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Arraignment for East Bay man accused of killing Cash App founder Bob Lee delayed one week

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:39:22 GMT

The scheduled arraignment Tuesday for Nima Momeni, the man accused of killing Cash App founder Bob Lee in San Francisco after an encounter, was continued to next week.Momeni’s attorney asked for more time to prepare and the arraignment was reset for the afternoon of May 2.Lee, who cofounded the mobile payment service provider Cash App, was stabbed to death in the Rincon Hill neighborhood early on April 4.Authorities have said Momeni, 38, of Emeryville, California, and Lee knew each other and they were in a vehicle shortly before the stabbing.California Secretary of State records indicate that Momeni has been the owner of an IT business. He has been held without bail since his arrest nearly two weeks ago.The district attorney’s office has indicated that the alleged homicide may have been premeditated.“This is a person who was in his vehicle with a kitchen knife,” San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said earlier this month. “That’s not something most of us carry around at a...

Saratoga’s Mountain Winery hosts Grand Tasting of Santa Cruz Mountain wines

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:39:22 GMT

The Grand Tasting of wines of the Santa Cruz Mountains returns to the Mountain Winery in Saratoga this Sunday, April 30, with a VIP tasting beginning at 12:30 p.m. and the Grand Tasting at 1 p.m.This event is the perfect chance to taste pours from relative newcomers Lago Lomita, Madson, Maison Areion, Gali, Roberts Ranch and Sandar & Hem, along with those from rarely open wineries like Clos de La Tech, Naumann Vineyards and La Vida Bella Vineyard. Doon to Earth wines from Ser and Bonny Doon Vineyards will make their debut, and you don’t want to miss their striking new labels, which might look somewhat familiar to longtime Bonny Doon fans.Grand Tasting tickets are $79 at https://winesofthesantacruzmountains.com/events, with VIP tickets at $120 for early entry along with rose and sparkling wines. Library Tasting tickets are $170 for tastes of nicely aged wines from Bargetto Winery, Big Basin Vineyards, Clos de la Tech, Cooper-Garrod Vineyards, House Family Vineyards, Kathryn Kenne...

Arraignment delayed for accused killer of Bob Lee, Nima Momeni

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:39:22 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- The man accused of stabbing Cash App founder Bob Lee to death in the overnight hours of April 4 appeared in court Tuesday morning and had his arraignment continued. Making his second appearance in a San Francisco courtroom, Nima Momeni's lawyer, Paula Canny, asked the judge to continue the arraignment until May 2. The judge agreed to the request. Elon Musk calls violent crime in SF ‘horrific.’ Is it? Momeni's defense said the reason for the request was that they need until the end of the week to review the police report and autopsy on Bob Lee.Momeni, 38, is accused of fatally stabbing Lee with a kitchen knife just off the Embarcadero in San Francisco. Momeni was arrested in his Emeryville home on April 13 and charged with one count of murder. Prosecutors are seeking no bail.Prosecutors said Momeni drove Lee to a dark area, stabbed him and sped off, leaving Lee to die. The motive is still unclear, but officials said that Lee was friends with Momeni's sister....

Flaming Lips, Santigold, Indigo Girls among Stern Grove headliners this summer

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:39:22 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- The lineup for this summer's Stern Grove Festival has officially dropped with The Flaming Lips, Lyle Lovett, Santigold and Indigo Girls among this year's headliners.Now in its 86th year, the Stern Grove Festival is one of the oldest music festivals in the country and will kick off this summer on June 18 with eclectic jazz ensemble, Snarky Puppy and singer/songwriter Isaiah Sharkey. The monthlong (or so) festival will run every consecutive weekend until August 20 with indie rockers The Flaming Lips set to headline "The Big Picnic," which also features Alan Palomo. Family Guy skit pokes fun at Oakland A’s Flooding impacted the meadow where the concert takes place after a broken air valve on a water transmission postponed the 2021 festival's final concert. However, damage was repaired prior to the beginning of the 2022 festival."What makes this news so remarkable is that for three consecutive years, Stern Grove Festival has fought through the pandemic followed...

Arrest warrant issued for Oakland PD officer

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:39:22 GMT

(KRON) -- An arrest warrant has been issued for an Oakland Police Department officer who has been charged with perjury and threatening witnesses, among other things. The officer, Phong Tran, is a 46-year-old man. Tran is wanted on a no-bail warrant.Offenses that officer is wanted for include:Perjury under oathThreatening witnessesDefendant induced participation in crimeBribery of witnessAttempted bribery of witness"Today, the Oakland Police Department was made aware that an arrest warrant was issued for one of our officers," said OPD in an official statement. "The department is fully cooperating with the Alameda County District Attorney's Office."The warrant for Tran's arrest is dated April 24, 2023.

