gardens in Roseland area
Law enforcement agencies conducted a raid targeting outdoor marijuana gardens at homes in the Roseland area in southwest Santa Rosa and unincorporated Sonoma County Wednesday morning, a sheriff's lieutenant said. The raid was carried out at 32 homes in a four-block area near Moorland and Bellevue avenues beginning at 8:45 ...
Cook beaten outside of San Jose restaurant
A San Jose cook, taking a smoke break outside a local restaurant, was severely beaten late Tuesday night by two men, authorities said. San Jose police were searching for two known gang members in the beating outside the Las Palapas Restaurant at around 11 p.m. Coworkers said the man had ...
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