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"This is what happens every year, is that a ton of cars come," Wade said. "It's just kind of a nightmare. It's one of the times that we're strictly enforcing the no-parking policies ... so we're out there writing tickets."
Each citation costs the vehicle owner $38, Wade said, adding that he was not aware of any vehicles that were towed.
A 21-year-old man suspected of at least two armed street robberies in Palo Alto could face a "three strikes" sentence that could put him behind bars for life if convicted, a Santa Clara County prosecutor said Friday (Jan. 7).
Vilivuni Fono of East Palo Alto faces two robbery charges -- one felony charge each for hold-ups of residents on Oct. 27 and Nov. 5 2010, Deputy District Attorney James Demertzis said. Fono is being held on $100,000 bail in Santa Clara County Main Jail in San Jose.
Court documents show that Fono was previously convicted when a juvenile of carjacking and making criminal threats, both felonies.
The U.S. Supreme Court in April 2010 upheld the authority of California judges to count felony convictions of juveniles as strikes when determining if an adult felon should be sentenced to life in prison.
In California, if the adult was convicted of a serious or violent crime when 16 or 17 it can be considered a strike.
Fono and another as-yet-unidentified male allegedly approached a man as he was entering his Fulton Street apartment complex on Oct. 27. One of the men is alleged to have pulled out a small-caliber handgun and pointed it at the victim's stomach.
The two men allegedly robbed the victim in the complex's lobby, taking his iPad, a gold and jade necklace, a messenger bag, wallet and earphones, police reported. The victim identified Fono as the gunman in a photo lineup, according to the police report.
During the Nov. 5 robbery, Fono and a 16-year-old juvenile male allegedly approached a man on Forest Avenue near downtown Pslo Alto. They allegedly took the man's wallet after pointing a gun at the victim and pistol-whipping him.
The victim sustained a swollen black eye. He later identified the juvenile suspect as the one who held the gun and pistol-whipped him, according to the police report.
The juvenile has admitted his part in the Nov. 5 robbery, according to a police report. He led police to a black replica 6 mm Airsoft Desert Eagle pistol hidden outside his family home, the report stated.
Fono's girlfriend, Ana Loiloi Umufuke, 24, also of East Palo Alto, is charged with one count of robbery -- she was arrested Nov. 23.
She has admitted to being the driver of the getaway car, a red 2003 Dodge Durango, according to police reports. Umufuke has denied she knew what the two males were doing, officers wrote.
Fono is scheduled to appear in court in Palo Alto on Jan. 14; Umufuke is scheduled to appear on Jan. 26.
THIS, hopefully is the "deterrent" part of Punishment that has never come to light. Perhaps finally, now it will.
It seems as if we have created so many criminal and anti-social people in society and the world these days that those who are or want strive to be good are so overwhelmed by having to deal with them in so many ways.
I think there are certain things that when people do they show that they are not fit to live among civilized people. Like the guy who kidnaped and raped and then slammed that girls head against the concrete in Palo Alto ... it is a insult to all people to allow these people multiple chances in society.
Harsh as that may seem, and I know there is no good way to measure it or determine sometimes, but there are some you just know when you read about.
I don't think it is unreasonable to characterize someone who decides that a lifestyle of robbing other people by threatening them with violence, injury and possibly death as not fit to live with human beings in the world. I don't believe in solitary confinement or inhumane conditions, but such people should be put in a safe clean minimal environment and given chances to do something positive, but the rest of us need to always consider such people will sometimes anything to get another chance to express their evil in the world.
Sorry to hear that you threw your life away. You had a second chance, way back when, lots of people saw to that. I really believed in you and thought you would make something of yourself. Guess I was wrong, in the biggest way. Robbing people? Really? Who gave you the stupid pills and when? DId you ever picture any of us who cared about you as you were terrifying people and stealing their belongings? Did it ever occur to you that you were hurting people? I remember the sweet boy with a big smile, but he's gone, replaced by a thug in a mug shot. People will hear your name now and think "Thank God they got that creep off the streets." If there is a shred of the old you left, do your family a favor and try to let the little ones know that following in your footsteps will only lead to life in prison.
A quick thank you to "Maya, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood" for such a thoughtful and sincere comment.
A two-alarm blaze that displaced up to 120 people in East Palo Alto caused more than $320,000 in damage, fire investigators said.
The April 28 fire at an apartment complex at 1 Newell Court was not intentionally set, Fire Chief Harold Schapelhouman said Monday (May 16). The fire caused $300,000 in structural damage and at least $20,000 in loss of personal property, he said.
