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BY ADRIANA HERNANDEZ
Daily Post Staff Writer
Laurene Powell Jobs and some anonymous donors want to pay for a nearly $200 million project in East Palo Alto — building a new city hall, police station, library and park.
Powell Jobs’ real estate company, Sycamore Real Estate, which owns 52 acres in town, has been contemplating how to develop its land, and this plan to convert a previously approved office project into a civic center for a city that rents most of its municipal buildings is the first step.
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TARIFF DEAL: President Trump says the U.S. and the European Union have agreed to a trade deal setting a 15% tariff on most goods.
COLBERT FIRING: David Letterman, when asked about the firing of Steven Colbert, said, “You can’t spell CBS without the letters B. S.”
FANTASTIC OPENING: “The Fantastic Four: First Steps” is topping the domestic box office charts in its first weekend. It earned an estimated $118 million domestically and $218 million globally.
WALMART KNIFE ATTACK:
Authorities say they have arrested a man they believe stabbed 11 people at a Walmart in Traverse City, Mich. Bradford James Gille, 42, has been charged with one count of terrorism and 11 counts of assault with intent to murder. His motive wasn’t disclosed by police.
KISS CAM DAMAGE CONTROL: The tech company Astronomer, whose
[See THE UPDATE, page 4]
City officials had previously approved plans for a four-story building at 2535 Pulgas Ave., which Sycamore was planning to build for the nonprofit JobTrain, which trains people who are looking for new careers, and the Emerson Col-
lective, a nonprofit Powell Jobs also heads. But because of issues with the East Palo Alto Sanitary District — which the city now controls — plans for the nonprofit office project fell apart and Sycamore is offering it to the city.
The city currently rents city hall and the library at 2415 University
[See NEW, page 18]
Trainers get $14,000 for three days of work
BY ADRIANA HERNANDEZ Daily Post Staff Writer
San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus, who is facing the prospect of removal from office due to alleged corruption and calls to resign from her own deputies, had some of her employees take part in a three-day training session to “regulate emotions” and “manage stress.”
Last week, supervisors and managers from the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office participated in a seminar with $14,000 trainers, according to spokeswoman Gretchen Spiker.
The training program was provided by
[See STRESS, page 18]
BY ELAINE GOODMAN Daily Post Correspondent
Family members of a man who killed himself while in custody at a San Mateo County jail have filed revised lawsuits against the county, after a judge dismissed their earlier complaints accusing jail staff of not doing enough to prevent the suicide.
Hunter Bergner, 46, died by suicide
at the county’s Maguire Correctional Facility in Redwood City on March 15, 2024, according to the lawsuits. He used a bedsheet to hang himself from a light fixture in his jail cell, one of the lawsuits stated.
Bergner’s wife, Patricia “Carrie” Colet, and his three minor children filed their initial complaint in federal court in November 2024, revising it in
February. The complaint names as defendants the county, the sheriff’s office and Sheriff Christina Corpus.
In a separate lawsuit, Bergner’s father, Robert Bergner, sued the county in December 2024 over his son’s death.
The two cases have been deemed “related” and are proceeding in parallel in U.S. District Court. Robert Bergner
[See JAIL, page 19]
BY ADRIANA HERNANDEZ Daily Post Staff Writer
A man who approached a 15-yearold girl outside a Redwood City courtroom and asked her to have sex with him has been sentenced to two years in prison, a prosecutor said.
Fidelino Jesus Ruiz, 30, of Redwood City, was sentenced to six years in prison Friday. He was facing three years, but after Judge Lisa Novak decided to take into account a prior conviction of molesting a child, he was sentenced to double the time, said District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe.
For the time he stayed in jail during his case, Ruiz will have four years knocked off for good behavior, Wagstaffe said.
Victim was outside of a courtroom
A girl who was at the courthouse on July 20, 2023, was staying outside the courtroom to wait for her mother
because minors are not allowed inside, the DA said.
Ruiz asked a teen for her age and asked if she would be his girlfriend and have sex with him, Wagstaffe said.
Ruiz then held the teen tightly, asked if she would have sex with him and that he would take her to Mexico, Wagstaffe said.
Girl got away from defendant
The girl got away from Ruiz and reported him to court security. Ruiz was found a few blocks away from the courthouse, Wagstaffe said.
Friday, the victim from his previous conviction took the stand, saying she has forgiven Ruiz for what he did to her, according to Wagstaffe. She also said he needed to seek the mental health treatment he needed to stop molesting children.
Novak called the victim gracious for forgiving him and not being angry.
Passengers aboard a Southwest Airline jet that took a dramatic plunge were told by the pilot that they nearly struck another plane. The Boeing 737 jet dropped hundreds of feet in a little over 30 seconds during a flight on Friday. One passenger says the plane took
a short plunge and then a more drastic drop as passengers screamed in terror. Caitlin Burdi said she thought they were plummeting to a crash. The FAA says Southwest 1496 was responding to an onboard alert about another aircraft in its vicinity.
Three people were killed when their small plane, which departed from the San Carlos Airport, crashed in the ocean off the central California coast, authorities said.
Victims identified
The Monterey County Sheriff’s Office identified the three people killed Saturday night as:
• Steve Eugene Clatterbuck, 60, of Salinas,
• James Vincent, 36, of Monterey,
• and Jamie Lee Tabscott, 44, also of Monterey.
