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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A Daly City woman pleaded not guilty Monday to charges stemming from a frightening drunken driving incident over the weekend in which her truck slammed into a Pacifica bar and pinned a victim, prosecutors said.Carla Jean Andres, 49, allegedly drank beer and shots at Winters Tavern at 1522 Francisco Blvd. until the 2 a.m. closing hour on Saturday. According to police, she climbed into her Chevy truck while intoxicated, but struggled to make a u-turn.
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A Redwood City man is facing life in prison following the horrible attack on a young student who rented a motel room hoping for a quiet place to study.Maurice Banks, 44, is accused of punching the young woman multiple times, then strangling her into unconsciousness in the motel room around 4:30 a.m. on Dec. 4, according to the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office.
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A parolee abandoned a rental car after outrunning police in Menlo Park, but forgot his identification cards in the vehicle’s middle console.
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A Los Altos man could spend three years in state prison for cashing in on the deadly San Bruno pipeline explosion.Daniel Leon Stansbury, 41, lied about being a resident of the disaster area in order to milk financial aid and other benefits meant for victims. He is one of seven people accused of pulling off the heartless scam.The San Bruno explosion and fire killed eight people and destroyed dozens of homes in the city’s Crestmoor neighborhood on Sept. 9.
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A vicious robber who beat an elderly Daly City woman to near-death with a crowbar during a 2008 house heist is set to be sentenced Monday.Jose Perez-Gonzalez, 31, was found guilty in November on seven of eight felony counts in connection with the horrid home-invasion robbery in January 2008, according to San Mateo Country prosecutors.After beating and robbing the 77-year-old woman in her home, he fled to his native Mexico, District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said.
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A San Francisco woman who created fake Facebook accounts to have explicit conversations with middle school girls was slapped with a nine-month prison sentence Thursday.Prosecutors said 20-year-old Jeanette Aragona assumed the identities of three fictitious boys named “AJ, “BJ” and “Matthew,” to befriend eight girls from Westborough Middle School.
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A former crooked Redwood City bank teller was sentenced to a year in prison Wednesday.Arcelia Barajas Aguilar, 28, an ex-employee at San Mateo County Credit Union in Redwood City, pleaded no contest in August to charges that she transferred $40,000 of her 74-year-old aunt’s funds into her own account, and $33,000 of a 16-year-old girl’s inheritance money.
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The woman who was tossed into a psyche ward on Christmas Eve after a violent tirade at San Francisco International Airport is a former Los Angeles deputy city attorney who convinced a judge to lower her bail Tuesday.
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A Moss Beach man accused of sawing his high school sweetheart’s neck with a serrated knife in their mobile home on Dec. 2 missed his court date for a sixth time Tuesday because he was not medically well enough to show up.David Vanalstine, 56, allegedly left a 10-centimeter-long laceration across his girlfriend's neck when she returned from work to the Pillar Ridge mobile home park, Chief Deputy District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said.
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