bay area crime

A former Marin County schools superintendent accused of inappropriate contact with a child was convicted by a jury on Monday. Robert Patrick Raines, who used to administer the Shoreline Unified School District, could face a year in jail and…
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Mill Valley police arrested a man on allegations he committed lewd acts in front of girls in a school restroom. The incident was reported Monday afternoon at Mill Valley Middle School on Sycamore Avenue. The initial report was that the man…
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Stanford University said Monday it was investigating a “cybersecurity incident” after a ransomware group threatened to release confidential information from the university’s Department of Public Safety on the dark web. According to a…
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SAN JOSE — A teenager suspected of hanging several dolls with nooses from the trees of multiple Saratoga schools last fall was arrested Wednesday on felony terrorism charges, authorities said. The teen was booked into Santa Clara County’s…
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The former CEO of a Silicon Valley-based tech company was sentenced to eight years in prison after lied about his company’s ability to test for COVID-19 — in a manner similar to the claims that landed former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes…
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SAN LEANDRO — Usually when adults get involved in quibbling between teenage relatives, it’s to act as a peacemaker or a positive role model. But not this San Leandro resident, who allegedly shot up the home of a 14-year-old girl who’d…
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FREMONT — A city resident has been arrested and charged with five felonies related to alleged sexual abuse and providing drugs to a minor, in a case that started when the defendant’s estranged wife suspected he was cheating and confronted…
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OAKLAND — Criminal proceedings against an East Bay man were suspended just days into his murder trial, after he made a verbal outburst that caused his lawyer to openly doubt his mental competency, court records show. Charles Beal, 32, was…
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DUBLIN — At about 11:45 a.m. on Sept. 13, deputies at the Santa Rita Jail brought 33-year-old Bryson Levy to a new cell that was already occupied by Yuri Brand, an El Cerrito man on pretrial detention for allegedly living at a stranger’s…
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