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KOFY ABC7 News On KOFY 7PM June 7, 2014

A man apparently attempting to steal a bicycle. Police arrive and catch him in the act. Good evening. The guy youre going to watch in action is what police call one of the biggest serial bicycle Thieves Police have seen in a long time. All of this is captured by Security Camera. Vehicle lee is live with the story. Vic . Well, he has a long rap sheet hes been arrested a lot of times mainly for stealing bikes he was on probation for stealing bikes last time, he was the star of this Security Camera video. How manies times has he been arrested . 20, 30 times. He pleaded not guilty to charges of rez yil burglary and possession of burglary tools, hes a familiar face to San Francisco cops. Officer freedman is the department expert on bike thefts he knows him better than anyone. Hes a serial bike thief, making his living stealing bikes. Three days ago, he was caught in an apartment building. A Security Camera captured him he jimmied the lock of the door and seized the Electrical Panel on the wall. And then takes elevator down to the garage. Travis eveningelman is with the company. In the garage, is where criminals like to go because there are valuable items and less people walking around. Another camera catches him inside of the car gage he appears to have two bicycles and bike wheels, he tries to open the garage gate. The Security Company is monitoring activities and dispatching their guards. Their cars suddenly appear in the video the guards get out, take him into custody and call police now, the question, will he be on the streets again . Soon . Well charge felonies within appropriateness of the law. But then, we find these guys on the street a week later. But this time, it may be different the charge of breaking into a Residential Property is a serious felony we have grave concerns. Were hoping that the court will see it our way and there will be consequences in this case. The judge imposed bail of 350,000 vic lee, abc7 news officers say the homicide suspect shot and killed yesterday was t armed with a rifle, but a bebe gun. Were live with that confrontation took place. Lillian . Reporter the department of Public Safety says the fact its a bebe gun doesnt change anything and they say the officer who confronted this suspect had every reason to feel threatened the uncle heard, he was helping neighbors relay a message to them. I called there, told them to holler and tell them he doesnt have a gun. Hold off. Ill get there and solve the problem. See if i can talk to him, whatever. It was too late. Officers arrived the tomorrow to serve search and arrest warrants, saying griggs came out of the room and didnt stop after an officer fired a nonlethal baton. During a following investigation, it was a bebe gun. He is expected of killing a woman living in his home before she went missing the officers have been paid on routine paid aadministrative leave the department identified them. Its an unfortunate situation that took mr. Griggs life. Were seeking to comply with the law. Investigators say the homicide case will remain active. Theyre still trying to find a body. A suspected gang member attacked a Police Officer as he was being arrested for a shooting last month. Police say the 18yearold assaulted the arresting officer. A second officer daysed him, finding meth and heroin in his possession. He is suspected of shooting four people, one of them a pregnant 24yearold. Federal agents turned two Young Children over to Child Protective Services after raiding an Illegal Drug Lab in san jose they believe was being run by a mexican drug cartel. Police collected evidence and investigators say they found a large amount of meth in tubs. Police in berkeley arrested three people after finding psychedelic drugs and drugmaking materials inside of a home in oregon this morning. Part of the street was closeed and police found unknown substance then sent p a team to investigate. Court documents have revealed details about the San Francisco man at the center of an fbi manhunt. Agents say they found homemade bomb components in his apartment. The judge ordered a Mental Health investigation the fbi reveals it searched his apartment after suspecting hed bought hups of lethal doses of bio toxins online. For the past month, the bands of teenagers have been committing random crimes along cities along 880. Allen wong is live with this story. Allen . Right now, im told that a group of 8 to 10 officers is at the bay fair bart station and anticipating about 60 teams coming down on the train from hayward. This trend is called wilding. And is trying to monitor large groups of teens sapping the Police Department of their resources that creating a Multi Agency Task force. Police believe this wilding trend was sparked by a you tube video. 600 young people roamed streets of chicago committing crimes. There are 100 teens assaulted and robbed people, mostly in bay fair mall area, theyre using bart to wreak havoc up and down 880 corridor. A group of 60 were roaming the streets of hayward. Police arrested one person and they were headed to san leandro. New plan will alert more officers from oakland to hayward. With a primary focus being Public Safety and ability to respond to address issues at hand so not just 5, or 6 Police Officers but 20, or 30 will. Now, Police Believe these groups are using social media to organize rampages they say there are more incidents taking place and there is a potential incident happening at bay fair bart station well bring updates as needed. Allen, thank you. Police are searching for whoever is responsible for flipping another smart car overnight this, time in twin peaks. In this video, you can see the car flipped on the side the owner just finished paying it off. In april, vandals tipped over four smart cars a day after the oneyear anniversary of Edward Snowdens Public Disclosures an