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 |
pressdemocrat.com | Robert Salonga |Grace Hase |Luis Melecio-Zambrano
MILPITAS — Detentions made by ICE agents waiting for people being released from Santa Clara County’s jail system has raised alarm in recent weeks over the strength of sanctuary policies that have aimed to keep local law enforcement out of immigration enforcement.
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3 days ago |
mercurynews.com | Robert Salonga |Grace Hase |Luis Melecio-Zambrano
MILPITAS — The revelation that people have been detained in recent weeks by waiting ICE agents upon their release from Santa Clara County jails has raised alarm over the strength of sanctuary policies that have aimed to keep local law enforcement out of immigration enforcement.
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3 weeks ago |
mercurynews.com | Robert Salonga
SAN JOSE — Police have arrested two Central Valley men and are looking for a third suspect in connection with a March armed robbery in which a man was reportedly ambushed then shot while his assailants made off with property worth thousands of dollars, authorities said. The shooting was reported March 23 around 2:30 a.m., after a man walking near Phelan Avenue and Monterey Road was approached by three men in a car, who soon after got out and pointed guns at him, according to San Jose police.
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3 weeks ago |
mercurynews.com | Robert Salonga
SAN JOSE — An employee at Casino M8trix has been arrested on allegations that she schemed with her husband to methodically embezzle gaming chips from her workplace to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars, authorities said. San Jose police announced the arrests Wednesday in a news release detailing an investigation prompted by a May 23 call, reporting that a woman working at the gaming business off Airport Parkway had been pocketing chips — then handing them off to her husband to cash out.
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3 weeks ago |
mercurynews.com | Robert Salonga
Derrick Sanderlin near the location where he was shot in the groin with a foam round by a San Jose police officer five years ago during the May 29th George Floyd protest in downtown San Jose, Calif., on Friday, May 23, 2025. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group) Of the settlement amount, $500,000 will go to Derrick Sanderlin and his wife Cayla.
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