The twin-engine Beechcraft 55 Baron, with tail number N8796R, took off from San Carlos Airport in San Mateo County at 10:11 p.m. and crashed sometime around 10:37 p.m., which was its last recorded sighting, and the same time that it was scheduled to land at Monterey Regional Airport, according to the flight tracking website flightaware.com.
Victims in different places
The plane went down about 200-300 yards off of Point Pinos, on the coast of the city of Pacific Grove.
A search and rescue response was launched by the U.S. Coast Guard, Cal Fire, and multiple local agencies just before 11 p.m. Saturday.
Divers searched for bodies
The first victim was found unresponsive in the water by a crew aboard a Monterey Fire Department boat at about 3:08 a.m. yesterday. The other two were found still in the fuselage, which was discovered by a Cal Fire drone just before 6 a.m. yesterday, according to U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer Ryan Graves.
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Commercial divers recovered the first of those bodies at about 6:30 a.m. and recovered the other by about 9:08 a.m., Graves said.
About 100 square miles was covered during the search, according to a Coast Guard statement.
The National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the cause of the crash.
The plane is registered to a company called Sea2Sky Aviation LLC, which is registered in Dover, Del., according to Federal Aviation Administration records.
CEO and HR director resigned after being caught on video at a Coldplay concert embracing one another, has hired Gwyneth Paltrow as a temporary spokeswoman.
PAUSE IN GAZA: Israel’s military has begun a limited pause in fighting in three populated areas of Gaza for 10 hours a day as part of measures including airdrops as concerns grow over surging hunger.
VOICE FRAUD: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is warning a looming fraud crisis in the financial industry due to AI’s ability to mimic voices. Speaking at a Federal Reserve conference on Tuesday, Altman criticized financial institutions still using voiceprints for authentication. He called this practice outdated, as AI can now create voice clones that are nearly indistinguishable from real voices.
EPSTEIN FILES: San Jose Congressman Ro Khanna, Democrat, and Republican Thomas Massie of Kentucky say they will continue to push for release of the Epstein files when Congress returns from an extended summer break.
NO WARNING: Google has admitted its earthquake early warning system failed to accurately alert people during Turkey’s deadly quake of 2023. More than 55,000 people died when two major earthquakes hit South East Turkey on Feb. 6, 2023. Many were asleep in buildings that collapsed around them when the tremors hit.
TOM LEHRER, a popular song satirist in the 1950s and ’60s who lampooned marriage, politics, racism and the Cold War, then largely abandoned his music career to return to teaching math at Harvard and other universities, has died at 97 at his home in Cambridge, Mass.
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Callum Lucas Little, a boy
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Deacon James Balian, a boy
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Bay Area politicians have decided they want to raise the sales tax by a half-cent to as much as 10% to bail out BART, Caltrain, SamTrans and other mass transit agencies, and they’ve come up with a sneaky way to get it passed.
Prop 13 requires a two-thirds majority for voter approval of local special taxes, such as this bailout. But there’s a loophole the politicians want to exploit to make it more likely the tax will pass.
This loophole, created by the state Supreme Court in the 2017 case California Cannabis Coalition v. City of Upland, states that if a special tax is placed on the ballot by a citizen’s initiative (that is, regular people circulating petitions to put the tax before voters), it only requires a simple majority
Dear Editor: In reading Joe Hirsch’s letter titled “Where are the bikers?” on Monday, I think the question should be “Why do people drive a short distance when they could ride a bike?”
to pass, rather than the two-thirds supermajority required by Prop 13. If the government were to put the tax on the ballot, a two-thirds threshold would apply.
So the politicians behind the bailout, such as state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, are going to recruit people to do their petition drive to make it look like it’s a citizen’s initiative.
They’ll probably use paid signature-gatherers. Wonder who will pay them? A vendor to Caltrain or BART who wants special treatment?
Instead of a grassroots effort, it’s an astroturf push for higher taxes.
The politicians run an enormous risk with this approach. Let’s say the voters approve the tax. Then suppose a taxpayer advocacy group sues to get the courts to say that you can’t use fakery to pass a new tax. The
court would look at whether this was a real citizen’s initiative or something dreamed up in the Metropolitan Transportation Commission board room.
In the meantime, it’s embarrassing to see local elected officials endorse this tax. When they endorse it, they’re saying they don’t support Prop 13 anymore, which remains popular decades after its approval because it controls tax increases.
But this tax is getting pushback because it hits the poor and the middle-income residents the hardest, since they spend a larger percentage of their paycheck on goods that are subject to the sales tax. The wealthy will never notice the increase.
There’s talk about going with a tax on businesses. That will just lead to more companies leaving California or laying off employees.
As a bike rider, I ride on El Camino Real like a driver going to San Francisco. I use El Camino Real to travel to a street which connects to an alternative street without as many stop lights, much like a car driver uses Highway 101 to travel to San Francisco.
Unfortunately, there are not bike boulevards near El Camino Real in every town.
I like the new bike lanes Caltrans installed along El Camino Real. They are much safer than the old bike lanes which automobile drivers used to park
Instead of raising taxes, the Bay Area’s political class should force the transit agencies to live within their means.
In 2000, voters generously approved Measure RR, which gives Caltrain an estimated $100 million a year in sales tax revenue. At the time, Caltrain said it needed a dedicated source of income. What happened to that money?
Before putting a tax on the ballot, bring in some outside accounting experts who could examine whether these agencies are wasting the money they now get from fares and taxes.
