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troops stood shoulder to shoulder behind plastic riot shields.
Video showed uniformed officers shooting off the smoke-filled canisters as they advanced into the street, forcing protesters to retreat. It was not immediately clear what prompted the use of chemical irritants or which law enforcement agency fired them.
Minutes later, loud popping sounds erupted
[See PROTESTS, page 18] MONDAY, June 9, 2025
The confrontation broke out as hundreds of people protested in front of the Metropolitan De
tention Center in downtown Los Angeles, where several of the newly-arrived National Guard
EGG RECALL: A salmonella outbreak has caused the August Egg Company to recall 1.7 million brown organic and brown cage-free eggs after 79 people became sick in seven states including California.
SENIORS TOKE UP: Marijuana use has increased dramatically among seniors 65 and older, researchers reported in JAMA Internal Medicine. About 7% of seniors said they were current weed users in 2023, up from just under 5% in 2021 — a nearly 46% increase in just two years.
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Satellite photos show North Korea has righted a capsized destroyer and is keeping it afloat with dozens of balloons, each about 20 feet wide. Outside experts say it remains unclear how severely the 5,000-ton-class destroyer was damaged during a botched launching ceremony in [See THE UPDATE, page 9]
IN COMPTON — Law enforcement helps a person out of a car as a fire burns during a protest in Compton. AP photo.
BY ADRIANA HERNANDEZ Daily Post Staff Writer
Homeless people are living in abandoned cars in the parking lot at East Palo Alto City Hall at 2415 University Ave., which has drawn complaints from a councilman.
Sela Finau, who has been living at the parking lot for two years with her husband.
Finau said she lost her job as a caregiver during the pandemic. After she lost her job, she started living in her car with her husband. They were using two cars to store their belongings. The open bathroom in the government building
BY ELAINE GOODMAN Daily Post Correspondent
As the city of Menlo Park faces a possible ballot initiative that would force the city to get voter approval before building housing on downtown parking lots, the city is poised to rehire
a communications firm that has crisis management experience.
City Council is scheduled to vote tomorrow on a $210,000 contract with Tripepi Smith, a firm that provides marketing, communications and public affairs services, including crisis support.
The item is on the council’s consent calendar, in which several items are voted on at the same time without discussion. Menlo Park has worked with Tripepi Smith since the Southern California firm designed the city’s fiscal year 2022-
[See PR, page 10]
BY ADRIANA HERNANDEZ Daily Post Staff Writer
A former Menlo-Atherton High School student claims in a lawsuit she was sexually assaulted and abused by a former teacher.
The student’s attorneys, David Ring and Brendan Gilbert, filed a lawsuit in San Mateo County Superior Court on May 30 against Arturo Cristerna and the Sequoia Union High School District, alleging that the district failed to do anything about the alleged abuse. She is currently 18 years old.
When she was 14, she began at
M-A and was put in the Individualized Education Program (IEP), the suit said.
In her sophomore and junior years, Cristerna, an IEP teacher, allegedly abused her in her sophomore and junior years during school hours in the classroom, the suit claims. The student eventually told her mother about the abuse and she reported it to Atherton Police, according to District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe.
After a police investigation, Cristerna was charged on April 1, 2024 with a felony charge of com-
mitting a lewd act on a 15-year-old child and sexual battery, misdemeanor, according to Wagstaffe.
Cristerna was booked into jail and was released on $100,000 bail bond. He has pleaded innocent and is expected to be in court on June 16 for the setting of a trial date.
Cristerna had a history of being overly friendly with female students, excessively touching them and wanting to spend time alone with them, according to the lawsuit.
The district did not report his behavior to police, the suit stated.
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San Mateo County Coroner’s Office: June 5
Vilma Del Carmen Garcia, 89, of South San Francisco
Theresa Kerwin, 58, of Portola Valley
Brendan Wagner, 35, no hometown listed
Steven Eiserle, 54, of South San Francisco
Sione Heimuli, 63, of Menlo Park
Jane Driscoll, 77, of Redwood City
Patricia Besteder, 72, of Bessemer, Ala.
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Evelyn Cho, a girl
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Dear Editor: The Menlo Park City School District should consider that offering a course on evolution and forbidding the mere mention of the word “God” is like offering a course on Italian cooking and forbidding the word “pasta.”
Jerry Clements Los Altos
Dear Editor: I hope that Thomas Schemkes takes the Menlo Park City School District to the cleaners for their staff’s First Amendment violation. (Monday’s Post reported that Schemkes is suing after he was fired because he said a student brought up Adam and Eve in his class.) He has a strong case based on the 14th and First amendments.
