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Sex crimes

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Update: Charges filed in UC Berkeley sexual battery spree

Avatar photo by Alex N. Gecan May 01, 2023, 8:00 p.m.May 2, 2023

The Alameda County District Attorney’s Office has charged the suspect with three counts of misdemeanor sexual battery, one each from incidents on April 5, 8 and 9, according to court records.

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Berkeley couple charged with human trafficking

Avatar photo by Emilie Raguso Aug. 17, 2022, 10:30 a.m.August 17, 2022

Authorities say Chemon Parks, 23, coerced a woman into having sex for money, and was at times violent toward her, for more than six weeks.

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Police: Sex offender charged with felony indecent exposure outside Cal fraternity

Avatar photo by Emilie Raguso July 22, 2022, 3:37 p.m.August 4, 2022

Please note: This story contains information that readers may find disturbing.

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Police: Man charged with sex crimes, ‘hot prowl’ burglaries of Cal students

Avatar photo by Emilie Raguso July 14, 2022, 2:01 p.m.August 4, 2022

Police say the man masturbated in one young woman’s bedroom and made explicit sexual remarks to young women in another home.

Berkeley High police cruiser. Photo: Emilie Raguso
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BHS student charged after felony sexual assault of fellow student on campus

Avatar photo by Emilie Raguso July 13, 2022, 11:11 a.m.August 4, 2022

The sexual assault occurred during school hours, police said.

Posted inCrime & Safety

Man held to answer in 2 stranger rapes dating back more than a decade

Avatar photo by Emilie Raguso July 08, 2022, 4:26 p.m.August 4, 2022

This week, for the first time, two women testified in court about how they were attacked.

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Berkeley school district faces 2 more child sex abuse lawsuits

Avatar photo by Ally Markovich May 31, 2022, 5:00 p.m.August 25, 2022

The lawsuits claim staff members at two elementary schools sexually abused students in 1967 and 1995 and the schools failed to stop it.

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Berkeley man charged with sex crime series in Berkeley, Albany, Oakland

Avatar photo by Emilie Raguso May 27, 2022, 4:59 p.m.August 4, 2022

Police say the earliest incident took place March 30 when a man who said he had a knife sexually assaulted a 9-year-old in Albany. This was followed by a sexual assault on Colusa Avenue.

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Man gets 24-year sentence in armed Berkeley stranger rape series from 2008

Avatar photo by Emilie Raguso April 19, 2022, 2:06 p.m.August 4, 2022

The trail went cold for nearly a decade until police got the man’s fingerprints due to a minor traffic violation in 2016.

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Police ask for help to find assailant from North Berkeley sex crime Thursday

Avatar photo by Emilie Raguso April 15, 2022, 5:25 p.m.August 4, 2022

A woman was walking on Colusa Avenue when a stranger approached her from behind, threatened to have a knife and then sexually assaulted her.

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Crime roundup: Carjacking at BART, shooting suspect charged, $50K reward offered in cold case murder

Avatar photo by Emilie Raguso March 12, 2022, 2:31 p.m.August 4, 2022

Berkeley native Tobias Eagle was just 30 years old when he was fatally shot in his backyard on Blake Street. Detectives are still trying to solve the case.

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Update: Teacher in sexual assault suits has license revoked

Avatar photo by Ally Markovich March 11, 2022, 4:34 p.m.August 4, 2022

Matthew Bissell is no longer allowed to teach in California public schools after a commission permanently revoked his teaching credential.

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