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Sheriff investigates critics

BY ADRIANA HERNANDEZ Daily Post Staff Writer

Three captains who have been critical of San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus were served with Internal Affairs investigations for alleged misconduct, according to the deputies and sergeants' union.

They called for her resignation

Sheriff’s Capts. Mark Myers, Frank Dal Porto and William Fogarty were served with a notice of intent to be investigated by an outside agency on Monday and yesterday for alleged misconduct, according to union representative Terry Downing.

ORACLE, TIKTOK DEAL: Oracle rose 1.5% on speculation that it could be part of a deal that would keep TikTok operating in the United States. Oracle head Larry Ellison of Woodside is on a media buying binge with his 42-year-old son David, acquiring Paramount and CBS, and he has announced plans to acquire Warner Bros Discovery.

BEARDED SOLDIERS: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered that troops across all the services who need an exemption from shaving their faces for longer than a year should now be kicked out of the service.

MORE ROBOTAXIS: Alphabetowned Waymo has obtained a permit to start testing its robotaxis at San Francisco International Airport, according to San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie.

TERRORISM CHARGE DROPPED: A New York judge yesterday threw out terrorism charges against Luigi Mangione, rejecting the Manhattan district attorney’s theory in a state murder case that the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian

[See THE UPDATE, page 4]

The Sheriff’s Office did not respond to the Post as to why they were served.

“My client is just one of many who have been retaliated against.”

Harper said she couldn’t disclose the reason for the investigation.

Myers and Dal Porto did not respond

“The longer this is allowed to continue, the more retaliation is being perpetrated against not only my client but other members of the department,” Fogarty’s attorney, Brandi Harper said.

to the Post’s inquiries on the investigation. The three captains were not placed on administrative leave after being served notices, Downing said.

Myers, San Carlos’ captain, and Dal Porto were spokesmen when captains voted no confidence in Corpus, Undersheriff Dan Perea and former chief of staff Victor Aenlle.

Dal Porto said in an email to Corpus

[See CRITICS, page 22]

Council not into unique plans

BY EMILY MIBACH

Daily Post Managing Editor

Palo Alto council members gave a lukewarm reception to a 75-foot building on California Avenue, which has an architectural style inspired by baskets woven by Muwekma Ohlone.

“I don’t love the exterior, but that’s me,” said Councilwoman Julie Lythcott-Haims, after saying she’s excited for the project. She also pointed out that it wasn’t up to the council Monday to make any firm decisions on the building’s look, only to give feedback to architect Zoltan Pali.

Lythcott-Haims wasn’t the only council member to express some distaste in the original architectural style during the council’s first crack at the proposed retail and housing project at

[See UNIQUE, page 22]

Bill that upzones near Caltrain passes

BY BEN CHRISTOPHER CalMatters

California lawmakers just laid the groundwork for a highly targeted building boom.

Senate Bill 79, authored by San Francisco Democrat Sen. Scott Wiener, would “upzone” neighborhoods

immediately surrounding train, light rail and subway stations in many of the state’s most populous metro areas, such as along the Caltrain line. That means apartment developers will be able to construct residential buildings — some as tall as 75 feet — regardless of what local zoning maps, elected officials or

density-averse neighbors say. In a legislative year teeming with controversial housing bills designed to kick-start more construction in California, SB79 has been among the most controversial. Because it would override the planning decisions of local governments, the bill

[See UPZONE, page 23]

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BASKET BUILDING — Palo Alto council members aren’t thrilled with the aesthetics of this apartment and retail buidling slated for California Ave. Image from SBF:Architects.

UC faculty sue to stop funding cuts

The Trump administration is using civil rights laws to wage a campaign against the University of California in an attempt to curtail academic freedom and undermine free speech, according to a lawsuit filed yesterday by faculty, staff, student organizations and every labor union representing UC workers.

The lawsuit comes weeks after the Trump administration fined the University of California, Los Angeles $1.2 billion and froze research funding after accusing the school of allowing antisemitism on campus and other civil rights violations. It was the first public university to be targeted with a widespread funding freeze. The administration has frozen or paused federal funding over similar allegations against elite private colleges, including Harvard, Brown and Columbia.

White House demands

According to the lawsuit, the Trump administration has made several demands in its proposed settlement offer to UCLA, including giving government access to faculty, student, and staff data, releasing admissions and hiring data,

ending diversity scholarships, banning overnight demonstrations on university property and cooperating with immigration enforcement.

The Department of Justice didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment, nor did the office of the UC system’s president.

UC statement

Stett Holbrook, a spokesman for the University of California system, said that while the university is not involved in the lawsuit, it is part of numerous legal and advocacy efforts to restore and maintain funding.

“Federal cuts to research funding threaten lifesaving biomedical research, hamper U.S. economic competitiveness and jeopardize the health of Americans who depend on the University’s cutting-edge medical science and innovation,” he said in a statement.

The coalition that sued is led by the American Association of University Professors union, or AAUP, and represented by Democracy Forward, a legal group that has brought other lawsuits against the Trump administration.

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Fire trucks slowed down

BY ADRIANA HERNANDEZ Daily Post Staff Writer

Changes to Middle Avenue in Menlo Park are slowing down firefighters — but not enough to be concerned, according to the fire marshal.

Menlo Park City Council in April approved installing speed tables along Middle Avenue to slow cars down and abide by the 25 mph speed limit. Speed tables are like speed bumps, but are longer, and the jolt to a vehicle going over them is aimed at being less severe, according to Menlo Park Fire District Fire Marshal Gage Schlice.

