Knife-Wielding Rider Arrested After Orinda BART Assault
A 20-year-old Menlo Park man was arrested at the Orinda BART station Friday following a possible robbery of one person and an assault on another resulting in bodily injury.
Police responded to the station at approximately 9:20pm Friday after a report of a fight aboard the train, one person allegedly swinging a small, hooked knife.
When police arrived one victim had left the scene and boarded another train, though officers located another person down with a substantial facial injury on the platform.
Officers following witness direction eventually located a suspect, Toetuu Tameifuna and took him into custody – using force after Tameifuna allegedly resisted attempts to take him into custody.
Tameifuna is currently in custody at Martinez Detention Facility on suspicion of robbery and assault and battery charges. His bail has been set at $130,000.
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Public transportation can be a crap shoot
Hopefully some police dog got to take a bite out of crime.
Not good.
Robbing someone on a BART train doesn’t strike me as the brightest move.
Was he just riding Bart looking for victims? Did he even pay his fare to be on the train?
Well, I’m open-minded enough to think that this kind of crime does not require access to public transportation, whether transit is paid or stolen. Maybe Dan is right. “Robbing someone on a BART train doesn’t strike me as the brightest move.”
Your notion of the situation: “Was he just riding Bart looking for victims?” sounds alarmist, no? Are we not safe? Where are the police?
I like to think that we do have police. I like to think that we are safe. I like to think that we can sleep at night. I wish for everyone to have a reasoned perspective on this problem.
I stopped riding BART years ago. Too dangerous.
Never bring a knife to a gunfight.
Firestone 11R
Baaaa. Baaaa. As the saying goes, a predator can smell fear. Even that big human brain with all of its power of reason doesn’t seem to protect some people from projecting noxious, amplified fear across the web-o-sphere. Some people are not meant to leave the security of their own bed.