Bill Hough Los Altos
Dear Editor: At a Tuesday Menlo Park City Council meeting, speakers pit housing against parking. That misses the mark. Menlo Park can have both housing and downtown parking, but not in the same location. The city needs a vibrant downtown and the city needs to meet the state’s housing requirements. There is a solution to this dilemma. Stanford Research Institute (SRI) is just a stone’s throw from downtown Menlo Park. SRI, a 64-acre site that is currently undergoing the city’s development permitting process for five
office buildings and 800 housing units. The housing advocates and the City Council need to pivot and do it fast.
Instead of approving SRI’s proposed five office buildings when the office vacancy rates on the Peninsula is at 21%, Menlo Park should demand more housing. Office projects add to our housing deficit and they increase the state’s requirement of housing units. It’s called the Jobs/Housing treadmill.
Petitions and lawsuits could be set aside if the SRI site was a housing project within walking distance from downtown, Burgess Park and the Caltrain station. Why threaten the viability of downtown retail for 345 housing units that could be moved to an alternate site nearby? Council and SRI need to settle on what’s best for Menlo Park. Let’s keep it simple.
Steve Schmidt
Former Mayor of Menlo Park
Dear Editor: I respectfully disagree with San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe’s decision to seek the death penalty for a man accused in the Half Moon Bay mass shootings.
My deepest sympathy goes out to the families of those who lost loved ones.
Gov. Newsom has set the stage for ending the death penalty in California. In 2019, he declared “the death penalty is a failure, it discriminates against people of color, those with mental illness, and those who cannot afford expensive legal representation.” This is a view that is now widely accepted.
The faith community, across the board, from the late Pope Francis to Bishop Cantu of the diocese of San Jose have opposed the death penalty.
We are not going back to the death penalty.
Terry McCaffrey President, California People of Faith Palo Alto
Dear Editor: The Post’s front page article on Wednesday reporting the use of tear gas on inmates in the Santa Clara County jail gives a clear picture of the bankrupt system of jail detention of people with mental health issues. Phillip Zimbardo was right! His controversial experiment with Stanford students playing the role of prisoner and jailer, devolved into cruelty being perpetuated by students who would ordinarily feel repulsion of the acts they succumbed to believe they were doing in this experiment. The system itself dehumanized not only the inmates but also the jailers.
All the jail reform efforts of the 2021 Santa Clara County, so many meetings, copious amounts of papers and reports, even the goals most of which were implemented, came to naught as your newspaper article shows.
Jailing mentally ill people provides no cure, is not corrective, and as a citizen of Santa Clara County with a mentally ill relative, I am repulsed and feel shame that this is supported by our tax dollars. Enough! Rebuild the system
with humane goals. Prioritize getting enough adequate mental health facilities so that people who are ill are not jailed and treated with so much cruelty. Thank you for bringing transparency to this issue.
Judith (Cybele) LoVuolo-Bhushan Palo Alto
Dear Editor: Regarding the maxim “Democracy dies in Darkness,” Scott Abramson in his letter last Monday asked: “Under whose administration did America live in political darkness?” He asserted that it was the Biden administration because the media had “colluded with Democrats” to hide Biden’s declining health resulting in “political darkness.”
Let me assure Scott that I’m no fan of Biden and agree that his close advisors shielded his diminishing capacity from the public. But more importantly, also from the Democratic Party and the media. So there was no collusion as he claimed, and the party suffered the consequences in the 2024 election.
If Scott is obsessed with Biden’s decline, he should also be asking why President Trump is spiraling toward complete incoherence in his speeches and policy decisions. Moreover, he still doesn’t understand how tariffs work, confuses “asylum seekers” with “people from an asylum,” can barely read a teleprompter and worse. And like Biden, he won’t release his health records. Looks like another cover-up to me.
But to answer Scott’s question re-
garding whose administration is responsible for democracy dying in darkness, he need only follow current events. Trump the candidate blacklisted reporters and entire news outlets from campaign events, referred to journalists as “scum” and “slime.” He thinks the freedom of the press is “disgusting.” The list is endless, but if that isn’t “darkness,” I don’t know what is.
Irv Brenner Palo Alto
Dear Editor: Why does Palo Alto waste so much money?
The city has a consultant on traffic gardens, set of small-sized streets with
scaled-down traffic features where children and other new learners practice in a place that is free from motor vehicles.
Yet why do we need this if Palo Alto has a Safe Routes to School Committee?
