Vic Lee (KGO) | March 12, 2013 OAKLAND, Calif. — An Oakland man who was exonerated after spending 14 years in prison for a sex crime he never committed says he’s not angry and just wants to move forward with his life. Johnny Williams is now 38-years-old and now that he’s a free man, he [...]
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Bay City News Service | March 24, 2012 A gang member was sentenced to 18 years to life in state prison for his premeditated attempted murder conviction for attacking a fellow inmate and gang associate with jail-issue razor blades at the Santa Rita Jail in Dublin five years ago. Ismael Contreras, 34, and fellow gang [...]
Mike Anderson (NBC) | December 1, 2011 A federal jury said Thursday that former BART officer Johannes Mehserle is not guilty in the alleged beating of an Oakland man in 2008. A civil rights lawsuit named Mehserle and four other officers in the beating incident that happened less than seven weeks before Mehserle shot and [...]
By Lora Neng WWW.STREETGANGS.COM STAFF WRITER October 28, 2011 Oakland police along with other law enforcement agencies are still contending with their controversial tactics earlier this week when attempts to control the gathering turnout at Oakland’s Occupy Wall Street became violent. Protesters gathered in downtown Tuesday consisted of a number of anti-war demonstrators claiming their [...]
Harry Harris (Oakland Tribune) | July 17, 2011 OAKLAND — It started with taunts between rival gang members and quickly escalated into a gunbattle that police said left one of the instigators dead. But in an infrequently used legal principle, the rival gang members whose return fire killed Christian Daniel Garcia, 18, in the van he [...]
Henry K. Lee (Chronicle Staff Writer) | June 25, 2011 OAKLAND — An Alameda County judge signaled Friday that he will approve Oakland’s second gang injunction, a legal order that would prohibit five alleged Norteños from gathering in the city’s Fruitvale neighborhood. Superior Court Judge Robert Freedman issued an interim order saying the city had [...]
Sean Maher (Oakland Tribune) May 18, 2011 OAKLAND — Gang injunctions in North Oakland and the Fruitvale district won the support of the City Council Tuesday night. In a 4-3 vote, the council decided to continue funding both efforts, which have cost the city about $760,000, mostly in staff time. The North Oakland injunction has [...]
Scott Johnson (Oakland Tribune) | March 22, 2011 OAKLAND — An Alameda County probation officer took the stand Tuesday as testimony continued in the hearing on a proposed gang injunction against 40 suspected members of the Nortenos in Oakland’s Fruitvale district. The nearly three hours of testimony included intense questioning from prosecutors and defense attorneys, and [...]
Demian Bulwa (San Francisco Chronicle) | March 22, 2011 The two sides in Oakland’s bid for a civil gang injunction against alleged Norteños in the Fruitvale neighborhood traded angry accusations Tuesday after parole agents walked into a court hearing during testimony and hauled away one of the defendants. The arrest of 27-year-old Javier Quintero as he [...]
KTVU | March 17, 2011 OAKLAND, Calif. — A man and two juveniles suspected of opening fire on an Oakland street Wednesday night — in a shooting that injured two people — were arrested and told police they belonged to a street gang, police said. Two people were walking near their homes in the 8700 [...]
Demian Bulwa (San Francisco Chronicle) | February 24, 2011 City Attorney John Russo says Abel Manzo’s movements need to be restrained because the city can prove he is a member of a violent gang terrorizing the Fruitvale neighborhood. But when Manzo, a 25-year-old barber, took the witness stand Wednesday in a bid to clear his [...]
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