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Sheriff angered by ‘dirty looks’

BY ADRIANA HERNANDEZ Daily Post Staff Writer

Accusations were thrown between San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus and county officials during the board meeting yesterday.

Corpus attended yesterday’s meeting, out of uniform, to stop supervisors from overseeing her budget, but the board unanimously voted to move forward.

Corpus called out Supervisor Noelia

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Corzo for giving her “dirty looks” during the meeting.

“It is unprofessional of you as a board of supervisor to be doing that to me. Have some respect,” Corpus told Corzo as Supervisor David Canepa tried to move on.

When Corpus was elected in 2022, Corzo supported her candidacy and knocked on doors for her.

Corzo said that as a supervisor, she knows how to take criticism. She asked

County Attorney John Nibbelin if the county was paying for the attorney that Corpus attended the meeting with, concerned about taxpayer money. Nibbelin said the county was not paying for the attorney at that meeting.

County Executive Mike Callagy said Corpus’s false narratives of why her budget is out of control have to stop.

Corpus sent a letter to Nibbelin on

[See LOOKS, page 23]

Korean grocery store opens

BY ADRIANA HERNANDEZ Daily Post Staff Writer

The long-awaited East Palo Alto Korean grocery store, Mega Mart, will open today.

The Post walked through the store at 1775 E. Bayshore Road yesterday as workers were busily training, stocking shelves, painting walls and putting up signs.

Photos of fish and shrimp were on display in the seafood section, as workers prepared for the store’s grand opening tomorrow at 10 a.m. after a ceremony at 9:30 a.m.

The maze-like store features a Basquia bakery and restaurant called Pogu Picnic when customers first walk in to the former Target.

Pogu Picnic will offer bento boxes

[See STORE, page 22]

County bans sale of filtered cigarettes

The first filtered cigarette sales ban to go into effect in the world will be enforced in Santa Cruz County and two of its cities beginning in 2027, county officials announced.

The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors voted in October 2024 to adopt the ban starting Jan. 1, 2027, on

the condition that at least two other local governments pass similar measures. That requirement was met this year when the city of Santa Cruz approved a ban on June 24, followed by the city of Capitola on Sept. 11.

The ordinances will take effect in unincorporated areas and the cities of

Santa Cruz and Capitola. Enforcement of the sales ban will begin Jan. 1, 2027, in the county and the City of Santa Cruz. Capitola will begin enforcement on July 1, 2027.

Cigarette butts are the single most common form of litter on earth, with

[See BANS, page 23]

STOCKING UP — Employees hurriedly prepared Mega Mart in East Palo Alto for its opening today. Post photo by Adriana Hernandez.

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Police give more details on threat

3 schools were locked down after social post

BY ADRIANA HERNANDEZ Daily Post Staff Writer

Atherton police and Sequoia Union High School District officials said yesterday a report by a nonprofit, which was picked up by a TV station, didn’t tell the whole story behind a threat to Menlo-Atherton High School.

M-A, along with Carlmont High School in Belmont and Laurel School in Menlo Park, were all placed on lockdown on Sept. 10 after police got a tip through a tip line backed by the Sandy Hook Promise, which aims to stop school shootings, about a former M-A student who had posted an image of gun magazines and a map of M-A on social media.

But the Sandy Hook Promise ini-

tially said the social media postings included photos of a gun, which Atherton police said yesterday is inaccurate. There were no firearms in the house of the person who made the threat, according to a statement from Sequoia Superintendent Crystal Leach.

Former student arrested Police secured the campus and lifted the lockdown after the former student was taken into custody. The former student, whose name has not been released, is currently enrolled in another local high school.

“We are grateful that Sandy Hook’s Say Something Anonymous Reporting system made swift action by local law enforcement and school administrators possible,” Leach said in a statement.

Police are working closely with the San Mateo County District Attorney’s office as the investigation continues.

Police seize gun, ammo

A Half Moon Bay traffic stop for reckless driving led to the discovery of a gun and ammunition over the weekend, the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office said.

On Sunday at 12:45 p.m., deputies responded to reports of a reckless driver on Interstate Highway 280 and westbound Highway 92 heading into Half

Moon Bay. A traffic stop was initiated, and deputies made contact with three people in the vehicle.

After a male passenger was arrested, deputies located a loaded semi-automatic handgun in a bag, the Sheriff’s Office said. Two loaded extended magazines were also allegedly found in the bag.

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Court hears about exit of sheriff

The legal battle over removing San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus took some strange turns yesterday.

Corpus and her lawyers went into Superior Court to ask a judge to halt the county Board of Supervisors from removing her for alleged corruption.

In anticipation of her request, the county said that it would remove Corpus but not fill her vacancy for 14 days.

Corpus’ lawyers said the county’s offer wasn’t acceptable.

That threw the matter into the lap of the judge, Nina Shapirshteyn, who will have to decide what happens if the Board of Supervisors remove Corpus.

Shapirshteyn didn’t take any action yesterday.

