Man robbed at knifepoint by fake rideshare driver, accomplice

A fake rideshare driver and her accomplice convinced a man who had just left a North Beach bar early Thursday to hop in their car, before robbing him at knifepoint.
The 39-year-old man was swindled into entering the car near the intersection of Green Street and Grant Avenue around 2 a.m., police said.
He was approached by a man who talked him into the back seat of a white four-door hybrid sedan, police said. The man got in the front passenger’s seat.
Once the car was moving the thief turned around, pointed a knife at the victim, and demanded property.
After the victim handed over his cash and cell phone, the male thief moved to the back seat and pushed the victim out of the car, which was stopped.
The woman and man then drove away with the victim’s possessions.
No detailed description of the suspects has been released by police.
Police did not name the rideshare company the victim thought he was using. Rideshare companies like Uber and Lyft operate throughout San Francisco.

Stolen car suspect jumps off Bay Bridge evading police

In an apparent daredevil attempt to evade arrest, a woman who wrecked a stolen car on the Bay Bridge early Wednesday fell about 70 feet from the span to the water and got away after pulling out of the grip of a California Highway Patrol officer, authorities said.
The bizarre getaway — reminiscent of a scene from “Mission: Impossible” — unfolded shortly after 2 a.m. when CHP officers heading west on the bridge saw a Nissan Maxima spin out and crash on the eastbound side of the span.
The officers turned around, found the Nissan abandoned and saw three women walking east on the bicycle path adjacent to the bridge.
One of the women, believed to be the driver, began climbing onto the rail and “exhibited erratic behavior,” leading the officers to believe she would jump, CHP officials said. She had on a black dress and no shoes.
One of the officers grabbed her to try to pull her back over the railing. But she struggled, and after a minute and a half, “she pulled out of his grip and fell into the water below,” CHP officials said.
The woman, who is in her mid-20s, splashed in the water about 70 feet below, in between the new bridge and the old eastern span, authorities said.
Some motorists reported seeing a woman, soaking wet, standing on the north side of the bridge near the toll plaza trying to flag down traffic.

A view of the eastern span of the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge on May 18, 2015 in San Francisco, California. After nearly 12 years of construction and an estimated price tag of $6.4 billion, steel supporting the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge continues to be plagued with problems with a recent discovery that one of the steel rods anchoring the Self-Anchored Suspension (SAS) tower has failed an integrity test and is believed to have broken due to corrosion.

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In this file photo motorists travel east and west bound during the Bay Bridge morning commute. Police are searching for a woman who apparently fell or jumped from the Bay Bridge after being involved in a crash on the eastbound decline of the bridge shortly after 2 a.m..

A dump truck driver later showed up at the CHP’s Oakland office, saying he had picked up the woman near the Bay Bridge, but was unaware of her exploits until hearing news reports after he dropped her off at an undisclosed location.
While CHP officials said they were investigating whether the woman deliberately went into the water from the bridge to avoid arrest, they noted that she could have accidentally fallen after losing her grip. Authorities said such a fall is survivable.
Officers deployed a dye pack into the water to mark the location where she went in. CHP officers and the U.S. Coast Guard searched for the woman by boat and by helicopter. The only evidence recovered was identification believed to be the woman’s floating in the water. CHP officials withheld her name but said she is from the East Bay.
Investigators determined that the car that crashed had been reported stolen several weeks ago in Los Angeles, said CHP Officer Vu Williams.
CHP investigators interviewed the two other women who were in the car and released them. The women said they “didn’t know the (driver) too well,” Williams said. Officials would not disclose any further information about their investigation.
“We would like to find her, obviously, most notably because we’d like to make sure that she’s OK,” said CHP Officer Daniel Hill.

S.F. woman, 43, accused of killing teenager she dated

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  A 43-year-old woman pleaded not guilty Friday to shooting and killing an 18-year-old man in San Francisco’s McLaren Park, as authorities revealed that the two had been in a romantic relationship before the alleged attack.
  Silvia Lorena Montoya is charged with one count of murder and three counts of dissuading a witness in connection with the May 31 killing of Jonathan Caballero.
  
