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#vandalism

A man was charged with four felonies for allegedly smashing the windshields of four different vehicles with bricks and rocks, court records show. The 44-year-old Pleasanton man was charged with four counts of vandalism in connection with the Jan. 14 incident. Police say they received reports of a man throwing bricks at cars around 4:40 p.m. that day, on the 1800 block of Santa Rita Road.

Shoplifting: An employee at Safeway in the Argonaut Center on Saratoga-Sunnyvale Road reported the suspect entered the store about three months prior and stole merchandise valued at approximately $131. Jan. 13 Attempted residential burglary: At 11:45 a.m., two suspects broke a window and attempted to gain access to a residence in the 20000 block of Miljevich Drive but fled the scene when they saw the victim in the home.

"When homophobia runs out of ideas," text over the video showing the front windows covered in the contents of eggs read. "Our gay shop's been egged," Claire says in a sarcastic tone. "Eggs are expensive! Throwing one at a shop window is a choice, and if your enemy is a shop window you're already losing," she adds in a patronising manner. "Anyway, we're still extremely gay - come on in," she concludes, opening the door unfazed.

The request follows bakery staff posting security footage of the Dec. 17 confrontation and assault and encouraging tipsters to contact the San Jose Police Department with information that could lead to the man, pleading with viewers to help us find him. Around 2:20 p.m. on the day of the crime, the man entered the Alum Rock Avenue shop a San Jose institution for nearly a century and solicited staff to buy cleaning wipes he was carrying with him.

Your cooperation is vital in helping us identify and apprehend those responsible for jeopardizing the safety and holiday spirit of our community.

May Sun stood on Wilshire Boulevard in Koreatown on Tuesday morning, looking through the fence at the memorial she and another artist designed to honor Robert F. Kennedy near the site of his 1968 assassination. Graffiti smeared the monument. Scattered trash included a potato chip bag, a smashed beer bottle and a sneaker. Weeds poked up from neglected garden beds and dozens of orange sandbags sat on ledges and columns, for no apparent reason.

True Brading, 26, admitted to assault on a police officer and will spend 30 days in jail and 120 days on house arrest. Brading was driving as Yahyaa ran from police and ran over Officer Dan Pojanamat's foot during their escape. Yahyaa and Brading were tracked down and arrested in Berkeley later that week. The couple signed the plea deal with Deputy District Attorney William Bobseine on Oct. 27 and will be formally sentenced at the Palo Alto Courthouse on Dec. 17.

District employees discovered the damage around 10:45 a.m. Sunday and reported it to police. Officers said the vandalism spanned multiple areas including the gym, boys' and girls' locker rooms, weight room, wrestling room and stage and involved a broken skylight, torn curtains, a damaged TV and other destruction. Slater Middle School closed in June after the 2024-25 school year.

Marin County sheriff's deputies arrested a Bolinas woman for allegedly stealing a neighbor's dog and then attacking the pet and its owner during an argument. The incident began late Monday night when the dog owner left his pet at his residence in Bolinas. A witness called him about a woman entering the home and removing the dog, sheriff's Lt. Brennan Collins said. The dog owner spotted a driver with his dog in her vehicle in downtown Bolinas.

Toronto police are investigating vandalism at a north end synagogue in what its rabbi says is the 10th such incident over the past year and a half. Police say officers responded to reports of smashed windows at the Kehillat Shaarei Torah temple on Bayview Avenue early this morning. Officers arrived to find four of the synagogue's windows smashed. Police describe the suspect as being in their late teens to early 20s with a thin build, short dark hair and wearing dark clothing.

A mural of Trent Alexander-Arnold has been vandalised as the Real Madrid right-back prepares to face former club Liverpool on Tuesday. Some fans booed the Liverpool academy product in May after he announced he would leave his hometown club when his contract expired in June. The 27-year-old joined Real Madrid, who were then handed an away game with Liverpool in the league phase of this season's Champions League. The mural of the England defender was unveiled near Anfield after Liverpool became European champions in 2019, and was also vandalised earlier this year, with the word 'Rat' daubed on it.

A number of Allianz offices across Europe and Asia were vandalised in the past 24 hours in a coordinated wave of actions that campaigners say coincided with the renewal of Allianz's alleged insurance contract with the Israeli defence firm Elbit Systems and the anniversary of the 1917 Balfour Declaration. Sources have said that Allianz Ireland has no relationship with Elbit.

When asked backstage what Waymo is doing to change the perception of its vehicles, Mawakana pointed to the company's push to put local artists' designs on some cars as part of a broader effort to "make the fleet more a part of the community." But while Waymo often pushes back on surveillance requests, she said the company has to "continue to work with first responders to help us address this challenge" of vandalism.

The Paris criminal court gave two-year sentences to Georgi Filipov and Kiril Milushev, described as the perpetrators, and four years and three years respectively to Nikolay Ivanov and Mircho Angelov, considered the operation's masterminds. Angelov is still at large. All four were also banned from entering French territory for life. The trial was the first of its kind in France, one of a series of similar crimes suspected of having been orchestrated by a foreign power with the aim to destabilise.

Wikipedia is one of those rare digital miracles that feels like it live up to the vast promise of the web: a vast online encyclopedia, written and maintained by millions of volunteers across the world, in arguably the most extraordinary single repository of knowledge in human history. But of course, because any unverified user can edit Wikipedia, it's often become subject to vandalism.

Harrison Grant Randall, 40, was charged in March with six felony counts of defacing property. He was accused of tagging the Teslas with stickers of Elon Musk, the automaker's billionaire CEO who worked closely with President Donald Trump earlier this year. He was arrested by Brookline police after several Tesla drivers reported acts of vandalism, including one driver who sent in a video of them confronting Randall.

VEHICLE ACCIDENT: 2:51 p.m. at Los Gatos-Saratoga Road and North Santa Cruz Avenue. In the morning of Oct. 11, a gold Toyota sedan hit a black Audi Q5. The parties exchanged info, but the man driving the sedan had an insurance card that was issued to another car, not the car involved in the crash. The Audi driver said she has neck pain, but the other driver did not report to his insurance. The woman's insurance company told her to file a police report.

Downtown Willow Glen, a small strip of shops along Lincoln Avenue, has experienced about 30 reports of vandalism and theft since June, according to San Jose Police Department data. Some of those incidents included more serious burglaries. The data includes two incidents at Icicles and Ume Tea early this month, or a break-in at Sushi Arashi last month. Those numbers pale in comparison to other areas like Santa Clara Street in downtown San Jose, with about 70 reports of break-ins and thefts between North Almaden Boulevard and South Eighth Street in the same time frame.

The bronze statue of Margaret Thatcher by the sculptor Douglas Jennings has a rating of 2.8 out of five on Google Maps. Although curiously, none of the reviewers seems to have overly preoccupied themselves with the quality of the craftsmanship or the fidelity of the likeness. One of the most important PMs this country ever had, writes one. It's a public toilet but there's nowhere to wash your hands, writes another.