Need to move fast

But Shapirshteyn will have to move fast. Under the procedures the supervisors have approved for removing the sheriff, hearing officer retired Judge James Emerson is expected to provide his recommendation on whether to remove Corpus on allegations including nepotism, conflicts of interest, retaliation, false arrest and using homophobic and racial slurs.

Once the supervisors receive Emerson’s recommendation, their next step

is to vote on whether to remove Corpus. In court papers filed Sept. 15, Corpus’ attorneys have said they feared that vote could come within a week.

Firing would be immediate

If the supervisors vote to remove her, the action will be immediate, meaning she will have to surrender her gun and badge, and leave her offices at 330 Bradford St. in Redwood City that day.

Under state law, the undersheriff, former San Francisco police captain Dan Perea, would assume her job. She picked Perea last year as her undersheriff after Chris Hsuing exited the position. The

voters, in a special election in March, changed the county charter to give the supervisors authority to remove Corpus with a four-fifths vote.

The process of giving her an opportunity to make her case has been slow, with a 10-day appeal hearing occurring last month.

Paying legal fees

Meanwhile, the county has been paying Corpus’ legal fees.

However, the county has refused to say how much it has spent in legal fees for her or the county, which hired outside counsel to handle the case.

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San Mateo County Coroner’s Office:

Sept. 23

Shoji Sakurai, 97, of Daly City

Sept. 21

Angelina Maria Peterson, 98, of San Mateo

Sept. 20

Susan Julian Grande, 66, of Daly City

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Kaiser Hospital in Redwood City: March 16

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Man sentenced in molestation case

Incidents took place at an unlicensed day care

The husband of a day care worker in East Palo Alto was sentenced yesterday to 24 years in prison for molesting at least three children his wife was caring for, a prosecutor said.

Norberto Bautista, 72, took a plea deal on July 18 in the case, said Chief Deputy District Attorney Shin-Mee Chang.

Police investigation

Police found out about the case in February 2022 when parents of a 7-year-old who attended the unlicensed day care on the 1900 block of Manhattan Avenue reported Bautista.

The father of the child was told by Bautista’s wife to stop bringing his

child there, according to the DA’s office.

The woman told the father that she had left the home briefly and when she came back, saw her husband touching the girl’s privates, DA Steve Wagstaffe previously said. She told police that the 7-year-old had been “flirting” with the 68-year-old man, the DA said.

The girl told police that she had been touched by the man on multiple occasions, Wagstaffe said. She had been going to the daycare since October 2020, when she was 5.

The two other victims who have come forward were both 5 when the molestations began, Wagstaffe said. All incidents occurred at the daycare center. One of the girls was molested between the ages of 5 and 10, according to the DA.

Police investigate crash

Santa Clara police are investigating a highway collision that killed a 16-year-old driver on Saturday night.

At about 9:35 p.m., officers were sent to the scene of a car crash at Lawrence Expressway and Benton Street. When they got there, officers found a 16-year-old boy behind the wheel of a Honda Accord that had collided with a traffic signal pole.

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sonnel provided first aid and performed life-saving measures on the driver, but he died at the scene, according to police.

His two passengers, also minors, were treated for minor injuries.

Based on initial information, it appears as if the Honda was heading north on Lawrence Expressway when it allegedly made an “unsafe turning movement” and clipped the front right side of a Toyota Camry, police said.

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Woman hit, killed by car

BY ADRIANA HERNANDEZ Daily Post Staff Writer

A 32-year-old woman has been fatally struck by a vehicle while crossing Woodside Road, according to Redwood City police.

The woman was hit Monday while crossing the Woodside Road at Veterans Boulevard around 12:11 a.m., Lt. Jeff Clements said.

Incident breakdown

The driver was traveling eastbound on Woodside Road toward 101, entering the intersection on a

green light, when he heard a loud impact, according to Clements. He pulled over and found the woman on the ground.

Witnesses who were walking with the woman said she crossed before the light signal changed, according to Clements.

Officers immediately began CPR until paramedics arrived to take her to Stanford Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

The driver remained at the scene and cooperated with the police after the accident, Clements

said. Police said they don’t believe the driver was under the influence of drugs or alcohol. The driver volunteered to submit blood tests for further testing, Clements said. Their car was towed to the police department as evidence.

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The Santa Clara County Medical Examiner’s Office said the victim has yet to be identified. The woman is being identified by Santa Clara County because she died at Stanford.

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MLB to introduce robot umps in ’26

Robot umpires are getting called up to the big leagues next season.

Major League Baseball’s 11-man competition committee yesterday approved use of the Automated Ball/ Strike System in the major leagues in 2026.

Human plate umpires will still call balls and strikes, but teams can challenge two calls per game and get additional appeals in extra innings. Challenges must be made by a pitcher, catcher or batter — signaled by tapping their helmet or cap — and a team retains its challenge if successful. Reviews will be shown as digital graphics on outfield videoboards.

