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Latest reporting from the Public Safety desk.
Latest reporting from the Public Safety desk.
Latest reporting from the Public Safety desk.
Public Safety
San Mateo Police Department is one of only five agencies that signed new, stricter agreements to regain access to Menlo Park's license plate reader network after the city revoked all 242 data-sharing agreements following a second round of improper federal-agency searches.
Public Safety
San Mateo Police Department is one of only five agencies that signed new, stricter agreements to regain access to Menlo Park's license plate reader network after the city revoked all 242 data-sharing agreements following a second round of improper federal-agency searches.
Public Safety
San Mateo Police Department is one of only five agencies that signed new, stricter agreements to regain access to Menlo Park's license plate reader network after the city revoked all 242 data-sharing agreements following a second round of improper federal-agency searches.
Public Safety
Three cannabis cash couriers drove to San Mateo police headquarters on Aug. 20 after a black Audi SUV followed them from Oakland, triggering a multi-agency pursuit that ended with four arrests near Highway 880 in Oakland.
Public Safety
The San Mateo Police Department reminds drivers to slow down in school zones as August marks Back to School Safety Month, with the city's Slow for Students program enforcing 15 and 25 mph limits near all local schools.
Public Safety
Joaquin Tanori Morales, 44, was sentenced to 21 years in state prison after pleading no contest to attempted murder for bludgeoning a co-worker with a hammer at a San Mateo construction site in May 2023.
Public Safety
The San Mateo Police Department will conduct a DUI checkpoint at S. Norfolk Street and Shoreview Avenue on Friday, Aug. 21, from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m., funded by a state traffic safety grant.
Public Safety
Tijon Jacques Dajour Ammons, 29, was sentenced to three years in state prison and denied probation after a jury convicted him of felony assault with a deadly weapon, witness dissuasion and battery stemming from a February 2025 fast food restaurant altercation in San Mateo County.
Public Safety
Guosheng Chen, 49, was convicted Friday, Aug. 14, of two felonies and a misdemeanor for sexually assaulting a client at Water Lounge Spa in Millbrae in December 2024, marking his second sex crime conviction after a 2023 sexual battery case.
Public Safety
Clarise Blanchard, 79, a Foster City woman and 2008 San Mateo County Woman of the Year, was sentenced to six months in county jail for embezzling more than $813,000 from StarVista, the local mental health nonprofit that later closed.
Public Safety
More than 500 Peninsula residents are pressuring officials to address 26 deaths in five years on Highways 35, 84 and 9, with San Mateo County Supervisor Ray Mueller pursuing enforcement measures and Caltrans planning a $500,000 four-way stop at Four Corners this fall.
Public Safety
San Mateo County Superior Court Judge Leland Davis III denied former SMCCCD Chancellor Ronald Galatolo's motions for a new trial and to reduce his felony convictions, telling him at the July 31 sentencing that he showed "your readiness and willingness to cheat and lie."
Public Safety
San Mateo County sheriff's deputies arrested a man on Aug. 10 after finding him carrying a loaded, concealed Glock 17 on Broadway in Millbrae without a valid CCW license; he was booked into Maguire Correctional Facility on two weapons charges.
Public Safety
San Mateo County supervisors held an emergency study session Aug. 13 to address a $226-$230 million Vehicle License Fee shortfall that threatens shelters, rental assistance and other services across all 20 county cities, including the City of San Mateo.
Public Safety
The northbound elevator at San Mateo Caltrain station is out of service due to a technical issue, with no repair timeline given, marking the third disruption at a San Mateo-area station in five days.
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