emergency hearing was held about those allegations. Jonathan bloom is live tonight. Reporter Justice Department was not here but participated by phone. Snowden hadnt appeared when the case began. Now, some of the evidence is in danger of being deleted from serv servers before there was edward snow den, there is mark klein. Who found out the equipment was from government spying. I didnt sign up to work for nsa. When seven years later the case is in court. No verdict inside. We know the government is doing that, domestic spying that affects millions of americans and we ought to be able to decide whether that is legal. The attorney found herself in an emergency hearing, asking a judge to keep the government from deleting evidence. Documents showed nsa was copying internet traffic. Eff is suing on behalf of the novelist who believes communications were among millions collected but those could be erased and feds say, stopping their deal yeegs could mess up computers. There are National Security implications here. I do think the government tends to overplay that card. Courts have been cowardly. I would say. The best you can say conservative, weary of getting involved sitting in the back of the courtroom, the Justice Department refused to acknowledge data existed. I was tempted to say look at the documents and the at and t documents. Why are they pretending . So for now, nsa can keep he deleting to its hearts content. A year ago tomorrow we heard about a program called prix. This document shows that program would record your chat messages and a recording you may have left for someone. Thank you, jonathan. Still ahead tonight at 6 00 the bay area millionaire known as at hidden cash. Were about to reveal the identify of the man tweeting the money away. How much would you pay to have lunch with one of americas richest men . The final bids on warren buffets fundraiser. Im sandhya patel were going to get a sfeek peek of summer this weekend where its going to get steamy, coming up later tonight, California Chrome and the celebration now in the works for the big triple crown event. More still to come, stay with us. Ithe part of us that a littwants to play,on. Wants to be mischievous, wants to run free, all you have to do is let it out. Find your inner minion only at the despicable me minion mayhem ride at Universal Studios hollywood. Thank you thank you dedicated bankers born to go the extra mile. Youve been such a big help. Its what i like to do. So you can choose a bank where helping people comes first. Chase. So you can. Who is the man behind the hidden cash give away creating a social media craze . Hes been identified as jason buzzee. He created a sensation a few weeks ago, tweeting anonymously he was hiding money around San Francisco and offered clues to help people find the cash. Jennifer merits is one of the few journalists speaking about the give away. He talked about the criticism he received for making millions on foreclosures his response is i understand where theyre coming from, but i, people that are richer than me arent doing anything to give money away. I dont understand why people are criticizing me. Details of another cash drop are expected to be revealed on twitter, soon. In a couple hours, someone will win the chance to have a private lunch with warren yuf yeah. The highest by the just topped 1. 8 million. And were live where action is happening now. You still have time. The auction ends at 7 30 this evening. This is the auction party. A steak house in new york city. Now, this is a true story the guy was hired by warren buffet to be his portfolio manager. So dan, you may have a new career. The reverend and his wife met him 15 years ago. Abo buffets late wife was a member. She says i want to you bring my husband, warren buffet. I said what . Buffet came up with the idea to help raise money for programs glide has to offer. So 15 years ago, he invited a highest by thor out for lunch. Janice remembered the first auction yielded only 25,000. Today with eb and publicity, they get upwards of 1 million, 1 year, 3 million. There is shouting and screaming and it is fun. Buffet says why glide is so close to his heart. Its changed thousands of lives not only lives of the people that are beneficiaries of the action but people who participate with them. Hes down to earth. And is a real human being. The auction helped launch 15 million. 850,000 meals per year. And we serve 500 children. And helps with supportive housing. That is right. Good news, money it raises. Its stragerring. Turning our attention to weekend weather forecast. That is right. Some heat, right . Were expecting triple digits sunday. Making outdoor plans that is the hotter day of the two. And i know we get complaints from people ill have mild weather for the coast for you. Fog sitting near the coast now. And were going to have some around tomorrow. Breeze is picking up, 24 in oakland, pushing low clouds across the bay. Looking from our south beach camera towards San Francisco, you can see cloud movements. Mid50s for half moon bay. From our roof camera, fog, low clouds around. Upper 60s in santa rosa. Cooler inland today but coastal spots looking for a slightly milder day. This is gorgeous. You can see its cool and summer spread tomorrow. Were looking at triple digits inland sunday. Low pressure inland, High Pressure over pacific. This is typical for late spring into the summer time period. Hot days inland. Tomorrow morning just be careful. Temperatures starting out uniform low to upper 60s. Fog over the bay and into parts of the nornl bay. Youll need sun screen, warm in gilroy. 82 in sunnyvale. 64 in pacifica. That is where you have to go. 70 in downtown San Francisco. North bay, mid80s in santa rosa. 80 in fremont. 