Why not give the traffic garden design to the boy scouts as an Eagle Scout project? Why not give it to the high school seniors as a design project? Why not ask volunteers among Palo Alto’s retired seniors, who have amazing credentials, to take on the task?
No, the city will overpay for more consultants and then say it doesn’t have the money to staff Fire Station 4 on Middlefield Road to serve south Palo Alto. City Council has lost its way.
CeCi Kettendorf Palo Alto
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The VTA board has approved a new contract that approves pay raises for bus drivers and light rail operators who went on strike for 17 days in March.
The board, as the same meeting on Thursday, also approved a new budget that shows the transit agency will go into a deficit of $800,000 for fiscal year 2026 and $14.1 million for FY27.
Before the new contract, a majority of members in the union were making over $100,000 a year. The new contract calls for pay raises of 4%, 3.5%, 3%, and 4% each year over its four-year length for a total of 14.5%.
late May, which triggered a furious response from dictator Kim Jong Un.
CANDIDATE SHOT: A conservative presidential candidate in Colombia, Miguel Uribe Turbay, 39, has been shot in the head at a Bogota campaign event by a 15-year-old paid hitman, authorities say. It’s unclear who ordered Saturday’s shooting.
GIANTS FIRE: A fire erupted in a concession stall at Oracle Park yesterday morning. The stadium was evacuated at 10:30 but people were let back in after the stadium’s fire suppression system put out the blaze. The game started on time at 1:05 p.m. The Giants beat the Braves, 4-3.
Originally, VTA offered an 11% increase and the union wanted 18%. The 14.5% increase is the midpoint between what the two sides initially sought.
The strike ended on March 26 when Superior Court Judge Daniel Nishigaya ruled that a “no strike” clause in the union’s previous contract prohibited the walkout. Nishigaya ordered the strikers to return to work.
VTA said in a statement that it plans to offset its projected losses through cost-cutting measures that do not reduce transit service, potentially supplementing with reserve funds.
SORRY, GRETA: A Gaza-bound aid boat carrying Greta Thunberg and other activists has been diverted to Israel, the Foreign Ministry said. The passengers “are expected to return to their home countries,” it added, without providing further details.
DRONES BOOSTED: President Trump has signed three executive orders dealing with drone regulations and encouraging the development of flying cars and supersonic flights. The orders will help clear the way for companies to use drones beyond operators’ line of sight, while also imposing restrictions to help protect against terrorism, espionage and public safety threats.
23 budget book. The consultant has helped the city with newsletters, social media and recruitment videos. It provided graphic design services for the city to promote its holiday Light Up the Season event at Fremont Park.
“Once the city hired a public engagement manager in January 2024, communication and outreach to Menlo Park residents increased,” the city said in renewing the contract last year.
For fiscal year 2023-24, council approved paying Tripepi Smith up to $225,000. In the current 202425 fiscal year, the contract amount was up to $250,000.
In the new fiscal year, which begins July 1, Tripepi Smith will do similar work and also will be “on standby” to provide additional services — such as crisis-communications support — upon city request.
Tripepi Smith has worked with numerous cities and agencies across California, including the cities of Cupertino and Livermore
and the Santa Clara County Fire Department.
On its website, the consultant spotlighted its work with two clients, the city of Rolling Hills Estates and the California Joint Powers Insurance Authority, after pro golfer Tiger Woods was seriously injured in a rollover car crash in the Los Angeles area in February 2021.
The incident grabbed headlines across the U.S. and internationally, and Tripepi Smith worked to track news coverage for its clients and identify “questions and misinformation” on issues such as the safety of the stretch of road where Woods crashed.
Menlo Park is now in the midst of its own controversy, involving its plan to build housing on parking lots downtown.
A group called Save Downtown Menlo is collecting signatures to put a measure on the ballot that would require the city to get voter approval before taking certain actions on downtown parking lots. That would include selling, leasing or donating the lots or declaring them surplus property. The ini-
feet on-site, and site and landscaping improvements (Application
2022-145) on a 10.98-acre site with five existing retail buildings and surface parking. This project is located north of Charleston Road, between Industrial Avenue and US101 freeway in the MM-40 (General Industrial) district.
