Antioch Man Pleads Not Guilty To Bay Bridge Standoff Charges
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS 5 / AP / BCN) — An Antioch man who stopped traffic on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge after he allegedly threatened to blow up the span pleaded not guilty to multiple felony...
View ArticleSome Charges Against Bay Bridge Standoff Suspect Dropped
SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) — A San Francisco judge on Thursday dismissed felony kidnapping and false imprisonment charges against a distraught Antioch man who caused a Veteran’s Day traffic snarl on the Bay...
View ArticleGarrido Enters Surprise Not Guilty Plea In Dugard Kidnapping
PLACERVILLE, El Dorado County (CBS SF) — Jaycee Lee Dugard, abducted as a girl in 1991 and held captive for 18 years, failed to get her first measure of justice as surprise legal wrangling Thursday...
View ArticleTeen Accused In SF Market Street Shooting Pleads Not Guilty
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — An 18-year-old man arrested in connection with a shooting that injured five people near Market and Seventh streets in San Francisco on Saturday pleaded not guilty on Wednesday...
View ArticleFormer Pelican Bay Inmate Pleads No Contest In Peninsula Rape, Assault Charges
REDWOOD CITY (BCN/CBS SF) – A former Pelican Bay State Prison inmate who attacked a woman he became romantically involved with while in prison dropped mental competency proceedings and pleaded no...
View ArticlePatient Sentenced For Murder Of Napa State Hospital Worker
NAPA (CBS SF) – Napa State Hospital patient Jess Willard Massey was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison Tuesday morning for murdering a psychiatric technician at the hospital in October. Massey,...
View ArticleWoman Pleads Not Guilty In Death Of Hayward Nursing Student
HAYWARD (CBS SF) – Giselle Esteban pleaded not guilty Friday to a charge that she murdered nursing student Michelle Le, who disappeared in Hayward last May and whose body was found in September. Le, a...
View ArticleSuspect In Oakland School Massacre Pleads Not Guilty
OAKLAND (CBS SF) – The man accused of killing seven people and wounding three others in a shooting rampage at Oakland’s Oikos University earlier this month pleaded not guilty to murder, attempted...
View ArticleDanville Mom Banned From Nordstrom After Leaving Kids In Car
PLEASANTON (CBS 5) – A judge has told a new mom to stay away from the Pleasanton Nordstrom after leaving her 11-week-old twins inside her SUV while she shopped. Amanda Nejat of Danville was arrested in...
View ArticleParoled Oakland Killer Pleads Guilty To Murdering 17-Month-Old, Mother
OAKLAND (CBS SF) — An Oakland man convicted and later paroled in a 1994 killing pleaded guilty Thursday to two counts of murder for killing a 1-year-old boy in 2009 and then murdering the boy’s mother...
View ArticleGang Member Pleads Not Guilty In SF Triple Murder Case
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — A second man accused of killing a father and two of his sons in San Francisco in 2008 pleaded not guilty to murder charges Tuesday. Wilfredo “Flaco” Reyes, 31, was arrested in...
View ArticleAggressive Palo Alto Panhandler Punches Man, Rifles Through Pockets For...
PALO ALTO (CBS/AP) — An aggressive panhandler was arrested for punching a man in Palo Alto and going through his pockets because he refused his plea for money. The victim was on a break from his job in...
View ArticleJapanese Diplomat Pleads No Contest To Domestic Violence Charges In San Mateo
SAN BRUNO (CBS SF) — A Japanese diplomat living in San Bruno pleaded no contest in San Mateo County Superior Court Thursday to two counts of domestic violence. Yoshiaki Nagaya, 33, wore a black suit...
View ArticleRedwood City Man Charged With Impregnating 12-Year-Old Daughter
REDWOOD CITY (CBS/AP) — Two California fathers returned to the United State last week have pleaded not guilty to having sex with their young daughters. Investigators say one of the Redwood City men...
View ArticleMan Pleads No Contest To Attempted Strangling Of Wife Near Half Moon Bay
HALF MOON BAY (CBS SF) — A Southern California man who tried to strangle his wife with his belt near Half Moon Bay in May after she told him she wanted a divorce pleaded no contest Thursday to...
View ArticleUC Berkeley Student Pleads Guilty In Las Vegas Bird Killing Case
BERKELEY (CBS/AP) – A University of California, Berkeley law school student accused in the death and decapitation of an exotic bird at a Las Vegas resort attraction has pleaded guilty to the...
