Bay Area daycare operator, son plead not guilty to gun, drug charges

During a held-to-answer arraignment in Solano County Superior Court, former Vallejo daycare operator and her son pleaded not guilty Wednesday to multiple gun and drug charges and face a trial setting in the coming weeks in Vallejo.

During the brief morning proceeding, Erica Higuera, 39, and her attorney, Thomas Maas, submitted a motion to Bryan J. Kim for pretrial release, with Maas arguing his client had been “hardworking for years” and “was not a dangerous person.”

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