‘MILLION DOLLAR UNEMPLOYMENT MENLO WINS ARM’CORNY, FUN STATE JOBLESS RATE AT LOWEST LEVEL SINCE 2008 THE PAL TITLE WEEKEND JOURNAL PAGE 19 STATE PAGE 5 SPORTS PAGE 11 Leading local news coverage on the Peninsula Weekend • May 17-18, 2014 • Vol XIII,Edition 234 www.smdailyjournal.com Family sues over drug raid of wrong house San Bruno residents claim multiple violations for June incident By Michelle Durand ening her 93-year-old grandmoth- correct residence of a man whose lance of] the place it is obvious Force, the Sheriff’s Office, San DAILY JOURNAL STAFF er so much she had to be taken to car and occupants had drugs the that there are multiple units Mateo County, Sheriff Greg the hospital, according to a civil previous month. However, a there,” said Paula Canny, attorney Munks, the city of San Bruno and The county’s drug task force rights lawsuit filed Thursday. defense attorney for the family for the Yeagers and Batchelor who its police department and San raided the wrong San Bruno resi- The search warrant for the Sixth said Kinsella was either incompe- are suing for numerous grounds Bruno Police Chief Neil Telford. dence looking for a suspected Avenue home of Lisa and Jesse tent or lying because the wanted including civil rights violations, The county has not yet been gangmember and drug user after a Yeager and Elizabeth Batchelor person did not live there and they false imprisonment, battery, elder served with the suit but County traffic stop, throwing a female res- was based on Deputy did not know him. abuse and trespassing. Counsel John Beiers, who repre- ident getting ready for work half Sheriff/Special Agent Mike “If they would have taken five The suit names Kinsella, the San naked on the front lawn and fright- Kinsella’s assertions it was the minutes to really [conduct surveil- Mateo County Narcotics Task See RAID, Page 18 Teacher sues over sexual harassment ‘Up-skirt’photos alleged at Serra High School last year, students expelled By Sasha Lekach spread around the student body. BAY CITY NEWS SERVICE Bohnert, who began working for the Archdiocese at Serra High Police reports from last year School in 2006, says in the suit show an apparent pattern of sexual she was “forced” to take an extend- harassment by students at a ed leave of absence last year Catholic all-boys high school in because of the harassment. San Mateo, prompting a teacher to She claims students had similar- file a lawsuit in San Francisco ly targeted other female teachers in SAMANTHA WEIGEL/DAILY JOURNAL Superior Court Thursday alleging previous years in incidents dating Fashion designer and teacher Alexandria von Bromssen prepares one of her 5-year-old student’s designs for students took inappropriate “up- back at least to 2007 but the the runway at this weekends Maker Faire in San Mateo.Tickets are available on site and prices vary. Check skirt” photos of her and other school never looked further into makerfaire.com for specific information. female teachers. the allegations. Kimberly Bohnert alleges In one incident in February 2012 last May students at Junipero where sexually explicit graffiti Serra High School, located at about her was written on a boys’ 451 W. 20th Ave., had taken bathroom stall she claims staff Makers collide “up-skirt” photographs and San Mateo’s annual Maker Faire this weekend graphic video of her that was See TEACHER, Page 24 By Samantha Weigel grassroots way to highlight inno- ion, art, food and more. Hillsborough man pleads guilty to DAILY JOURNAL STAFF vation and the do-it-yourself Local maker Alexandria von movement, the event spawned Bromssen is best known for mak- From a fire-breathing 12-foot- into more than 100 Maker Faires ing it to the finals of Project tall octopus and flying drones to across the world last year alone, Runway season 12 with her unique selling illegal,mislabeled drugs sustainable farming and sewing, said Maker Faire Vice President clothing designs. But von By Michelle Durand unfit for human consumption, the newfangled Maker Faire has Sherry Huss. Bromssen said her goal has been DAILY JOURNAL STAFF according to the Department of something for all. “We wanted to bring makers to foster children inspired by fash- Justice. Picture Burning Man meets sci- together and bring them to a venue ion with her Camp Couture in San A Hillsborough man pleaded Victor Anthony Nottoli, 51, for- ence fair meets fashion show. to showcase what they do. Our Mateo. guilty this week for selling at least feits more than $6.6 million in Started in San Mateo nine years goal around Maker Faire is to make “Times are different, when I was 24 tons of misbranded synthetic drug proceeds — $6.488 million ago, the Maker Faire will once makers,” Huss said. growing