Schlice said residents have reached out to him regarding the safety of the speed tables. Schlice said he’s hearing concerns about fire trucks being slowed down in case of an emergency.

Schlice said the speed tables do slow down re-

sponse, but not enough to cause concern. The speed tables slow down the fire trucks by three to five seconds, but the fire district understands the need for them to prevent speeding, Schlice said.

Asked for speed tables

Former Fire Marshal Jon Johnston was involved during the Middle Avenue project and made sure the speed tables wouldn’t affect fire trucks, while still slowing down cars.

Council approved $1 million for the construction of five speed tables on Middle Avenue in May to improve traffic and bicyclist safety.

The Middle Avenue “complete streets” project, approved in February 2023, has been in place since October. Parking on Middle Avenue was removed and bike lanes were added to each side of the road.

Thompson was “intended to evoke terror.” Judge Gregory Carro kept other charges in place, including a second-degree murder count that requires prosecutors to prove Mangione intended to kill Thompson. The 27-year-old Ivy League graduate is also facing a parallel federal death penalty prosecution.

GAZA ATTACK: The Israeli military began a ground offensive yesterday targeting Gaza City, slowly squeezing in on the Palestinian territory’s largest city that has seen block after block already destroyed in the Israel-Hamas war. Residents still in the city were warned they must leave and head south.

CHICAGO’S NEXT: Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said she was on the ground in Chicago yesterday “to make clear we are not backing down” in the Trump administration’s effort to stop violent crime in cities.

‘CALL THEM OUT’: Vice President JD Vance called on the public to turn in anyone who says distasteful things about the assassination of his friend and political ally, Charlie Kirk. “When you see someone celebrating Charlie’s murder, call them out,” Vance said Monday. “And hell, call their employer.”

SHOUTING MATCH: FBI Director Kash Patel and Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J. got into a shouting match yesterday during a Senate hearing when Booker charged that Patel is responsible for a “generational destruction of the nation’s premier law enforcement agency.” Patel fired back at Booker, telling him that he was an “embarrassment.”

STEEL DEMAND STRONG: The big winner on Wall Street yesterday was Steel Dynamics, which climbed 6.1% after it said it’s seeing improved earnings across its three business units. It credited strong demand for steel from the non-residential construction and auto industries, among other things.

COACHELLA LINEUP: Sabrina Carpenter, Justin Bieber and Karol G will headline the 2026 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Also on the lineup: Addison Rae, David Byrne, Iggy Pop, The XX, The Strokes, Young Thug, Sexyy Redd, Teddy Swims, Moby, Kaskade, Major Lazer, FKA Twigs, PinkPantheress, BIG BANG and many more.

COSTCO RECALL: Costco is recalling bottles of Kirkland Signature Prosecco because they could shatter without warning.

MENENDEZ TRIAL DENIED: A judge on Monday rejected a request for a new trial for Erik and Lyle Menendez, shutting down another possible path for freedom for the brothers who have served decades in prison for killing their parents in 1989. The rejection comes a few weeks after both brothers were denied parole.

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Deaths

San Mateo County Coroner's Office: Sept. 15

Erika Orban, 82, of San Mateo

Dudley Allen Desler, 94, of San Mateo

Sept. 14

Landra Kathleen Riessen, 71, of South San Francisco

Sept. 13

Roger A. Edinger, 83, of Tracy

Jesus Manuel Lopez, 67, of San Bruno

Sept. 12

Ana Francisca Davilla, 77, of South San Francisco

Sergey Gurevich, 64, of San Mateo

Ronald Patten, 93, no hometown listed

Michael David Ng, 63, of Pacifica Lonnie Hicks, 83, of Vallejo

Washington Viteri, 84, of San Bruno

Stephen Michael Fallon, 67, of Antioch

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Chloe Luoyi Zhao, a girl

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Sharvin Baidya, a boy

Arlen Yareli Centeno Bustamante, a girl

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Jianina Rose Pizano, a girl

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Police: Chef robs 3 different banks

A well-known chef who robbed a northern California bank in 2018 is facing charges again after three bank robberies in central San Francisco last week, according to police.

Officers responding to a bank alarm around noon on Sept. 10 learned that a man passed a note demanding money to an employee, who complied in fear for their life, according to a San Francisco Police Department news release. The man then fled with a bag of money, police said. With help from the community, investigators identified the suspect as Valentino Luchin, 62, of San Francisco and arrested him, police said.

There were two other bank robberies in Walnut Creek that day involving a suspect with a similar description and methods and police also charged Luchin with those robberies, police said.

Luchin was charged with robbery and attempted robbery, police said. He’s being held on $200,000 bail, according to the San Francisco Sheriff’s website. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Sept. 24.

Lawyer’s statement

Luchin is a talented chef and kind person who found himself in a “desperate” financial situation recently, Deputy Public Defender Kwixuan H. Maloof

said in a statement. The restaurant industry has been difficult in recent years and Luchin was offered a position that was later withdrawn, putting him into a “state of depression,” he said.

“The charges against him are totally overblown, and the government is trying to stretch the law to fit facts that simply are not there,” Maloof said, adding that he intends to challenge the charges and “expose prosecutorial overreach.”

Restaurant work

Local news outlets report that Luchin was known for his work at Italian restaurants such as Rose Pistola and Ottavio. He was charged in a 2018 bank robbery in Contra Costa County and told KGO-TV during an interview at a detention facility at the time, “I went inside and said ‘Good morning. Nobody move. This is a robbery.’”

