The district attorney has charged a man with beating up a Good Samaritan who stood up for a stranger the suspect was harassing at the San Carlos Caltrain station, a prosecutor said. Brian Weisl, 33, of South San Francisco, allegedly approached a woman standing on the Caltrain platform on Dec. 23 and started aggressively asking her about her outfit, before starting to yell, said Chief Deputy District Attorney Shin-Mee Chang.
Christopher Becerra, a trustee for the Brea Olinda Unified School District, was arrested Thursday on suspicion of possession of child pornography, annoying or molesting a minor and falsifying evidence by bribing, influencing or threatening witnesses, Brea police said. Police received a report that a school board member was sending inappropriate sexual messages to a juvenile, according to a news release.
A 32-year-old man was arrested for crashing a stolen FedEx truck and attempting to steal an ambulance. It all happened on Sunday, just after 2 p.m. Police responded to a call of a FedEx truck that was stolen at 606 Carroll St. Domanique Bullock is accused of getting in a parked FedEx and pushing the 25-year-old driver out of the truck before fleeing in the vehicle.
The suspect accused of a heinous and violent rape of a 12-year-old girl in Brooklyn was apprehended on Friday. Detectives from the Brooklyn North Special Victims Unit (SVU) booked Eric McMichael, 27, of Clay Street in Greenpoint on two counts of rape, two counts of sexual assault, burglary and endangering the welfare of a child. McMichael kept his head down in front of reporters and photographers asking him about the crime as detectives walked him out of the SVU headquarters on Nevins Street
57-year-old Carlos Ray Thomas of Oakland was arrested Thursday after crashing his vehicle into the center divide on southbound 680 in Walnut Creek, and after he allegedly tried to flee that crash scene on foot. That was about 20 minutes after two people reported being shot at by a man they didn't know in a dark-colored SUV in the eastbound lanes of Highway 24 west of Tunnel Road.
"From what we were initially told by police, the individual was unaware that he lived next to, and was shooting his BB gun next to, a synagogue or that it was a religious holiday," Temple Beth Zion leaders wrote. "It was potentially dangerous to use a BB gun in such a populated spot, but it does not appear to have been fuelled [sic] by antisemitism."
The 64-year-old man who police said fired three shots into a local ABC studio after late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel was suspended this week reportedly had a social media account that showed a clear hatred for President Donald Trump. Variety reported an X account for Anibal Hernandez-Santana, the suspected gunman, contained a steady stream of anti-Trump commentary. Where is a good heart attack when we need it the most?? Please Join in my thoughts and prayers for the physical demise of our fearful leader, Hernandez-Santana posted on Thursday.
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The alleged attack on the woman in her 50s took place at Camber Sands, near Rye, on the evening of the bank holiday on 25 August. On Wednesday, Sussex Police said they had charged a Mohammed Maatoug, 33, of Maidstone in Kent, with sexual assault by penetration, following his arrest on Saturday. He appeared at Brighton Magistrates' Court on Tuesday, and will next appear at the same court on 7 October.
Raynham police responded to a report of a man exposing himself at the McDonald's at 365 New State Highway on Saturday around 5:30 p.m. Officers were told that the suspect had been asked to leave the busy restaurant numerous times and exposed himself near the counter when a family with children was ordering. The suspect was identified as 36-year-old Christopher Lloyd Blake. He appeared to be "highly intoxicated," police said.
The father of 7-month-old Emmanuel Haro helped investigators with a search for the baby's remains in Moreno Valley on Sunday, authorities announced, but a body was not found. Jake Haro, 32, worked with investigators and cadaver dogs during the search on the westbound shoulder of the 60 Freeway near Gilman Springs Road, but Emmanuel's body was not located, said Mara Rodriguez, a spokesperson for the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department.