If you have comments or questions about this project, please contact the project planner, Abenaezer Tassew at (650) 903-6306 or at abenaezer.tassew@mountainview.gov Draft recommendations and associated documents will be available for review on the Friday before the hearing at mountainview.legistar.com. This meeting will be held with a virtual component and broadcast live at mountainview. legistar.com and on YouTube at MountainView.gov/YouTube. Members of the public wishing to provide comments to the ZA may: 1) send an email to azh@mountainview. gov 2) join the Zoom Webinar online at mountainview.gov/meeting or call 669-9009128 and enter Webinar ID 85261011237; or 3) attend the meeting in person in the Plaza Conference Room, Second Floor at 500 Castro Street, Mountain View, CA 94041. Please consult the meeting agenda, which will be available for review the Friday before the meeting at mountainview.legistar.com. Meeting dates and times are subject to change. Please check the final published agenda online at the web address listed above or view the posted agenda located outside the front door of City Hall at 500 Castro Street to verify the meeting date, times, location, and agenda items. To arrange an accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act for this hearing, please call (650) 903-6306.
tiative also covers building anything on the downtown lots that “permanently diminishes the availability, access, or convenience of public parking for downtown customers, workers, and visitors.” Changes that enhance or expand parking would not require a vote. If the group collects enough valid signatures — more than 2,000 are required — council would have the option to approve the initiative or place it on the ballot.
A report to council on renewing the Tripepi Smith contract doesn’t mention working on the downtown housing issue.
City got PR help previously
But the city has found itself in hot water previously when it comes to communication consultants and ballot measures.
Questions were raised on whether the city government misused tax funds to help opponents of Measure M, an initiative to limit office space that failed in November 2014. Then-City Manager Alex McIntyre hired consultant Malcolm Smith to write letters to the editor and opinion [See CITY, next page]
HEARING
The best new play trophy at last night’s Tony Awards went to “Purpose,” Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ drawing-room drama about an accomplished Black family exposing hypocrisy and pressures during a snowed-in gathering.
It caps a remarkable year for Jacobs-Jenkins, who in addition to winning back-to-back Tonys — his “Appropriate” won best play revival in 2024 — earned the Pulitzer for “Purpose.”
Jacobs-Jenkins becomes the first Black playwright to win for best new
play since August Wilson took home the trophy in 1987 for “Fences.”
Kara Young became the first Black person to win two Tonys consecutively with the featured actress in a play trophy for her work in “Purpose.”
“Theater is a sacred space that we have to honor and treasure, and it makes us united,” Young said.
“Sunset Blvd.,” with Nicole Scherzinger starring as a fallen screen idol desperate to reclaim her fame, won best musical revival.
pieces that the city could use during the campaign.
District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe investigated the matter, announcing in February 2015 that the city had not broken the law in its use of the consultant.
Wagstaffe said state law doesn’t prohibit the use of public resources for providing information to the public about
the possible effects of a ballot measure.
But council members were unhappy that McIntyre had hired Smith without their knowledge. They asked the city attorney to draw up a policy requiring McIntyre to make a public announcement anytime he hired a PR consultant. McIntyre left his job with Menlo Park in 2018.
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Some scientists say the drink’s artificial sweeteners may trigger inflammation and alter metabolism, the UK Independent reports.
Diabetes, high blood pressure
Researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health said the sweeteners may promote Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and unhealthy cholesterol levels.
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It may exacerbate problems
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A study from UC-Irvine found people who consumed the most artificial sweeteners had a 9% higher risk for cardiovascular disease and an 18% greater risk for stroke or other disease.
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“Do not take it for granted that drinking low-sugar and low-calorie artificially sweetened beverages is healthy, it may pose potential health risks,” Dr. Ningjian Wang, a researcher at the
The American Heart Association found that adults who drink about two liters or more of artificially sweetened drinks per week had a higher risk of an irregular heartbeat.
Guide Behavioral Health, which just opened last month, provides personalized care close to home for Peninsula adolescents from 12 to 17 years old. Teens facing acute mental health challenges arising from anxiety, depression, substance use, bipolar disorder and more can get the treatment and support they need.
“There’s an adolescent mental health crisis in America, and particularly in the Silicon Valley,” said founder and outreach and admissions manager Danny DuRee.
As teens are facing more pressure than ever, a new program has opened in Menlo Park that offers comprehensive outpatient mental health treatment, and they’re inviting local mental health providers and community members to learn more about them at their open house this Thursday at 6:30 p.m.
Guide Behavioral Health’s Intensive Outpatient Program provides 12 hours of structured, evidence-based therapy a week – three hours a day for four days a week after school. The program typically lasts nine weeks, and Guide is now
going to offer a summer daytime option as well. For teens with more acute treatment needs, Guide offers their Partial Hospitalization Program, which sees teens five hours a day, five days a week.
These options give teens the intensive support they need without uprooting them from their homes and daily lives.
