Feds: Man threatened family of congressman, journalist
By LARRY NEUMEISTERJanuary 26, 2021 GMT
NEW YORK (AP) A California man disgruntled about the presidential election result was arrested Tuesday on charges alleging he threatened family members of a New York congressman and a journalist in text messages sent during the attack on the Capitol, authorities said.
Robert Lemke, 35, was arrested in Bay Point, California, on charges filed in Manhattan federal court. He was scheduled to make an initial appearance in federal court in Northern California on Wednesday.
A criminal complaint charging him with threatening interstate communications said he identifies himself on Facebook as a former captain in the U.S. Air Force and a retired sergeant with the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office in California.
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The L452R variant of COVID-19 being identified by viral genomic sequencing in San Francisco, Monterey and Santa Clara counties has been linked to the outbreak at Kaiser Permanente s San Jose Medical Center that led to several dozen infections and possibly one death, as well as other large outbreaks in Santa Clara County. In the Kaiser hospital outbreak, we did take a sample of those specimens and sequenced them in our public health lab and, indeed, they are this variant, said Dr. Sara Cody, Santa Clara County Health Officer, in a Zoom press conference Sunday night.
Alameda County sheriff focuses pre-inauguration security on airports
Bay Area infrastructure sites on heightened alert ahead of Inauguration Day
Alameda County Sheriff Greg Ahern says while there is no specific threat associated to Bay Area sites ahead of Inauguration Day, security measures are heightened.
OAKLAND, Calif. - Bay Area law enforcement agencies are looking at a number of sites that may be potential targets in their security planning leading up to inauguration day.
In a one-on-one interview, Alameda County Sheriff Gregory Ahern told KTVU that airports are among the sites law enforcement are focusing their attention on, even though there was no specific threat made against any particular Bay Area site.
REGIONAL â As anti-incarceration advocates slammed the Alameda County Sheriff s Office for a recent spike of COVID-19 cases among inmates and staff inside the Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, jail officials said Monday that quarantining and other procedures have slowed the spread.
Department officials reported on Dec. 30 that 12 staff members and 109 inmates had tested positive for the coronavirus, the second highest number since July, when 110 inmates contracting the illness. In the days that followed, the numbers dropped to 76 on Jan. 6 and 12 on Sunday.
The number of affected staff members fell to five. This is the second outbreak we ve had of the pandemic, said Sgt. Ray Kelly, a department spokesman. We ve managed to fight back against the outbreak, and we ve lowered the cases to 12.