Due to smoke, heat and fire damage, the blaze razed one third-floor unit and portions of the hallway. Investigators said the fire was accidental and was caused either by a malfunctioning wall heater or combustible items stored near the heater.
The fire broke out at about 6:05 p.m. in the three-story complex. An 18-year-old woman had been working on her computer in the apartment she shared with her mother when the fire broke out. One of the apartment's newly installed smoke detectors alerted her to the fire, according to the Menlo Park Fire Protection District.
The daughter found the fire burning against the bedroom wall and quickly woke her mother, who was sleeping in the room. Both were able to safely escape.
Firefighters had relatively good access to the structure and were able to aggressively stamp out the flames because the unit where the fire started was located on the complex's top story and was adjacent to West Bayshore Road, Schapelhouman said. The complex was not equipped with a sprinkler system.
Amber Lane (3) scored 12 points and had nine assists as the Menlo College women's basketball team opened Cal Pac Conference play with an 82-67 win over La Sierra on Friday. Photo by Brian Byllesby/menlooakssports.com
Laurel Donnenwirth scored 20 points, leading five players in double figure scoring as the NAIA's 13th-ranked Menlo College women's basketball team opened the Cal Pac Conference season with an 82-67 victory over host La Sierra on Friday.
Amber Lane fell an assist short of a double-double. She scored 12 points and recorded nine assists as the Oaks (1-0, 12-3) won their 27th consecutive regular seasons conference contest.
Vanessa D'Amico and Aaliyah Sowards each added 15 points and Jacki Bateman had 11, including a jumper that tied the game at 11 four minutes into the contest.
Bateman's jumper was part of a 7-0 run that put Menlo ahead to stay. D'Amico followed with one of her three 3-pointers.
The Oaks scored the final 10 points of the first half to take a 40-28 at halftime. The Golden Eagles were scoreless over the final 3:26 of the half, missing their last four shots.
Menlo shot 53 percent from the field and held La Sierra to 36 percent shooting. Donnenwirth and Bateman each grabbed seven rebounds as the Oaks outrebounded La Sierra, 43-32.
Jordan Collier had 10 points and 10 rebounds but Menlo College fell behind early and never recovered, losing to host La Sierra, 76-67, in the Cal Pac Conference men's basketball opener on Friday.
The Oaks (0-1, 1-14) conclude a two-game road trip with a nonconference game at CSU San Marcos on Saturday at 3 p.m.
The Golden Eagles went on an 8-0 run to start the game and never trailed despite Menlo's best efforts. La Sierra shot 46 percent from the field, while Menlo was at 32 percent.
The Oaks drew within five when Tyler Evans hit a 3-pointer with 15 seconds remaining, but La Sierra made its free throws down the stretch.
Joe Lonsdale, the co-founder of Palo Alto software company Palantir and a partner at the venture capital firm Formation 8, has been accused of sexual assault, sexual harassment, and other charges in a civil lawsuit filed on Jan. 27 in San Francisco.
Elise Clougherty, whom the lawsuit describes as a former Formation 8 intern and resident of Vienna, Virginia, is named as the plaintiff.
According to the lawsuit, Clougherty and Lonsdale began a romantic relationship in February 2012 after becoming connected in the High Technology Entrepreneurship program at Stanford University, where Clougherty was an undergraduate. Lonsdale is a Stanford alumnus.
The lawsuit alleges that the relationship became abusive after Lonsdale "continuously and systemically subjected Ms. Clougherty to repeated and incessant sexual assaults and abuse, employing psychological manipulation and coercion in order to confuse, isolate, and otherwise disorient Ms. Clougherty from appreciating the true danger of her situation," the complaint claims.
As a result, Clougherty became "damaged and injured physically, emotionally, and financially," and suffered from "pain, anxiety, depression, severe emotional distress, embarrassment, ridicule, and PTSD, as well as loss of health, future relationships, income, employment, and future career benefits and earning potential," the lawsuit reads.
In February 2013, Clougherty and her family reported Lonsdale's actions to Stanford, and the university retained an outside investigator to look into the allegations, according to the lawsuit. The outside investigator found that Lonsdale had "engaged in conduct meeting the definitions of sexual harassment and sexual misconduct under Stanford's Title IX policy, and that it was 'more likely than not that (Ms. Clougherty) expressed to (Mr. Lonsdale) that she did not want to engage in the sexual conduct in question, but that (Mr. Lonsdale) did not comply with (her) request,'" according to the lawsuit.
