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Redwood City Teacher Avoids Charges of Child Cruelty under CA Penal Code 11164

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March 8, 2013

Alexia Bogdis was arrested a little over a year ago for allegedly slapping a 5-year-old child, depriving another child of food, twisting the child’s arm, and kicking his chair. Recently, however, all witnesses have recanted their statements, claiming that they must have misinterpreted what they saw. Bogdis has remained on administrative leave, along with 8 […]

Possession of Paraphernalia Charge in El Cerrito with Violation of Penal Code H&S 11364

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March 7, 2013

A 32-year-old unnamed man from El Sobrante was caught by surprise in a women’s restroom in the local El Cerrito Safeway supermarket when a young child reported smelling strange smoke and seeing a pornographic magazine while there.  It seems that the man was smoking a cocaine-laced marijuana cigarette, reading pornographic materials, and had a young […]

San Francisco Marijuana Robbery Averted

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March 6, 2013

​A dramatic hostage situation at a San Francisco city-licensed marijuana grow-house ended in the arrest of an unnamed suspect Wednesday. It seems that 4 masked gunmen attempted to rob the warehouse in the Bayview area on Jennings, near Wallace Avenue, but were stymied by a report of the incident. In response, one of the suspects […]

Alameda County Theft Oakland Museum

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March 5, 2013

Andrea Taray Franklin, a felon with over 10 convictions for crimes related to theft, has been arrested in connection with the burglary of the Oakland Museum of California. The same gold inlaid jewelry box, created by a California artisan somewhere between 1869 and 1878 and worth more than $805,000, was stolen once before – in […]

San Francisco Vehicular Homicide Charge in Teen Drunk Driving Accident

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March 4, 2013

San Francisco police have accused 29-year-old Kieran Brewer of killing 17-year-old Hanren Chang, a student at Lowell High School – they have charged him with a felony DUI and with vehicular manslaughter. It seems that Chang was attempting to cross Sloat Boulevard at Vale, an intersection within 8 blocks of 19th avenue, when she was […]

Drug Charges in San Francisco Target African Americans

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March 1, 2013

Recent studies indicate that African Americans in the San Francisco area charged with drug-related crimes experience an arrest rate more than 19 times higher than any other ethnicity in the area and 7.3 times higher than African Americans throughout the state at large.  Why is this the case? For one thing, this an important statistic […]

UC SANTA CRUZ WOMAN MAKES FALSE CHARGES OF RAPE

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February 28, 2013

Officers took the young woman seriously when she claimed she’d been attacked in dark area between classrooms this February 17th – after all, rape is a serious crime and should not be taken lightly.  But what happens when those accusations turn out to be false?  Making false accusations is a criminal offense in the state […]

DUI Charge Results from Facebook Post

Rabin Nabizadeh
January 11, 2013

Recently, Jason Cox-Brown, an Oregon teenage driver hit another car while driving drunk. Since it was early morning on New Year’s Day, he fled the scene, probably thinking he was going to get away it. He then proceeded to post a status update on Facebook to share with over 600 of his closest Facebook friends.  […]

Drunk Driving Hit and Run in the Mission District

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November 15, 2012

23 year-old Cerena Barros was arrested on charges of drunk driving after injuring a pedestrian walking his bicycle, Aaron Wells, during a chase through the city.  With a blood-alcohol level over .08%, Barros is being held on suspicion of evasion, possession of a controlled substance, felony hit-and-run, and DUI with three priors. Barros’s situation is […]