The grants come from the district attorney’s Asset Forfeiture Fund, which is money seized from gangs, drug traffickers and criminal organizations, with the goal of helping to repair some of the harm caused by those criminal enterprises.
Investigators found that the fire code violations were not isolated to a single Home Depot store: Between 2018 and 2023, the 13 other Home Depot stores across Santa Clara County had been issued notices of fire code violations.
Prosecutors said Charles Hill of Los Gatos, star of 'Flip It to Win It,' admitted that while he claimed he bought dilapidated homes, fixed them up and then sold them for a profit, in reality he pocketed millions in fraudulently obtained money.
Santa Clara Police Department officers arrived in the area of the Feb. 20 fatal shooting, and arrested the suspect as he walked on the sidewalk of White Oak Lane.
The city praised Anthony Mata for his 28 years of service with the city, listing as his accomplishments the department’s first strategic plan, increased diversity through the sworn officer ranks and managing police reform initiatives.
Prosecutors said Michael Nichols was a key middleman in former sheriff Laurie Smith’s illegal pay-for-play gun permit scheme, introducing executives at AS Solution Inc., a company seeking gun permits, to local lawyers and and the Sheriff's Office.
Nina Fathizadeh, 41, and her 64-year-old mother, Shahin Gheblehshenas, are the owners of Happy Happy Daycare, a state-licensed facility in San Jose where two unattended children drowned in a backyard swimming pool Oct. 2.
After being contacted by the District Attorney’s Office, Granite Rock installed water treatment systems along Coyote Creek and agreed to five years training, testing and oversight conditions.
The grand jury report, titled "Unsportsmanlike Conduct: Santa Clara City Council," alleged unethical relationships between multiple members of the City Council and the 49ers. Becker allegedly leaked a draft of the report at least three days ahead of its planned Oct.10 release.
One day after the police union announced it would hire an independent investigator, San Jose Police Chief Anthony Mata said on Twitter there would be no internal departmental investigation of possible police officer involvement in illegal activities at the 1,100-member union.
John Arthur Getreu, 78, admitted to the 1973 murder of Lesley Perlov, 16 months after he was convicted in the 1974 killing of another woman in what proxecutors called The Stanford Murders.
