Cody Salfen

Cody Salfen will never forget the moment back in 2016 when he learned missing Redding mother, Sherri Papini, was found alive and safe.

Cody Salfen will never forget the moment back in 2016 when he learned missing Redding mother, Sherri Papini, was found alive and safe. Audrey Asistio reports.

A settlement has been reached in a civil rights lawsuit in Palo Alto after a violent arrest in February 2018 involving a gay man who alleged officers used excessive force and mocked his homosexuality.

One of the Palo Alto police officers who’s named as a defendant in a federal civil rights lawsuit is no longer with the department, officials said Thursday.

Home surveillance video obtained by NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit shows Palo Alto police officers pulling Gustavo Alvarez from his home in the Buena Vista Mobile Home Park before he says he was beaten and unjustifiably arrested on suspicion of driving with a suspended license.

The gripping abduction case of a Redding mother who was found alive after missing for three weeks has captured national attention, and one investigator from Silicon Valley says it’s an unusually happy turn for such cases.