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Police Hope Social Media Helps Solve Murder
EAST PALO ALTO, Calif. (KCBS)_ San Mateo Police are trying to solve the murder of an East Palo Alto anti-crime activist by using social media. Police are hoping that an old videotaped message from the...
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7 Arrested For Gang-Related Assaults In San Mateo
SAN MATEO (KCBS) – The San Mateo Police Department has arrested 7 suspects in connection with 3 separate violent gang assaults over the past week, authorities said. The series of arrests began last...
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San Mateo Police Arrest SF Man For Kidnapping Schoolgirl
SAN MATEO (CBS/AP) — Police in San Mateo have arrested a San Francisco man on suspicion of kidnapping and assaulting a 9-year-old girl before she escaped. The San Mateo County Times reports Sunday that...
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Suspected Explosive Materials Removed From Park In San Mateo
SAN MATEO (CBS SF) — Emergency crews gave the all clear after three suspicious plastic liter-sized bottles caused an evacuation of a park and nearby homes in San Mateo on Sunday, a police sergeant...
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Burglars Pose As Salesman For East San Mateo Break-In
SAN MATEO (KCBS) – Twelve homes in East San Mateo were burglarized in October by a team that has been knocking on doors during weekdays pretending to be salespeople, police said. The burglars look for...
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San Mateo Police Go Electric With New Patrol Motorcycles
SAN MATEO (KCBS) – The San Mateo Police Department’s latest acquisition, a fully electric patrol motorcycle, is being produced in the Bay Area. The department has partnered with Zero Motorcycles of...
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Pedestrian Killed Hit & Run Crash In San Mateo; Suspect Vehicle Found
SAN MATEO (KCBS) — A pedestrian was killed after being struck in a crash involving two cars on El Camino Real near Highway 92 in San Mateo Monday morning. The San Mateo County coroner’s office...
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San Mateo Police Nab Drunk Suspected Of Soliciting Teen Girls
SAN MATEO (KCBS) – Facebook posts and tweets helped police nab a drunk who propositioned teenage girls on their way to school, San Mateo police said Thursday. The investigation began when a 15-year-old...
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San Mateo Police Now Changing Approach, Treating Prostitutes As Victims
SAN MATEO (KCBS) – The San Mateo Police Department is changing its approach to prostitution, as prostitutes are no longer immediately arrested. “They are no longer considered suspects. We treat them as...
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San Mateo Police Warn Phone Scammers Are Impersonating Officers, Asking For...
SAN MATEO (CBS SF) – Phone scammers are impersonating police in San Mateo and telling residents that they owe money on warrants for their arrest, police said Tuesday. A 65-year-old woman contacted...
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Former San Mateo Police Officer Arrested On Multiple Rape Charges
STOCKTON (CBS SF) — A former police officer who had served with both the San Mateo and Sacramento police departments was arrested Thursday near his Stockton home on nearly two dozen charges including...
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Court Proceedings Delayed For Ex San Mateo Cop Accused Of Multiple Rapes
REDWOOD CITY (CBS SF) — A former Peninsula police officer accused of threatening his rape victims into having sex while he was on duty made his first court appearance Monday. Thirty-one-year-old former...
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Former San Mateo Cop Pleads Not Guilty To Alleged Sexual Assaults
SAN MATEO (CBS SF) — A former San Mateo police officer pleaded not guilty Tuesday to 22 felonies for five alleged sexual assaults while on duty in 2013 and 2015, San Mateo County District Attorney...
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Police Bad Behavior Often Hidden From Public
SAN MATEO (CBS SF) — When Officer Noah Winchester was put on indefinite leave from the San Mateo Police Department last October, the public was left wonder why. Under California law, Chief Susan...
View ArticlePolice Arrest Teen Who Posted Serra High School Shooting Threat On Social Media
SAN MATEO (CBS SF) — San Mateo police announced Monday that they arrested a teenager who posted a threat to shoot up Serra High School on social media last Friday. On Mar. 22 at 5:35 p.m., police...
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Driver Fleeing San Mateo Police Crashes Into Apartment Building
SAN MATEO (CBS SF) – A suspect crashed his vehicle into an apartment building while trying to flee from police in San Mateo on Monday evening, according to police. An officer tried to stop a vehicle...
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Possible Armed Suspect Arrested At Laurelwood Shopping Center
Hillsdale Mall possible armed suspect (Photo: San Mateo Police Dept) SAN MATEO (CBS SF) — San Mateo police arrested a possible armed suspect, who was first reported at the Hillsdale Shopping Center, at...
View ArticleSan Mateo Police Safely End Standoff With Man Described As Suicidal
SAN MATEO (CBS SF) — Almost seven hours of talks by San Mateo police with a man barricaded in an attic concluded successfully Monday. Officers were called to a home in the 100 block of Sycamore Avenue...
View ArticleSan Mateo Police Release Body Cam Video Of Officer Shooting That Injured...
SAN MATEO (CBS SF) — San Mateo police released body cam video of an officer-involved shooting in September that injured two women who are suspected in a series of retail thefts across the Bay Area and...