“What we’re offering is an alternative to residential care, where a kid is sent away,” said DuRee. “The kid can stay at home but still get a high level of treatment.”
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Frustration at trying to find intensive outpatient services for them locally
led him to found Guide Behavioral Health, he said. And since opening, the new program has already made an impact.
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Times shown are when a report was made to police. Information is from police department logs. All of the people named here are innocent until proven guilty in court.
MAY 9
8:29 a.m. — Michael Wu, 67, transient, arrested for maintaining a public nuisance, 400 block of Bryant St.
MAY 25
5:50 p.m. — Vehicle accident causes injuries, 800 block of Embarcadero Road.
MAY 28
11:58 p.m. — Auto burglary, Birch St. and New Mayfield Lane.
MAY 29
1:51 p.m. — Mail stolen, 1200 block of Cowper St.
2:22 p.m. — Auto burglary, 1900 block of Embarcadero Road.
4:31 p.m. — Victim scammed, 2000 block of Yale St.
MAY 30
1 p.m. — Check fraud, 1200 block of Cowper St.
2:33 p.m. — Kateland Jean Harte, 38, of San Jose, arrested for theft at Nick the Greek Restaurant, 322 University Ave.
5:12 p.m. — Vehicle hits a pedestrian, 1100 block of Welch Road.
8:07 p.m. — Steven Cuaderos, 25, of San Jose, arrested for reckless driving, hit-and-run that causes injuries and driving without proof of insurance, El Camino and Kendall Ave. Midnight Rape, El Camino.
WEDNESDAY
2:17 a.m. — Vehicle accident causes injuries, Sand Hill Road and Mosher Way.
8:49 a.m. — Vehicle accident causes injuries, 800 block of University Ave.
9:19 a.m. — Auto burglary, 3800 block of Fabian Way.
3:13 p.m. — Aztlan Israel Gonzalez Rodriguez of Campbell arrested for DUI and hit-and-run that cause injuries, 800 block of San Antonio Road.
3:38 p.m. — Auto burglary, 1600 block of Castilleja Ave.
5:47 p.m. — Brandon Martinez Larragoiti, 38, of Redwood City, arrested for threats, 300 block of Ventura Ave.
9:07 p.m. — Petty theft from a vehicle, 400 block of Grant Ave.
9:49 p.m. — Victor Ralph Hernandez, 62, of San Jose, arrested for maintaining a public nuisance, possession of a shopping cart belonging to a retailer, battery on police and on a warrant, 100 block of Channing Ave.
THURSDAY
6:48 a.m. — Person taken to a hospital for a mental health evaluation, University Ave.
FRIDAY
12:37 p.m. — Andrea Louise Anderson, 42, of East Palo Alto, cited for being under the influence of drugs, 400 block of El Camino.
1:26 p.m. — Orlando Beltran Portillo, 27, of Menlo Park, cited for possession of drugs and drug paraphernalia, O’Keefe St. and Willow Road.
7:56 p.m. — Lotion stolen from a business, 600 block of Santa Cruz Ave.
9:44 p.m. — Oscar Diaz Cerrata, 36, of East Palo Alto, arrested for DUI, 1100 block of Willow Road.
SATURDAY
2:01 a.m. — Brandon Romero, 31, of Menlo Park, arrested for battery, 1300 block of Willow Road.
9:25 a.m. — Anaclaytoe Robert White, 44, of East Palo Alto, cited for driving with a suspended or revoked license, Marsh Road and 15th Ave.
1:50 p.m. — Jonathan Diaz Ambriz, 30, of East Palo Alto, arrested for public drunkenness, 500 block of Oak Grove Ave.
2:48 p.m. — Package stolen, 100 block of Durham St.
3:18 p.m. — James Michael Langell, 44, of San Jose, cited for drug possession, 600 block of Partridge Ave.
7:10 p.m. — Luis Ayala, 61, of
Redwood City, cited for petty theft, 1000 block of University Ave.
MAY 21
3 p.m. — Burglary, 400 block of Via Palou.
4:04 p.m. — Bicycle stolen, 500 block of Lasuen Mall.
MAY 22
10:40 a.m. — Vehicle stolen, 600 block of Escondido Road.
MAY 23
3:49 p.m. — Lwin Kaung Sett, 23, of Fremont, arrested for burglary, prowling and theft, 200 block of Via Ortega.
5:28 p.m. — Vehicle stolen, 800 block of Campus Drive.