At election time, government agencies seeking tax increases say “trust us ... your money won’t be wasted.” But that relationship of trust is shattered when they use tricks like this loophole to win at the polls.
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their car, thus blocking the bike lane and forcing bicyclists to merge with traffic to get around the parked vehicle. I believe public streets are for transportation and not parking in front of a business. Land owners should be required by the city to provide enough parking
spaces on their property as part of a new building plan.
I wonder how many pedestrians Mr. Hirsch saw during his drive on El Camino Real between 7 a.m. and 9 a.m. on a weekday. Would he propose removing the sidewalks as well?
Michael McTighe Los Altos
Dear Editor: I saw the letter from Joe Hirsch in last Monday’s Daily Post on the bike lanes in Palo Alto, and the situation is the same in Mountain View. They’ve eliminated parking or another traffic lane to provide for seemingly
non-existent bikers. It’s the Nanny State telling us to get out of cars and bike!
Well, city officials, how about publishing the data: how many bikers are using these lanes?
I suspect the numbers are very small, and we car drivers pay the price!
Ray Arnaudo Mountain View
Dear Editor: Congressman Sam Liccardo, who represents a district running from Palo Alto down to San Jose, has received bipartisan support for his legislation to create a federally-backed loan
program for homeowners to help them borrow money to build accessory dwelling units (ADUs) in their yards.
As a Democrat, I was disappointed that former President Biden did not prioritize initiatives to provide entry-level housing affordable to young people entering the housing market. November 2024 exit polls showed that many of those folks voted for the current president.
Along with the state’s new mandates simplifying the approval process of ADUs by local governments, the bill will potentially help renters, as well as providing [See LETTERS, page 8]
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We blanch our basil (and parsley). Blanching breaks down the enzymes in the basil leaves that promote oxidation and cause discoloration. All restaurants do this. Our recipe calls for pine nuts, a traditional ingredient in pesto. Pine nuts are oddly expensive these days and are often hard to find in retail shops. It’s okay to substitute raw, unsalted cashews. The pine nuts don’t contribute any flavor to the pesto, but rather they aid in emulsifying the sauce. Lastly, we freeze our pesto immediately after preparation in portion size containers and you should too. Pesto loses its vibrancy in only a matter of hours.
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additional income to homeowners. And those units might house younger family members, and still allow the older family members to age in their familiar surroundings.
I am disappointed that my Congressman, Kevin Mullen, has just announced his legislative focus of attempting to reactivate federal funding for the high-speed rail from southern California.
A fill-in-the-blank poll mailed to of local registered Democrats by Rep. Mullen’s staff could help him determine what his district voters prefer that he focus on. I doubt that it is highspeed-rail through our towns.
Keep on going, Sam Liccardo.
We all see unhoused people lining the streets of even our Democrat-managed cities.
I urge other congressional reps to join your emphasis on proposing federal loans for affordable housing.
Douglas Handerson San Mateo
Dear Editor: Joe Hirsch’s observations match my own. Very few people are using the new bike lanes on El Camino Real.
I say end the El Camino Real bike lanes. Most long distance riders go up to Foothill Expressway anyway. It’s faster, safer, has fewer lights and limited ingress from side streets. End the traffic gurus’ attack on local business.
But the same idiocy is evidenced by the express lanes for the rich at the expense of those workers who rely on cars to get to work but are backed up on Highway 101 while two lanes are essentially filled with Teslas and other cars of the rich.
Give Clipper-like passes only to those families earning less than $100,000 a year, and no access to any other cars. Use by public transportation vehicles should remain OK.
Alice Schaffer Smith Palo Alto
Dear Editor: I was disappointed to read Wednesday’s story regarding the Caltrain’s board endorsing a regressive regional transit measure for the November 2026 ballot.
Vote “no.” We don’t need another regressive transportation funding measure. Our taxes are already too high. Why don’t the wealthy high rollers at the Metropolitan Transportation Commission tax rich tech companies and leave the little guy alone for a change? Former Congresswoman Jackie Speier, now a San Mateo County supervisor, is correct in preferring a business tax.
Another regressive sales tax is a bad idea. All this nickel-and-diming contributes into making the Bay Area a horribly expensive place to live; especially for people of modest means, who must pay the greatest percentage of their income in these regressive taxes and fees.
Bill Hough Los Altos
The sentiment about going to college is changing.
ResumeGenius recently surveyed 1,000 full-time Gen Z workers across the U.S. on their views of college degrees and whether they’d choose a different career path.
A lot of them wish they had made different choices, the survey revealed. About one in four said they regret going to college or wish they had chosen
a higher-paying field like tech, finance, engineering or health care, Fortune Magazine reported.
Gen Z consists of people 13 to 28.
“Many Gen Z students feel they were told college was the only path, only to see people with strong degrees underemployed or overlooked,” Tallo CEO Allison Danielsen said. Plus, they’re “questioning whether college still delivers real value.”
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Tea, a provocative dating app designed to let women anonymously ask or warn each other about men they’d encountered, rocketed to the top spot on the U.S. Apple App Store last week.
Then on Friday, the company behind the app confirmed it had been hacked: Thousands of images, including selfies, were leaked online.
“We have engaged third-party cybersecurity experts and are working around the clock to secure our systems,” San Francisco-based Tea Dating Advice Inc. said in a statement.
The exposed database allowed anyone to access the material women posted on Tea.