Underground casino ring shut down in San Jose

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:39:22 GMT

(KRON) -- The San Jose Police Department announced multiple arrests of suspects allegedly involved in a criminal organization running several underground casinos in San Jose. Detectives launched the investigation into the operation after community members began complaining.On April 20, SJPD executed seven search warrants at various locations including six in San Jose and one in Los Banos, officials said. Bob Lee’s accused killer has checkered past Locations in San José included:• 2000 block of Whittington Drive• 1000 block of Commercial Court• 400 block of East Williams Street• 200 block of Prairiewood Court• 3000 block of Capewood Lane• 1800 block of Harbor View AvenueThe seventh location was on the 21000 block of Ingomar Grade in Los Baños.Detectives identified Chuong Ho, 43, of San Jose, as the mastermind behind the operation and arrested him for various felony charges. Aside from Ho, several others were also arrested for their alleged involvement, police said.Police said the u...

With Pentagon Leak, the Press Had Their Source and Ate Him Too

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:39:22 GMT

Members of law enforcement assemble near the home of Air National Guard member Jack Teixeira on April 13, 2023, in Dighton, Mass.Photo: Steven Senne/APTracing the concept of homo sacer from antiquity to modern life, philosopher Giorgio Agamben cites the ancient Roman lexicographer Festus, who defined the term as someone “whom the people have judged on account of a crime. It is not permitted to sacrifice this man, yet he who kills him will not be condemned for homicide.” Homo sacer is thus an outlaw who is free to be pursued by vigilante lynch mobs but who, crucially, cannot be martyred. The mass media’s treatment of the alleged Pentagon leaker appears to have taken this conceit to heart, codifying him as a justifiable target for persecution, to be “tracked” and “hunt[ed] down.”Over and over, the mainstream press has employed a rhetoric of exclusion, stripping the leaker bare of any protections that might be afforded to a whistleblower. He is not, they tell us ad nauseum, an Edward S...

México: enfrentamiento entre el Ejército y sicarios del narco deja al menos siete muertos

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:39:22 GMT

MORELIA – Un enfrentamiento a balazos entre militares del Ejército mexicano y un grupo de sicarios del narcotráfico dejó este lunes un saldo de siete muertos y seis detenidos, en una zona boscosa del estado mexicano de Michoacán, oeste del país.Información de la XXI Zona Militar, con sede en la ciudad de Morelia, capital de Michoacán, precisó que el enfrentamiento ocurrió este lunes en una zona rural del poblado denominado como Tacario, en el municipio de Hidalgo.El grupo de sicarios se desplazaba en al menos tres vehículos, sobre un camino de terracería, donde se encontró con un convoy militar que realizaba operaciones contra el crimen organizado. México: lo golpean a batazos y lo queman vivo por robar dos plantas de brócoli México: protestan con un cadáver ante una fiscalía por la falta de respuestas En el enfrentamiento, un militar fue asesinado y otro más resultó herido, mientras que seis civiles armados fueron abatidos ...

Alton Maddox, lawyer in Tawana Brawley hoax case, dead at 77

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:39:22 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Civil rights lawyer Alton Maddox Jr., who represented victims of several notorious racist attacks in New York in the 1980s, has died. He was 77.Maddox died Sunday in a Bronx nursing home, funeral director Isaiah Owens said.Maddox represented Tawana Brawley, a Black teenager who claimed that a group of white men had abducted and raped her in 1987. A grand jury determined that Brawley’s story was a hoax, and former prosecutor Steven Pagones sued Maddox, fellow attorney C. Vernon Mason and the Rev. Al Sharpton for defamation for accusing him of taking part in the alleged attack.A jury ruled in 1998 that the three men had defamed Pagones and ordered them to pay $345,000.Maddox also represented Cedric Sandiford, one of three Black men who were accosted and chased by a group of white men in the Queens neighborhood of Howard Beach in 1986, as well as the family of Michael Griffith, who died after he was struck by a car during the Howard Beach attack.Maddox and other a...

Cale Makar suspended 1 game for hit on Jared McCann

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:39:22 GMT

SEATTLE (KDVR) -- Colorado Avalanche defenseman Cale Makar will miss Wednesday's game 5 matchup against the Seattle Kraken after being suspended by the league.Makar was suspended for hitting Kraken forward Jared McCann about halfway through the first period. Full Colorado Avalanche Stanley Cup Playoffs coverage After a shot by McCann, the puck was knocked up and out of play. Initially, Makar seemed to put a hand out to steady himself against McCann, but as the two men skated toward the corner Makar shoulder checks McCann into the boards.After the game, Makar said he didn't know the puck was out of bounds when he made the hit.“It’s unfortunate. I never want to injure guys. Hopefully he’s all right,” Makar said after the game. “I didn’t feel like I tried to finish him that hard, but I feel like if I was in that scenario they would have done the exact same thing. I’m not trying to hurt anybody.”According to a video posted by the NHL's Department of Player Safety, there were three fa...