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Mercury News: ‘American Nightmare’ kidnapper Matthew Muller pleads guilty to 2009 home invasions in Santa Clara County
Matthew Muller, whose notorious 2015 kidnapping of a Vallejo woman inspired the Netflix documentary “American Nightmare,” has pleaded guilty in two Santa Clara County home invasions six years earlier, following a renewed investigation spurred by his prison letters to a California police chief.
Mercury News: At-large Mountain View barber now linked to more than two dozen drugged sex assaults
A barber who is currently on the lam after being charged with drugging and sexually assaulting unconscious men has now been tied to two dozen additional cases, and authorities are urging his victims to seek medical attention after confirming he is HIV positive.
Victoria Advocate: Keep yourself and your money safe from these four scams
The holiday season often includes gift-giving to loved ones and charitable causes, but authorities say the threat of scammers seeking to trick victims into giving them large sums of money and personal information persists year-round.
Mercury News: Gilroy: Driver charged with murder in DUI crash that killed pregnant woman
A Mountain View man with four prior DUI convictions has been charged with murder after authorities say his blood-alcohol level was twice the legal limit during a head-on crash on New Year’s Day that killed a pregnant woman and her unborn child, court records show.
Los Angeles Times: Convicted kidnapper highlighted in Netflix’s ‘American Nightmare’ faces new charges
A notorious kidnapper whose 2015 crimes — and the subsequent flawed police investigation — were turned into a Netflix documentary has been charged in two new cases committed years ago in the San Francisco Bay Area.
KTVU Fox 2: Vallejo kidnapper Matthew Muller charged in 15-year-old South Bay attacks
Matthew Muller, the man who abducted Denise Huskins in Vallejo, sparking a case in which police initially accused her of staging her own kidnapping, has now been charged by Santa Clara prosecutors with breaking into women's homes in Palo Alto and Mountain View in 2009 with the intent to rape them.
Mercury News: Ex-sheriff captain sentenced to jail time in Santa Clara County concealed gun permit bribery case
A former Santa Clara County sheriff’s captain has been sentenced to 10 months in jail after he was convicted of bribery earlier this year in connection with a far-reaching corruption scandal over the agency’s issuing of concealed-gun licenses that ultimately took down the previous sheriff administration.
Mercury News: San Jose cold case: Imprisoned man convicted in 1994 kidnapping at Oakridge Mall
A jury this week convicted a man of kidnapping an Oakridge Mall employee more than three decades ago, after a cold-case investigation implicated him through DNA evidence obtained while he was in state prison for an unrelated crime, according to authorities and court records.
San Jose Inside: Santa Clara County Health Officials Take Steps to End Hospitals’ Illegal Disposal of Wastes
Santa Clara County supervisors – and the public – today got their first public explanation from county officials on the explosive revelations a week ago that county-run hospitals had for at least a year illegally dumped medical waste, drugs and patient data into dumpsters.
Los Angeles Times: ‘Pig butchering’ crypto scheme costs San José man $170,000. Scammers wanted even more, prosecutors say
The senior in San José suspected something was amiss when the woman who’d supposedly helped him buy $170,000 worth of cryptocurrency had asked for twice as much money to pay overseas taxes.