View ArticleSierra LaMar Kidnapping Suspect’s Plea Postponed Again
SANTA CLARA (CBS SF) — A Santa Clara County Superior Court judge Thursday again postponed a plea hearing for the defendant in the Sierra LaMar kidnapping and murder case after the defense said it could...
View ArticleSierra LaMar Case Delayed Again, Prosecutors Review New Evidence
SAN JOSE (CBS SF) – The Sierra LaMar murder and kidnap case was delayed in a San Jose courtroom to next month as prosecutors sift through evidence still coming in from law enforcement agencies, a...
View ArticleBryan Stow Attacker Could Be Released After Pleading Guilty; 2nd Attacker...
LOS ANGELES (CBS SF) — Prosecutors say one of the two men who pleaded guilty Thursday in the beating of San Francisco Giants fan Bryan Stow could be released immediately after receiving credit for time...
View ArticleState Sen. Leland Yee, Co-Defendants Plead Not Guilty
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – Suspended state Sen. Leland Yee pleaded not guilty in federal court in San Francisco today to seven public corruption charges and one arms-trafficking charge lodged against him...
View ArticleDaly City Man Charged With Killing Estranged Wife Pleads Not Guilty
DALY CITY (CBS SF) — A Daly City man charged with killing his estranged wife earlier this month pleaded not guilty Thursday to murder, according to San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe....
View ArticleAccused Killer Of Oakland Tattoo Artist Pleads Not Guilty
OAKLAND (CBS SF) — A 36-year-old carpenter pleaded not guilty Monday to a murder charge stemming from the fatal shooting of a tattoo artist in Oakland four years ago. Michael R. Smith Jr. is charged in...
View ArticleMarina Man Pleads Guilty To Violating Restraining Order, Sending Threats To...
MARINA, Monterey County (CBS SF) — A Marina man has pleaded guilty to six counts of violating a civil restraining order and one count of sending annoying or threatening electronic communications,...
View ArticlePG&E Pleads Not Guilty To Indictment In 2010 San Bruno Explosion; New Grand...
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – Defense and prosecution attorneys revealed at a hearing in PG&E Co.’s criminal case in federal court in San Francisco Monday that a grand jury is continuing an...
View ArticleLivermore Golf Pro Pleads Guilty To Sexually Abusing Boys, Trying To Have...
LIVERMORE (CBS SF) — A Livermore golf instructor pleaded guilty Thursday to seven felony counts for sexually abusing three boys he was teaching and then trying to solicit someone to murder them. Andrew...
View ArticleSuspect In San Jose Sex Assaults Faces Life In Prison
SAN JOSE (CBS SF) — A suspect in two alleged attempted sexual assaults that occurred about a month apart in San Jose was arraigned in Santa Clara County Superior Court Tuesday and faces life in prison....
View ArticleModesto Mass Murder Suspect Pleads Not Guilty In Toddler Killing
MODESTO (CBS SF) — A man accused of killing five people at a Modesto home on Saturday and a toddler last year was transferred overnight from Santa Clara County Jail to Stanislaus County, and pleaded...
View ArticleSF Political Consultant Accused Of Possessing Chemical Weapons Due To Enter...
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — A San Francisco political consultant who is accused of possessing biological and chemical toxins for use as weapons is due to enter a change of plea in federal court Thursday....
View ArticleGuilty Plea Expected In Bizarre Vallejo Kidnapping Case
VALLEJO (CBS SF) — A former U.S. Marine is expected to plead guilty to kidnapping on Thursday morning in a bizarre case that led to a lawsuit against Vallejo police for falsely accusing the two victims...
View ArticleFormer 49er Pleads Not Guilty To Charges In Fisherman’s Wharf Attack
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — Former San Francisco 49ers fullback Bruce Miller Wednesday pleaded not guilty to charges filed in connection with an attack in a Fisherman’s Wharf hotel that injured two men....
View ArticleRedwood City Man Pleads No Contest To Molesting 2 Girls Over Several Years
REDWOOD CITY (CBS SF) — A Redwood City man pleaded no contest on Monday to three felonies for molesting two young girls over the course of several years, San Mateo County prosecutors said today. Juan...
View ArticleCalifornia Congressman, Wife Plead Not Guilty To Charges
SAN DIEGO (AP) — U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter was swarmed by demonstrators yelling “shame on you!” as he left a federal courthouse Thursday in San Diego after pleading not guilty to charges of illegally...
View ArticleStanford Official Pleads Not Guilty To Trying To Kill Girlfriend While High...
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — A Stanford employee arrested Sunday in San Francisco has been charged with attempted homicide for allegedly stabbing his girlfriend while under the influence of LSD, San...
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