BART alerted riders on the social media platform X around 4 p.m. that the Red line was cancelled due to the delay. The Green and Blue lines were diverted to MacArthur Station. The delay was caused by earlier equipment problems on a train.

According to BART’s media line, around 5:27 p.m., the disabled train was taken out of service and the transit agency was working on restoring regular service to the Red, Green and Blue lines. Around 5:30 p.m., BART posted on X that Green and Blue line service was restored.

Around the same time, BART reported that trains were not stopping at 24th St. Mission due to police activity. Minutes later, service was restored to 24th St. and Mission.

The agency posted around 1 p.m. that firefighters were setting up a rope system for a recovery mission on the beach south of Davenport in Santa Cruz County. They were able to bring the body up from the beach to the bluffs before clearing the scene.

The Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office said on Facebook that “due to the close proximity to the recent shark attack victim in Monterey County,” they will be working with the Monterey County Sheriff’s Office and the Pacific Grove Police Department on the recovery.

The action comes after a 55-year-old swimmer named Erica Fox disappeared on Sunday near Lovers Point in Pacific Grove, where sharks were reportedly seen in the area. KSBW reported that the body was a woman, but officials did not release any identifying information.

Naheed Mangi, 70, was convicted earlier this year of intentional damage to a protected computer. Prosecutors say that after being fired, she changed the database by replacing patient information with gibberish and childish insults like, “doctor too stupid.”

While the incident happened in 2013, Mangi wasn’t indicted until 2018, and wasn’t convicted until a jury trial last February, records show. Prosecutors asked for a 10-month sentence to be split between jail and house arrest, but instead Senior U.S. District Judge Edward J. Davila sentenced Mangi to probation.

Her attorney argued in court that no time in custody was a just outcome.

“Notably, for the seven years since her arrest, Ms. Mangi has complied with her conditions of release. She is 70 years old and has lived at the same address for the past 28 years,” a defense sentencing memo says. “Ms. Mangi is currently unemployed, living a solitary life on her social security and savings.”

Mangi must pay $10,520.69 in restitution, court records show.

Mangi was working on a Stanford University study, sponsored by Genentech, testing a new, experimental pharmaceutical treatment for breast cancer. Prosecutors argued her actions betrayed the trust of patients who agreed to participate in the study, and that it was motivated by Mangi’s hurt feelings from being fired.

Brandon Johnson, 37, was charged last week with human trafficking of a minor, soliciting a child to prostitute and pandering, court records show. At the time of his arrest on Dec. 19, he was out on bail for pending charges of kidnapping a suspected adult sex worker in front of an undercover cop, court records show.

Police say a relative of a 14-year-old girl called police and told them the girl was with Johnson at the Bay Breeze Inn in Oakland. Police went there and found not only the girl, but a 15-year-old girl, as well as a replica gun in Johnson’s hotel room, according to court records.

Authorities allege that Johnson met one of the girl’s when she was at a youth crisis center in San Francisco and had been with her for several weeks. He reportedly gave the girls $500 daily quotas, instructing them to be sexually abused by adult strangers for as long as it took to make that amount, according to court records.

Johnson was arrested and charged back in May after an undercover officer allegedly saw him throwing a woman in a bikini into his vehicle and driving off, as she screamed for help. He posted $100,000 bail and was released from jail, records show. Johnson’s lawyer refuted the charges by arguing that the woman police identified as the victim denied it, and said she witnessed a different person throwing a different woman in his car.

Now Johnson is back behind bars at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, with bail set at $670,000, records show. He has pleaded not guilty and is due in court next on Jan. 12.

Johnson’s arrest was one of two near-identical incidents that occurred in Oakland that week. On Dec. 15, Oakland police rescued two runaway teen girls, aged 14 and 15, and arrested their alleged trafficker, Terrell Williams, who was later charged with rape, statutory rape and crimes related to alleged sex trafficking, court records show.

Isaac Landry, 51, no longer faces the charge in the Sept. 2 shooting of 43-year-old Robert Abeyta, a Rodeo resident shot during an early morning fight outside a store on the 3800 block of San Pablo Avenue in Emeryville. Landry still faces charges of being an accessory after the fact — a felony — and leading police on a brief chase, a misdemeanor, records show.

Landry’s co-defendant, 52-year-old Armand Watson, is charged with murder and gun possession. Police say that during a fight outside the store, Watson responded to a threat by Abeyta by saying, “you’re going to kill who?” then shooting Abeyta in the head. Landry then allegedly stomped on Abeyta’s head after he was fatally shot.

Both men were charged with murder, but at a November preliminary hearing, Judge Thomas Reardon said there wasn’t enough evidence to uphold Landry’s murder charge and threw it out. He released Landry from jail the same day but gave him a 6 p.m. curfew. Both men pleaded not guilty on Nov. 26 and are next due in court in January, records show.