up there wasn’t anything drugs through his six California in cash and $191,000 in other again light up the San Mateo There will be more than 900 (like this.) I’m providing some- smoke shops and distributing assets including a truck and an County Event Center this Saturday maker exhibits this year that cross other illegal hallucinogenic-con- and Sunday. What started as a technology, science, crafts, fash- See MAKERS, Page 18 taining products that were deemed See DRUGS, Page 23 2 Weekend • May 17-18, 2014 FOR THE RECORD THE DAILY JOURNAL Thought for the Day “A burning purpose attracts others who are drawn along with it and help fulfill it.” — Margaret Bourke-White,American photojournalist This Day in History The U.S. Supreme Court, in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, unani- mously struck down racially segregat- 1954 ed public schools, ruling that “sepa- rate educational facilities are inher- ently unequal.” In 1792, the New York Stock Exchange had its origins as a group of brokers met under a tree on Wall Street. In 1814,Norway’s constitution was signed, providing for a limited monarchy. In 1849, fire erupted in St. Louis, Missouri, resulting in the loss of three lives, more than 400 buildings and some two dozen steamships. In 1912, the Socialist Party of America nominated Eugene V. Debs for president at its convention in Indianapolis. In 1933, U.S. News & World Report had its beginnings as David Lawrence began publishing a weekly newspaper called United States News. In 1939, Britain’s King George VI and his wife, Queen Elizabeth, arrived in Quebec on the first visit to Canada by a TOM JUNG/DAILY JOURNAL reigning British monarch. Painter,sculpture and photographer Steve Lewis and five other artists from the Silicon Valley Open Studio will be exhibiting In 1946, President Harry S. Truman seized control of the their work at his gallery at 432 Midway Ave.in San Mateo.The show will be open on weekends from 11 a.m.to 5 p.m.through nation’s railroads, delaying — but not preventing — a Sunday,May 18.A preview of the artists can be seen at http://www.stevelewisgallery.com at the SVOS2014 link. threatened strike by engineers and trainmen. In 1961, Cuban leader Fidel Castro offered to release pris- sesquipedalian is given to or character- Interstate 5 runs through Washington, oners captured in the Bay of Pigs invasion in exchange for ized by the use of long words; having Oregon and California. It is a total of 500 bulldozers. (The prisoners were eventually freed in many syllables. 1,382 miles long. exchange for medical supplies.) *** *** In 1973, a special committee convened by the U.S. Senate In his movie career, Ronald Reagan Author Hugh Lofting (1886-1947) cre- ated the classic character that talks to began its televised hearings into the Watergate scandal. (1911-2004) only played a bad guy once. He played a mobster in a gangster the animals. Doctor Dolittle was first In 1974, four car bombs exploded in Dublin and movie “The Killers” (1964). The movie introduced in 1920 in the book “The Monaghan, Ireland, killing 33 people (the Ulster Volunteer was originally made for television, but Story of Doctor Dolittle: Being the Force claimed responsibility two decades later). the network thought it was too violent History of His Peculiar Life at Home and In 1980, rioting that claimed 18 lives erupted in Miami’s so it was released as a movie instead. Astonishing Adventures in Foreign Liberty City after an all-white jury in Tampa acquitted four *** Parts Never Before Printed.” former Miami police officers of fatally beating black insur- Blondie Bumstead’s last name was *** ance executive Arthur McDuffie. he world’s largest parade of horse- Boopadoop before she married When a group of Mormon settlers trav- drawn carriages took place in Dagwood in the comic strip “Blondie” eled through the Mojave Desert in the TLingen, Germany, in 2004. As (1930-present). mid-19th century they saw unique trees part of the International Dressage Birthdays *** with branches that stretched up to the Festival, 208 horse-drawn carriages sky. The trees reminded them of the paraded for 3.5 miles through the city In the sitcom “The Odd Couple” (1970- 1975) two divorced men, Felix and Biblical figure Joshua who prayed and streets. pointed up the heavens, so they called *** Oscar, are complete opposites who share an apartment. Do you remember them Joshua Trees. The company motto of Porsche is *** “small but good.” their occupations? Their last names? See answer at end. Women reject heart transplants more *** often than men. Winona Ryder (born 1971) was arrested *** The slogan of the Republican Party in *** for shoplifting in 2001. The actress Agroup of kangaroos is called a mob.