Luchin said he was desperate after his restaurant Ottavio in Walnut closed in 2016.

“We’ve been struggling a lot financially and I have a family,” Luchin said. “I feel bad. It wasn’t something I was planning or doing for a living.”

Luchin pleaded no contest to one count of second-degree robbery in 2018 and was sentenced to one year in county jail and three years probation.

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Hollywood legend Redford, 89, dies

Robert Redford, the Hollywood golden boy who became an Oscar-winning director, liberal activist and godfather for independent cinema under the name of one of his best-loved characters, died yesterday at 89.

Redford died “at his home at Sundance in the mountains of Utah — the place he loved, surrounded by those he loved,” publicist Cindi Berger said in a statement. He died in his sleep, but no cause was provided.

Movie star roles

After rising to stardom in the 1960s, Redford was one of the biggest stars of the ’70s with such films as “The Candidate,” “All the President’s Men” and “The Way We Were,” capping that decade with the best director Oscar for 1980’s “Ordinary People,” which also won best picture in 1980. His wavy blond hair and boyish grin made him the most desired of leading men, but he worked hard to transcend his looks — whether through his political advocacy, his willingness to take on unglamorous roles or his dedication to providing a platform for low-budget movies.

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son” to a double agent in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and his co-stars included Jane Fonda, Meryl Streep and Tom Cruise. But his most famous screen partner was his old friend Paul Newman, their films a variation of their warm, teasing relationship off screen. Redford played the wily outlaw opposite Newman in 1969’s “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” a box-office smash from which Redford’s Sundance Institute and festival got its name. He also teamed with Newman on 1973’s best picture Oscar winner, “The Sting,” which earned Redford a best-actor nomination.

Later years

Film roles after the ’70s became more sporadic as Redford concentrated on directing and producing, and his new role as patriarch of the independent-film movement in the 1980s and ’90s through his Sundance Institute. But he starred in 1985’s best picture champion “Out of Africa” and in 2013 received some of the best reviews of his career as a shipwrecked sailor in “All is Lost,” in which he was the film’s only performer. In 2018, he was praised again in what he called his farewell movie, “The Old Man and the Gun.” “I just figure that I’ve had a long career that I’m very pleased with,” he said shortly before the film came out.

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The Burlingame seafood restaurant at 824 Cowan Road will host its annual Lobsterfest Benefit for Okizu on Saturday, Oct. 11. Doors open at 4 p.m., and the event runs through 10 p.m. All proceeds from the lobster party fundraiser will go to the nonprofit, which runs camps for kids with cancer and their families. For 42 years Camp Okizu has offered support programs to families who have a child diagnosed with cancer, becoming a second

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“The kids at the camp say they go to the hospital for treatment, but they go to Okizu to heal,” said New England Lobster owner Marc Worrall, who has been hosting the annual benefit for two decades now. Over those 20 years, he said they’ve raised more than $1 million for the charity.

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City Hall artwork faces removal amid problems

BY ADRIANA HERNANDEZ Daily Post Staff Writer

Technical issues may leave the Palo Alto City Hall lobby bare due to malfunctioning artwork.

“Conversation,” an art piece made up of 20’ 4’10 monitors designed by Susan Narduli, has cost the city $192,121 to repair and maintain the digital piece of artwork since 2015, which was designed to create a conversation among residents, according to Community Services Manager Elise DeMarzo, manager of community services.

“Conversation” showcased social media posts from global, national, and local news feeds, as well as residents’ comments and photos they submitted, according to the city’s website.

It would also display a weekly schedule of city events, announcements and meetings.

Unveiling, Covid issues

It was unveiled in early 2016 and Narduli expected it to last for 10 years, according to DeMarzo’s report.

During Covid, the art was

turned off and the platform it relied on was discontinued, causing several malfunctions, DeMarco said in her report. Narduli redesigned the art to use a new platform, but because of Twitter’s policy changes, it stopped showing news feeds.

The artwork has passed its expected lifespan and now requires too much work to be fixed, DeMarzo wrote.

The Public Art Commission will be reviewing the possible removal of the monitors tomorrow at 7 p.m.

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Perjury defendant refuses to appear

Wife vanished in 2019

A Los Altos inventor who allegedly killed his wife in Taiwan blew off a second hearing for the seven felonies he is being charged with.

asked for the hearing to be moved to Friday in the Palo Alto Courthouse at 270 Grant Ave.

Deputy District Attorney William Bobseine asked Santa Clara Judge Thomas Kuhnle to consider a restraining order for a list of six people so Herchen would not contact them.

Harald Herchen, 66, refused to show up in court yesterday after the Santa Clara County DA’s office charged him with seven counts of felony perjury related to the varying stories he told about the disappearance of his wife, Alice Ku. Herchen also refused to appear in court on Friday. Ku, 37, disappeared after sightseeing with Herchen at Taroko National Park on Nov. 29, 2019. Herchen’s attorney, Chuck Smith,

“We realized early on that obtaining jurisdiction to charge someone with a death that happened in another country would be very challenging, if not impossible,” Deputy District Attorney Rob Baker previously told the Post. He faces a maximum sentence of seven years in prison, according to Baker.

Herchen’s story

The perjury charges relate to four details of Herchen’s story about Ku’s disappearance that have changed between two depositions and the two-

HERCHEN

week civil trial that ended on July 18. Ku’s family had sued Herchen for wrongful death. The jury awarded Ku’s family $23.6 million after two hours of deliberations.