At the hearing, police and an eyewitness testified to Abeyta’s aggressive, racist behavior before the shooting. About a half-hour he was killed, he threatened a Black woman and called her racist slurs several times for walking too closely to his car, she testified. Landry’s attorney said he also made “monkey sounds” at her.

Later, Abeyta told Landry, “get the (expletive) out of here,” and then added a racial slur during the confrontation. Landry and Watson were at the store together to buy cigarettes when they began arguing with Abeyta, police testified. The entire thing was caught on security cameras at the store.

At first, Landry told Watson and Abeyta to “break it up” when they began to go back and forth. During the confrontation, Abeyta threatened the men, and reached for his waistband. Watson later told police he thought Abeyta had a knife, but police say he didn’t actually have one.

Prosecutors argued that Watson appeared “calm” and methodically retrieved his gun from his car and killed Abeyta. They argued in court that Landry’s “support played a key role in emboldening Mr. Watson to repeatedly shoot the victim in this case” and that him stomping on Abeyta’s head after the shooting showed incredible “callousness.”

Abeyta was pronounced dead from gunshot wounds at a hospital later that morning. A pathologist determined the head stomps didn’t play a role in his death, police testified.

During police questioning, Landry said he regretted that Abeyta was killed.

“I wasn’t trying to kill the man,” Landry said, adding that he “would not do that over a simple argument,” an Emeryville police detective testified.

For three days, Immigration and Customs Enforcement kept Valera in the metal-clad room on the sixth floor above the courtroom, according to a declaration he submitted to a judge. There were no beds, and the lights remained on at all hours. Detainees were forced to share a single toilet against the wall.

“They treated us like animals,” the 47-year-old Peruvian man told Bay Area News Group.

On Christmas Eve, five months after Velera’s arrest, a federal judge in San Jose temporarily barred ICE from making arrests at immigration courts across Northern California. Bay Area immigration advocates sued to halt the arrests, which they argue force those seeking refuge in the United States to choose between skipping their court dates, thereby increasing their chances of deportation, or attending the proceedings and risking detention.

“This ruling is a critical step in ensuring that immigrants can safely pursue their immigration cases without fear of arrest,” Jordan Wells, an attorney for the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, said in a statement.

The decision by U.S. District Court Judge P. Casey Pitts applies to ICE’s San Francisco area of responsibility, encompassing Northern and Central California, as far south as Bakersfield, and Hawaii. Pitts found advocates raised credible claims that the arrests have a chilling effect on court attendance and undermine the immigration court system. 

He ordered the ruling remain in place until a final judgment is entered in the case. It’s unclear when the lawsuit could be resolved.

This year, there have been at least 75 documented immigration court arrests in San Francisco, including Valera, and at least 39 in Sacramento, advocates said in an October court filing. It was unclear how many people have been arrested at the Bay Area’s other immigration court in Concord.

Attorneys for ICE argue that a January directive allowing the courthouse arrests nationwide is legal “operational guidance” authorized by the Trump administration. ICE and the Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the ruling.

Under President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, ICE arrests have surged, often topping 1,000 a day, according to data from UC Berkeley’s Deportation Data Project. About a third of those arrested this year had no criminal record, according to analyses of the data by NPR and other news organizations.

“We are making America safe again and putting the American people first,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a statement earlier this month. “We have secured the border, taken the fight to cartels, and arrested thousands upon thousands of criminal illegal aliens.”

Valera, who has asked a court to grant him asylum, came to the United States three years ago, leaving behind his wife and young sons after fleeing criminal groups that he says threatened his life in his home country. Valera said he obtained a work permit and that he has cooperated with immigration officials while applying for asylum to remain in the U.S.

But after walking out of his immigration hearing on July 25, ICE immediately apprehended him. Soon after being taken to the holding cell, Valera said he began to feel half of his body going numb. Handcuffed to a stretcher, he spent the next day under observation at a hospital in San Francisco.

After being taken back to the cell, Valera said he received only small burritos and a chocolate bar at each meal. He and other detainees did their best to keep the area clean, but a small trash can in the corner quickly overflowed. The air conditioning ran constantly, and the men slept huddled together in the cell.

“They made us sleep on the floor in handcuffs,” Valera said.

Now, agents overseeing the San Francisco cells must provide detainees beds, clean clothes, basic hygiene products, medically necessary diets and to dim lights during sleeping hours, among other requirements, following a November injunction secured by advocates in the courthouse arrest case. 

ICE did not respond to a request for comment on the cell conditions. But government attorneys told the court the agency is complying with the injunction.

From San Francisco, Valera was transferred to a holding cell in Oakland before being flown to a larger detention facility in Arizona. A judge ordered his release about a week later, determining he had been unlawfully detained, attorneys said.