Tea was meant to help women
For some people, it wasn’t their cup of tea
date safelyTea founder Sean Cook, a software engineer who previously worked at Salesforce and Shutterfly, says on the app’s website that he founded the company after witnessing his own mother’s “terrifying’’ experiences.
Site intended to screen men
Cook said they included unknowingly dating men with criminal records and being “catfished’’ — deceived by men using false identities.
Tea markets itself as a safe way for women to anonymously vet men they might meet on dating
apps such as Tinder or Bumble — ensuring that the men are who they say they are, not criminals and not already married or in a relationship. “It’s like people have their own little Yelp pages,’’ said Aaron Minc, an attorney who specializes in harassment cases.
Looking for red flags
In an Apple Store review, one woman wrote that she used a Tea search to investigate a man she’d begun talking to and discovered over 20 red flags, including serious allegations like assault and recording women without their consent. She said she cut off communication. ”I can’t imagine how things could’ve gone had I not known,” she wrote.
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747 De Soto Drive, 94303, 4 bedrooms, 2320 square feet, built in 1952, Limin Zhou to Yanhong and Yunjia Dai for $4,420,000, closed June 26 (last sale: $2,800,000, 02-27-15)
943 Addison Ave., 94301, 4 bedrooms, 2209 square feet, built in 1914, Tasto Family Trust to Burak and Marcella Alsan for $4,500,000, closed June 27 3502 Bryant St., 94306, 2 bedrooms, 1300 square feet, built in 1949, 3502 Bryant LLC to Tong Jiang for $5,462,000, closed June 27 (last sale: $2,725,000, 08-22-23)
267 Greenoaks Drive, 94027, 5 bedrooms, 5720 square feet, built in 2002, Devgan Family Trust to Greenoaks LLC for $12,800,000, closed June 5 (last sale: $8,375,000, 03-13-19)
MOUNTAIN VIEW
422 Whisman Court, 94043, 3 bedrooms, 1584 square feet, built in 1988, Richardson and Zheng Trust to Qiuchen and Jing Ma for $2,250,000, closed June 27 (last sale: $1,540,000, 08-06-19)
2479 Leghorn St., 94043, 4 bedrooms, 1660 square feet, built in 1948, Baskins Trust to 2479 Leghorn LLC for $2,700,000,
closed June 24 (last sale: $725,000, 09-23-09)
1148 Judson Drive, 94040, 4 bedrooms, 1466 square feet, built in 1951, Sanchez-Harris Living Trust to Jenny and Frederick Peng for $3,050,000, closed June 23 (last sale: $890,000, 05-13-09)
1747 Begen Ave., 94040, 3 bedrooms, 2767 square feet, built in 1952, Lucky Truckee Properties LLC to Samuel and Michelle Lin for $3,800,000, closed June 26 (last sale: $850,000, 02-14-11)
939 Carmel Court, 94022, 3 bedrooms, 2491 square feet, built in 1995, Smith Living Trust to Soyannwo Living Trust for $5,265,000, closed June 25
660 Giralda Drive, 94024, 4 bedrooms, 2896 square feet, built in 1961, Jeffrey Krygier to Yuanshiya and Yutian Sun for $5,920,000, closed June 23 (last sale:
$3,130,000, 05-08-17)
364 Benvenue Ave., 94024, 4 bedrooms, 3398 square feet, built in 2005, Jerry Shen to Hu Family Trust for $6,401,000, closed June 24 (last sale:
$6,510,000, 05-09-22)
930 Covington Road, 94024, 5 bedrooms, 4284 square feet, built in 2007, Daniel Trepanier to David Black for $7,000,000, closed June 26 (last sale: $1,200,000, 01-25-05)
747 Arroyo Road, 94024, 4 bedrooms, 5833 square
feet, built in 2021, Mendez Trust to Intuitive Holdings LLC for $12,000,000, closed June 27 (last sale: $3,810,000, 11-29-18)
25611 Vinedo Lane, 94022, 5 bedrooms, 5074 square feet, built in 2012, Kacin Trust to Chenyao and Yunchao Gong for $8,100,000, closed June 25 (last sale: $1,920,000, 02-03-11)
11991 Murietta Lane, 94022, 4 bedrooms, 5526 square feet, built in 1980, Devine Family Trust to Zagalsky Family Trust for $8,683,000, closed June 25 (last sale: $4,200,000, 06-17-13)
SAN CARLOS
17 Cranfield Ave., 94070, 4 bedrooms, 3288 square feet, built in 2016, YangLin Family Trust to Lynch Trust for $4,350,000, closed June 5 (last sale: $4,500,000, 05-03-22)
BELMONT
2705 Ponce Ave., 94002, 2 bedrooms, 970 square feet, built in 1948, Kyle Kretchmer to Rivera Living Trust for $1,850,000, closed June 6 (last sale: $1,270,000, 09-16-20)
2648 Ponce Ave., 94002, 2 bedrooms, 1488 square feet, built in 1938, Venkat Patnala to Anusha and Suryavadhan Kayilai for $2,162,000, closed June 3 (last sale: $1,550,000, 08-07-20)
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A quarter-size device that tracks the rise and fall of sugar in your blood is the latest source of hope for diabetics.
Continuous glucose monitors, small patches that provide 24-hour insight into concentrations of sugar in the blood, could be a tool for Americans to “take control over their own health,” Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said at a Congressional hearing.
Taking responsibility
“They can take responsibility,” Kennedy said. “They can begin to make good judgments about their
diet, about their physical activity, about the way they live their lives.”
