Thursday, May 17, 2012
The San Mateo man may now face charges of filing a false police report.
A 47-year-old San Mateo man allegedly lied to police that he was carjacked after he fell from eastbound state Highway 92 early Thursday morning, according to the San Mateo Police Department. The man, whose name has not been released, told authorities he escaped from his vehicle after he was carjacked in the area of U.S. Highway 101 and Highway 92 at about 2 a.m., San Mateo Police Sgt. Dave Norris said. The man said he then fell from the highway while running from a suspect on foot, according to Norris. He suffered serious but not life-threatening injuries and was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment. The California Highway Patrol assisted San Mateo police in a search for the carjacking suspect. Detectives re-interviewed the victim …
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
The Maker Faire, coming to the San Mateo County Event Center this weekend, is expected to draw up to 95,000 visitors.
As another Maker Faire approaches on the Peninsula, the San Mateo Police Department is reminding residents of traffic and parking impacts for the coming weekend. The San Mateo County Event Center will host the Maker Faire on Saturday and Sunday, which is expected to draw between 50,000 and 95,000 visitors in the two-day period, according to the San Mateo Police Department. The San Mateo Police and City Organization, the San Mateo County Expo Center staff, and the Maker Faire Production staff are working collaboratively to minimize the traffic impact. Police are warning, however, there will be an unusually large number of vehicles, pedestrians, and bicycles in the San Mateo area this weekend. Potential traffic impacts in San Mateo: Event …
The victim, community activist David Lewis, was shot in the parking lot of Hillsdale Shopping Center in 2010.
The man accused of murdering East Palo Alto community activist David Lewis in the parking lot of San Mateo's Hillsdale Shopping Center in June 2010 is set to stand trial after receiving treatment at a state mental hospital, according to a news report on KTVU.com. Gregory Elarms is suspected of following Lewis from the San Mateo Medical Center to Hillsdale Shopping Center and shooting him once in the stomach with a .44-caliber handgun outside his car on June 9, 2010, prosecutors said. About six months after the crime, Elarms contacted San Mateo investigators claiming to have a tip about the unsolved case. As he was being questioned, Elarms allegedly confessed to killing Lewis, even describing the shocked look on Lewis' face after he shot …
Monday, May 14, 2012
The prosecution will not seek the death penalty for the 2009 killing of Belmont resident Albert Korn.
Prosecutors will not seek the death penalty in the murder case of 88-year-old Belmont resident Albert Korn. The announcement came Friday, the same day San Mateo County Superior Court Judge Mark Forcum set Oct. 15, 2012 as the date for the start of the jury trial in the case of People vs. Tyler James Hutchinson. Hutchinson, a transient on probation for criminal threats and battery involving an earlier attack on a victim at the San Mateo Caltrain station, is charged with breaking in and killing Korn in the elderly man's Belmont home in June 2009. The defendant allegedly entered Korn's home in the 2500 block of Hallmark Drive on June 2, 2009, robbed and beat him and then drove away in Korn's 2004 Jaguar. Hutchinson was caught two days later…
Saturday, May 12, 2012
A moving show of solidarity by police from all over the Bay Area.
Hundreds of police, family and friends attended services for Deputy Heikoti “Koti” Fakava, a 46-year-old officer with the San Mateo County Sheriff's Department who passed away on May 1 after a brief illness. Traditional Tongan mats called taʻovala were worn by many mourners. White flowers, leis and a large picture of Deputy Fakava were also on display. Police motorcycles led the long procession of vehicles as they left the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Millbrae, headed for Cypress Lawn Cemetery in Colma.
Friday, May 11, 2012
Judge will set a jury trial date on Friday for the man accused in the beating death of a Belmont resident in 2009.
The man accused of killing Belmont resident Albert Korn in 2009 will not face the death penalty, according to San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe. Earlier this month prosecution and the defense met to discuss whether or not the death penalty would be sought in the case of People vs. Tyler James Hutchinson. Alfred Giannini is the deputy district attorney prosecuting the case; Hutchinson's court-appointed defense attorneys are James Thompson and Richard Keyes. On April 11, 2012 three family members of Hutchinson, 24, testified in San Mateo County Superior Court that the defendant had a troubled youth and possible mental illness. This is a three-strikes, life without parole case. Previously, Hutchinson was convicted by a jury…
Thursday, May 10, 2012
The dog found the 21-year-old burglar hiding near the scene of the crime.
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Thursday, May 10
A San Mateo County sheriff's K-9 helped capture a burglar who crashed a vehicle into the back of a western wear store in unincorporated Redwood City on Wednesday night and then started stealing items through a damaged door. Just before midnight, deputies were dispatched to Discoteca Dona Lety at 2821 Middlefield Rd. after the business owner, who was not at the store, reported seeing a burglary in progress remotely through his video surveillance system, Lt. Larry Schumaker said. Arriving deputies spotted a black Volkswagen parked outside a damaged metal roll-up door at the back of the business, Schumaker said. It appeared that the suspect, later identified as Carlos Molina-Zavala, 21, of San Jose, had crashed the Volkswagen into the door …
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Anthony Bologna, one of the three victims, worked and managed Dragers Market in San Mateo for 11 years, according to his obituary.
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Wednesday, May 9
A San Francisco jury Wednesday found Edwin Ramos guilty of murdering a father and two of his sons in an afternoon shooting in the city's Excelsior District in 2008. Ramos, 25, an alleged MS-13 gang member, was accused of gunning down Anthony Bologna, 48, and his sons Michael, 20, and Matthew, 16, on June 22, 2008, near Congdon and Maynard streets as they drove home from a family outing. Prosecutors alleged that Ramos shot the Bolognas after mistaking them for rival gang members, and that the killings were in retaliation for a shooting that injured another MS-13 member in San Francisco earlier that day. Ramos admitted during the trial that he was driving the Chrysler 300 from which the shots were fired, but said another gang member, …
Board OKs spending $16.5 million on construction groundwork.
Despite opposition expressed by social justice advocates, the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved spending $16.5 million on projects that will lay groundwork to begin construction on the proposed new jail. Before a room smattered with opponents wearing stickers and holding flyers proclaiming "No New Jail," the board approved proposed contracts for planning, design and management firms that will begin work on the project. The spending approved Tuesday morning is only a fraction of the total cost, which is slated to amount to between $145 and $160 million to build the new jail on a plot of county-owned land at Chemical Way in Redwood City. Jail opponents pointed to the construction cost, and the more than $30 million …
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Mark Taylor must also complete a mental health treatment program as a condition of his probation.
The man who pleaded no contest to stealing a purse from the Belmont Safeway store on El Camino Real in January has been sentenced to three years probation in San Mateo County Superior Court. Mark Damon Taylor, 44, pleaded no contest in March to felony theft with a prior conviction and felony identity theft in exchange for a maximum of 90 days in county jail, according to the San Mateo County District Attorney's Office. On Friday, he was sentenced to three years of probation and was accepted into the Pathways Mental Health Treatment Court due to his reported mental health issues, according to the District Attorney's Office. He was also given two days in jail with credit for time served. Taylor, who was arrested March 1 in connection with …
Tim
11:33 am on Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Officer Koti, I will pray that you rest in peace and Thank You for your service to our county. I just happened to drive by Cypress Lawn as the ceramony was happening and can see that you were well loved by many......God Bless you and your family...... more ›