Valera was dropped off at a bus station and used his own money to buy a ticket back to San Francisco for the next day. He booked a motel room, where he took his first shower since his arrest about two weeks earlier.

Despite the ordeal, Valera, who currently rents a space in a home in Daly City, said he plans to continue his asylum case in hopes of making a better life for himself in the U.S. He wants to one day bring his family to join him.

“There are people who have gone through things that are far worse than what I went through, and I don’t wish that on anybody,” he said. “It’s very traumatic, to be honest, and I hope one day this all ends, that it goes back to normal, and that they don’t treat us that way. You come to work, not to commit crimes.”

The defendant, listed in court records as a 23-year-old Dublin resident who is serving a yearlong sentence in the jail, was charged on Dec. 2 with custodial possession of a weapon. At a Dec. 8 court appearance, prosecutors dismissed the charge, according to court filings.

The man was serving a sentence for false imprisonment on Nov. 27, when a deputy conducting a search allegedly found a sharpened toothbrush stashed in his sock. The man allegedly told investigators he possessed the deadly weapon for “self-defense,” according to court records.

A minute order for the December court hearing says prosecutors filed an oral motion to dismiss the case “in the interests of justice.” The man’s yearlong jail sentence is subject to a potential 50 percent reduction for good behavior behind bars, court records show.

Faatino Tauane, 23, was convicted of murder and an enhancement for personal use of a gun in the Aug. 11, 2022 killing of Cesar Arana, 21, of Antioch. Tauane remains jailed without bail, with sentencing set for February, court records show.

At the time of the shooting, authorities said Arana was an innocent bystander when a fight broke out between several people at about 2 a.m., at the 24 Hour Fitness in the 5900 block of Lone Tree Way in Brentwood. Tauane and a then-17-year-old boy were eventually identified as suspects and arrested, records show.

Three other people, including a minor, were shot and wounded but survived.

Jurors returned the verdict on Dec. 19, records show.

Redman Collins, of Oakland, was convicted earlier this year of second-degree murder and a gun enhancement. On Dec. 9, Judge Delia Trevino sentenced him to 40-years-to-life behind bars, records show. He remains at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin for now, pending transfer to the state prison system.

Jurors found that Collins shot and killed 31-year-old Antwan Runnels on the morning of Oct. 12, 2022, near Lafayette Square Park in Old Oakland. Prosecutors argued at trial that Collins and his nephew arranged to meet Runnels that day for a marijuana deal, which Runnels and the nephew had done several times before.

But Collins’ presence that day was a surprise, authorities said. Runnels angrily objected to him being there, and Collins’ nephew attempted to assure him that everything would be fine, according to authorities. A few seconds later, Runnels shoved Collins’ nephew and Collins responded by shooting Runnels, prosecutors said.

Collins gets credit for the time he spent behind bars while the case was pending, court records show.

Garland Rabon, 30, argued in court for a five-year probation term. He was sentenced Dec. 15 by U.S. District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin, who gave Rabon time to enjoy the holiday season with his family. He won’t have to report to prison until May 2026.

The robberies occurred in 2022, reaping close to $1 million in cash, jewels and other valuables. The year was capped off by a surprise birthday party for one of the crew members in December 2022, where the defendants flaunted stolen jewelry for a video camera and talked about their newfound riches. Video of the party was later seized by prosecutors and used as evidence to argue for lengthy prison sentences.

In court, prosecutors argued that Rabon was a longtime, dedicated member of the Ghost Town gang — a violent group that has existed in West Oakland for decades — and that he committed his crimes while serving as a “youth mentor” through a program funded by the city of Oakland. The defense argued that he expressed “true remorse” and that his crimes were “mistakes caused by a lifetime of trauma and drug addiction.”

Rabon described his life in a letter to the court, listing times he lost loved ones, went through financial hardships and eventually came to have a new perspective in life.

“Throughout the year and half my case was pending, I spent more time with my kids than I ever had before, and attended drug and mental counseling for the first time in my life,” Rabon wrote. “I am a changed person and never want to return to the life I previously lived.”

The tragedies Rabon endured include the loss of his 17-year-old brother, Deshawn Rabon, who was killed when a car he was riding in collided with a funeral home in 2015. A defense sentencing memo includes a picture where Garland Rabon poses alongside Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee, holding up two certificates her earned through participation in anti-violence programs this year.

Prosecutors argued that Rabon’s role as a getaway driver “made the rapid takeover and speedy departure possible,” during one of the robberies and that he pledged his loyalty to the Ghost Town gang on Instagram with a post that said: “Til death do us apart / I’m with the gang / I took my vows.”

The robberies included a March 2022 incident where a coin store owner in San Francisco lost an estimated $300,000 and a November 2022 stickup that cost a San Pablo jeweler estimated losses of up to $500,000. There was also an August 2022 robbery, targeting an Oakland cannabis dispensary, with a business loss estimated at $100,000.