  Police responding to reports of shots fired at McLaren Park that morning found Caballero, a Balboa High School student, unconscious and bleeding from at least one gunshot wound on a walking trail off John F. Shelley Drive.
  
  He died at the scene. Investigators spent the next two months gathering evidence that led them to Montoya, police officials said, and she was booked into county jail on July 30.
  
  Authorities have not discussed a possible motive, but prosecutors said Montoya and Caballero had dated. Kwixuan Maloof, a managing attorney in the public defender’s office who is representing Montoya, said Caballero had lived with Montoya at some point.
  
  In court Friday, Montoya stood quietly as Maloof requested the names of the three witnesses she is accused of dissuading. Assistant District Attorney Patrick Mahoney said his office had to ensure the witnesses’ safety before he could identify them to the defense.
  
  Montoya flashed a small wave at two women and a man sitting in the back of the courtroom before she was led back to a holding cell.
  
  The victim’s relatives also attended the hearing, with one woman tearing up as they declined to comment outside court.
  
  Maloof said he could not comment on Montoya’s defense until he received more evidence from the district attorney’s office. But he said statements from witnesses contradicted each other, and that the police report on the homicide made no mention of dissuading witnesses.
  
  Montoya is being held on $10 million bail. She is scheduled to return to court Monday.
  

Hundreds of protesters are marching the streets of Oakland. While officials have not released the identity of the victim, protesters said his name is Joe Bart.
And according to social media reports, there have been reports of some vandalism. Several demonstrators burned a confederate flag while marching the streets.
Protesters had shut down Highway 980 but they have appeared to have cleared off.
But CHP has tweeted for drivers in Oakland to be aware of pedestrians on the roadway.
According to tweets, about 50 people were at Oakland police headquarters, possibly to protest.
This is the city’s 5th officer-involved shooting of the year. The third ending in death.
Police said the suspect’s gun was a stolen, loaded firearm. The suspect in the deadly police shooting advanced towards police when shot. Police said they are reviewing the police body camera footage of the shooting.
Suspect has died at the hospital, according to police.

Oakland police are investigating an officer-involved shooting Wednesday afternoon.
It happened in the area of 27th Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Way, police said. Police did not say if the officers were injured in the gunfire.
An armed robbery suspect was taken to the hospital, according to to police.
Police said at around 2:39 p.m., they found the suspect’s vehicle in the area of 69th Avenue and International Boulevard. Police pursued the vehicle to the area pf 27th and Martin Luther King Jr.
The driver then ran away from the vehicle after hitting another vehicle, and then tried to carjack another vehicle, police said. An Oakland police officer then shot the suspect, who police said was armed.

FBI arrests former teacher in Los Angeles wanted for crimes against children in Fremont in 2001

The FBI has arrested a former school teacher wanted in connection for crimes against children in Fremont 14 years ago.

Authorities arrested 52-year-old Frank Montenegro in Los Angeles Wednesday morning. In 2001, Montenegro was charged with multiple counts of sodomy, oral copulation, and sexual abuse by the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office.
At the time, he had been working as an elementary school teacher. The FBI took over the investigation after Montenegro fled to Mexico.
On Wednesday, the FBI received a tip that he had been living in LA for several years.