Jurors were interviewed by a Post reporter and said they weren’t convinced Herchen dropped off Ku at the train station.

Investigators appear to agree with the jurors, as two of Herchen’s perjury charges are related to his inconsistent stories about dropping Ku off at a train station in Taiwan after going to Taroko National Park, where she decided to stay in Taiwan for extra time in order to see her parents.

Taiwanese law enforcement determined that Ku’s cellphone data never showed her near the train station.

Additional perjury charges are

related to an email that Ku allegedly sent to Herchen saying that she had arrived at her mother’s home.

An email expert testified during the civil trial that the email was sent from a laptop on the hotel WiFi where Herchen was staying.

Other inconsistencies

Two other charges are related to Herchen’s shifting testimony about his broken hand.

At various times, Herchen said the injury was from wrestling with his brother, punching a bookshelf and inflating a car tire with a bike pump.

During the civil trial, Attorney Todd Davis, representing the Ku family, had Herchen admit to previously lying under oath about a hand injury.

The final perjury charge accus-

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es Herchen of lying about his belief that Ku is alive.

Aside from saying she went to stay with her parents, Herchen also said he thinks Ku ran off with a younger man.

Trial aftermath

Herchen has worked since 2009 as a fellow at Bloom Energy, a company based in San Jose that converts natural gas into electricity. He has about 60 to 70 patents for different parts but lost his job after the jury’s verdict.

Ku’s family has since filed a restraining order freezing Herchen’s assets after learning he had sold properties in Palo Alto and Texas and accused him of trying to avoid paying the judgment.

Herchen was arraigned on the seven counts. He remains in jail on no-bail status.

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Vax panel to vote on use of 3 shots

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new vaccine advisory committee meets this week, with votes expected on whether to change recommendations on shots against Covid, hepatitis B and chickenpox.

The exact questions to be voted on tomorrow and Friday in Atlanta are unclear. Officials at the Department of Health and Human Services did not respond to questions seeking details to a newly posted agenda, although the department announced five additional appointments to the panel Monday.

Potential outcomes

Some public health experts are worried that the votes will — at a minimum

— raise unwarranted new questions about vaccines in the minds of parents.

Perhaps even more consequential would be a vote that restricts a government program from paying for vaccines for low-income families.

“I’m tightening my seat belt,” said Dr. William Schaffner, a Vanderbilt University vaccines expert.

The panel, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, makes recommendations to the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how already-approved vaccines should be used. CDC directors have almost always accepted those recommendations, which are widely heeded by doctors.

FDA targets Hims in ads crackdown

For the first time, federal health officials are taking aim at telehealth companies promoting unofficial versions of prescription drugs — including popular weight loss medications — as part of the Trump administration’s crackdown on pharmaceutical advertising.

The Food and Drug Administration yesterday posted more than 100 letters to various drugmakers and online prescribing companies, including Hims & Hers, which has built a multibillion-dollar business centered around lower-cost versions of blockbuster obesity injections.

‘Misleading’ statements

The FDA warned the company to remove “false and misleading” promotional statements from its website, including language claiming that its

customized products contain “the same active ingredient” as FDA-approved drugs Wegovy and Ozempic. The formulations cited by regulators are produced by specialty compounding pharmacies and aren’t reviewed by the FDA.

“Your claims imply that your products are the same as an FDA-approved product when they are not,” states the warning letter, dated Sept. 9.

Hims said yesterday that it “looks forward to engaging with the FDA.”

“Our website and our customer-facing materials note that compounded treatments are not approved or evaluated by the FDA,” the company said in a statement.

It’s the first FDA attempt to directly police online platforms like Hims, which have long argued they’re not subject to traditional drug ad rules.

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SEPT. 3

9:13 a.m. — Steven Cary Taylor, 66, transient, arrested for creating a public nuisance, 1-99 block of Encina Ave.

3:12 p.m. — Michael Philip Lugea, 64, transient, arrested for creating a public nuisance, 2400 block of Faber Place.

SEPT. 4

1:12 p.m. — Naomi Louise St. Louis, 65, transient, arrested for creating a public nuisance, 500 block of High St.

2:02 p.m. — Don Reese, 59, of Palo Alto, arrested for creating a public nuisance, 400 block of Bryant St.

SEPT. 5

9:11 a.m. — Theft from a vehicle, 2800 block of Park Blvd.

SEPT. 6

5:18 p.m. — Domestic battery, El Capitan Place.

SEPT. 8

5:25 p.m. — Louis Donald Barrientos Jr., 59, transient, arrested for creating a public nuisance, 500 block of Webster St.

8:47 p.m. — Auto burglary, 500 block of Webster St.

9:22 p.m. — Lindsey Yael Cruz, 38, of Woodland, arrested for shoplifting, Stanford Shopping Center.

SEPT. 9

5:43 p.m. — Lejohn Miguel Windom, 62, of Menlo Park, and Armando Alcantar Licona, 33, transient, both arrested for creating a public nuisance, 3100 block of Park Blvd.

6:57 p.m. — John Farr Block, 67, transient, arrested for creating a public nuisance, 800 block of Alma St.

10:37 p.m. — Auto burglary, 400 block of Florence St.

SEPT. 10

1:03 a.m. — Parts and/or accessories stolen from a vehicle, 700 block of Welch Road.

