california crime

SAN FRANCISCO — As they were allegedly running an illicit drug business with the structure, efficiency and punctuality normally associated with legitimate corporations, a group of Bay Area residents voiced concerns about spreading addiction…
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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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