Vote tally

New York Yankees outfielder Austin Slater, one of four players on the competition committee, said three of the players voted in favor of the move after it got support from 22 of the 30 teams. All six management reps voted in favor.

“I think with any sort of technology, there’s not 100% certainty of the accu-

rateness of the system,” Slater said. “I think the same can be said of umpires. So I think it’s just coming to grips with the impact that technology is going to have and whether or not we were willing to live with that error that was associated with the system, even if the error is very, very minuscule.”

Big league umpires call roughly 94% of pitches correctly, according to UmpScorecards.

Ejections impact

Adding the robot umps is likely to cut down on ejections. MLB said 61.5% of ejections among players, managers and coaches last year were related to balls and strikes, as were 60.3% this season through Sunday. The figures include ejections for derogatory comments, throwing equipment while protesting calls and inappropriate conduct.

Yankees manager Aaron Boone, who leads the American League in ejections for the fifth straight year, called the adoption “inevitable.”

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BY ADRIANA HERNANDEZ Daily Post Staff Writer

A man involved in the murder of a 17-year-old Carlmont High School senior in 2019 has been sentenced to 16 years in prison, a prosecutor said.

Ruben Gonzales-Magallanes, 27, of Indianapolis, was sentenced on Monday for manslaughter and robbery after he took a plea deal on Aug. 13, District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said.

Drug deal gone wrong Mohammad Othman, 17, was shot and killed on Jan. 7, 2019, in Belmont. Othman was a senior at Carlmont, the high school in Belmont, and was a defensive back

and wide receiver on the football team.

The night of the murder, Gonzales-Magallanes and four others met with Othman and another teenager to complete the drug deal that Gonzales-Magallanes and his friends had “no intent to finish” in the parking lot of Central Elementary School at 525 Middle Road, according to Wagstaffe.

The group never intended to sell Othman the marijuana he wanted to buy from them, but instead robbed Othman and his friend, Wagstaffe said. But Wagstaffe said that Othman and his friend were planning to rip off the group of five.

Three of the five participated in the robbery and helped plan

the drug deal that led to Othman’s death and left another teenager injured after being pistol-whipped by Gonzales-Magallanes, the DA said. Othman got out of the car to run away when he was shot by Gonzales-Magallanes and Antonio Marco Valencia, 25, of Concord.

Indiana murder case Gonzales-Magallanes will serve his term at the same time as a lengthy sentence he received in Indiana, Wagstaffe said. Gonzalez-Magallanes was arrested in July 2020 on suspicion of murder in Speedway, Ind., for shooting an 18-year-old, police said at the time. Valencia is set to appear in court on Oct. 14 for a pretrial.

This year marks a milestone for Bowman School in Palo Alto, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary with a sweep of honors. Bay Area Parent readers awarded Bowman five 2025 “Gold” titles, recognizing it as the Best Private High School, Middle School, Elementary, Preschool, and Best Montessori School in Silicon Valley. The recognition follows multiple awards in 2024 and national recognition in 2025 by Niche as one of America’s Best K–12 Schools.

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In just a few weeks you can help take a bite out of cancer – and some delicious lobster, too. Dine, drink, dance the night away and donate to a great cause, all at Lobsterfest 2025 at New England Lobster Company.

The Burlingame seafood restaurant and market at 824 Cowan Road is eagerly preparing to 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 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

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who have a child diagnosed with cancer, becoming a second family and home away from home for thousands of patients, siblings and parents.

“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 the events have raised more than $1 million for the charity.

The mission of Okizu is to help members of families affected by childhood cancer to heal through peer support, respite, mentoring and recreational programs. These programs are the result of a collaborative effort between Okizu and pediatric

oncology treatment centers in Northern California. The name comes from a Sioux word that means “to heal” or “make whole.”

Your Lobsterfest dinner, cooked entirely on site, will be a spectacular lobster boil with the traditional fixings: fresh Maine lobster, shrimp, sausage, corn on the cob, artichokes, potatoes and sourdough baguettes, all thrown down onto the tables and enjoyed as a feast for all! It’s fun, but not too fancy; don’t be afraid to wear your jeans and T-shirts! As Worrall says, “dress for mess.” (For those who don’t prefer seafood, a chicken dinner is also offered as an alternative to lobster.)

The 21+ event will have a no-host bar serving great beer and wine all evening as well as a DJ playing lively music and, of course, dancing! There will also be a raffle. Tickets are $150 per person, and Worrall says the entirety of that goes to Okizu.

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Romantic music, fine wines, delicious bites and a magical sunset in the hills overlooking the bay. Experience it all on Oct. 2 when Coast Live Music holds its “Wines and Winds” concert at Fogarty Winery in Woodside.

Tickets are available now for the event, which starts with wines and hors d’oeuvres at 6 p.m., followed by the performance at 7 p.m. and a meet-and-greet with the artists afterward. Complimentary round-trip shuttle service from the Portola Valley Town Center is provided.

