MARTINEZ — A 21-year-old local resident has agreed to serve the next 31 years behind bars for killing a DoorDash driver in 2021, as part of a plea agreement with Contra Costa prosecutors, authorities said. Dylan Baker, of Martinez, was just 18 when he shot and killed 25-year-old Concord resident Stacy Corley, in what police … Read more
DANVILLE — For a recent 11-day span, police investigators posed as a 13-year-old on various social media and dating apps. By the 11th day, six different Bay Area residents — including a high school teacher — had been arrested after allegedly showing up to a pre-arranged location in Danville for a sexual encounter with the … Read more
MARTINEZ — An appeals court has overturned murder convictions for two East Bay men, citing a Contra Costa judge’s remarks at the 2020 trial that he’d allow the prosecutor to excuse her third prospective Filipino juror but wouldn’t accept her rationale for a fourth. The defendants, 30-year-old Christova Topete and 36-year-old Sam Nazareta, were convicted … Read more
MARTINEZ — An Oakley officer was justified in killing a man who’d fired at police several times during an armed standoff, the Contra Costa District Attorney ruled. The DA’s decision, announced Friday, was unsurprising in light of circumstances surrounding the the Aug. 25, 2022 death of 58-year-old Frank Correa. Called to the home for a … Read more
MARTINEZ — A 34-year-old man has been sentenced to three years in prison as part of a plea deal to settle human trafficking and child molestation charges against him, court records show. Francisco “Pancho” Perea-Parra, of Bay Point, was sentenced to three years in prison after pleading no contest to a sex abuse charge. In … Read more