9:13 p.m. — Taylor Rene Ventura, 30, of Menlo Park, arrested on a warrant, Junipero Serra Blvd. and Stanford Ave.
APRIL 7
10:37 p.m. — Edward Padilla, 46, of San Jose, cited for display of false vehicle registration, Rengstorff Ave. and E. Charleston Road.
APRIL 17
5:26 p.m. — Jose Marquez Romero, 50, of Mountain View, cited for driving with a suspended or revoked license, View and Church streets.
MAY 25
2:08 a.m. — Shane Sullivan, 20, of Emeryville, arrested for public drunkenness, 200 block of Castro St.
2:14 a.m. — Luis Miguel Saavedra Cortes, 21, of Fairfield, arrested for public drunkenness and battery, Dana and Hope streets.
THURSDAY
11:12 a.m. — Mail stolen, 1-99 block of Lilac Drive.
FRIDAY
11:19 p.m. — Vehicle hits a fire hydrant and keeps driving, Selby Lane and Polhemus Ave.
WEDNESDAY
12:14 a.m. — DUI arrest, Franklin St.
12:22 a.m. — Domestic violence arrest made. Location not disclosed. 8:31 a.m. — Worker says his employer kicked him, D St. 9:24 a.m. — Store reports that the previous night, two young men broke into a glass cabinet and possibly stole video game consoles, El Camino.
10:05 a.m. — Domestic violence arrest made. Location not disclosed. 1:49 p.m. — Witness says a group of kids grabbed an 8-year-old boy from behind and pushed him off the platform of a play structure at a park, injuring him.
2:47 p.m. — Shoplifting arrest, El Camino.
5:17 p.m. — Auto burglary, Foothill St. Credit cards stolen and used at stores.
5:55 p.m. — Fireworks thrown into a crowd at a Pride celebration at Courthouse Square by people shouting homophobic remarks. At least one person is injured. Later, police arrest two 13-year-old boys in the incident.
JUNE 2
9:18 p.m. — Michael Anthony Depina, 43, arrested for domestic violence, vandalism and damaging or destroying a phone, San Carlos Ave. and Chestnut St.
TUESDAY
1:15 p.m. — Heather Marie Prentiss, 35, cited for driving with a suspended or revoked license, 1100 block of Old County Road.
THURSDAY
10:46 p.m. — Oscar Pablo Kloby, 31, arrested for possession of narcotics and drug paraphernalia, as well as on a warrant, 1000 block of Old County Road.
FRIDAY
2:20 a.m. — Ian M. Herzog, 35, arrested on warrants, Belmont Police Dept.
12:12 p.m. — Elderly victim defrauded of $990, San Ardo Way.
5:47 p.m. — Trevor Scott Cordell Waers, 22, cited for possession of drug paraphernalia, 1100 block of El Camino.
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3145 Emerson St., 94306, 4 bedrooms, 2389 square feet, built in 2007, Cristobal Trust to Ting Peng for $4,500,000, closed May
5 (last sale: $1,770,000, 05-24-10)
640 Towle Place, 94306, 6 bedrooms, 2836 square feet, built in 1964, Sprague Bypass Trust to Fiegl Living Trust for $4,620,000, closed May 5
829 Barron Ave., 94306, 5 bedrooms, 2673 square feet, built in 2007, Scheetz Family Trust to Gupta Trust for $4,850,000, closed May 5 (last sale: $2,964,500, 05-19-13)
311 N. California Ave., 94301, 3 bedrooms, 1736 square feet, built in 1947, Palo Alto Community Child Care Inc. to Hallmark Family 2021 Trust for $5,600,000, closed May 9 (last sale: $300,000, 07-23-13)
900 College Ave., 94025, 3 bedrooms, 1290 square feet, built in 1926, Thezak-Waymire Trust to Laura and Theodore Roth for $3,500,000, closed April 18
135 Emma Lane, 94025, 3 bedrooms, 1825 square feet, built in 1960, Rekhi Family Trust to Paula and Gonzalo Tenllado for $3,628,000, closed April 14 (last sale: $1,500,000, 11-21-13)
515 Tyndall St., 94022, 3 bedrooms, 1489 square feet, built in 2012, Maslowski Trust to Black Family Trust for $2,180,000, closed May 7
1564 Plateau Ave., 94024, 4 bedrooms, 1934 square feet, built in 1939, Lillibridge Living Trust to Cliff Win for $3,284,000, closed May 6
160 Alta Mesa Road, 94062, 3 bedrooms, 1840 square feet, built in 1952, Sweyer Living Trust to Azin and Elie Richa for $3,850,000, closed April 8
110 Northridge Lane, 94062, 4 bedrooms, 3480 square feet, built in 1976, Tsuchiyose Trust to Yujia and Hang Xu for $5,755,000, closed April 10 (last sale: $2,268,000, 03-29-05)
