A couple involved in a six-hour standoff with a SWAT team in Daly City on Monday pleaded not guilty to gun charges in San Mateo County Superior Court this afternoon.Daly City resident Joseph Camilleri, 29 and his girlfriend Anna Tostanoski, 25, have each been charged with 12 counts of possession of illegal firearms and one count of firing a gun out of a building, District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said.
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Heartless crooks who posed as San Bruno disaster victims in order to bilk financial aid got a slap on the wrist Wednesday, according to prosecutors.Prosecutors hoped the judge would throw 42-year-old Lisa Monique Justin and 44-year-old Sonya Smith into state prison for two years for trying to obtain financial aid intended for victims of the San Bruno pipeline explosion.The pair pleaded no contest to robbery and perjury charges last month.
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A South San Francisco man had allegedly downed two bottles of vodka at home early Saturday night before he got behind the wheel of his minivan and struck and injured a young couple chasing their dog across the street, prosecutors said.Richard Joseph Cronin, 53, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to multiple felony DUI charges following Saturday’s horrific hell-drive that caused a couple in their 20s to “fly up in the air,” according to San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe.
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A Redwood City teenager told cops he had an “unhealthy liking for fire” after being charged with setting three blazes at a local high school last year, prosecutors said.
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A Redwood City teenager told cops he had an “unhealthy liking for fire” after being charged with lighting three blazes at a local high school last year, San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said.Jeremy James Shepherd, 19, was scheduled to appear in court Tuesday for superior court arraignment on the felony arson charge, Wagstaffe said.
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A San Bruno man will undergo psychiatric examination after allegedly threatening to kill elected officials and attorneys on the Peninsula last fall.
John Costa’s attorney postponed criminal proceedings against the “paranoid” 64-year-old this week after questioning his competency to stand trial, according to San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe.
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The trial of a mentally ill San Bruno man accused of threatening to execute elected officials and attorneys on the Peninsula was set to begin Monday.In one of a series of alarming incidents between September and December, 64-year-old John Costa phoned threats into the San Bruno city clerk’s office warning that he would kill city council members and police who tried to enter his home, according to San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe.
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A married San Carlos couple was slapped with jail time for drinking and driving with four young children in their minivan on the way home from a booze-fest at the beach last month.
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A woman charged with supplying the gun used to fatally shoot a teenager at a party in Redwood City in 2004 was sentenced to five years in prison in San Mateo County Superior Court on Wednesday.Ana Cervantes, 26, pleaded no contest Wednesday morning to two felony charges of accessory to murder in connection with a gang shooting that occurred at a quinceanera, or 15th birthday party, at Red Morton Park on April 17, 2004, District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said.
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A married San Carlos couple is being accused of drinking and driving with four young children in their minivan — pulling over twice so they could guzzle down more beer — on the way home from a beach booze-fest last month.James Arthur Lee, 54, and Wendy Maureen Lee, 43, are in custody after a sheriff’s deputy said he found 14 empty beer cans, an empty bottle of rum and a driver who could barely stand up in the pulled-over minivan Jan. 22.
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