Stanford student beaten and robbed by three men
By Diana Samuels
Daily News Staff Writer
Posted: 06/26/2009 09:33:13 AM PDT
Updated: 06/26/2009 10:17:16 AM PDT
A Stanford student was beaten and robbed by three men early Wednesday morning, police said.
The 19-year-old student was walking on the 3600 block of El Camino Real in Palo Alto at about 12:30 a.m., looking for an open store where he could get something to eat, when he was attacked from behind by three men, Palo Alto police Agent Dan Ryan said. The men "kicked him, punched him, knocked him down," and broke his glasses, Ryan said.
"They pulled his pants off him, went through his pockets," Ryan said.
The men took his cell phone and about $10, and then fled in a white four-door car, driven by another man. The student described the assailants as black men in their 20s, ranging from 5 feet 8 inches to 6 feet tall, Ryan said.
— Diana Samuels, Daily News staff writer
Mountain View police search for car burglars
Mountain View police are searching for suspects who broke into or searched through at least 13 vehicles in the same neighborhood early Wednesday morning.
The vehicles were mostly on La Salle and Preston drives, in a residential neighborhood off of Grant Road. Most of the vehicles were unlocked but there was evidence they had been rifled through, police spokeswoman Liz Wylie said. A few had been entered but the vehicles weren't damaged.
"We couldn't find the method of entry," Wylie said. "It wasn't like a window smash."
Miscellaneous items were stolen, she said, including a wallet, radio and sunglasses.
A witness told police she saw at least three Hispanic men in their 20s or 30s trying to break into a car at about 2:30 a.m., Wylie said. The witness said the men left in a white van.
— Diana Samuels, Daily News staff writer
Transient man arrested after police threatened
A transient man was arrested in front of Chevys Fresh Mex in Mountain View this week after he allegedly threatened police with a 4-foot-long bamboo pole with metal hooks.
Corey Baker, 59, who mostly stays in Mountain View, was acting strangely Monday — jumping up and down, lifting his shirt up — in front of the door at Chevys on the 2000 block of El Camino Real, Mountain View police spokeswoman Liz Wylie said.
When police arrived he was uncooperative and walked toward a wheelchair he apparently uses as a storage cart. From the wheelchair, he retrieved a bamboo pole that had two metal hooks taped on it, Wylie said. After police pulled out Tasers, Baker allowed them to arrest him.
Baker was booked into the Santa Clara County Main Jail and charged with a felony count of brandishing a weapon, Wylie said.
— Diana Samuels, Daily News staff writer
Teen pleads no contest in taxi driver's death
A 17-year-old boy pleaded no contest in San Mateo County Superior Court on Thursday to charges of vehicular manslaughter and driving under the influence for causing a crash that killed a taxi driver in 2008.
Juan Carlos Bravo has been in custody in lieu of $1 million bail since the crash on El Camino Real at 31st Avenue in San Mateo around 6:15 a.m. on Oct. 13.
Bravo, who was 16 at the time, was speeding in a Volkswagen Jetta with two passengers when he lost control of the car and slammed into a taxicab, according to San Mateo police.
The taxi driver was pronounced dead at the scene. The two passengers were trapped in the Jetta, which was on fire, and were left in the car as Bravo fled the scene.
San Mateo police officers managed to pull the passengers from the burning vehicle. They were transported to Stanford Hospital, police said.
He pleaded no contest Thursday to one count of vehicular manslaughter, one count of driving while under the influence of alcohol and causing bodily injury with the special allegation that he inflicted great bodily injury, and one count of felony hit and run resulting in injury, according to Assistant District Attorney Morley Pitt.
Bravo is scheduled to be sentenced Sept. 25.
— Laura Dudnick, Bay City News
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