1 p.m. — Grand theft, 3400 block of Greer Road.

2:19 p.m. — Zhiling Liao, 53, of

Woodside, arrested for shoplifting, Stanford Shopping Center.

5 p.m. — Rick Allen Septon, 61, transient, arrested for creating a public nuisance, 4000 block of Transport St.

5:07 p.m. — Frida Servin Pena, 31, of Mountain View, arrested for shoplifting, Stanford Shopping Center.

6:27 p.m. — Grand theft, 100 block of California Ave.

7:03 p.m. — Steven Cary Taylor, 66, transient, arrested for creating a public nuisance, 1-99 block of Encina Ave.

7:37 p.m. — Petty theft, 900 block of Addison Ave.

8:38 p.m. — Petty theft, Downtown Palo Alto Caltrain Station.

10:30 p.m. — Vandalism, 700 block of Melville Ave.

STANFORD

SEPT. 5

3:55 p.m. — Stalking, 400 block of Jane Stanford Way.

6:02 p.m. — Petty theft from a vehicle, 700 block of Campus Drive.

7:20 p.m. — Petty theft, 700 block of Serra St.

MENLO PARK

SUNDAY

4:14 a.m. — Toyota SUV stolen, 1100 block of Windermere Ave.

7:50 a.m. — Laurence Ramsdale, 32, transient, cited for possession of drug paraphernalia and on a warrant, El Camino and Encinal Ave.

10:03 a.m. — Burglary, 3500 block of Haven Ave.

10:28 a.m. — Vandalism, 3500 block of Haven Ave.

MONDAY

6:15 a.m. — Vehicle collision causes injuries, 1-99 block of Willow Road.

10:48 a.m. — Jason Pearson, 46, of Redwood City, cited for possession of drugs and drug paraphernalia, Willow Road and Coleman Ave.

12:38 p.m. — Taj Adams, 20, of Modesto, arrested for grand theft and resisting police, 600 block of Santa Cruz Ave.

2:12 p.m. — Vehicle collision causes injuries, Crane St. and Oak Grove Ave.

3:21 p.m. — Fraud, 200 block of O’Connor St.

5:30 p.m. — Fraud, 1-99 block of El Camino.

10:15 p.m. — Alondra Arana Villanueva, 28, transient, cited for drug possession, University Ave. at the railroad tracks.

MOUNTAIN VIEW

JULY 26

10:09 a.m. — Emigdio Cruz Cruz, 28, of Mountain View, cited for DUI, Rengstorff and Stanford avenues.

JULY 27

2:02 p.m. — Frank Braby, 37, transient, cited for vandalism and throwing an object at a vehicle that is capable of doing great bodily harm, 300 block of Easy St.

JULY 31

11:38 p.m. — John Lawler, 57, of Sunnyvale, cited for display of false vehicle registration, 100 block of E. El Camino.

SEPT. 7

10:01 p.m. — Jefferson Cheguen, 20, of Mountain View, arrested for unlawful sex with a minor and false imprisonment, Middlefield Road and Shoreline Blvd.

11:38 p.m. — Daunte Mills, 35, of San Jose, arrested for violation of a protective order and on a warrant, 900 block of E. El Camino.

SEPT. 8

3:45 a.m. — Kelsie Patten, 25, of Mountain View, arrested for domestic violence, 1900 block of California St.

9:09 a.m. — Vehicle stolen, 2200 block of California St.

11:53 a.m. — Armando Carbajal, 30, of Menlo Park, arrested on a warrant, Mountain View Police Dept.

1:26 p.m. — Rape, 200 block of Castro St.

3:33 p.m. — Robbery, 1000 block of Grant Road.

LOS ALTOS

SUNDAY

6:14 p.m. — Grand theft, 500 block of San Luis Ave.

MONDAY

11:52 a.m. — Vandalism, 100 block of N. Gordon Way.

3:27 p.m. — Vehicle accident causes minor injuries, Raymundo Ave. and Springer Road.

ATHERTON

SATURDAY

6:24 p.m. — Home burglary, 1-99 block of Euclid Ave.

SUNDAY

10:35 p.m. — Marcus Anthony Fulcher, 44, arrested for drug possession, resisting police and parole violation, Marsh and Middlefield roads.

MONDAY

5:12 p.m. — Home burglary, 1-99 block of Holbrook Lane.

NORTH FAIR OAKS

FRIDAY

10:25 a.m. — Jennifer Elkins, 42, of Redwood City, cited for possession of drugs and drug paraphernalia, 2500 block of El Camino.

11:31 p.m. — Aldo Bladimir Contreras Mendoza, 23, arrested for public drunkenness, Northumberland Ave. and El Camino.

REDWOOD CITY

SEPT. 10

12:08 a.m. — Two men reported to be fighting, Middlefield Road. The men are gone when police arrive. 2:12 a.m. — Attempt to steal a vehicle leaves it damaged, Adams St. 9:11 a.m. — Several packages stolen over the weekend, Perry St. 10:20 a.m. — Matthew Miles Silverberg, 36, arrested for drug possession and on a warrant, 400 County Center. Arrest made by San Mateo County sheriff’s deputies. 11 a.m. — Man stabbed in the thigh during an altercation, Gordon St. 11:39 a.m. — Pressure washer, sprayer rig and jackhammer all stolen, E. Bayshore Road.

11:59 a.m. — Building broken into and copper wiring stolen, Twin Dolphin Drive.

2:39 p.m. — Home burglary, Chestnut St.