The concert will feature the first-ever wind octet presented by Coast Live Music, with Kemp Jernigan and James Austin Smith on oboes; Alan Kay and Alicia Lee playing clarinets; Gina Cuffari and Eleni Katz on bassoons; and David Byrd-Marrow and Eric Reed on horns. They will start with Mozart’s Serenade No. 11 in E-flat Major, then perform Ruth Gipps’ “Andante doloroso” from Wind Octet, Op. 65, and finish with Smetana’s Suite from The Bartered Bride (arr. Tarkmann).

Coast Live Music Founder and Artistic Director Livia Sohn said their concert at Fogerty last year was a magical experience to remember, and they are excited to return this season with a diverse and exciting new program for wind instruments.

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Like the Bay Area’s native Coast Live Oak, for which the nonprofit is named, Coast Live Music aims to grow and take root in our community. Their mission is to share world-class music in dynamic, intimate settings with as many people as possible. They hold four concerts a year by assembling acclaimed musicians from all over the country in a different ensemble each time. But the other half of the nonprofit’s work is to bring their music to people in the community who can’t normally access such events.

Sohn said the idea for the group was born during the Covid shutdowns, when she and her late husband, the internationally known violinist Geoff Nuttall, discussed starting a nonprofit to get music out in the community during the pandemic. But shortly after, Nuttall was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, which claimed his life in 2022. At first Sohn couldn’t imagine starting without him, but she knew he would want to see their idea blossom. She partnered with oboist James Austin Smith to launch the nonprofit and they held their first concert in January 2024.

“We spend a good portion of the year playing in homeless shelters, soup kitchens, behavioral health centers and hospital wards,” said Sohn, a concert violinist who teaches in Stanford’s music department. “We also play for people with special needs and their caregivers.”

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“It’s been very fulfilling for me to give back to the community,” Sohn said.

To purchase tickets to the “Wines and Winds” concert and learn more about Coast Live Music and its work, go to coastlivemusic.com.

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Trump’s Tylenol warning prompts concern, anger

Faith Ayer had no qualms about taking Tylenol for chronic migraines and Covid during her pregnancy, and grew disappointed and angry as she watched President Trump rail against the pain medicine.

“A lot of the claims that were shared have just not been backed by evidence,” said Ayer, a nurse practitioner in Jacksonville, Fla., who is about 17 weeks pregnant with her first child. She said Trump’s words have implications “for patients across the country and even across the world.”

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not to take Tylenol because of the risk of autism in their children. He also fueled debunked claims that ingredients in vaccines or timing shots close together could contribute to rising rates of autism. Trump’s comments left some pregnant women angry and others with questions.

Dr. R. Todd Ivey, an OB-GYN in Houston, said he’s already heard from a few patients and expects to get a lot more questions in the coming weeks.

“People are concerned,” he said. “But what I’m doing is reassuring patients that there is no causation that has ever been proven.”

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has long considered Tylenol, also

known by the generic name acetaminophen, one of the only safe pain relievers during pregnancy. Five years ago, the Food and Drug Administration warned that the use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs like aspirin or ibuprofen might cause rare but serious kidney problems in a fetus.

Moms’ reactions mixed

As a nurse, Ayer knew she didn’t have a lot of options for treating her migraines and a fever she spiked during a bout of Covid.

“Weighing benefits and risks, I had no reservations when taking Tylenol,” the 30-year-old Ayer said, especially since she knew that untreated fevers in pregnancy, particularly in the first trimes-

ter, increase the risk for miscarriages, preterm birth and other problems.

Despite her medical knowledge, she had a conversation with her doctor about taking Tylenol “and kind of got the all clear on their end, too.”

When she gives birth, she plans to give her baby all the vaccines that medical experts recommend.

But other pregnant women are not so sure about things.

Dr. Stella Dantas, an OB-GYN in Portland, Ore., said she was starting to get questions from patients.

“I anticipate we’re going to have a lot of anxiety about using acetaminophen,

which we counsel them is OK to use if they have a headache, if they have a fever,” she said.

Doctors reassure patients

Dr. Clayton Alfonso, an OB-GYN at Duke University, is drafting up standard responses for the nursing team to give out to Tylenol inquiries.

The main message: Tylenol has been around for decades, is safe, and has not been shown to cause autism.

Some studies have raised the possibility that acetaminophen might be associated with a risk of autism — but many others haven’t found a connection.

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Michelle Quinn, MS NP-C

Chandni Patel, PA-C

Rebecca Chen, MD

Thomas Hoffman, MD

PALO ALTO

SEPT. 9

5:39 p.m. — Grand theft, 300 block of University Ave.

SEPT. 10

5:29 p.m. Auto burglary, Stanford Shopping Center. SEPT. 14

12:07 a.m. — Christopher Allen Jeffries, 25, transient, arrested for possession of drugs and drug paraphernalia, 401 Waverley St. SEPT. 15

5:36 p.m. Auto burglary, 2700 block of Embarcadero Road. SEPT. 16

4:48 p.m. — Brian Andrew Rose, 64, of Camino, arrested for DUI, W. Charleston Road.

