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The Police Blotter highlights a partial list of incidents in the city and is distributed on a weekly basis. The Blotter provides the date, time, approximate location, a narrative summary of the incident, case number and the most serious arrest charge. Meanwhile, the Arrest Log provides a timely, chronological summary of all the arrests made … Read more
The Police Blotter highlights a partial list of incidents in the city and is distributed on a weekly basis. The Blotter provides the date, time, approximate location, a narrative summary of the incident, case number and the most serious arrest charge. Meanwhile, the Arrest Log provides a timely, chronological summary of all the arrests made by … Read more
In the national conversation about reforming local police agencies, a central topic is the role played by law enforcement unions in blocking reform and diverting resources to ever-growing police department budgets. Four years ago, Santa Clara’s developer-funded police union PAC became the biggest single spender in City politics, increasing its political spending by 2,500 percent … Read more
The Police Blotter highlights a partial list of incidents in the city and is distributed on a weekly basis. The Blotter provides the date, time, approximate location, a narrative summary of the incident, case number and the most serious arrest charge. Meanwhile, the Arrest Log provides a timely, chronological summary of all the arrests made … Read more
The Police Blotter highlights a partial list of incidents in the city and is distributed on a weekly basis. The Blotter provides the date, time, approximate location, a narrative summary of the incident, case number and the most serious arrest charge. Meanwhile, the Arrest Log provides a timely, chronological summary of all the arrests made … Read more
The Santa Clara District Attorney has declined to file charges against local blogger Robert Haugh because of “insufficiency of evidence,” District Attorney PIO Sean Webby told The Weekly Monday. But with Webby away last week, it took the DA’s office four days to correctly answer a direct question about the status of the case, which … Read more
A full day after The Weekly reported on Robert Haugh’s sexual assault arrest, Haugh’s attorney Chuck Smith returned The Weekly’s unanswered Friday phone call, saying that the case against Haugh was rejected by the District Attorney’s office. The Weekly has sought clarification from the DA, but has not received an answer at of this writing. … Read more
Santa Clara police have arrested blogger Robert — “Butch” — Haugh, charging him with “sexual penetration with a foreign object,” according to the arrest log. Haugh could not be reached for comment. [arrest log] If convicted, Haugh faces up to 10 years in state prison. No hearing has been scheduled as of this writing. Haugh … Read more
The Police Blotter highlights a partial list of incidents in the city and is distributed on a weekly basis. The Blotter provides the date, time, approximate location, a narrative summary of the incident, case number and the most serious arrest charge. Meanwhile, the Arrest Log provides a timely, chronological summary of all the arrests made … Read more
In June, Santa Clara reorganized its police department command staff, adding an additional assistant police chief to the budget and leaving one of the four captains’ positions vacant. Longtime Santa Clara Police Department (SCPD) veterans Captains Wahid Kazem and Derek Rush were promoted to the assistant chief positions. Sources close to City Hall, who aren’t … Read more