Authorities say Chemon Parks, 23, coerced a woman into having sex for money, and was at times violent toward her, for more than six weeks.
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Police: Sex offender charged with felony indecent exposure outside Cal fraternity
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Police: Man charged with sex crimes, ‘hot prowl’ burglaries of Cal students
Police say the man masturbated in one young woman’s bedroom and made explicit sexual remarks to young women in another home.
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BHS student charged after felony sexual assault of fellow student on campus
The sexual assault occurred during school hours, police said.
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Man held to answer in 2 stranger rapes dating back more than a decade
This week, for the first time, two women testified in court about how they were attacked.
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Berkeley school district faces 2 more child sex abuse lawsuits
The lawsuits claim staff members at two elementary schools sexually abused students in 1967 and 1995 and the schools failed to stop it.
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Berkeley man charged with sex crime series in Berkeley, Albany, Oakland
Police say the earliest incident took place March 30 when a man who said he had a knife sexually assaulted a 9-year-old in Albany. This was followed by a sexual assault on Colusa Avenue.
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Man gets 24-year sentence in armed Berkeley stranger rape series from 2008
The trail went cold for nearly a decade until police got the man’s fingerprints due to a minor traffic violation in 2016.
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Police ask for help to find assailant from North Berkeley sex crime Thursday
A woman was walking on Colusa Avenue when a stranger approached her from behind, threatened to have a knife and then sexually assaulted her.
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Crime roundup: Carjacking at BART, shooting suspect charged, $50K reward offered in cold case murder
Berkeley native Tobias Eagle was just 30 years old when he was fatally shot in his backyard on Blake Street. Detectives are still trying to solve the case.
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Update: Teacher in sexual assault suits has license revoked
Matthew Bissell is no longer allowed to teach in California public schools after a commission permanently revoked his teaching credential.
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Reports of suspicious man at Berkeley school lead to arrest of BUSD custodian
Staff say the man has circled Sylvia Mendez Elementary at least 10 times since October. He was identified as a BUSD employee only after his arrest.