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Modesto PD plans DUI crackdown during Super Bowl weekend

Modesto PD plans DUI crackdown during Super Bowl weekend

Modesto, CA – Modesto Police Department Traffic Unit will be conducting a DUI/Drivers License checkpoint at an undisclosed location within the city limits along with a special DUI Roving Saturation Patrol on Super Bowl weekend. 

  • DUI/Drivers License Checkpoint is set for Saturday February 5, 2011 from 9:00 PM to 3:00 AM
  • A roving DUI Saturation Patrol will be deploying on February 6, 2011 between the hours of 6:30 p.m. and 11:30 p.m.

Modesto PD is reminding everyone that real Super Bowl Fans Don’t Let Fans Drive Drunk. If your party’s game plan includes alcohol, make sure you have a designated sober driver in your starting line-up. MPD is asking all party hosts and bar owners to take extra care of designated sober drivers this year. Designated sober drivers make sure everyone gets home safely.

Grant funding available for non-profits serving Modesto

MODESTO - The City of Modesto Housing and Urban Development Division will be seeking applications for Community Development Block Grants (CDBG) and Emergency Solutions Grants (ESG) eligible public services and projects. Participation in a mandatory technical assistance workshop is required in order to receive access to an application for either grant opportunity. The workshop will be held on Thursday, Feb. 10 in Council Chambers located in the basement of City Hall, 1010 10th Street. There will be two sessions to choose from:

· Session 1 (morning) will be offered from 9 - 10:30 a.m.

· Session 2 (afternoon) will be offered from 1:30 - 3 p.m.

Attendance is only required at one of the two sessions offered. Please contact the City’s Housing and Urban Development Division at (209) 577-5245 within 48 hours of this mandatory meeting should any special accommodation be needed.

New this year, projects selected for funding will be funded for two years.

Man pleads guilty to defacing Modesto synagogue and churches

FRESNO, CA (AP) -- A Northern California man has pleaded guilty to vandalizing two churches and a synagogue in Modesto by spray-painting anti-Semitic and anti-Christian slurs.

Andrew Kerber pleaded guilty Monday in federal court in Fresno to conspiring to violate the civil rights of members of Congregation Beth Shalom.

The 22-year-old Chico man also admitted vandalizing Our Lady of Fatima Church and School and the Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation by spray-painting the walls in February 2006.

Kerber faces a year in prison and a $100,000 fine when he is sentenced April 8.

Two other men previously pleaded guilty to participating in the vandalism spree. Prosecutors say Brian Lewis and Abel Gonzalez each face a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison when they are sentenced in April.

 

Hunch led search teams to Amber Alert car

PATTERSON, CA - Patterson Police Chief Tori Hughes said she had a nagging feeling the missing Toyota in the Julilani Cardenas case was stuck in one of the tunnels that carries water underground.

"That image I saw kept bothering me.  I didn't feel comfortable ignoring that fact until we at least sent a diver in to clear the tunnels," said Hughes.

The image she referred to was of something in water so murky it couldn't be identified.  With the syphon (tunnel) too dangerous for divers, the search moved downstream.

TIMELINE: Search for Juliani Cardenas

"Every night as we kept getting further to the south, I wanted to go back and stay focused on the syphons," said Hughes.

Fresh cilantro recalled for potential salmonella threat

SACRAMENTO, CA - Fresh cilantro distributed by Sabor Farms may no longer be on California market shelves temporarily but state health officials warn the product still in consumers' refrigerators may possibly be contaminated with salmonella.

The herb was sold from Jan. 14-28 in bunches with twist-ties with the names of Tanimura & Antle, Ocean Mist, Nature's Reward and Queen Victoria.

Sabor Farms has issued a voluntary recall of the cilantro. There have been no reports of illness.

The symptoms of salmonella infection include fever, abdominal cramps, and diarrhea which may be bloody. The elderly, those with weakened immune systems and infants are most susceptible to more severe cases. People who develop symptoms of salmonella infection after eating cilantro should check with their doctor.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mother attends vigil for Juliani's safe return

TIMELINE: The Search for Juliani Cardenas

MODESTO - Tabitha Cardenas and about 70 other supporters holding out hope that 4-year-old Juliani Cardenas is still alive held a vigil in Modesto Sunday.

Lorina Gill said she doesn't know Juliani's mother Tabitha Cardenas but was praying for the boy's safe return. Still, Cardenas said she showed about at the Modesto vigil to ask for help in finding Juliani.

"My gut tells me that my son is still alive," Cardenas said. "And I need help you know... for people to keep their eyes out."

Divers find kidnap suspect's car empty

PATTERSON, CA - Authorities say when searchers pulled up the Toyota Corolla from the Delta-Mendota Canal shortly before 6 Friday night it was empty.
SLIDESHOW: Suspect's car pulled from canal

The car belonged to Jose Esteban Rodriguez, suspected of kidnapping his ex-girlfriend's 4-year-old son Juliani Cardenas on Jan. 18.

Stanislaus County Sheriff Adam Christianson said two of the four windows were rolled down in the badly damaged Toyota. Authorities have not had a chance to fully go through the car.