5:34 p.m. — Jose Guadalupe Gomez, 35, of Redwood City, cited for possession of drugs and drug paraphernalia and resisting police,

Hemlock St. and Linden Ave. Citation given by San Mateo County sheriff’s deputies.

9:46 p.m. — Man steals items from a store, Woodside Road.

THURSDAY

9:57 a.m. — Gabor Kovacs, 53, of Redwood City, arrested for public drunkenness, theft of someone else’s lost property and resisting police, 200 block of McEvoy St.

12:07 p.m. — Man yelling in the middle of a grocery store, Jefferson Ave.

12:41 p.m. — Maria Luisa Martinez Martinez, 32, arrested for disrupting school activities, Veterans Blvd. and Woodside Road.

3:11 p.m. — Natalia Marae Jamaca, 32, arrested for possession of drug paraphernalia, Veterans Blvd. and Chestnut St. Arrest made by San Mateo County sheriff’s deputies.

3:29 p.m. — Jonathon Willis, 33, cited on a warrant, Veterans Blvd. and Chestnut St. Citation given by San Mateo County sheriff’s deputies.

5 p.m. — Michael Anthony Goggins, 43, of Redwood City, cited for possession of drugs and drug paraphernalia, 1000 block of El Camino.

5:48 p.m. — Andre Lamar Wallace, 59, of Redwood City, cited for possession of drug paraphernalia, Redwood City Caltrain Station.

7:49 p.m. — Vehicle stolen, 15th Ave.

FRIDAY

5:15 a.m. — William Mauricio Nunez, 22, arrested

for domestic violence, child endangerment and false imprisonment, 1100 block of Second Ave.

7:35 a.m. — Antonio Hurtado IV, 55, cited for possession of drug paraphernalia, Blu Harbor Blvd.

8:27 a.m. — Indecent exposure, Charter St.

2:35 p.m. — Bicycle stolen, Cork Harbour Circle.

3 p.m. — Joshua Ramirez Pinedo, 26, of Redwood City, arrested on a warrant and for resisting police, 600 block of Veterans Blvd.

3:08 p.m. — Girl says two other girls attacked her. Location not disclosed.

6:06 p.m. — Yolanda Margarita Peraza, 42, of Redwood City, cited for possession of drug paraphernalia, Redwood City Caltrain Station. Citation given by San Mateo County sheriff’s deputies.

8:17 p.m. — Man says he was on his bike and a man he doesn’t know got out of a vehicle and punched him, Arguello St.

SAN CARLOS

THURSDAY

6:03 p.m. — Lance White, 64, arrested on a warrant and for falsely identifying himself to police, 1100 block of El Camino.

FRIDAY

12:43 a.m. — Angela Carr, 49, of San Mateo, arrested for theft, possession of stolen property, prowling, creating a public nuisance and resisting police, Old County Road and Springfield Drive.

BELMONT

SUNDAY

2:58 a.m. — Nestor Esteban Pina Ramirez, 33, arrested for DUI, reckless driving and resisting police, 600 block of Masonic Way.

5:08 p.m. — Cameron Hecht, 22, arrested for identity theft, false impersonation and on a warrant, 1100 block of Shoreway Road.

7:53 p.m. — Kevin Orozco Belmonte, 18, arrested for shoplifting, 1100 block of El Camino.

CHP

From the Redwood City office of the CHP, which covers the MidPeninsula.

JULY 18

Joshua C. Banaag, 26, arrested for DUI.

Juan Hernandez Guzman, 44, arrested for DUI and driving without a license.

McKenna L. Jaworski, 24, arrested for DUI.

Michael D. Range, 32, arrested for DUI.

JULY 19

Luis A. Alvarado, 23, arrested for DUI.

Orlando Gonzalez Vasquez, 43, arrested for DUI.

Reynaldo A. Medina Chavez, 27, arrested for public drunkenness. A charge for bringing drugs into a jail is added later.

Jorniel Rubio Jr., 28, arrested for DUI.

Melva A. Spruell, 65, arrested for DUI.

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The Post prints the latest real estate transactions: PALO ALTO

2454 W. Bayshore Road #7, 94303, 2 bedrooms, 906 square feet, built in 1972, Steven Tam to Sungpack and Sunmi Seol for $675,000, closed Aug. 20 (last sale: $185,000, 09-03-98)

522 Thain Way, 94306, 3 bedrooms, 1890 square feet, built in 1980, Gd and Rcd Trust to Joelle Lam for $1,832,000, closed Aug. 21 2091 Harvard St., 94306, 3 bedrooms, 1826 square feet, built in 1949, Murray Family Trust to Cheng and Yunfei Si for $2,700,000, closed Aug. 20

EAST PALO ALTO

2270 Brentwood Court, 94303, 5 bedrooms, 1890 square feet, built in 1974, Debo and Tracy Adebiyi to Sherry Luo for $1,200,000, closed Aug. 1 (last sale: $1,367,500, 01-18-22)

MENLO PARK

1277 Laurel St. #4, 94025, 4 bedrooms, 1884 square feet, built in 2016, Vittorio Sebastiano to Leland Stanford Junior Unvi for $1,625,000, closed July 31 1045 Almanor Ave., 94025, 2 bedrooms, 950 square feet, built in 1945, Conrad Living Trust to Ayesha and Sourav Sen for $1,750,000, closed July 30 (last sale: $570,000, 04-04-01)

