Ronald Monzon was born and raised in the Mission district. His family and loved ones, who will bury him today, want The City to know its most recent murder victim was one of their own.
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A San Mateo County jury deliberated for a day and a half before finding a man guilty Thursday of murdering the daughter of former Oakland Raider Fred Biletnikoff.The verdict was both a relief for the family of Tracey Biletnikoff, who was strangled by Mohammed Haroon Ali at a San Mateo drug rehab center in 1999, and a measure of redemption for District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe, who has now gotten a conviction in the case twice.
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Oft-cited precedents for the possible removal from office of Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi seem to bear little similarity to his case.Mirkarimi pleaded guilty on Monday to misdemeanor false imprisonment in connection with an alleged domestic violence incident involving his wife on New Year’s Eve, days before he was inaugurated as sheriff. Neither prosecutors nor Mirkarimi have yet explained the specific act he admitted to.
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Some of the San Francisco court’s lowest-paid workers have rejected an offer by management for a 5-percent pay cut, in the latest fight over dwindling resources statewide.Clerical workers and court clerks represented by Service Employees International Union, Local 1021, last week voted 126 to 68 against the proposal, which also would have raised the court’s contribution to employee healthcare costs.
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Offering apologies to The City, his family and the neighbor who reported him to police, Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi pleaded guilty Monday to a misdemeanor charge in connection with an alleged New Year’s Eve domestic violence incident involving his wife.Mirkarimi admitted to a new charge of false imprisonment after reaching a plea deal with prosecutors Sunday night. Charges of domestic violence battery, child endangerment and dissuading a witness will be dismissed at his sentencing next Monday.
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Offering apologies to The City, his family and the neighbor who reported him to police, Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi on Monday pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge in connection with an alleged New Year’s Eve domestic violence incident involving his wife.Mirkarimi, 50, admitted to a newly added charge of false imprisonment after a plea deal was reached with prosecutors Sunday night. Charges of domestic violence battery, child endangerment and dissuading a witness will be dismissed at his sentencing next Monday.
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Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi’s effort to prevent prosecutors from showing jurors a video of his wife with a bruise from an alleged New Year’s Eve domestic violence incident is continuing with a new challenge: that he can’t cross-examine his own wife about it in court.The evidence, made by neighbor Ivory Madison, is vital to the prosecution, in light of statements by attorneys for Mirkarimi’s wife, Eliana Lopez, that she will refuse to testify against her husband.
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A 39-year-old Central Valley man has been identified as The City’s ninth homicide victim this year after a shooting Friday evening in the Mission District.
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The fatal fall of a woman fleeing her abusive boyfriend out of a three-story window was not murder, a jury determined Thursday.Jurors instead found Eloy Muniz, 49, guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of girlfriend Cindy Weaver. Weaver, 46, died from her injuries 17 days after the Oct. 3, 2008, fall at a friend’s home in the Mission district.Muniz wept as the verdict was read.
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As Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi’s attorneys seek to move his domestic violence trial out of The City, claiming that prospective jurors are biased due to negative publicity, another local jury is already weighing a high-profile case that perhaps received more news coverage.A pool of about 1,000 potential jurors were called in the triple-murder trial of Edwin Ramos, according to Assistant District Attorney Harry Dorfman, who is prosecuting Ramos for the June 22, 2008 shootings of a father and two of his sons.
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The man who drove into and critically injured a young Philadelphia Phillies fan following a San Francisco Giants game last August will serve a year in county jail after pleading guilty Wednesday to felony drunken driving.Andrew Vargas, 22, of Hayward pleaded guilty to driving under the influence causing injury, and admitted an allegation that he inflicted great bodily injury on 9-year-old Ryan White.
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News coverage about Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi’s domestic violence case that his defense team called “inflammatory” has prompted his lawyers to ask a judge to send the trial to another county — an option prosecutors say they are considering.Trial Judge Garrett Wong is still examining potential jurors, and opening statements are likely several days away. But having already lost several important pretrial arguments on evidence, Mirkarimi’s attorney Lidia Stiglich filed a motion Monday asking Wong for a change of venue.
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The fatal 2008 shootings of a San Francisco father and two of his sons were not typical gang warfare, and The City was going to make Edwin Ramos pay for it, a homicide inspector told the suspected killer during a heated interrogation days later.Video of the hours-long interview was played for jurors at Ramos’ trial Tuesday, offering a rare glimpse into how police viewed the shootings, and how interrogators cajole, sympathize, and even lie to get suspects to confess.
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San Francisco police have suspended their use of devices that measure suspected drunken drivers’ blood-alcohol level in the field after it was revealed they haven’t been properly testing their accuracy, possibly for years.At a joint news conference Monday, Public Defender Jeff Adachi and District Attorney George Gascón said they are investigating police testing of Preliminary Alcohol Screening devices, which manufacturers recommend on a regular basis.
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Four more women have come forward saying they were victimized by a man posing as a doctor in the Mission district who is accused of performing dangerous cosmetic surgeries, along with sexual crimes against some patients, prosecutors said Monday.
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