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Sporty Burglars Raid Deerpark Drive Garage In Walnut Creek Thursday
Burglars entered the garage of a Deerpark Drive home sometime between Wednesday night and Thursday morning, according to residents in the neighborhood, entering through an unlocked side door and making off with bicycles and other sporting equipment. The theft is among a large number of other petty (but not so petty if you’re a victim)…
Read MoreThunder Runs, Bad Boys And Blackouts – It’s Thursday In The 24/680!
If that “No Rest for the Wicked” adage holds true we must be really, really bad because our candlestick phones are jangling and that newfangled email system we have from the InterWeb has been burning red hot! No sleep for us here in the news bunker. Experience has shown us that news comes in bursts…
Read MoreGearhead Alert: Lafayette PD Looking For Additional Details On Suspected Burglary Car
Lafayette police are attempting to get some additional information on the year, type, number of French Fries under the front seat, etc., of this Nissan XTerra, sought in connection with a commercial burglary in town recently. Veteran readers and Gearjammers know that the PD knows we have a following of folks who know their way…
Read MoreSan Ramon PD – Alert Civilian – Team Up To Take Down Two Suspected Auto Burglars Tuesday
The Jungle Drums that are our Tip Lines lit up Tuesday evening as San Ramon residents wrote us asking about an ongoing police action in the Market Place area last night. Police say an alert citizen called officers regarding a suspicious person and car in the shopping area parking lot and police responded, getting there…
Read MoreAngst Behind The Wheel: Head Banging And Road Raging In Sloburbia
It’s safe to say that all those old ads showing smiling, chisel-jawed drivers motoring down spotless, remarkably uncongested freeways in the far off 50’s lived only in an Ad Man’s imagination, with real-world conditions on local roads proving to be far, far different. This site received word from reader/commuters of a “nasty accident” on Southbound…
Read MoreWalnut Creek Police Investigate Shooting Incident, Seal Off Candelero Drive At Treat Blvd.
Walnut Creek police appear to be investigating a shooting incident reported in the area of Candelero and Treat sometime this morning. The intersection was sealed off for some time but residents report those restrictions are easing as police wind down their investigation. A canine search team was also reportedly called in to search for either…
Read MoreCar Burglaries Continue To Plague 24/680 Residents – And They’re Not Happy
Nothing turns people off like redundancy of information and we’ve been writing about this issue for a long, long time but the tide does not seem to be turning in favor of the law abiding. So we post this cautionary message. Timothy sent in the attached picture of a friend’s Prius, breached and rummaged through…
Read MorePleasant Hill Man Detained Saturday After Overnight SWAT Response On Boyd Road
Hundreds of Pleasant Hill residents were ordered to shelter in their homes and not venture outside late Friday and into Saturday morning after reports reached police of a man, reportedly carrying an assault-type rifle and wearing a ballistic vest, walking on Boyd Road at 10:31 p.m. On Saturday, officers detained a a 33-year-old resident of…
Read MoreInvestigators Determine Moraga’s Armstrong Brothers Had Influenza Virus At The Time Of Their Death
Investigators looking into the deaths of brothers Gary and Richard Armstrong in Moraga January 15 have determined that both men had the flu virus at the time of their deaths – coroner’s officials classifying their deaths as “natural.” Moraga Police Chief Jon King said Friday the results of tests conducted by the Coroner’s Division of…
Read MoreSideshow Participant Charged With Attempted Murder Of A Police Officer
The Contra Costa District Attorney’s Office has filed multiple felony charges against Juan Noel Vargas and Genesis Castaneda stemming from a incident during a street sideshow in Richmond January 28. Charges against Vargas, who was driving at the time of the incident, include Attempted Murder of a Police Officer and Assault with a Deadly Weapon.…
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