536 Sand Hill Circle, 94025, 3 bedrooms, 2090 square feet, built in 1974, Gennext Properties LLC to Tsz Kwok for $2,000,000, closed July 29 (last sale: $1,470,000, 11-12-24)

MOUNTAIN VIEW

938 Clark Ave. #34, 94040, 2 bedrooms, 982 square feet, built in 1978, Boynton Trust to Sophie Greenberg for $900,000, closed Aug. 22

1943 Mount Vernon Court #103, 94040, 2 bedrooms, 1169 square feet, built in 1977, David Lundy to Johnson Living Trust for $998,000, closed Aug. 22 (last sale: $515,000, 0402-07)

3410 Pyramid Way, 94043, 4 bedrooms, 1751 square feet, built in 2018, Harshal Trust to Shao Family Trust for $1,842,500, closed Aug. 21 (last sale: $2,260,000, 09-13-23)

ATHERTON

30 Fredrick Ave., 94027, 4 bedrooms, 3520 square feet, built in 1942, Jenson Family Trust to Fredrick Sterling Homes LLC for $8,200,000, closed Aug. 1 (last sale: $6,249,000, 01-31-19)

LOS ALTOS

56 Citation Drive, 94024, 3 bedrooms, 1573 square feet, built in 1973, Sumathy and Sitha Niranjan to Hyunga and Changwoo Kwon for $2,010,000, closed Aug.

18 (last sale: $732,500, 0702-04)

75 Deep Well Lane, 94022, 2 bedrooms, 1840 square feet, built in 1972, Mmv Bypass Trust to Buchanan Trust for $2,550,000, closed Aug. 19

REDWOOD CITY

50 Horgan Ave. #33, 94061, 3 bedrooms, 1550 square feet, built in 1979, Abolmoluki Family Trust to Parimal Kharat for $940,000, closed Aug. 1 (last sale: $470,000, 12-18-02)

30 Clinton St., 94062, 2 bedrooms, 820 square feet, built in 1922, Roy Yost to Avondale Investments LLC for $1,080,000, closed July 28

8975 La Honda Road, 94062, 3 bedrooms, 1150 square feet, built in 1997, F Conley Law Trust to Karey and Franklin Totten for $1,175,000, closed Aug. 1 (last sale: $90,000, 07-01-87)

SAN CARLOS

214 Timothy Drive, 94070, 3 bedrooms, 2410 square feet, built in 1973, O’Donnell Survivors Trust to Yun-Chun and Po-Chun Yeh for $2,680,000, closed July 28

BELMONT

2242 Semeria Ave., 94002, 2 bedrooms, 1870 square feet, built in 1959, Vaupen Family Trust to Ashish and Daisy Nguyen for $1,910,000, closed July 29

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at the time that the captains tried to meet with Corpus to convey their position and formally request her resignation, but she wasn’t in her office. Dal Porto said the captains bumped into Perea and told him about the vote.

Corpus gave another version of the visit from the captains during a hearing she had before the public Measure A hearing last month.

Corpus was given an opportunity to give her side of the story of the retaliation allegations made in a report by law firm Keker, Van Nest & Peters, recommending her removal from office and mentioned an ongoing investigation.

Her side of the story

In the transcript of the hearing, which was released after Corpus’s attorneys submitted it in a lawsuit against the county, she gave her side of the incident where Myers, Dal Porto and Fogarty demanded that Corpus resign.

The three captains went to Corpus’s office to ask her to resign, but she was in a meeting, so they went downstairs into a lobby where Perea was walking into the building, Corpus said during a hearing on June 11.

Perea tried to shake all of their hands, but Myers pulled his arm away with a look of “disapproval,” Corpus said.

The three captains surrounded Perea, asking where Corpus was because they were looking for her to

ask her to resign, Corpus said. Myers, Dal Porto and Fogarty also asked Perea to resign, but Perea said he was there to work for the sheriff, according to Corpus.

Dal Porto sniffed him and said, “Undersheriff, are you drunk? I can smell alcohol on your breath,” loud enough for the security guards to hear, according to Corpus.

Perea said he hadn’t had alcohol in his life, Corpus said. He then told Corpus, with tears in his eyes, what had happened.

A career ender

Corpus said that if he was drunk, Perea’s career could've ended. Corpus said the video footage from the lobby was evidence that there are still gangs in the sheriff’s office.

“Those captains had a duty, if they really thought he was drunk, to disarm him and to report it to me as the sheriff, but apparently they didn’t,” Corpus said during the hearing.

Corpus said there was a pending investigation into the incident, which was proven false by surveillance footage and testimony from the security guard that day.

Assistant County Counsel David Silberman told Corpus not to pursue an investigation because it would look like retaliation, she said.

“When I try to hold people accountable, the word retaliation is immediately thrown out there,” Corpus said.

Wrote memo about Aenlle

When Aenlle returned to the sheriff’s headquarters in January when it was unclear if he could be in the building, Myers sent out a memo to other sheriff’s office employees, saying he believed Aenlle was armed, and

female employees were intimidated by his presence, given the allegations that he and the sheriff had intimidated and retaliated against employees in the past.

Others on leave

Corpus recently placed Sgt. Joe Fava on administrative leave after he complained she was mishandling and delaying investigations into alleged misconduct by deputies. Fava’s complaints were in the Keker report and Fava was placed on leave shortly after a Post story was published based on the Keker report.

Deputy union president Carlos Tapia has been on leave for almost a year after he was arrested for alleged time card fraud. The District Attorney’s office threw out the case.