The devices have lifesaving benefits for people with diabetes.
But there’s scant evidence the monitors are useful for people with normal blood sugar levels, said Dr. Jody Dushay, an endocrine specialist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Healthy bodies can effectively regulate glucose after meals and provide the energy they need to function. Glucose monitors may lead people to misinterpret normal swings in blood sugar that happen after eating or activity.
“The problem with wearing these is that you can just be zooming in on and creating pathology when it’s not there,” Dushay said.
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When healthy people eat a meal that contains carbohydrates, their blood sugar rises, peaks and falls in response to the food.
A healthy fasting blood glucose level for a person without diabetes is 70 to 99 milligrams per deciliter. A range from 100 to 126 milligrams per deciliter indicates prediabetes and above 126 milligrams per deciliter indicates diabetes.
risk that alcohol poses to women’s health is growing, as they have begun to drink more frequently and in larger quantities.
Alcohol-related deaths among women more than doubled from 1999 to 2020, NBC News reported. And deaths from alcohol-related hepatitis, a disease resulting in severe liver inflammation, nearly tripled among women over the same time period.
A new study, published Wednesday in the medical journal Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, similarly points to an elevated risk of alcohol-related liver disease among women. The condition encompasses various types of
liver damage due to excessive alcohol consumption. It spans early-stage inflammation to severe scarring, known as cirrhosis, which can lead to liver failure.
Women are more susceptible than men to alcohol-related liver disease for several reasons. For one, their bodies tend to have less water weight and a higher percentage of body fat. That combination increases the concentration of alcohol in their blood, which the liver then has to process. Compared with men, women also naturally have lower levels of an enzyme called alcohol dehydrogenase, which helps the body metabolize alcohol.
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TUESDAY
12:09 a.m. — Theft from a vehicle, 400 block of Bryant St.
2:10 a.m. — Esther Lillian Gonzales, 66, transient; 51-year-old Dwayne Anthony Lubin, transient; Christian Thomas Victor, 56, of Palo Alto; and 43-year-old Shannon Marie Kenworth of Palo Alto all arrested for creating a public nuisance, 3700 block of Middlefield Road.
9:04 a.m. — Auto burglary, 500 block of Webster St.
1:01 p.m. — Shane Daniel Repass, 27, of San Jose, arrested for creating a public nuisance, Transport and Commercial streets.
3:43 p.m. — Diana Katherine Cortes Cabrera, 29, transient, arrested for creating a public nuisance, 1000 block of E. Meadow Circle.
6:42 p.m. — Petty theft, 700 block of Clark Way.
11:02 p.m. — Armando Hurtado Rodriguez, 60, of Patterson, arrested for DUI, 2400 block of W. Bayshore Road.
WEDNESDAY
7:23 a.m. — Liam Bickford, 63, transient, arrested for creating a public nuisance, University Ave. and Emerson St.
7:25 a.m. — Home burglary, 300 block of Kingsley Ave.
9:44 a.m. — Rachel Elizabeth Jenkins, 39, of San Francisco, arrested on a warrant, Downtown Palo Alto Caltrain Station.
10:31 a.m. — Theft at AC Hotel by Marriott, 744 San Antonio Road.
7:04 p.m. — Auto burglary, 3400 block of Alma St.
10:27 p.m. — Auto burglary, 600 block of High St.
10:45 p.m. — Auto burglary, 400 block of Kipling St.
FRIDAY
12:01 p.m. — Sexual battery, 800 block of Alma St.
12:17 p.m. — Alfredo Quelmonzon, 23, transient, cited for possession of drug paraphernalia, 1500 block of Willow Road.
12:46 p.m. — Joel Gamez, 25, of Menlo Park, cited on a warrant, 800 block of Hamilton Ave.
3:36 p.m. — Grand theft, 500 block of El Camino.
8:23 p.m. — Alfredo Quelmonzon, 23, transient, arrested for being under the influence of drugs, Bayfront Expressway and Chilco St.
9:55 p.m. — Juan Carlos Torres Harnandez, 45, of Mountain View, arrested on a warrant, 1500 block of Adams Drive.
SATURDAY
2:47 a.m. — Package stolen, 1000 block of Noel Drive.
10:21 a.m. — Cristobal Cardenas, 59, transient, cited for theft of someone else’s lost property, University Ave. at the railroad tracks.
8 p.m. — Package stolen, 1400 block of Mills Court.
10:43 p.m. — Juan Lopez Fajardo, 48, transient, arrested for public drunkenness, Marsh Road and Highway 101.
JULY 15
12:02 p.m. — Electric scooter stolen, 300 block of Campus Drive.
6:27 p.m. — Electric bicycle stolen, 300 block of Lasuen St.
6:30 p.m. — Bicycle stolen, 400 block of Lasuen Mall.
JULY 19
1:08 a.m. — Eric Benito Vivas, 42, of Mountain View, arrested for public drunkenness, 200 block of Castro St.
1:26 a.m. — Josue Hernandez
Garcia, 31, of Mountain View, arrested for public drunkenness, Latham St. and Escuela Ave.
2:03 a.m. — Home burglary, 1700 block of San Luis Ave.
2:22 a.m. — Daniel Lopez Velasco, 28, of San Jose, cited for DUI, Shoreline Blvd. and Terra Bella Ave.
2:54 a.m. — Pedro Ramirez, 45, of Campbell, cited for DUI, Highway 85.
3:53 a.m. — Vehicle tampering, 1600 block of Begen Ave.
