Prosecutors will likely decide Wednesday whether to file murder charges against a 17-year-old boy for the fatal shooting of an infant in East Palo Alto over the weekend, San Mateo County’s district attorney said today.
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The competency jury trial for once-prominent San Mateo child psychiatrist William Ayres on molestation charges is set to begin Monday and last two weeks.The San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office is retrying Ayres, 79, on charges of fondling seven male patients. A mistrial was declared in July 2009 when the jury deadlocked on all charges.Ayres is charged with nine counts of lewd and lascivious acts on a child under 14.
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A cop chase went to the dogs for a man in Menlo Park who was hunted down and arrested by a speedster canine named “Gert,” authorities say.
The powerful police pooch “quickly apprehended” 32-year-old Antonio Lydell Jones, of San Jose, after Jones allegedly tried to run from police on Tuesday. Jones was wanted on two arrest warrants and had ditched a cocaine pipe during the chase, prosecutors said.
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His dog days are over — literally.A Redwood City man was sentenced to 30 days in county jail and ordered to attend anger management classes Friday for the ruthless assault on a leashed dog earlier this month.John Abdon Johnson, 57, has also been denied the right to own or live with any animal after a cop on patrol saw him beat the pooch named “Bucket” over the head with his hand and kick it repeatedly in the ribs on May 13.
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Try this in the shower at county jail.A man who groped a woman in a public bathing facility at a Redwood City boatyard was slapped with 120 days in county jail on Monday.John Mitchel Blake, 57, pleaded no contest to misdemeanor charges of false imprisonment and lewd public conduct for the disturbing shower acts of July 27, 2010.
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More than 20 years ago, a man who dared Pedro Mata Guizar to pull the trigger ended up dead.On Tuesday, a parole board may dare to release Guizar from prison.Guizar, now 61, is serving 15 years to life at the California State Prison in Solano after pumping four bullets into a man who had mocked him during a game of dice on Oct. 20, 1983, San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said.
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The Rohnert Park man who allegedly stole a car occupied by a mom and her 5-year-old daughter in Belmont on Tuesday told the victims he needed the vehicle because “someone’s out to kill me,” prosecutors said Wednesday.Though cops say he admitted to stealing the car, 20-year-old Stephan Thomas Allen pleaded not guilty to the allegation in Redwood City Felony Court on Wednesday.Prosecutors revealed more details about the terrifying heist Thursday.
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A Hillsborough cop charged with domestic violence told his ex-lover that calling police on him would be pointless — and then he was arrested, according to prosecutors.Martin Fritzsching, 40, faces five misdemeanor charges in connection to the argument that allegedly turned violent at a Hillsborough home on April 13.
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Several drops of blood led to an arrest in one of several costly burglaries at cash-strapped Peninsula schools last year.Keith Laroy Dees Jr., 20, was taken into custody Sunday on charges of burglary and grand theft in connection with a heist at James Flood School a day before Christmas.The East Palo Alto elementary school is part of the Ravenswood School District, which last year dealt with a rash of burglaries that caused tens of thousands of dollars in losses.
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There goes free-dumb.The woman who allegedly fled a courtroom during recess after a jury convicted her of burglarizing a home in San Carlos was slapped with a 13-year prison term Friday.Jennifer Lynn Dickerson, 37, took off from court Nov. 16 and wasn’t found for more than a month, San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said. Authorities found her hiding in an attic in San Bruno, Wagstaffe said.
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