SEPT. 17

9:43 a.m. — Purse snatching reported, 700 block of Emerson St.

10:41 a.m. — Grand theft, 3500 block of Deer Creek Road.

12:06 p.m. — Theft from an elder, Paradise Way.

5:44 p.m. — Thomas Eugene Smith, 62, transient, arrested for creating a public nuisance, 401 Waverley St.

6:24 p.m. — Richard Benjamin Villacana, 52, transient, arrested for creating a public nuisance, 500 High St.

6:32 p.m. Christopher Robert Cox, 54, transient, arrested for creating a public nuisance, 500 High St.

10:17 p.m. — Auto burglary, 700 block of Emerson St.

10:57 p.m. — Auto burglary, 400 block of Ramona St.

11:06 p.m. — Auto burglary, 445 Bryant St.

THURSDAY

6:55 a.m. — Coroner’s case, 900 block of Bryant St.

9:17 a.m. — Coroner’s case 1500 block of University Ave.

10:41 a.m. — Theft, 300 block of Pasteur Drive

11:34 a.m. Auto burglary, 2200 block of Louis Road.

11:43 a.m. — Nathaniel Kaden Cook, 30, of Palo Alto, cited on a warrant, 600 block of El Camino.

Police Blotter

12:10 p.m. — Benjamin Jon Dicicco, 55, of Palo Alto, arrested for domestic battery, University Ave.

4:51 p.m. — John Patrick Shearer, 59, of Mountain View, arrested for domestic battery, El Camino.

8:21 p.m. — Auto burglary, 450 Lytton Ave.

10:09 p.m. — Scott Christopher Munson, 58, of Menlo Park, arrested for injury to a child, University Ave.

FRIDAY

10:40 a.m. — Hit and run resulting in serious injury reported, 500 block of E. Charleston Road.

MENLO PARK

SUNDAY

8:57 p.m. — Mark Siegel, 36, of Menlo Park, arrested on a warrant, 1200 block of Sharon Park Drive.

MONDAY

12:29 a.m. — Jamin Winters, 38, of Redwood City, arrested for battery, 1100 block of Berkeley Ave.

10:37 a.m. — Fraud reported, 200 block of Robin Way.

4:50 p.m. — Vehicle tampered with, 1-99 block of Lorelei Lane.

7:31 p.m. — Bicycle stolen, 500 block of Laurel St.

9:40 p.m. — Ferdinand Juanson, 55, of San Bruno, cited on a warrant, Bayfront Expressway and Chilco St.

11:18 p.m. — Jesus Villa Senora Aguilar, 31, of Fremont, arrested on a warrant, University Ave. and Bayfront Expressway.

LOS ALTOS

THURSDAY

6:10 p.m. — Jose Paredones Guevara, 35, transient, cited for possession of drug paraphernalia, El Camino and San Antonio Road.

FRIDAY

8:47 a.m. — Vandalism reported, 900 block of N. San Antonio Road.

SUNDAY

1:10 p.m. — Theft reported, 2000 block of Homestead Road.

4:31 p.m. — Financial crime reported, 1000 block of Thurston Ave.

MONDAY

6:12 p.m. — Report taken for domestic violence, 500 block of Palm Ave.

6:58 p.m. — Auto burglary, 200 block of Third St.

10:10 p.m. — Sadaf Poudat, 37, of San Jose, arrested for domestic violence, San Antonio Road and Edith Ave.

ATHERTON

THURSDAY

8:52 p.m. — Home burglary, 100 block of Tuscaloosa Ave.

FRIDAY

8 a.m. — Antonio Reynaga Cortez, 40, of Redwood City, cited for driving with a suspended or revoked license, Holbrook Lane and Middlefield Road.

8:55 p.m. — Home burglary, 1-99 block of Barry Lane.

SUNDAY

1:42 a.m. — Austin Anthony Rivers, 29, arrested for obstructing police, refusing to yield to an emergency vehicle and placed on a psychiatric hold, Atherton and Austin avenues.

MOUNTAIN VIEW

SEPT. 14

8:19 a.m. — Marcelina Vidal, 34, of Fair Oaks, arrested for exhibiting a deadly weapon, Cypress Point and Moffest Blvd.

12:41 p.m. — Tasheena Gaulden, 33, of San Jose, arrested on warrants, 748 Mercy St.

2:47 p.m. — Amazing Finau, 34, of East Palo Alto, arrested for battery, 500 block of Castro St.

4:10 p.m. — Indecent exposure at CVS, 850 California St.

6:14 p.m. — Anthony Molina, 36, transient, arrested for not registering as a sex offender, 1000 block of Villa St.

7:30 p.m. — Theft at Target, 555 Showers Drive.

9:26 p.m. — Adrian Romero, 28, of Mountain View, arrested for disorderly conduct, Farley St. and San Ramon Ave.

10:24 p.m. — Auto burglary, 2600 block of W. El Camino.