Man found dead after apartment explosion has been identified

A man who was found dead inside his West Oakland apartment on Tuesday after an explosion and fire occurred while Alameda County sheriff’s deputies were serving an eviction notice was identified by the county coroner’s bureau today as 45-year-old John Navarre of Oakland.
Alameda County sheriff’s spokesman Sgt. J.D. Nelson said two sheriff’s deputies, who were accompanied by the building’s landlord and a locksmith, were trying to enter the building in the 1400 block of Peralta Street at about 11 a.m. Tuesday when there was an explosion in the rear of the home.
Nelson said the explosion set the home on fire and Oakland firefighters responded to put the fire out. The two deputies suffered moderate injuries and were taken to Highland Hospital.
Nelson wasn’t immediately available today to provide an update on the condition of the deputies.
Navarre was found dead in the rear of a downstairs units at the three-unit apartment building.
No other tenants at the building were injured, but the building sustained an estimated $300,000 in damage and its tenants have had to find alternate housing because it isn’t habitable, Oakland Fire Battalion Chief Erik Logan said today.
Nelson said on Tuesday that it wasn’t clear if Navarre set off the explosion on purpose or if it was an accidental gas explosion.
Logan said Oakland police are leading the investigation into the incident. Police officials weren’t immediately available for comment today.
Phillip, a man who lives across the street from the triplex and declined to give his last name, said on Tuesday that Navarre “was a recluse who kept to himself.” Phillip said, “I never knew he had any problems. He was always nice to me.”
Isiah Forrest, 68, who rents an upstairs unit, said Navarre “was quiet and kept to himself.”
Forrest’s son lives in a second downstairs unit at the building.
The son, who declined to give his name, said on Tuesday that he was mad at Navarre because “he put my family in danger.”
Logan said it took 18 Oakland firefighters to put out the blaze that erupted after the explosion.

San Francisco has 'Instagram cop' to track down criminal activity

While the sheer popularity of Facebook continues to make it the most fruitful social media platform for cops hunting down criminals, Instagram, too, is becoming increasingly useful thanks to its steadily growing pool of users, ne'er-do-wells among them.
In fact, San Francisco Police Department even has its own "Instagram officer," it was revealed recently. Eduard Ochoa is paid to scan the service day in, day out, keeping his eyes peeled for suspicious characters and criminal behavior, or for additional information on people of interest in connection with investigations already underway.

Late last month, an appeals court in California affirmed a firearms conviction that used Instagram photos as evidence.

The defendant, a minor whose Instagram account was named “40glock,” had posted pictures of himself with a gun tucked into his waistband in 2013. Police used these images as the basis to perform a probation search of his house, which led to his conviction.

Though the thought that Instagram photos can be used as evidence in court might not surprise you, the court documents also revealed that the San Francisco Police Department has at least one officer dubbed an “Instagram officer,” who is adept at nabbing criminals on social media.

The following appears in the court’s ruling:

San Francisco Police Officers Dave Johnson and Eduard Ochoa testified that they were on routine patrol on October 21, 2013. Throughout that day, Officer Ochoa scanned Instagram, a social media website, looking for postings. Officer Ochoa was the "Instagram officer” in his department and had been so for three or four years. His training and experience had taught him “how to monitor and track individuals through Instagram.”

A San Francisco Police Department spokesperson told Business Insider that their officers may use all social media sites during the course of their investigations. The spokesperson also revealed that they have specialized training in different types of social media, and that certain officers can be designated by their unit as the “Instagram officer” or “Facebook officer” based on their expertise — though these aren't formal titles.

When asked if the police department was specifically recruiting tech-savvy officers, the spokesperson said it helps if officers have a knowledge and background in tech, though they haven't begun trying to poach engineers from startups quite yet.

The San Francisco Police Officer's Association recently praised the SFPD's Instagram officer, along with several of his cyber-sleuth co-workers, for carrying out an "extremely intensive investigation using the most modern techniques provided by our new electronic age" to locate a recent suspect involved in a shooting in the city. In another case a couple of years ago, the department managed to use Instagram images to match a weapon to a suspect and then track him down using selfies he'd posted.
Facebook, as already mentioned, still provides cops with the most leads when it comes to apprehending individuals for illegal behavior. Often, the culprits bring it upon themselves -- there was, for example, the guy who was arrested shortly after "liking" his own wanted ad, and a woman who was picked up by cops soon after posting a selfie wearing a recently stolen dress. And we mustn't forget the wanted guy who taunted cops on Facebook with a "catch me if you can" message before being arrested the very next day.

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