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Suspects Fleeing South On I680 Collide With Innocent Driver At Speeds Topping 100mph
A car fleeing from a Danville police unit and a sheriff’s deputy in the Danville area hopped onto southbound Interstate 680 at 12:20 p.m. Thursday and, after accelerating away at speeds well in excess of 100mph – collided with another car near the Sycamore Valley exit. The occupants of the wanted Chrysler 300 were treated…
Read MoreFormer Oakland Fire Captain – And Lafayette Resident – Pleads Guilty To Possession Of Child Pornography
From the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office: On Tuesday December 5th, 2017, Richard Chew, a 58-year-old resident of Lafayette, pleaded guilty to one count of possession of child pornography. As a result of his guilty plea, Chew was sentenced to 150 days in jail, three years of probation and was ordered to register as…
Read MoreLamorinda Manhunt Called Off After Laptop Snatch At St. Mary’s College Wednesday
Lamorinda police – with help from outside agencies – threw up a perimeter in the area of Moraga Way and Orchard Road after three suspects sped away officers after a strong-arm laptop theft at St. Mary’s College in Moraga Wednesday. The suspects, driving an older model black Jeep, sped from the college shortly after the…
Read MoreWeary Of Your Neighbor’s Talking Rudolph? Hold Your Blaster Fire, Luke – The Powells Are At It Again!
As Holiday fixtures go you have your Bobbing Head Rudolph, the Waving Santa you bought for $59.99 down at OSH and plugged in yourself. Then you have the 700-pound scale replica of the Millenium Falcon Lafayette Space Cadet Colby Powell built for his family and hoisted atop his roof with help of a crane. So…
Read MoreElves Tiptoeing Around The 24/680 – Not All Of Them BRINGING Gifts
Don’t want to dampen the prevailing good cheer around town these days but we’re getting tons of calls about suspicious cars and people and suspicious cars with people and people apparently bent on taking what’s out on our porches this Holiday Season. Martinez police, tipped by an alert neighbor in their city yesterday, located a…
Read MoreArmchair Detective Work: Lafayette PD Hoping To ID Car From Surveillance Photos
The boys and girls down in the crime lab at Lafayette PD are looking for a little consensus on nomenclature – Year/Make/Model – for this car, sought in connection with an auto burglary in their town on Nov. 20. To be clear, this is for police use. They have had some luck identifying cars used…
Read MoreMartinez Athletic Club Owner Arrested On Suspicion Of Lewd Acts With Child
From the Martinez Police Department: On Tuesday November 28, 2017 Investigators from the Martinez Police Department arrested 41-year-old Martinez resident Benjamin Matthew Borsellino. Borsellino is the owner of the Martinez Athletic Club, where a search warrant was served. Borsellino was booked into the Martinez Detention Facility on four (4) counts of Lewd and Lascivious acts with…
Read MoreRuth Bancroft – Creator Of The Garden That Bears Her Name – Dies Sunday At 109
Ruth Bancroft was a collector and skilled plantswoman who created numerous gardens around her home, the most notable of which became a public garden and plant nursery. Born in Massachusetts and raised in Berkeley, where her father was a classics professor at the University of California, Ruth developed a love of plants as a child…
Read MoreMoraga’s Canyon Bridge Re-Opens – One Lane Of It, Anyway – And It’s Getting A Workout
Moragans have been beset by traffic issues in recent months and some were starting to feel a little more cut off from the rest of the world than they would have liked. We won’t mention the Unmentionable Hole as it has been successfully filled in and while engineers and construction people are still working on…
Read MoreUPDATE: Arrest Made In Sweet Drive Burglary; Lafayette PD Says Charges Pending
UPDATE: Images of a vehicle captured on neighborhood cameras as it left the scene of a burglary on Sweet Drive Thursday have led to the identification of the car and the arrest of a suspect, Lafayette police said Wednesday. Witnesses confirmed the vehicle captured on the cameras was the vehicle from the crime scene and LPD…
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