Posts Tagged ‘CA’
Shamed Former Priest Arrested For Suspicion Of Vehicular Manslaughter After Fatal Rossmoor Collision
A former Oakland priest accused of sexually abusing dozens of children was arrested in Rossmoor Saturday night after his car jumped a curb and ran down a man and wife. Stephen Kiesle, 75, a former Oakland priest who served six years in prison after pleading no contest to molesting a minor girl in 1995, was…
Read MoreCounty Pays $4.5 Million Settlement For Hall-Wilson Shooting Case
County officials have agreed to pay $4.5 million to the family of a mentally ill homeless man shot and killed during a confrontation with a sheriff’s deputy in Danville in March, 2021. The settlement, reported Thursday by the Bay Area News Group, comes on the heels of Deputy Andrew Hall’s conviction for felony assault with…
Read MorePre-Dawn Blaze Guts Martinez Home Saturday; Resident Treated For Burns
Firefighters pounced on a pre-dawn fire at a home under renovation in Martinez early Saturday, forced to fight the fire from outside due to the possibility of collapse. The homeowner was transported to a local hospital with moderate burn injuries, according to a ConFire spokesman, as firefighters fought to save the home on Via de…
Read More“Fill ‘Er Up… We Mean, Hands Up!” Lafayette PD Arrest Stolen Car Suspect While He’s Getting Gas Sunday
A trip past the neighborhood gas station turned into a bit of a real-life crime episode Sunday after NEWS24/680 reader Pamela Dunn happened upon this scene at the 76 Station off Mt. Diablo Blvd. in Lafayette. Turns out a passing Honda Civic triggered the town’s all-catching license plate readers and the city’s finest were vectored…
Read MoreMoraga’s Canyon Bridge Re-Opens – One Lane Of It, Anyway – And It’s Getting A Workout
Moragans have been beset by traffic issues in recent months and some were starting to feel a little more cut off from the rest of the world than they would have liked. We won’t mention the Unmentionable Hole as it has been successfully filled in and while engineers and construction people are still working on…
Read MoreLafayette Police Arrest Two Juveniles After Downtown Collision Tuesday
Two young people were arrested Tuesday evening after running from the scene of an accident on Mt. Diablo Boulevard, their car ramming another driven by a retired lawman. Police were in the area looking for a car reported driving recklessly near Trader Joe’s around 7 p.m. when the car hit the second vehicle, a juvenile…
Read MoreDanville Woman Gets Prison For Coast-To-Coast Marijuana Distribution; Money Laundering
A Danville woman has been sentenced to two years in prison for running an illegal cross-country marijuana distribution ring. Federal prosecutors in Syracuse, New York said 31-year-old Simona Borissova of Danville was also sentenced recently to three years of supervised release and ordered to forfeit nearly $275,000 in a money judgment. Borissova pleaded guilty in February…
Read MoreMartinez Woman Killed In Head-On Crash Wednesday
A 27-year-old Martinez woman was killed in a two-car, head-on crash in the intersection of Pacheco Blvd. and Arthur Rd. in Martinez early Wednesday. Tandiwe Myambo was traveling eastbound on Pacheco Boulevard around 5:30 a.m. when her Honda unexpectedly swerved into oncoming westbound traffic, hitting a Dodge pick-up. Myambo, who attended Diablo Valley College, was…
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