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Home burglarized while couple sleeps
By the Daily Post staff Palo Alto police are looking for three men who burglarized a home in the Barron Park neighborhood while the homeowners were sleeping. On Saturday night […]
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Police take teen into custody after school shooting threat
By the Daily Post staff A 14-year-old who threatened to “shoot up” Gunn High School has been taken into police custody and sent to a hospital for a mental health […]
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Two arrested for auto burglaries at Stanford Shopping Center
By the Daily Post staff Palo Alto police say they stopped a car with two men inside who had two window punch devices and were able to connect them to […]
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‘Dent repairmen’ accost woman
By the Daily Post staff A woman sitting in her car on Colorado Avenue in Palo Alto’s Midtown neighborhood was accosted by two men who threw her phone across a […]
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Police are writing more tickets
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto police, in a crackdown on speeders and other traffic scofflaws, wrote 40% more traffic tickets in 2018 than the previous year, […]
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City may settle suit accusing police of a botched arrest and Islamophobia
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council on Monday (Aug. 12) will review and possibly approve an out-of-court settlement with a man who alleged the police […]
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Gunman arrested after 29-hour standoff, tear gas used to get him out of house
By the Daily Post staff Palo Alto police used tear gas to arrest a gunman, accused of trying to strangle a woman, following a 29-hour standoff in a home in […]
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UPDATE — Arrest ends standoff with barricaded man
Saturday, 9:50 p.m. — Police said they have taken the man who was barricaded inside a house on Tennessee Lane to a hospital. Police said they will book him into […]
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Video released of Palo Alto police beating — ‘So you think you’re a tough guy?’
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A video showing a Palo Alto police sergeant hitting and slamming a resident of the Buena Vista Mobile Home Park has been released […]
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Raging driver throws coffee and pulls gun
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A man’s cellphone was stolen after he was threatened with a gun and was doused with cold coffee during a road rage incident […]
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Groping on Castilleja Ave. leads to prison
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A man who attempted to sexually assault a woman walking on Castilleja Avenue in Palo Alto has accepted a plea bargain that will […]
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Arrest made in murder at Buena Vista Mobile Home Park
By the Daily Post staff Palo Alto police announced today (June 27) that they have made an arrest in the murder of a resident of the Buena Vista Mobile Home […]
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Woman groped while walking along University Avenue
By the Daily Post staff A woman walking down a residential portion of University Avenue was groped by a man who ran back to his car and drove away, Palo […]
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Webster House nursing assistant arrested for sexual assault of female patient
By the Daily Post staff Palo Alto police this morning (June 13) arrested a nursing assistant at Webster House Medical Center on suspicion of sexually assaulting a female patient at […]
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Man arrested on suspicion of trying to kiss a woman’s derriere
By the Daily Post staff A man was arrested on suspicion of attempted sexual battery after he allegedly chased a woman in downtown Palo Alto telling her that he wanted […]
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Cop’s use of n-word led to investigation that never became public
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto police Capt. Zach Perron was investigated for using a racial slur while speaking to a black officer — and the probe […]
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Two suspects arrested in Palo Alto home invasion robbery
By the Daily Post staff Police in San Jose have arrested the two juveniles suspected of breaking into a Palo Alto home, robbing a woman inside the house and driving […]
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Youths break into house, rob woman and take her car
By the Daily Post staff Palo Alto police are looking for two youths who broke into a Midtown home earlier today (May 21), robbed a woman inside and fled in […]
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Man attacked at Midtown 7-Eleven
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A man attacked someone he knew at the 7-Eleven in Midtown Palo Alto, knocking over packaged food and cosmetics, police and a store […]
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Man extorted after sending sexually explicit video to stranger
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A Palo Alto man was almost extorted out of $300 after he sent a racy video to a stranger he met on Facebook, […]