Dennis Leffew, the San Jose driver who was recently charged with vehicular manslaughter in the Nov. 6 crash that killed Gavilan College basketball player Andrel Gaines, turned himself in Monday and is being held on a $250,000 bail in the San Mateo County Jail, according to Karen Guidotti, chief deputy with the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office.
Stacy Lonnberg, the 51-year-old Gilroy woman who is charged with murder for allegedly driving drunk and causing a Jan. 14 car accident that killed her husband and daughter, is scheduled to enter a plea on Thursday at the Santa Clara County Superior Court at 2 p.m.
The sentencing of the former San Jose policer officer from Gilroy who pleaded no contest to two counts of unlawful sexual contact with two teen boys is slated for Friday.
A suspected Norteño gang member who escaped murder charges last summer after prosecutors dropped their pursuit of a controversial legal doctrine has been arrested again - this time on warrants for carrying a concealed knife and possession of a controlled substance, police said.
A veteran San Jose police officer from Gilroy charged in August with unlawful sexual contact with two teen boys won't know his trial start date for at least another month, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office.
The Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office has confirmed it will hire longtime San Jose Mercury News crime reporter Sean Webby as its new media coordinator.