4:18 p.m. — Home burglary, 100 block of Bryant Ave.
5:58 p.m. — Vehicle stolen, 2400 block of W. El Camino.
8:27 p.m. — Kamaljit Singh, 35, of Sunnyvale, arrested for domestic battery, 900 block of W. El Camino.
11:08 p.m. — Alejandro Gonzalez, 36, of Santa Clara, arrested for DUI, 1900 block of Latham St.
FRIDAY
5 p.m. — Theft at Whole Foods, 4800 El Camino.
8:27 p.m. — Auto burglary, 1000 block of N. San Antonio Road.
FRIDAY
8:28 a.m. — Vehicle accident causes minor injuries, Emilie and Valparaiso avenues.
9:44 a.m. — Angela Carr, 49, of San Mateo, arrested on a warrant, Magnolia Drive.
10:56 p.m. — Raul Valencia Mendoza, 21, of San Jose, arrested for driving with a suspended or revoked license and violation of a restraining order, Middlefield Road and Linden Ave.
MAY 3
Teresa Maria Soriano Magana, 44, of Redwood City, cited for shoplifting at Target, 2485 El Camino.
Gabor Kovacs, 53, of Redwood City, cited for possession of drug
paraphernalia at Safeway, 1071 El Camino.
MAY 4
Mirian Tochihuitlbueno, 29, of Redwood City, arrested for domestic battery, 300 block of Redwood Ave.
Jon Eric Ford Jr., 39, of Redwood City, arrested on a warrant, 2100 block of Roosevelt Ave.
Pablo Chet, 22, of Redwood City, arrested for public drunkenness, falsely identifying himself to police and on a warrant, 1400 block of Marshall St.
MAY 5
Melvin Jeronimo Arana, 23, of Redwood City, arrested for public drunkenness and narcotics possession, 900 block of Governors Bay.
Rodrigo Sican Lopez, 39, of Redwood City, arrested for trespassing and possession of drug paraphernalia, 1400 block of Marshall St.
Karen Noreen Linares, 41, of Redwood City, arrested for transportation of drugs for sale, 900 block of Douglas Ave.
Antonio Gonzalez Velasco, 54, of Redwood City, arrested for transportation of drugs for sale and on a warrant, 900 block of Douglas Ave.
JULY 20
2:47 p.m. — Lorenzo Cobbs, 63, arrested for public drunkenness, Redwood City Caltrain Station. Arrest made by San Mateo County sheriff’s deputies.
4 p.m. — Donald Luke Atkinson, 31, arrested on a warrant, Redwood City Caltrain Station. Arrest made by San Mateo County sheriff’s deputies. 4:16 p.m. — Woman steals shoes from a store and wears them out, Walnut St.
6:39 p.m. — Brian Cushing, 52, of Redwood City, arrested for shoplifting and on a warrant at Target, 2485 El Camino.
9:31 p.m. — Alejandra Ayala Bracamontes, 36, of Redwood City, cited for possession of drug paraphernalia and falsely identifying herself to police, Mills Way and Broadway.
10:37 p.m. — Man stabbed in the stomach, Chestnut St.
JULY 21
7:53 a.m. — Two-vehicle accident causes minor injuries, Jefferson Ave. and Valota Road.
10 a.m. — Two-vehicle accident causes minor injuries, Brewster Ave.
12:08 p.m. — Patrick Tyan Higgins, 44, cited on a warrant, Redwood City Caltrain Station. Citation given by San Mateo County sheriff’s deputies.
2:09 p.m. — Trailer vandalized, Arguello St.
8:13 p.m. — Package stolen, Baltic Circle.
8:30 p.m. — Walter Iverson Colwell, 70, arrested for violation of a restraining order, San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office. Arrest made by San Mateo County sheriff’s deputies.
8:58 p.m. — Man says he was robbed by three juveniles who had a gun, El Camino.
9:43 p.m. — Juan Luis Barragan Sierra, 40, cited for driving with a suspended or revoked license and on a warrant, Pine and Heller streets. Citation given by San Mateo County sheriff’s deputies.
11:41 p.m. — Julio Perez Agusto, 20, arrested for possession of drugs and drug paraphernalia, Woodside Road and El Camino. Arrest made by San Mateo County sheriff’s deputies.
TUESDAY
10:58 a.m. — John Flores Gomez, 39, arrested for possession of drug paraphernalia, falsely identifying himself to police and on a warrant, Redwood City Caltrain Station. Arrest made by San Mateo County sheriff’s deputies.
11:24 a.m. — Cray Earl Hall, 38, cited on a warrant, Redwood City Caltrain Station. Citation given by San Mateo County sheriff’s deputies.
11:38 a.m. — Benjamin Joseph Ervin, 32, arrested for trespassing on railroad property, possession of drug paraphernalia and resisting police, 1000 block of El Camino. Arrest made by San Mateo County sheriff’s deputies.
12:10 p.m. — Electric bike stolen, Roosevelt Ave.
3:21 p.m. — Woman steals hot food from a store, Jefferson Ave.
3:38 p.m. — Caller reports seeing a man break into three vehicles, then drive away in a Jeep, Woodside Road. A different caller reports seeing the man inside his unlocked vehicle, and the caller pursued the man until he drove away in the Jeep.
8:19 p.m. — Man steals eight backpacks from a store, Walnut St.
8:29 p.m. — Woman steals five pairs of shoes from a store, Walnut St.