10:46 p.m. — Gunshot heard, 800 block of Sonia Way.

REDWOOD CITY

SEPT. 15

3:20 p.m. — Juan Rodriguez Hernandez, 53, of Redwood City, cited for driving without an ignition interlock device and without a license,

Woodside and Middlefield roads. Case handled by sheriff’s deputies. SEPT. 16

1:49 a.m. — Bryan Ismael Mendez, 32, of Redwood City, arrested for possession of drugs and drug paraphernalia, Spring and Chestnut streets. Case handled by sheriff’s deputies.

2:02 p.m. — Car window smashed, nothing taken, Duane St.

3:52 p.m. — Bicyclist says a construction worker threw something at him that hit his helmet. He thinks this is because he accidentally ran over one of their tools the day before, El Camino.

4:19 p.m. — Package stolen, Whipple Ave.

4:38 p.m. — Customers who came into the business earlier, complained and threatened to beat up the clerk, are outside circling the business, making finger guns, El Camino.

6:44 p.m. — Caller reports that a stranger was taking photos of his and a neighbor’s house, Hudson St.

7:16 p.m. — Two teens wearing black hoodies and a ski mask pulled a chain off the caller’s neck, no location given.

9:30 p.m. — Complaint about an upstairs neighbor dropping items, Woodside Road.

9:33 p.m. — Vehicle keyed, El Camino.

9:39 p.m. — Suspicious ice cream truck driving around the neighborhood, caller tried to buy ice cream but the truck didn’t have any, Spruce St.

EMERALD HILLS

SEPT. 15

No time given — Caller believes that someone was using her health insurance information for a surgery she was not getting. Deputies determined this is a scam and the caller did not lose any money, 3600 block of Oak Knoll Drive.

NORTH FAIR OAKS

SEPT. 15

9 a.m. — License plate stolen, 2700 block of Devonshire Ave.

3:56 p.m. — Cristian Tatiana Castro Morales, 32, of Redwood City, cited for driving with a suspended license, 100 block of Middlefield Road.

9:55 p.m. — Antonio Reynaga Cortez, 40, of unincorporated San

Mateo County, cited for driving with a suspended license, 600 block of Hampshire Ave.

10:15 p.m. — Richard Ordonez, 59, of San Mateo, cited for possession of drugs and drug paraphernalia, Eighth Ave. and Middlefield Road. Incident handled by Atherton police.

11:48 p.m. — German Vasquez Marcelo, 51, of Redwood City, cited for possession of drug paraphernalia and driving without a license, Middlefield Road and Fourth Ave. Incident handled by Atherton police.

SEPT. 16

5 p.m. — Unidentified person, 32, of Redwood City, arrested on a warrant, 100 block of El Camino.

SEPT. 17

6:06 p.m. — Michael Angel Suarez, 23, cited for driving with a suspended or revoked license, 100 block of Spring.

10:50 p.m. — Jose Cruz

Valdivias Soto, 39, arrested for burglary of a business, 2900 block of Edison Way.

SAN CARLOS

SEPT. 15

3 p.m. — Nicholas David Blaine, 44, of Mountain View, arrested on a warrant. Brittany Elizabeth Romero, 34, of San Jose, cited on a warrant, 300 block of El Camino.

5:35 p.m. — Scott Takemoto, 67, of Redwood City, cited on a warrant after a complaint of him

sleeping in a park, 500 block of Old County Road.

SEPT. 16

9:47 a.m. — FedEx package with a counterfeit California driver’s license with the caller’s information but with a different person’s photo and signature arrives at the caller’s home. The package has a return address from Houston, Texas, 200 block of Baytree Road.

BELMONT

THURSDAY

4:55 p.m. — Transient kicks a man because he thought the man had taken a photo of him, Caltrain station.

7:18 p.m. — Stranger walked into man’s courtyard that’s under construction, started going through garbage cans and took a photo of the man’s mailbox, Hallmark Drive.

7:50 p.m. — Michelle Barbaria, 38, arrested on a warrant, 2200 block of Lake Road.

FRIDAY

12:39 a.m. — Christopher Randolph Johnson, 35, cited for drug possession, 1000 block of El Camino.

3:38 p.m. — Woman says she was hit in the shoulder with a cell phone by another guest at an event, Sem Lane.

SATURDAY

1:51 a.m. — Nicole Michelle Quarry, 56, arrested for felony hit and run.

4:13 a.m. — Man calls to say

he is ‘being terrorized’ and ‘they have me in diapers,’ he refuses to explain further, Carlmont Drive.

3:23 p.m. — Home burglary, lamps, toilet paper and paper towels among items stolen, Ralston Ave.

10:09 p.m. — Ryan Allen Gettleman, 40, arrested for domestic battery, Ewell Road.

SUNDAY

12:04 a.m. — Joy May Davidson, 49, arrested for disorderly conduct, 500 block of El Camino Real.

10:38 a.m. — Report of a man peeing into the street, Alameda de las Pulgas.