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Former San Mateo Cop Sentenced To 81 Years In Prison For Multiple Rapes
SAN MATEO (AP) — A former San Mateo and Los Rios Community College police officer convicted of raping five women while on duty was sentenced on Thursday to 81 years to life in prison. Noah Winchester,...
View ArticlePrius Catalytic Converter Thefts On The Rise In San Mateo
SAN MATEO (KPIX 5) – Police in San Mateo are urging car owners to be aware of thieves amid a spike in the number of catalytic converter thefts. According to a statement on the department’s Facebook...
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San Mateo Police Seize 40 Pounds of Meth During Traffic Stop
SAN MATEO (CBS SF) — Police in San Mateo on Friday seized approximately 40 pounds of methamphetamine during a traffic stop. Officers with the San Mateo Police Department conducted the traffic stop at...
View ArticleSan Mateo Police Officer Cleared In Shooting Of Retail Theft Suspects; DA Has...
REDWOOD CITY (CBS SF) — A San Mateo police officer has been cleared of wrongdoing in the non-fatal shooting last year of two retail theft suspects who drove their car toward police vehicles blocking...
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Distracted Driver Crashes Car into Building in San Mateo
SAN MATEO (CBS SF) — A distracted driver with an expired license drove into a building in San Mateo Friday morning. The San Mateo Police Department posted pictures of the crash on Facebook Friday...
View ArticleUPDATE: Love Triangle Is Motive In San Mateo Murder-Suicide; 2 Dead
SAN MATEO (CBS SF) — A person was shot dead in San Mateo Monday over an apparent love triangle, prompting an hours-long standoff with the suspect for several hours until he was discovered dead by a...
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San Mateo Police Chase Of Stolen Vehicle Ends In Crash; 1 Arrested, 2 Others...
SAN MATEO (CBS SF) — Officers arrested one suspect in a stolen vehicle case Wednesday morning following a pursuit that ended in a crash and were searching for at least two more suspects, San Mateo...
View ArticleReport Of Armed, Barricaded Suspect In San Mateo Home Turns Out To Be Fake...
SAN MATEO (CBS SF) — San Mateo police are investigating a “swatting” case after responding Wednesday to a report of a person barricaded inside a home with a gun, only to learn the call was a fake....
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DNA Evidence Leads To Arrest In Grisly San Mateo Rape, Attempted Murder Cold...
SAN MATEO (CBS SF) — A man has been arrested 32 years after a shocking home invasion, rape and attempted murder of a woman in San Mateo after new DNA evidence was obtained in the case, police announced...
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Suspect In Targeted Killing Of Rap Artist In San Mateo Arrested In Oklahoma
BLANCHARD, Oklahoma (CBS SF) — A man suspected in the targeted shooting death of a Bay Area rap artist outside a bank in San Mateo in December was arrested in Oklahoma following what police called a...
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Officer Walks In On Armed Robbery At San Mateo 7-Eleven; 2 Arrested
SAN MATEO (CBS SF) — A suspect was arrested after a police officer walked in on an armed robbery in progress at a convenience store in San Mateo in which the clerk was injured. An accomplice was also...
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2nd Suspect Jailed In San Mateo Murder Of Rap Artist Cutty Banks; Believed To...
SAN MATEO (CBS SF) — A Southern California woman who wrongly believed a Bay Area rap artist was responsible for killing her boyfriend was arrested in connection to the rapper’s murder outside a San...
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San Mateo Burglary Suspect Chased Into Foster City Pond, Arrested Following...
SAN MATEO (BCN) — A suspect driving a stolen car led police on a pursuit Tuesday night that began at a mall parking lot and ended with a 90-minute standoff in a pond, where crisis negotiators talked...
View ArticleMissing San Mateo Teen Mother, Infant Daughter Found Safe
SAN MATEO (BCN) — Police in San Mateo on Thursday reported a missing 16-year-old and her 5-month-old daughter have been located safe and have been reunited with their family. San Mateo police said...
View ArticleSan Mateo Police Officer Spots Stolen Vehicle; Driver Arrested, Cited, Released
SAN MATEO (BCN) — A sharp-eyed patrol officer spotted a passing vehicle reported as stolen Sunday and quickly made an arrest. The K9 officer — who is in charge of the department police dog — was on...
View ArticleSan Mateo Youth Coach Accused Of Illegal Sex Acts With Minor
SAN MATEO (BCN) — San Mateo police have identified a man suspected of committing unlawful sex acts between and adult and a minor. Martin Ivan Pantoja, 25, a youth coach, is suspected of unlawful sexual...
View ArticleMan Found Drowned In San Mateo Near Harborview Park
SAN MATEO (BCN) — A 28-year-old man was found drowned in the water near Harborview Park in San Mateo early Thursday morning, according to police. Officers responded at 1:39 a.m. to a report of a...
View Article2 Arrested After Stolen Vehicle Flees From Police, Crashes In San Mateo
SAN MATEO (CBS SF) — The driver and a passenger inside a stolen vehicle were arrested in a San Mateo neighborhood Tuesday after crashing while trying to elude officers. San Mateo police said officers...
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