More than a year and a half after a group of pro-Palestinian activists were accused of causing extensive property damage at Stanford University's executive offices, five of the original defendants are set to stand trial next month on felony vandalism charges. The five defendants proceeding to trial are Maya Burke, German Gonzalez, Taylor McCann, Hunter Taylor Black and Amy Zhai. The rest of original 12 defendants have entered a court-supervised mental health diversion program that allows them to avoid criminal prosecution.
" Patrick Beverley has no criminal record," the statement said. "He cares deeply about his little sister - a young lady, a minor. Given that, when he unexpectedly found her alone in the home with an 18-year-old man in the middle of the night, he was understandably concerned, as any brother would be about his sister. However, we don't believe what followed happened the way it's been described and we look forward to the opportunity to address that in court."
DUBLIN A Daly City resident has been charged with two felonies after he allegedly showed up to a meeting with an undercover cop who had been posing as a 13-year-old girl online, court records show. Ricardo Alan Jimenez, 31, was charged with arranging a sexual meeting with a minor, and contacting a minor with intent to commit a sex crime, both felonies. He has been released from jail after posting $100,000 bail, court records show.
The suspect, Carlos Ray Thomas of Oakland, was charged Monday with two counts of assault with a semi-automatic firearm, two counts of shooting at an occupied vehicle and one count of possession of a firearm by a felon. According to court records, his prior felony conviction was in 2004 in Alameda County for vandalism over $400 damage. He is being held without bail at Santa Rita Jail and is scheduled to enter a plea on Friday.
An Alabama man who claimed to be Michael the Angel of Death has been charged with multiple felonies after he threatened to "do the Lord's reaping" at a Catholic monastery in Orange County and then traveled to the church with a sizable cache of weapons, authorities said. On Wednesday, Joshua Michael Richardson, 38, was charged with felony criminal threats and possession of six high-capacity gun magazines, brass knuckles and a sword, according to the Orange County district attorney's office.
We're gonna detain the mouse, one officer tells his colleague. Approaching Jones while he was standing with a mother and her child, officers began wrestling the oversized rodent into cuffs. Chuck E., come with me, Chuck E, one officer repeats, before shouting: Chuck E. stop resisting, stop resisting. You're being detained, stop resisting. Let it go, let it go.