MONDAY

6:13 a.m. — Man yelling in the store and eating the merchandise without paying, Ralston Ave.

10:14 a.m. — Vehicle stolen, Shoreway Road.

4:43 p.m. — Meat and shrimp stolen, El Camino.

8:01 p.m. — Report of a possible theft, El Camino.

CHP

From the Redwood City office of the CHP

JULY 28

Matheo I Herreap Rado, 25, arrested for DUI.

Eric K. Naki, 34, arrested for DUI.

Nallely Sanchez Cardenas, 33, arrested for DUI.

JULY 30

Karen Diep, 37, for DUI.

Real Estate

closed Aug. 29 (last sale: $1,695,000, 07-11-21)

LOS ALTOS

1036 Almanor Ave., 94025, 3 bedrooms, 1530 square feet, built in 1950, Price Family Trust to Sojo Realty LLC for $1,700,000, closed Aug. 6

810 Cambridge Ave., 94025, 5 bedrooms, 2666 square feet, built in 1959, Boon 2012 Properties Inc to Weijing and Hao Chen for $2,750,000, closed Aug. 8 (last sale: $1,499,000, 05-08-12)

1330 Trinity Drive, 94025, 3 bedrooms, 2690 square feet, built in 1986, Elizabeth Lewis to Donghee and Doobaeck An for $2,820,000, closed Aug. 4 (last sale: $2,735,000, 0805-22)

MOUNTAIN VIEW

905 West Middlefield Road #974, 94043, 2 bedrooms, 998 square feet, built in 1978, Roman Larson to John Field for $930,000, closed Aug. 25 (last sale: $920,000, 1129-22)

472 Mountain Laurel Court, 94043, 2 bedrooms, 1225 square feet, built in 1988, Catihanan 2020 Trust to Cheng Chen for $1,350,000, closed Aug. 29 (last sale: $650,000, 10-21-09)

2326 Rock St., 94043, 2 bedrooms, 1465 square feet, built in 2020, Paul Davies to Andrew and Andrew Lihn for $1,550,000,

1 West Edith Ave. #C214, 94022, 1 bedroom, 1145 square feet, built in 1997, Chua Trust to Anna Brunelle for $1,421,500, closed Aug. 25

1382 Holt Ave., 94024, 4 bedrooms, 1958 square feet, built in 1959, 7A Holdings LLC to Foram and Charudatta Pable for $3,520,000, closed Aug. 26 (last sale: $3,000,000, 06-19-25)

1389 Chelsea Drive, 94024, 4 bedrooms, 2069 square feet, built in 1961, Kump Trust to Meadow Homes for $3,750,000, closed Aug. 26

LOS ALTOS HILLS

25850 Vinedo Lane, 94022, 4 bedrooms, 3826 square feet, built in 1956, Kae Survivors Trust to Osborne Family Trust for $5,475,000, closed Aug. 26

23480 Ravensbury Ave., 94024, 4 bedrooms, 2962 square feet, built in 1960, Mintz Living Trust to Lorton Living Trust for $5,625,000, closed Aug. 28 (last sale: $4,210,000, 06-10-19)

ATHERTON

84 Selby Lane, 94027, 5 bedrooms, 6170 square feet, built in 1980, HsiaoHuey Huang to Cai Sun for $9,650,000, closed Aug. 7

WOODSIDE

285 Woodside Drive, 94062, 4 bedrooms, 3550

square feet, built in 1967, Livermore 2003 Trust to 11 W Summit Dr LLC for $4,650,000, closed Aug. 6 (last sale: $452,500, 1001-86)

REDWOOD CITY

230 Rutherford Ave., 94061, 2 bedrooms, 810 square feet, built in 1954, Pamela and Jeremy Schwartz to Lillian and Nicholas Lycette for $1,300,000, closed Aug. 8 (last sale: $775,000, 10-27-16)

449 2nd Ave., 94063, 2 bedrooms, 1310 square feet, built in 1922, Airon Green to Chaiwon and Bomsoo Cho for $1,305,000, closed Aug. 7 (last sale: $551,500, 03-01-13)

317 Northumberland Ave., 94061, 3 bedrooms, 1720 square feet, built in 1978, Greve Trust to Casey and Gregory Bohling for $1,408,000, closed Aug. 5 (last sale: $523,000, 0709-02)

SAN CARLOS

434 Portofino Drive #301, 94070, 2 bedrooms, 2494 square feet, built in 1988, Sungkyung and Eun-Gyu Kim to Kathy and Benjamin Rogers for $1,395,000, closed Aug. 8 (last sale: $1,630,000, 03-12-20)

BELMONT

308 Hiller St., 94002, 3 bedrooms, 1010 square feet, built in 1953, Nutcher Living Trust to Kalyn and Michael Conway for $1,675,000, closed Aug. 5

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STORE SCENES —Workers prepare for the opening of Mega Mart in East Palo Alto, while some who were invited to yesterday’s soft opening perused the store’s offerings.