TUESDAY
8:40 p.m. — Christopher Travis Henning, 40, cited for possession of drug paraphernalia, 1400 block of El Camino.
WEDNESDAY
3:29 a.m. — Daniel Guzman Maldonado, 20, arrested for carrying a loaded gun and contributing to the delinquency of a minor, Belmont Police Dept.
THURSDAY
10:59 a.m. — Car flips over, Ralston Ave. Minor injuries.
FRIDAY
4:10 a.m. — Elmer Rogelio Merida Consuegra, 47, cited for false vehicle registration, 2300 block of Carlmont Drive.
4:46 p.m. — Resident reports a loss of $2,000 due to credit card fraud, Valerga Drive.
SATURDAY
4:57 p.m. — Man steals chicken, bread and deli items from Safeway, 1100 El Camino.
From the Redwood City office of the CHP, which covers the Mid-Peninsula.
FEB. 17
Angel J. Villa, 25, DUI arrest. FEB. 18
Brett Harwood, 55, arrested for trespassing and evading police in a vehicle.
Exec. Dir. Kim Gladfelter, MPT, OCS, FAAOMPT
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First Christian Church, located at 2890 Middlefield Rd. in Midtown Palo Alto, is pleased to invite the public to their community Food Truck event
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21ST ANNUAL DISASTER PREPAREDNESS DAY. Saturday, August 2, 2025 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the San Mateo County Event Center. A family-friendly and resource-rich event designed to empower all residents to be better prepared for any emergency! Some of the activities include: How to Pack a Go Bag; How to Use a Fire Extinguisher; Pets & Disasters 101; Be Red Cross Ready; an Emergency Cooking Demonstration; a Search & Rescue Dog demonstration; and a Kids’ Korner where children can decorate a pillowcase and hear Storytime with a Firefighter. In addition, there will be many displays, exhibits, games, and vendors so you can gather more information and supplies. For updates and full listing of events, visit smcdisasterprep.org
CONNECT AND LEARN SPEAKER EVENT. If you are planning on moving into a senior living community or helping a family or friend with
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TO MARK THE 80TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI, hear Helen Jaccard of Veterans for Peace speak about the work of The Golden Rule Project, founded in 1958 by pacifists who sailed the ship to the Marshall Islands to protest and interrupt nuclear weapons testing.
August 8, 7-8:30 PM, Los Altos Library, sponsored by local peace group WILPF. Contact: (650) 3261235.
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Avenue, the police department at 141 Demeter St., the corporation yard at 150 Tara Road and office spaces at 1950 Tate St.
For years, the city has been looking for a place to have a city center, or at the very least, a permanent police station and library, estimated to cost $22 million and $50 million respectively. A recent estimate for a 30,000-square-foot city hall would cost the city $65 million, according to a report by Assistant City Manager Shiri Klima.
If the project for the center continues, a public park will be donated at 2555 Pulgas Ave., 151 Tara Street and 264 Tara Street.
The park will be a multi-use field for football, soccer and Little League baseball. It will also have an eight-lane track around the field and surrounding it will be a children’s playground, an exercise plaza, two pickleball courts, half a basketball court and a picnic area.
Private donors who were not disclosed and Sycamore Real Estate will cover $30.35 million of the park’s cost. The city will be responsible for maintaining the park.
What Powell Jobs wants
These proposals and donations come after Powell Jobs submitted plans in October to build three buildings at 391 Demeter St. The buildings would have a total of 299 apartments, with 11,009 square feet allocated for community space and 5,926 square feet for amenities. The proposal is under review according to the city’s website.
The report from Klima ahead of tomorrow’s council meeting makes no mention of the 391 Demeter proposal.
Powell Jobs previously proposed in 2020 to have 260 homes, 1.3 million square feet of office space and 50,000 square feet of retail space.
The housing was planned to go near the University Village neighborhood, with the office space being built closer to Bay Road. There have been no updates on that project since it was reviewed by the Planning Commission in June 2021.
Sycamore Real Estate, a company owned by the widow of the Apple co-founder, purchased the large swath of land in August 2018. Emerson Collective began working with the city in 1997 through College Track, a college completion program for students. Graduates often told College Track about difficulties finding jobs and housing within East Palo Alto.
When the city created its Ravenswood Business
District, Emerson asked the city how to add housing, recreation and jobs to the area. The city told Emerson at the time that, because of the multiple landowners in the area, seeing the plan to fruition would be difficult, leading to the purchase of the 52 acres.
RITE Academy, which focuses on building “resilience” within organizations and enhancing officers’ communication skills, according to its website.
Each instructor was paid a flat fee of $14,000 for the three days of training. The cost of the hotels, travel, flights, rental car and incidentals was a flat fee of $7,760.
The Sheriff’s Office did not answer any further questions, like how many trainers there were or where the training took place.
Tense times in the Sheriff’s Office
The sheriff is facing removal from office on two fronts. The Board of Supervisors put a ballot measure before the voters in March to give them the power to remove the sheriff. The measure passed overwhelmingly and now the board has voted to fire her. However, she’s allowed to appeal at a multi-day hearing
starting Aug. 18. Separately, the county civil grand jury has voted to recommend her removal from office, and Corpus will stand trial on the jury’s charges. In both efforts to remove Corpus, the allegations are roughly the same — she’s accused of hiring her boyfriend and giving him authority over the sheriff’s office. Both deny they’re having an affair. She’s also accused of retaliation, intimidation, conflicts of interest and making racial and homophobic slurs.
