Robert Salonga
Criminal Justice and Public Safety Reporter at The Mercury News
Criminal justice, @mercnews. Prior: @eastbaytimes. @UCLA/@merrillcollege. Partial @PulitzerPrizes possessor. [email protected], on Signal, DMs open
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2 days ago |
mercurynews.com | Robert Salonga
Judge Hanley Chew sentenced Ramirez to a term of life in prison with parole eligibility in 25 years, when he would be 103 years old. Karen Stitt, 15, shown in an undated photo, had recently moved from Pennsylvania to Palo Alto when she was stabbed 59 times and left for dead next to a Sunnyvale garden center in 1982. Gary Gene Martinez has been sentenced for her murder in Santa Clara County court.
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2 days ago |
mercurynews.com | Robert Salonga
SAN JOSE — Eight teens, including seven minors, have been arrested after allegedly boxing in a motorist and carjacking them near Communications Hill earlier this year, police said. The attack was reported just after 1 a.m. the morning of Jan. 12, when police officers responded to a carjacking call near Sandpebble and Vistapark drives, according to San Jose police.
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5 days ago |
mercurynews.com | Robert Salonga
SAN JOSE — A pregnant woman died following a car crash on Interstate 280 on Thursday evening, according to the California Highway Patrol. Two children who were also riding with the woman were not injured in the collision, which was reported in the southbound lanes approaching Bird Avenue, the CHP said in a Friday news release.
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1 week ago |
mercurynews.com | Robert Salonga
SAN JOSE — A man accused of stabbing a police officer is likely to face attempted murder charges following a Tuesday morning sequence in which he allegedly threatened a security guard with a machete inside a Target store just outside downtown, authorities said. Eli Scott, 41, of San Jose, was arrested May 6, 2025 on suspicion of stabbing a police officer minutes after he allegedly threatened a Target security guard with a machete, authorities say.
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1 week ago |
mercurynews.com | Robert Salonga
SAN JOSE — A police officer was stabbed in the arm Tuesday morning while arresting a man who minutes earlier had threatened a security guard with a machete, according to the San Jose Police Department. Officers were called at 9:49 a.m. to a business near Coleman Avenue and Taylor Street — about a mile away from police headquarters — for a report of a man who brandished a machete at an armed security guard, police said. The man with the machete reportedly dropped the blade and then ran off.
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