Oakland
CRIME & SAFETY
Oakland police investigate possible shootout
OAKLAND, Calif. - Oakland police are investigating a possible shootout between two people on Tuesday afternoon. The police department said the shooting occurred around 3 p.m. in the 6200 block of Hillmont Drive. Officers arrived at the scene after receiving a ShotSpotter activation. When officers arrived at the scene, they...
Mother-daughter's 2nd clothing store in Oakland hit by burglar
OAKLAND, Calif. - A mother and daughter's clothing store in Oakland's Rockridge District was broken into early Tuesday, weeks after their other store in the city was burglarized on Easter Sunday. "It's sad. I feel like we are in a lawless city," Brenda Sheree Taylor as she surveyed the damage...
CHP chases down driver in Oakland who tried to flee in retired police car
The driver of a stolen car fleeing from police abandoned the vehicle and tried to escape by stealing a retired police car, the California High Patrol said Saturday.Officers saw a white Infiniti G37 with no license plates while patrolling May 3 in the vicinity of San Leandro Street near Hegenberger Road. They gave chase when the driver of the stolen car refused to stop, the highway patrol said.An Oakland Police Department helicopter helped track the driver to East 8th Street where the driver abandoned the Infiniti and fled into a homeless encampment, the CHP said.Seeing police, the suspect attempted to flee by stealing a retired police car — a black and white Ford Crown Victoria equipped with aftermarket police lights, Officer Adib Zeid said.CHP units successfully intercepted the vehicle.Officers discovered a concealed backpack belonging to the driver containing two loaded firearms, drugs, and drug paraphernalia, according to a Facebook post Saturday by the CHP's Oakland area office.The driver was booked into Santa Rita Jail accused of multiple felonies and misdemeanors, the CHP said.
Oakland CHP Arrests Suspect and Recovers Stolen Vehicles and Firearms After High-Speed Chase
California Highway Patrol officers in Oakland scored a two-fer when they nabbed a suspect, thus recovering a pair of stolen vehicles and two loaded firearms earlier this month. The action unfolded in the vicinity of San Leandro Street near Hegenberger Road when officers clocked a license plate-less white Infiniti G37, according to the official CHP Oakland Area Facebook page. Things went from zero to sixty when the driver decided to give the cops the slip, touching off a pursuit.
Smashed cars, busted building: Tourist bus gets close-up view of chaotic robbery aftermath
San Francisco police detained two people after a robbery and hit-and-run collision Tuesday morning in the city's Richmond District, according to authorities. The incident happened around 10:34 a.m., when a woman was allegedly accosted by two strange men who forced her to the ground and stole her belongings near Balboa Street and 26th Avenue, the San Francisco Police Department said.
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