Thursday, May 17, 2012
Check through the log to find out what happened in your neighborhood.
Wednesday, May 17 3:22 p.m. Rudolfo Gonzalez, 24, of Petaluma, was arrested at 1040 San Francisco Way for felony possession of a controlled substance, possession of stolen property and paraphernalia. He was booked at Sonoma County Jail. 10:10 p.m. John Lowery, 20, of Cotati, was arrested at the intersection of Alison Avenue and Commerce Boulevard for public intoxication. He was booked at Sonoma County Jail. Tuesday, May 16 9:50 p.m. Donna Maki, 46, of Rohert Park, was arrested at 475 Rohnert Park Expressway for shoplifting and on an outstanding warrant. He was booked at Sonoma County Jail. Monday, May 15 1:05 a.m. Ronald Cahill, 52, of Santa Rosa, was cited at 5965 Labath Ave. for illegally using tear gas. 2:29 p.m. A juvenile, 17, was …
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
The SUV was found in San Francisco last week, days after Dennis Hughes fled Rohnert Park after killing his mother with a baseball bat. The vehicle belonged to Dianne Hughes.
Details are emerging in the bizarre killing of Dianne Hughes, who was beaten to death with a baseball bat last week in her home on Bernice Avenue. Her son, Dennis, who was 41, killed her over alleged family tension. Police said early Wednesday that they discovered black gun powder, packed into a Band-Aid tin, a fuse and some gasoline in the back of the white Toyota Highlander, which went missing last Tuesday shortly after police discovered the body of Dianne Hughes, 66, in a pool of blood on her living room floor. It was the missing vehicle that first led family members to call police last Tuesday, according to details from police released over the last week. Lt. Jeff Taylor said the Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety and the San …
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
CHP made arrests over the weekend.
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Tuesday, May 15
The California Highway Patrol in Sonoma County made four arrests for driving under the influence during the weekend, several involving repeat offenders. The first arrest came on Friday at 8:50 p.m. when a CHP officer encountered a speeding Toyota 4Runner on southbound U.S. Highway 101 near Golf Course Drive. The Toyota was allegedly traveling at 90 mph in a construction zone, and as the officer's car approached it, its speed increased to 100 mph. Eventually, the driver exited at state Highway 116 and the officer pulled it over. The driver, identified as Katherine Russell, 34, of Rohnert Park, told the officer she was speeding because she was late to her child's birthday party. The officer arrested Russell on suspicion of driving under the …
Monday, May 14, 2012
A Rohnert Park family suffered a distracted driving tragedy in December 2010, when 2-year-old Calli Murray was hit and killed by Kaitlyn Dunaway, who was texting and driving near Sunrise Park.
A band of Rohnert Park residents have been calling for drivers to put down their phones and pay attention to the road for the last two years, and now law enforcement here and throughout the Bay Area seem to be paying attention. Distracted driving is the problem, and that's what led to the death of 2-year-old Calli Murray in December 2010, when Kaitlyn Dunaway ran over the toddler and her mother in the early evening hours as they left Sunrise Park and attempted to walk across the street in a crosswalk. According to data released Friday, cell phone calls, texts and other distractions on the road earned nearly 6,000 Bay Area motorists citations from the California Highway Patrol in April. And, the Associated Press has reported that 30,000 …
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Dennis Hughes lived with his mother Dianne on Bernice Avenue. He killed her by beating her with a baseball bat, police said this week.
Rohnert Park police are awaiting autopsy and toxicology results from the body of Dennis Hughes, 41, who was shot and killed by police this week after he bludgeoned his mother to death with a baseball bat in her quiet B Section home. The body of Dianne Hughes, surrounded in a pool of her own blood, was discovered hunched over on her living room floor by police Tuesday afternoon, after family members made repeated calls to authorities asking they check on her. Her white SUV was missing and they were worried. Police confirmed to Rohnert Park Patch yesterday that the murder weapon was a baseball bat. Dianne Hughes, 66, longtime Rohnert Park resident, was killed by her son, police discovered Wednesday night. Evidence led authorities to the edge…
She’d suffered blunt force trauma to her head and a baseball bat was seized during Tuesday's raid as evidence.
Thursday, May 10, 2012
"Snipers had a clear view, they shot and they killed him because he posed a severe threat to public safety," Masterson said.
Dennis Hughes, 41, went on a shooting rampage Wednesday in San Francisco's Tenderloin, at Post and Hyde streets, using at least two handguns to fire shots at random from his girlfriend's apartment, police said today. At about 10 p.m., less than two hours after police located Hughes, the armed killer was gunned down by police snipers perched atop a nearby rooftop, because authorities said he "posed a significant threat to public safety." Police — roughly 100 officers were on scene — described the bizzare scene at a morning press conference in San Francisco, just minutes from the apartment building on the 800 block of Post Street — where Hughes found refuge after killing his mother. Rohnert Park police found Dianne Hughes bludgeoned to death…
"...man fired numerous shots 'through walls and floors,' Suhr said. At some point, he also set fires inside the apartment, the chief said." -San Francisco Chronicle.
Suspect killed after shooting and police standoff in San Francisco.
Police shot and killed a suspect in Rohnert Park homicide who opened fire on officers during a standoff in San Francisco's Lower Nob Hill neighborhood late Wednesday night. Dianne Hughes, 66, suffered blunt force injuries to her head. She was found dead in her living room Tuesday afternoon, police confirmed Wednesday morning. Rohnert Park police contacted the suspect at an apartment building in the 800 block of Post Street at around 8:45 p.m. in connection with a homicide investigation in their jurisdiction, San Francisco police Sgt. Michael Andraychak said. Rohnert Park officers requested assistance from San Francisco police. When San Francisco police arrived at the scene the Rohnert Park officers were attempting to contact the suspect …
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Family and friends made multiple calls to police Tuesday, and reported the woman's vehicle had been missing from her driveway. Police declared late yesterday that they were investigating it as a homicide.
Sgt. Jeff Nicks, of the Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety, confirmed Wednesday morning that police are investigating the death of a 66-year-old woman in her B Section home as a homicide. The woman, who was found dead in her living room, was identified by the Sonoma County coroner's office as Dianne Hughes. Nicks said she suffered blunt force trauma injuries, and there was blood evidence at the scene, though he couldn't confirm details. "We don't want to speculate as to the cause of death," Nicks said. "We'll know more after the autopsy." Hughes was pronounced dead in her Bernice Avenue home at 12:43 p.m. Tuesday, shortly after her body was found. Police said her 2005 white Toyota Highlander was missing from the driveway. License …
Jacques
4:31 pm on Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Heavier fines and more tickets are in order however, repeating the guilty teenager's name in every article does not help anyone and certainly continues to deepen wounds within her family and prevents any level of healing. This terrible accident could have been caused by any distracted driver..... and there are thousands out there! Pedestrians; be very careful! Especially crossing our streets. … more ›