504 Mendocino Way, 94065, 3 bedrooms, 1733 square feet, built in 1989, ZCA Homes LLC to Lakshmi and Martin McNealis for $1,425,000, closed April 16 (last sale: $1,350,000, 09-03-24)
1875 Poplar Ave., 94061, 2 bedrooms, 1819 square feet, built in 1951, Moore Family Trust to Yunru and Derrick Tan for $1,450,000, closed April 18 (last sale: $754,000, 07-26-13)
843 Lakeshore Drive, 94065, 2 bedrooms,
1412 square feet, built in 1989, Huiyuan Wang to Gregory and Jinyi Feng for $1,452,000, closed April 14 (last sale: $1,204,500, 01-30-20)
3448 Bay Road, 94063, 3 bedrooms, 1340 square feet, built in 1946, Allen Ou to Jessica and Brandon Tsui for $1,550,000, closed April 15 (last sale: $1,200,000, 08-15-24)
SAN CARLOS
213 Garnet Ave., 94070, 3 bedrooms, 1865 square feet, built in 1948, Frances and Kurt Schreiner to Sharon and Fan-Yun Sun for $2,650,000, closed April 7 (last sale: $1,100,000, 05-17-07)
3379 Brittan Ave. #9, 94070, 3 bedrooms, 1239 square feet, built in 1973, Jesica Ferro to Mandawala and Aliaksei Makayed for $1,330,000, closed April 15 (last sale: $1,190,000, 05-26-22)
2101 Lyon Ave., 94002, 5 bedrooms, 1880 square feet, built in 1948, Neighbor To Neighbor Homes LLC to Yoo Family Trust for $2,145,000, closed April 7 (last sale: $214,000, 0601-85)
2625 Hastings Drive, 94002, 3 bedrooms, 2150 square feet, built in 1978, Mark Wippich to Olga and Francisco Feo for $2,850,000, closed April 7 (last sale: $773,000, 1204-03)
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FINISH YOUR BACHELOR’S DEGREE—FULLY ONLINE with Notre Dame de Namur University (NDNU)! Founded in 1871, NDNU is a WSCUC accredited university offering fully online Degree Completion Programs for students with 45+ transferable units. Earn your B.A. in Psychology (BA PSY) or B.S. in Business Administration (BS BA) with the flexibility to balance work, life, and education. Learn about program details, student support, admission criteria, tuition, and how to apply in just one lunch break, call (650) 508-3600 or email transferadmissions@ndnu.edu. The Bachelor’s Degree Completion Information Session happens every 3rd Wednesday of the month. Save the date: June 18 from 6 to 7 p.m.
FOUR-DAY FINANCIAL LITERACY CAMP FOR Teenagers Coming to Palo Alto. Parents, switch up your teenager’s summer routine with a fourday Financial Literacy Camp hosted by Cubberley Center in Palo Alto, July 14-17. My Money Camp is a national program for teens age 12-19. It is inperson, hands-on, fun, and will set your student up with skills that will last a lifetime. Each day focuses on a different aspect of managing money:
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LYDIAN ACADEMY’S PERSONALIZED LEARNING EXPANDS Into Palo Alto. After nearly 20 years in Menlo Park, Lydian Academy is moving to a larger, customdesigned campus at 410 Sherman Avenue (one block from the Cal Ave shopping district) for the school year beginning August 2025. Known for its one-on-one, fully accredited instruction, Lydian serves middle and high school students via flexible, year-round
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FOUNDATIONAL TUTORING, REIMAGINED. MEHR SIKRI believes that anyone can excel in math. She has been teaching students for over 10 years (in both private and public settings in Palo Alto and Los Angeles) and for the past 6 years, she’s been working full-time on her EdTech startup: OpMath. Mehr’s goal has always been to develop a modern solution to help students eliminate any gaps in learning, build strong foundations, and grow confidence in their math ability. She started OpMath in the study of her parents’ Palo Alto home, and it has organically grown to what it is today. She is excited for OpMath to help many more students in the years to come. Learn more at opmath.com.
ST. RAYMOND SCHOOL IS INCREDIBLY proud of their dedicated decathletes for their outstanding performance at this year’s competition! Their hard work and commitment to academic excellence truly shined: Second in Super Quiz, First in Religion, and First in Math.