Corpus is facing removal from two fronts. The Board of Supervisors has voted to fire Corpus, and is now waiting for the recommendation from Hearing Officer James Emerson after the 10-day Measure A hearings.

Corpus, who assumed office in January 2023, is also facing removal from the civil grand jury, which issued accusations against her and it will lead to a trial. A conviction will result in her removal from office.

414 California Ave., where the Bank of the West was and between the Cobblery and Country Sun Natural Foods.

Councilman Pat Burt said the proposed design is a “statement” but not necessarily what he wants to see on Cal Ave. as the city works to reenvision the area. Cal Ave. was closed to cars at the beginning of the pandemic, and council voted to close the street permanently on March 10.

Burt said he wants to see something “innovative” but within the context of Cal Ave.

“I’m not an architect, so I don’t know what that

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looks like, but I will know it when I see it,” Burt said.

Councilman Keith Reckdahl said the building is a “little much” but said the community may get used to it. Reckdahl, along with most council members, took issue with a portion of the proposal that suggested that the rooftop decks would only be available to certain residents, not everyone who lives at the building.

“I don’t like the idea of being able to buy open space. That should be prohibited,” said Councilman Greer Stone.

A woman who only identified herself as Tatiana from Country Sun, spoke during tonight’s meeting, expressing concern about the project’s plans to build right up to the edge of its property line with the grocer, possibly blocking a much-loved mural on the side of Country Sun.

The new development also has plans to “activate” Mimosa Lane, which Tatiana said the store uses for deliveries.

Other concerns

Council members expressed concerns about deliveries along Mimosa Lane being impacted and whether there are enough drop-off locations on the property for residents to use Uber or get deliveries. There are 74 parking spaces planned for the project.

The proposed development would have restaurants on the ground floor and 37 apartments on buildings two through six. Pali said the owner of the property is interested in having high-end dining in one of the restaurants and the other restaurant would consist of an idea where two chefs would duel via their menus each night, with customers deciding whose food is best.

The building is owned by an LLC set up in January that is registered to Emmett Kilgariff, 65, of San Jose. Kilgariff works as a vice president at NVIDIA, according to his LinkedIn.

The council didn’t vote Monday, but the next steps for the project are for Pali to submit a formal application and then the project will be reviewed by the Architectural Review Board and the Planning and Transportation Commission.

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had to overcome opposition from a host of city governments and their defenders in the Legislature, while fracturing the Capitol’s reigning Democratic Party over questions of affordability, labor standards and who ultimately has the final say over what gets built where. The bill now heads to Gov. Gavin Newsom who supporters expect will sign it.

Wiener’s bill is meant to address two crises at once: The state’s long-term housing shortage and the financial precarity of its public transit agencies. By allowing taller and denser development, the legislation is meant to pave the way for more apartment developments in areas closest to jobs and services. By centering that development around public transit stations, it’s meant to steer more people away from cars and towards buses and trains.

“Decades of overly restrictive policies have driven housing costs to astronomical levels, forcing millions of people away from jobs and transit and into long commutes from the suburbs,” Wiener said in a statement after Friday's vote. “(Friday’s) vote is a dramatic step forward to undo these decades of harm, reduce our most severe costs, and slash traffic congestion and air pollution in our state.”

Transit agencies can develop SB79 would also give transit agencies the ability to develop their own land, giving them another potential revenue source — a financial model common across East Asian metros.

Making it easier to build on and around public transit stops has been a career-spanning effort for Wiener, who first introduced a version of the idea in 2018. That measure died in its first committee hearing. Wiener tried again in 2019 and 2020, but was never able to push the idea out of the Senate.

That’s all helped to bestow the proposal with a kind of mythic status in California’s legislative housing wars. Its success at last slaps a symbolic bow on a year marked by the state Legislature’s unprecedented

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appetite for pro-development bills. Earlier this year lawmakers made national news in exempting most urban apartment projects from the state’s premier environmental review law.

California YIMBY, one of the sponsors of the bill and a vocal force in the Capitol for pro-construction legislation, was quick to take a victory lap after the final vote in the Senate this afternoon.

“Today, California YIMBY achieved one of its founding goals — legalizing apartments and condos near train stations,” said the organization’s CEO Brian Hanlon in a written statement.

Oppnents decry defeat

For opponents of state-imposed density measures, the vote marks an equally weighty defeat.

Susan Kirsch, founder of Catalysts for Local Control, a nonprofit that advocates for the preservation of municipal authority over housing policy, predicted that the legislation would have a “devastating impact” on California’s low-rise neighborhoods, describing “extreme seven-story buildings next to single-family homes with nothing that the community can do about it.”

Over the course of the year, the proposal underwent 13 rounds of amendments -- more than any other policy bill. Many of those changes were made to convince powerful interest groups to drop their opposition. That often meant reducing the bill’s scope.

The legislation would only apply to counties with at least 15 passenger rail stations. According to its sponsors, eight counties fit the bill: Los Angeles, San Diego, Orange, Santa Clara, Alameda, Sacramento, San Francisco and San Mateo.

How local reps voted

The Senate ultimately passed the bill by the narrowest possible margin, with Wiener only claiming his final vote from Bakersfield GOP Sen. Shannon Grove after a few tense minutes. The Assembly vote was equally close, with just 43 of the chamber’s 80 members supporting it. Local state Sen. Josh Becker and Assemblywoman Diane Papan have no vote recorded and Assembyman Marc Berman voted yes.

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