93 in livermore, accuweather forecast, accuweather forecast our summer time micro climates, 32degree spread. Its a wide range. This hits 70s at the coast. Well drop you down into the 80s. So its going to get hot. Goats eating grass that poses a fire hazard. Results coming up next. Thank you thank you dedicated bankers born to go the extra mile. Youve been such a big help. Its what i like to do. So you can choose a bank where helping people comes first. Chase. So you can. Youve probably seen firefighting goats around the bay area tonight our first look at i new study on just how effective these harry little firefighters are. Yes. Laura . Here they are. Just to give an idea. If standing in the same location, you wont be able to see me because of the tall grasses and weeds here but thanks to these guys this area is almost clear part of the effort to keep the east bay fire safe this summer. Imagine having a job where your only responsibility is to eat. This nanny of sorts for the goats in the thousands of others roaming the east bay in search of a good meal. Happy out there . Absolutely. There is fresh water. Its a drought in full force. Besides mowing away grass and brush, the goats are doing Flood Control part of a threeyear study. Are they carrying their weight sth they are those who live close by like to watch goats do their work last years have been the first time they started using goats to take care of the weeds we love it. Its fun to watch them. And they do a good job. Efforts are supplemented by a flock of sheep and herbicide. Busy, hard working. Yes, they are. A mortgage fraud suspect. Will the vip get money back . Details on shootings in seattle. Turns out the gunman had a history of mental hillness. Heat shields are compromised. We have multiple failures. Are those thrusters burning . Thats a negative. Whats that alarm . Fuel cell two is down. Im going to have to guide her in manually. This is very exciting. But im at my stop. Come again . Im watching this on the train. Its so hard to leave. Good luck with everything. With the uverse tv app, the uverse revolves around you the uverse revolves around you i cant wait to get to mattress discounters because the tempurpedic bonus event is ending soon. Choose 300 in free gifts, and, get up to 48 months interestfree financing with any tempurpedic mattress. Mattress discounters a met peta luma man accused of defrauding homeowners out of thousands of dollars is seeking bankruptcy protection. A claim many alleged victims say is fraudulent. Yes. Michael finney is here with an update. Yes. He is being investigated by the state department of justice and Sonoma County District Attorney for mortgage modification fraud. Its been a year since agents served search warrants on the home and office the da has yet to make a decision on whether to press charges now, some victims believe bankruptcy is an attempt to prevent them from getting their money back. He is seen here with his sedan. These are people that showed up in his bankruptcy hearing. These people say they paid him thousands to try to win a mortgage modification from the banks for their homes. And most say they got nudging in return. We contacted our bank, all 100 people contacted to see how he took care of them. Every bank said the same thing. Never heard from him. In his filings, lopez with his wife claim they have 2. 1 million in assets but 3. 2 million in liabilities. Among holdings, this 2200 square foot home in petaluma, and adjoining threeacre ranch. Cameras are not allowed inside and creditors were allowed to ask questions during the hearing. This family asked under oath if he had received 15,000 from them. Miguel denied it. A signed letter from lopez acknowledging receipt of 15,000 with a copy of lopezs drivers license. He told me everything is okay he told me hes finished i call the bank the bank told mnothing. Nothing. Miguel denied doing business after he said he shut down the company, mortgage modifiers in february, 2013. Several people in court say they have written checks to the Company Since that date. They denied everything and lied about taking money and about dates. Bob says his mother almost lost her home. Homeowners questioned the amount of money the couple reported from heidis business caring for horses and question heidis claim she was paid in wine, not cash for work in local winery. And they wanted to know what happened to the money paid. Miguel says all of the money was used for expenses and pay back debts. What did you think of having those people in the courtroom . That angry at you . I asked if they had anything to say to customers of mortgage modifiers who feel they have been defrauded. You can tell the people anything you want. You can explain anything you want. Tell us what happened. The couple remained silent. It was a year ago in april that state authorities served a search warrant on mortgage modifiers office, seizing records and computer files the evidence has been handed over to investigators. No decision has been made on whether or not to press charges. 20 of us showing up. 20 victims showing up. Really hopefully woke him up hes done harm to many people. The da said it would have no comment until after its investigation was completed. Thank you, michael. Police say at accused Seattle Pacific university shooter admitted he wanted to kill as many people as possible then take his own life. A judge found probable cause to hold aaron ybarra without bail for yesterdays shooting. Police are crediting senior for stopping the assault when he pepper sprayed and tackled ybarra. His Attorney Says his client had Mental Health problems for years and was on yoesed with 1999 columbine shootings. 70 years ago today, 150 troops took part in d day, massive, bloody invasion of normalandy in france. That is june 6, 19446789 today, leaders paid tribute to soldiers who died on d day. President obama called the sands of normandy. Our claim to liberty, freedom and dignity of every human being, that claim is written on the blood on these beaches. It will endure for eternity. The

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