Pacifica, CA|News|
Couple Recovers $12K From SMC Employer Who Stole Wages: Prosecutors
The owner of the greenhouses where the couple worked pleaded no contest after failing to pay the couple for months of labor.

albert.gregory@patch.com Albert Gregory (he/him) graduated from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, where he studied documentary filmmaking. At UC Berkeley, he shot, produced and edited his thesis film about the nearly half of domestic violence survivors who will not leave an abusive situation if they cannot bring their pet with them and one woman’s mission to eliminate that barrier. He also graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism from SF State where he served as the Managing Editor for Xpress the Magazine and was the Multimedia Editor for the Golden Gate Xpress newspaper. In addition, Albert was Editor-in-Chief at the Oak Leaf newspaper at Santa Rosa Junior College during the 2017 Tubbs Fire. He has also worked as a freelance writer/ photographer, and his work has appeared in The Press Democrat, USA Today, Bleacher Report and more. Albert was born in Portland, Oregon, but grew up a military brat on a Coast Guard base in Novato, California.
The owner of the greenhouses where the couple worked pleaded no contest after failing to pay the couple for months of labor.

The earthquake was reported just after 7:27 a.m.
The earthquake was reported just after 5:48 p.m.
Police said they found 86 grams of suspected cocaine on a man they were booking into the jail.
Police used surveillance technology to identify the suspect's car in the shooting.
Someone called 911 to report a man and a woman were fighting at a popular inn.
A 68-year-old man was shot by his family member who then barricaded himself in the garage, police said.
Police searching for a missing 78-year-old man for months found evidence that he may have been dragged away by a wild animal.
The fire department is asking locals to refrain from calling 911 to report smoke from this specific burn area.
The following are names of those recorded deceased in San Mateo County from November 10 to November 16, 2025.
The police said the grant will go towards traffic enforcement such as DUI checkpoints.
Police detected alcohol on a man's breath after he drove his car through the cemetery.
The following are names of those recorded deceased in San Mateo County from November 10 to November 16, 2025.
The following are names of those recorded deceased in San Mateo County from November 10 to November 16, 2025.
The following are names of those recorded deceased in San Mateo County from November 10 to November 16, 2025.
The following are names of those recorded deceased in San Mateo County from November 10 to November 16, 2025.
The outage was first reported at 3:23 p.m.
The California Highway Patrol sent out an alert for a girl last seen on Halloween.
There are major outages in multiple areas on the Peninsula.
Officers arrested two people after investigating a massage establishment, police said.