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Man gets 14 years in Jan. 6 case, longest sentence imposed yet

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:32:16 GMT

By Michael Kunzelman | Associated PressWASHINGTON — A Kentucky man with a long criminal record was sentenced Friday to a record-setting 14 years in prison for attacking police officers with pepper spray and a chair as he stormed the U.S. Capitol with his wife.Peter Schwartz’s prison sentence is the longest so far among hundreds of Capitol riot cases. The judge who sentenced Schwartz also handed down the previous longest sentence — 10 years — to a retired New York Police Department officer who assaulted a police officer outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.Prosecutors had recommended a prison sentence of 24 years and 6 months for Schwartz, a welder.U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta sentenced Schwartz to 14 years and two months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release.Mehta said Schwartz was a “soldier against democracy” who participated in “the kind of mayhem, chaos that had never been seen in the country’s history.”“You are not a...

Oakland man tracked to Sacramento County, arrested in killing of El Cerrito teen

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:32:16 GMT

EL CERRITO — Police have arrested a 21-year-old Oakland resident in connection with a fatal shooting on April 23, authorities said Friday.Malachi Cox was arrested Wednesday in Citrus Heights in the killing of 18-year-old Sincere Martin, a former De Anza High and El Cerrito High school football player.Martin was fatally shot about 4:30 p.m. April 23 in the 900 block of Galvin Drive, an area where police said he had been visiting people he knew.Police have not released a motive for the killing or said if the two men knew each other.Police did say in a release that Cox is associated with a 4-door white Toyota that was seen fleeing westbound on Stockton Avenue from Galvin Drive after the shooting.Police have not said exactly how they traced Cox to Citrus Heights in Sacramento County.But they did credit the Oakland Police Department Ceasefire and Intelligence units and U.S. Marshals in helping locate  him.Cox has been booked at the Martinez Detention Facility and is being held with...

Favre denies wrongdoing in Miss. welfare scandal

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:32:16 GMT

By Wes Bruer | CNNAttorneys for Brett Favre on Friday filed a lengthy denial of allegations he used misappropriated state funds in Mississippi meant for needy families for the construction of a state-of-the-art volleyball facility at the University of Southern Mississippi where his daughter played.Eric Hirschmann, an attorney for the Hall of Fame quarterback, filed the denial of allegations in response to a civil complaint brought by the Mississippi Department of Human Services and asked that the court “deny the relief requested by MDHS” and dismiss the complaint in its entirety, as well as award Favre attorneys’ fees and costs.Favre also requests a jury trial and contends that the First Judicial District of Hinds County, Mississippi, would be the proper venue for a trial.The answer to the complaint lays out 21 affirmative defenses, where Favre’s attorneys question the statutory basis against the allegations, otherwise claiming that Favre acted in good faith ...

Berkeley High alum sentenced to nine months in jail for massive child porn hacking/extortion scheme

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:32:16 GMT

OAKLAND — A 20-year-old Berkeley resident has pleaded no contest to distributing nude photographs of 13 people and been sentenced to nine months in jail, as part of a plea deal with Alameda County prosecutors, court records show.Liam Burgmann, a Berkeley High alumni, allegedly hacked multiple Berkeley High students’ Snapchat accounts, targeting teen girls for their underage photographs. Some of the pictures were posted to websites like 4Chan and Reddit, while others were used in attempts to blackmail the victims, authorities say.In a Feb. 23 court hearing, Burgmann pleaded no contest to two misdemeanor counts: invasion of privacy and distributing images of intimate body parts to cause distress. The latter charge was written up to include all 13 victims. In exchange for his plea, Burgmann was sent to Santa Rita Jail in Dublin that same day to begin serving the nine-month term.Burgmann remains in jail, with a formal sentencing date sent for June 5. He can reduce his jail t...

Pedestrian seriously injured during Oakland car chase by US Dept. of Homeland Security

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:32:16 GMT

(BCN) -- A pedestrian was injured critically when a U.S. Department of Homeland Security officer was in pursuit of a car in Oakland Thursday evening, police said Friday.The collision, which also involved another car, occurred just after 5:30 p.m. near 23rd Avenue, East 11th Street and Interstate Highway 880. Davis stabbing suspect graduated from Oakland high school A Homeland Security officer was in pursuit of an Acura TL. Its driver, Anton Jackson Jr., 22, of Oakland, allegedly failed to stop at a red light, according to police. The Acura hit a Nissan Altima and a 32-year-old Oakland resident, who was taken to Highland Hospital afterward, police said.Jackson allegedly ran from the area and was quickly apprehended by Homeland Security officers. Police said an illegally modified gun was located nearby. The driver of the Nissan escaped injury and cooperated with the investigation, police said.KRON On is streaming live.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; hei...