Her own officers from all ranks of the department have said publicly they can no longer support her.
Self-awareness
Officers learned how to be more self-aware, regulate their emotions, manage stress, de-escalate high-pressure situations and be more communicative, according to Spiker.
There was also a two-day training session for 10 Sheriff’s Office personnel to train them on how to help others benefit from the skills they learned, Spiker said. The training will also reduce the future cost of external trainers.
This is the latest expense for Corpus, who has been questioned by the Board of Supervisors over her spending.
Corpus has spent $13,340 on two massage chairs, which she tried to pass off the cost of at least one to the San Carlos bureau, according to emails obtained by the Post using the California Public Records Act.
In March, the Post reported that Corpus purchased two soft-serve ice cream machines for employees in the county jails.
In January, the Post reported that she had purchased a $74,000 conference room table. The 22-foot by 10-foot table includes 12 “cooling fans” in the legs and 10 “lockable access doors.”
At the time, Supervisor David Canepa said it may be the most expensive table in the history of San Mateo County.
Corpus also signed a $35,687 monthly lease in Au-
gust 2023 to convert a building at 690 Broadway in Redwood City into a daycare and substation. But the plans were halted a year later, and the building remains vacant.
and Colet are using different attorneys. Colet’s lawsuit said Bergner was in custody for a “minor firearms criminal charge.” Robert Bergner’s lawsuit said Bergner “had just been convicted in a domestic violence matter.”
Inmate safety disregarded, suit claims
Even though Bergner had “expressed his hopelessness and despair” to jail custody and medical staff, “no increased supervision or precautionary measures were taken to mitigate his suicide risk, nor was he placed on suicide watch,” Colet’s lawsuit alleged.
The lawsuit pointed to the county’s “long history of complete disregard to inmate safety and protection,” noting the five in-custody deaths since Corpus took office on Jan. 3, 2023. In 2023, there was a suicide, a drug-involved death, and a death due to natural causes, followed by a death from opioid withdrawal in 2024, according to the lawsuit.
According to Robert Bergner’s lawsuit, Hunter Bergner took prescription drugs for anxiety every day, but jail staff would not give him the medication. Bergner’s anxiety increased, the lawsuit said, and he started thinking about suicide. Jail staff’s “deliberate indifference” led to Bergner’s death, the lawsuit claimed.
The county filed motions to dismiss both lawsuits, and Corpus, who was named in Colet’s lawsuit, filed a motion to dismiss in that case. In a pair of June 18 decisions, U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer granted the motions to dismiss the cases, but gave the parties 28 days to revise their complaints.
In Robert Bergner’s case, the county argued in part
that anxiety wasn’t a “serious medical need” of the sort “that could give rise to a deliberate indifference claim.”
The judge agreed.
“It cannot be that every recently convicted inmate with a history of anxiety and nothing more to indicate suicidal ideations presents a heightened suicide risk,” Breyer wrote.
The judge also said Robert Bergner’s complaint hadn’t provided enough details to show that the county knew or should have known that Bergner was at an increased risk of suicide.
For example, the lawsuit alleged that another inmate saw marks on Bergner’s neck a day or two before his death, indicating a suicide attempt, and notified jail staff. But the lawsuit didn’t say how soon staff was notified and if they had enough time to respond.
In dismissing Colet’s lawsuit, Judge Breyer said the “allegations as to what defendants knew or should have known are too thin to give rise to liability.”
Hopeless, despair not enough
Even though Bergner had expressed hopelessness and despair, Breyer said, “It is several leaps from hopelessness or despair, which are surely common enough reactions to a conviction, to suicidal ideations that demand an immediate response.”
In response to the judge’s decision, Robert Bergner filed a revised lawsuit on July 15. The county responded on July 17 with another motion to dismiss, saying the revised lawsuit was essentially the same as the earlier complaint.
Colet filed a revised lawsuit on July 16; the county had not yet responded.
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Leading Democrats and homeless advocates are criticizing an executive order from President Trump aimed at removing people from the streets who need mental health or drug treatment.
Trump wants to prioritize funding to cities that crack down on open drug use and street camping, with the goal of making people feel safer. Leaving mentally ill or addicted people on the streets isn’t compassionate, Trump said.
“Shifting these individuals into longterm institutional settings for humane treatment is the most proven way to restore public order,” the order reads.
Calling San Francisco
The president’s order appears to be aimed at liberal cities such as San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York, which have struggled to reduce the number of homeless on the streets.
Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court made it easier for cities to clear encampments even if the people living in them have nowhere else to go.
Homeless advocates say Trump’s new order is vague, punitive and won’t effectively end homelessness.
Gov. Gavin Newsom has directed cities to clean up homeless encampments and he’s funneled more money into programs to treat addiction and mental health disorders. But the state’s nonpartisan legislative auditor found last year that California spent $24 billion to tackle homelessness during Newsom’s time in office, but didn’t track whether the huge outlay of public money actually improved the situation. Still, Newsom is critical of Trump’s plans, saying it is intended to create distractions and “settling old scores.”
But San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie has also emphasized the importance of clean and orderly streets in banning homeless people from living in RVs and urging people to accept the city’s offers of shelter. In San Jose, Mayor Matt Mahan is pushing a policy change that makes a person eligible for jail if they reject three offers of shelter. Trump’s order says the federal government will prioritize grants to states and cities that enforce bans on open drug use and street camping.
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