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that can be customized and made by Michelin-starred Chef Tony Yoo, according to marketing manager Ashley Jung.

Basquia Bakery will offer rice breads, cakes and coffee, along with a dining area for customers to enjoy their meals, Jung said.

The store also features a highly anticipated beauty section. Anna Bleross, a Redwood City resident, tried

to enter yesterday’s soft launch that had a guest list, but will be returning when it opens.

Bleross has never gone to a Korean store and is excited to have a different kind of store in the area. She is mostly looking forward to having more accessible Korean skin care products that Mega Mart will be selling.

Many local employees

Mega Mart has 150 employees working and 90% of them are East Palo Alto locals, Jung said.

East Palo Alto Vice Mayor Mark Dinan previously told the Post that the store was opening on Thursday, but due to scheduling changes, the opening was pushed to today, Jung said.

Dinan, City Manager Melvin Gaines, Assistant City Manager Shiri Klima, Bumsuck Ha, CEO of Mega Mart and the Menlo Park Fire Protection District will be at the ceremony today, Jung said.

Jung said Congressman Kevin Mullin and state Sen. Josh Becker were also invited, but haven’t confirmed they will be attending.

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Sunday, asking to remove the item from the agenda due to a lack of transparency and fairness. Corpus said the reason why her office is below the budget is because of the double overtime that was implemented to help with vacancies, and Callagy promised to cover the cost.

“It has been debunked at every turn with evidence, and it has got to stop,” Callagy said during the meeting.

Callagy said there are many emails that prove Corpus was involved in setting up the double overtime, and she was the one who wanted to extend it. When overtime got out of control, Corpus said she took full responsibility for not providing more oversight, Callagy said.

Who caused the shortfall?

Callagy said Corpus created a big hole in the budget, causing the county to give the sheriff’s office $8.4 million and offer a loan. Callagy said he never followed up on the loan because the sheriff’s office has no money.

“In the 2 1/2 years this sheriff has been there, we have never contributed this much funding to any other department,” Callagy said.

The county has supported Corpus with many of her requests, like a transition team, a criminal tech lab and increasing positions, Callagy said. The fact that Corpus’s budget is at a low is due to mismanagement, Callagy said.

Big purchases

Corpus’s decision to purchase a $74,000 conference room table, two $6,670 massage chairs and two soft-serve ice cream machines for employees in the county jails are the reasons for the need to oversee her budget, Callagy said.

Callagy said Corpus doesn’t attend his monthly

meetings where budgets are discussed. Corpus said Undersheriff Dan Perea attends the meeting.

Corzo said that the sheriff’s office is not the only department held accountable for how it uses its budget.

Roberto Manchia, the chief financial officer, will be monitoring the sheriff’s office monthly budget and will see how money is being spent. Manchia said it will not affect the sheriff’s office operations or drag out contracts or requests.

It’s what the board does

Supervisor Jackie Speier said it’s the board’s job to be watchdogs over the county.

“Two of the most important responsibilities of the board are oversight of county programs and prudent expenditure of taxpayer money. We need to get control of this situation now, not later,” Speier said.

The sheriff’s office has depleted its budget surplus, going from $36.7 million in fiscal year 2022-23 to $3.2 million in the 2024-25 fiscal year. The sheriff’s office has used the majority of its $324 million budget for the current 2025-26 fiscal year, according to Speier.

Expensive TV

Speier said that in one of the first meetings she attended, she pulled an item where Corpus was requesting over $1 million for more audio and visual equipment.

One of the purchases was a $700,000 TV for the headquarters conference room.

Another purchase that has caused issues in her budget is the $35,687 monthly lease Corpus signed in August 2023 to turn a building at 690 Broadway in Redwood City into a daycare and substation. However, the plans were stopped a year later, and the building has stayed vacant.

Corpus is facing removal by supervisors after they voted to fire her and held a 10-day hearing for allegedly retaliating against employees, having a close relationship with former chief of staff Victor Aenlle and negligence in her job duties.

the World Health Organization estimating 4.5 trillion discarded annually, and county officials said filters have no proven health benefit to smokers.

“Santa Cruz County is always at the forefront of making change. This policy adds to the legacy of our community standing up to big corporations to protect the health of our residents and our environment. This is just the beginning, and we look forward to supporting other communities who wish to join our effort,” Supervisor Justin Cummings said in a statement released Monday.

Useless and everywhere

“Cigarette butts are toxic, they’re useless and they’re everywhere. As the guardians of Monterey Bay, we’re standing up and telling Big Tobacco, this ends NOW. We invite communities worldwide to join us,” Supervisor Manu Koenig said.

County officials explained the new policies are intended to reduce tobacco filter pollution, lower cleanup costs, and support businesses that depend on a clean environment. To help with implementation, county officials will provide outreach materials for retailers and community members, assist with product transitions, and support enforcement.

According to county officials, previous bans on single-use plastics and Styrofoam showed no lasting negative economic impacts.