Davis stabbing suspect graduated from Oakland high school

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:32:16 GMT

(KRON) -- Just three years ago, the future was looking bright for Carlos Reales Dominguez.He graduated from Castlemont High School in Oakland after playing on the football team in 2020, according to the New York Times. He later enrolled in Laney College in Oakland, university officials confirmed to KRON4. Dominguez was interviewed by Oakland Health Pathways Partnership as a teenager and said, "I want to be a doctor. I got into health care to help my grandmother—she has type 2 diabetes. It makes me happy. I just love seeing her smile."OHPP's website removed Dominguez's profile from its website on Friday, one day after he was identified by the Davis Police Department as a suspected killer who allegedly carried out a series of recent stabbings.Carlos Dominguez appears for his arraignment hearing Friday, May 5, 2023, at Yolo County Superior Court in Woodland, Calif.  He pleaded not guilty. (Fred Gladdis / The Davis Enterprise via AP, Pool) Davis Police Chief Darren Pytel described the s...

Davis stabbings suspect makes first appearance in court on charges of murder, attempted murder

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:32:16 GMT

(KTXL) -- The suspect in the Davis stabbings that occurred over the last week and who was detained Wednesday afternoon made his first court appearance Friday.Carlos Dominguez, 21, of Davis, appeared at the Yolo County Superior Court in Woodland to hear the charges against him: two charges of murder and a charge of attempted murder, with a special circumstance for committing multiple murders.This special circumstance makes the case eligible for a sentence of life without the possibility of parole or the death penalty, according to the Yolo County District Attorney's Office. Dominguez, who is represented by a public defender, pleaded not guilty to all of the charges and the judge decided against bail. "The charges relate to the stabbing deaths of Davis residents David Breaux and Karim Abou Najm, and the attempted murder of Davis resident Kimberlee Guillory," the District Attorney's office wrote in a press release. Ex-UC Davis student arrested as suspect in stabbings Over the course...

DC mayor names new temporary head of troubled crime lab

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:32:16 GMT

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has named another temporary director for the District’s troubled crime lab.In a news release Friday, Bower’s office said she has tasked Dr. Francisco Diaz, the District’s current chief medical examiner, with also serving as the interim director of the D.C. Department of Forensic Sciences.Diaz, a former assistant medical examiner in Wayne County, Michigan, has served as D.C.’s chief medical examiner since 2021.The move comes amid a controversial plan to shift the DFS crime scene unit to the D.C. police department — and just a month before the agency planned to apply to have its accreditation to perform forensic testing restored.The agency lost its accreditation two years ago amid a probe into errors and mismanagement, which has halted the processing of DNA, fingerprints and firearms evidence in the District and forced the city to pay private labs to analyze evidence.The leadership move was announced shortly before 5 p.m. Friday. Susana...

Hockey helped Packers’ Van Ness develop into 1st-round pick

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:32:16 GMT

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — The Green Bay Packers hope first-round pick Lukas Van Ness terrorizes quarterbacks the same way he used to intimidate opponents on the hockey rink.Van Ness gravitated to hockey as a child growing up in the Chicago suburb of Barrington, Illinois. Even after football became his primary sport, Van Ness continued playing hockey through his senior year of high school.“Hockey was just a secondary love that I continued to play, again, just because I loved it and I loved the conditioning and the violence and the physicality of the sport,” Van Ness said Friday from the Packers’ rookie minicamp.Van Ness, a lifelong Chicago Blackhawks fan, believes his hockey background made him a better football player.“Hockey is a very fast-paced sport,” Van Ness said. “I’m stick-handling with the puck. I’m looking to make different plays and passes down the ice. It taught me to use my eyes, use my vision, trust in what I’m seeing. My motor. “I have size-17 feet. I was carrying s...

Yankees’ Judge works out, Rodón to get injection

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:32:16 GMT

ST. PETERSBURG. Fla. (AP) — New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge worked out at the team’s minor league complex on Friday in another step in his comeback from a right hip strain.Speaking before New York’s game at Tampa Bay, manager Aaron Boone said Judge hit indoors, ran, threw and did defensive drills at the nearby Tampa facility.Judge is eligible to come off the 10-day injured list on Monday. He is set for another workout on Saturday, and Boone is hopeful Judge will return early next week.Left-hander Carlos Rodón is scheduled to get an injection for his ailing mid-back early next week. Right-hander Luis Severino, sidelined by a right lat strain, pitched in a minor league intrasquad game at Steinbrenner Field in Tampa. He is expected to pitch next for either Double-A Somerset or Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.Center fielder Harrison Bader was in the starting lineup for the Yankees two days after a scary collision with Isiah Kiner-Falefa during Wednesday’s game with...