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again, as some protesters chanted “go home” and “shame.” One person was taken to the ground by uniformed officers. Another appeared to be bleeding from their head.
Around 300 National Guard troops arrived in Los Angeles early yesterday on orders from Trump, who accused Gov. Gavin Newsom and other Democrats of failing to stanch recent protests targeting immigration agents.
The move appeared to be the first time in decades that a state’s national guard was activated without a request from its governor, a significant escalation against those who have sought to hinder the administration’s mass deportation efforts.
The deployment followed two days of violent protests that began Friday in downtown Los Angeles before spreading on Saturday to Paramount, a heavily Latino city south of the city, and neighboring Compton.
As federal agents set up a staging area Saturday near a Home Depot in Paramount, demonstrators attempted to block Border Patrol vehicles, with some hurling rocks and chunks of cement. In response, agents in riot gear unleashed tear gas, flash-bang explosives and pepper balls.
Newsom’s upset
Tensions were high after a series of sweeps by immigration authorities the previous day, as the weeklong tally of immigrant arrests in the city climbed above 100. A prominent union leader was arrested while protesting and accused of impeding law enforcement.
The deployment of the National Guard came over the objections of Gov. Gavin Newsom, who accused Trump of a “complete overreaction” designed to create a spectacle of force.
The last time the National Guard was activated without a governor’s permission was in 1965, when President Lyndon B. Johnson sent troops to protect a civil rights march in Alabama.
has helped her maintain her hygiene. In the past few months, one of their cars was towed, which contained all of her identification and documents.
She said that during the pandemic, she lost family members and struggled to make money to maintain her car.
“I didn’t expect to lose so much. I just felt it was like back-to-back funerals,” Finau said.
Finau is currently unemployed but assists her mom during the day. Around 7 p.m., she returns, hoping the car she is sleeping in hasn’t been towed. She said she doesn’t understand why people are complaining when they don’t make any noise, but does understand that it’s illegal for her to stay there.
Finau has received two tickets for her car in the past week, but is hoping a spot opens up at a shelter for her and her husband. The outreach teams visit Finau three to four times a week with updates on her case.
Nowhere to go
“If we do have to leave from here, we don’t know where we’re going to go because we haven’t been placed in housing. We just got to take it as it is and hopefully everything works out,” Finau said.
Councilman Webster Lincoln has been trying to get county officials to spruce up the county-owned building at 2415 University Ave., and to assist the three or four people who live in the parking lot there. The building is rented by the East Palo Alto council and is also home to a public library and an ATM.
Lincoln pointed out that on May 15, the county unveiled its new $230 million government building at 500 County Center in Redwood City, but have been doing the bare minimum in East Palo Alto.
“In East Palo Alto, instead of building us a new government building, they just upgraded the HVAC and put some new lighting in. You spent $200 million in Redwood City (on the new county government building), but don’t forget about East Palo Alto and the residents, because we are part of San Mateo County as well,” Lincoln said.
The county has asked nonprofit LifeMoves, which works with the homeless, to go out to the people living in their cars in late April and again on May 21, according to LifeMoves spokeswoman Maria Prato.
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Supervisor Lisa Gauthier, who was on East Palo Alto’s council for over 11 years, visited the building when she heard about Lincoln’s complaint. Gauthier is the only county supervisor to visit the building, according to Lincoln.
Lincoln said that he didn’t under-
stand why it didn’t concern other supervisors or why other supervisors hadn’t taken any action to improve the building and parking lot.
County Executive Mike Callagy told Lincoln in an email that a team will meet with the people who are refusing help and initiate anti-encampment enforcement procedures.
The people living at the lot will be charged with a misdemeanor after they receive two written warnings and they decline two offers of shelter.
After six citations, vehicles will be towed by Public Works,
according to county spokeswoman Michelle Durand. There are currently six abandoned vehicles at the parking lot.
Fence planned Callagy said a fence will also be placed at the entrance and exit to the property, allowing access to the ATM and council meetings, but not after hours.
In December 2022, the board approved an agreement of $8 million with Sbay Construction to improve the building’s electrical heating, ventilation, air conditioning, lighting,
fire alarm, ceilings, paint and flooring.
Lincoln said East Palo Alto deserves more than just the improvements being done to the building now.
The improvements to East Palo Alto City Hall began in early 2023 and continued through 2024. It is estimated to finish by June 30, according to Public Works Director Ann Stillman.
The board increased the agreement with Sbay Construction by an additional $250,000 to finish the project. The project is estimated at $15 million.
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