As a result of the investigation, Stanford banned Lonsdale from the Stanford campus for a minimum of 10 years, according to the lawsuit.
"The lawsuit is a vile collection of lies and a transparent attempt to destroy the reputation and good name of Joe Lonsdale," Kristen Dumont, Lonsdale's lawyer, wrote in a statement to technology-news website TechCrunch. "For nearly two years, Mr. Lonsdale has been eagerly waiting to tell the truth and to fight these defamatory and outlandish allegations. Sunlight is always the best disinfectant and we welcome this fight and our day in court, where facts trump fiction."
Clougherty, who is represented by Hutchinson Black and Cook in Boulder, L. Lin Wood in Atlanta, and the Liu Law Firm in San Francisco, is seeking a jury trial and monetary damages of at least $75,000.
The lawsuit does not involve Stanford University, said Lisa Lapin, associate vice president for university communications. And with respect to the university investigation, federal privacy laws prohibit the university from commenting on the situation, but Lapin said, "Generally ... when the university conducts any investigation, our process allows both parties an opportunity to be heard and to present relevant evidence. In all cases, we endeavor to be fair to both sides."
Thank you to Clougherty and her family for speaking out. This brave action will make academia and the technology industry a safer place for women.
"Clougherty, who is represented by Hutchinson Black and Cook in Boulder, L. Lin Wood in Atlanta, and the Liu Law Firm in San Francisco, is seeking a jury trial and monetary damages of at least $75,000."
If all the accusations are true then Ms. Clougherty should be seeking monetary damages worthy of her education, employment history and earning power. She is quite young and has a whole life in front of her that she will undoubtedly need therapy [portion removed.] Psychologists have researched and determined that PTSD is far worse for sexual harrassment/rape victims than military combat or drone fighters.
There is a lot of unseemly things swirling around this nexus... but if I get specific, I will be censored.
@worth noting -- the PA Online story did not really miss it. In the middle of the full article is a link to Lonsdale's statement, wherein your cited link is a sub-link. As you say, the truth is opaque at this point. Objectivity is likely to be in short supply.
The Stanford Daily Web Link is often a good primary source for news related to the university. Their online article contains the full 27-page Complaint for Damages and Demand for Jury Trial.
Warning: R-rated material, probably what @Palin alluded to above as censorable. TMI as texters say in shorthand. If this does go to trial, it will be interesting to see how the media handle the testimony.
Sorry, missed that on my first read, but I had read the Stanford Daily story, so had noticed the link.
The girls from the Stanford Water Polo Club will take plenty of valuable game experience from the 2015 National Junior Olympics. What the program won't bring home from Orange County, however, is a medal.
Despite some solid efforts on the third of four days of the world's largest water polo tournament, the Stanford WPC girls will come home empty-handed in terms of medals.
In the 18U Championhip bracket, the Stanford A squad split its matches on Saturday at Capistrano Valley High -- defeating Foothill Red A in a shootout and losing to Elite, also in a shootout. Stanford (4-3) will play Huntington Beach Orange A on Sunday for 15th place in the Platinum Division.
The Stanford 18U B squad also split on Saturday, losing to SHAQ A in a shootout before topping Oregon Empire Water Polo by 7-2 at Saddleback College. The B team (2-4) plays for 17th in the Gold Division on Sunday at 1:40 at Saddleback College.
In the 16U Championship bracket, Stanford A dropped a pair of matches at UC Irvine -- a 9-6 decision to Rose Bowl Red A and a 6-5 decision to Diablo Black A. Stanford will face SOCAL Gold B for 11th place in the Platinum Division on Sunday.
In the 16U Classic Division, Stanford B (4-4) fell to Diablo Red B, 6-4, and then was edged by CHAWP Blue B, 7-6, to conclude its tournament at Tustin High.
The Stanford 14U B team split on Saturday at Ocean View High, topping the Santa Clara Swim Club, 6-3, before losing to Viper Pigeon, 12-4. Stanford (1-5) will play Puget Sound Polo on Sunday with no place at stake.
In the 10U Co-Ed Division, Stanford fell to South Bay United WP, 12-2, before beating Admiral Water Polo Foundation, 5-3, and Laguna Beach B, 9-6, at Woodbridge High. Stanford (2-4) will play Irvine Kahuna on Sunday for seventh place in the Gold Division.
Menlo Park fell to American River, 6-3, and to Bakersfield Water Polo Club, 4-2, at El Toro High to drop to 1-5. Menlo Park will wrap up its tourney on Sunday by playing United.
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