The 51-year-old driver was on break at around 1:30 a.m. March 23 when the strangers approached his Toyota Highlander SUV on Second Avenue near East 3rd Street and asked for a lift.
The four unknown individuals asked to be driven to a location but the driver denied the request. It was allegedly at this point that one of the individuals in the group showed a firearm, forced the driver out of the car and the group stole it.
A Davis man had been on a violent crime spree for several days before leading the region's law enforcement agencies to Hollister and back to San Jose-exchanging gunfire with police along the way-where he was killed by officers, according to authorities. Just before 4pm Jan. 21, Mohamed Husien, 30, crashed a stolen vehicle-which he had taken at gunpoint from a victim in Hollister-near the intersection of Julian Street and Notre Dame Avenue in San Jose, Chief Paul Joseph said in a press conference.
The violent carjacking happened about noon Oct. 1 in the 1100 block of Clay Street. Police said the rideshare driver, a Half Moon Bay resident, had just dropped off a passenger and was sitting in his parked Toyota Prius. A woman then walked up to the vehicle, opened the door and began struggling with the driver before dragging him outside, where she pummeled him repeatedly with her fists, police said.
A man and woman have been charged with being part of a robbery crew that lured cannabis delivery drivers into thinking they were fulfilling legitimate orders, only to rob them at gunpoint upon arrive, court records show. Jordan Cook and her boyfriend. Larue Henderson, were charged with conspiracy and robbery in federal court. The criminal complaint against them describes six similar armed robberies of cannabis delivery drivers this year, all in Berkeley, Hayward, or San Leandro.
The suspect - Albert Decoto, 46, of Oakland, who was arrested Oct. 9 - has been charged with four counts of first degree residential burglary, three counts of first degree residential robbery, one count of carjacking, two counts of vehicle theft, one count of assault on a peace officer and one count of attempted carjacking, all felonies. He has also been charged with misdemeanor counts of resisting a peace officer and possession of a controlled substance.
The victim drove two men to their requested destination on Duffield Street at about 2:30 p.m, police said. When they arrived, the perps said they wanted to go somewhere else and asked for the cab driver's phone so they could enter the address. Once they had the phone in hand, though, they allegedly leaped out of the car and ran to Concord Street, where a white BMW was waiting for them with two other men inside.
A radioactive shrimp recall launched earlier this week has grown to include several brands of bagged, frozen raw and cooked shrimp in nine states, including California. Traces of a compound called cesium-137 were found in shipping containers in four US ports. [Hoodline] According to newly released court filings, a former high school band teacher in Berkeley was arrested in May for allegedly sexually assaulting a 16-year-old student at least five times between March 23 and May 4 of this year.
A few days ago, a gang of about a dozen young men tried to assault a woman in her car at night in DC. A @Doge team member saw what was happening, ran to defend her and was severely beaten to the point of concussion, but he saved her. It is time to federalize DC.
