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Anti-Crime Cameras Coming To Orinda
In an effort to reduce property theft related crimes, the Orinda Police Department will soon be utilizing Motion-Activated Surveillance Cameras (Reconyx) and an Automated License Plate Reader (ALPR) within the City of Orinda. The Reconyx cameras will be located at various locations throughout the city and the ALPR camera will be utilized on one patrol…
Read MoreRenegade Landscaper Continues To Fleece 24-680 Homeowners
We first wrote about him in February. For some up-front money he’d tend your yard. For more, he’d transform it into a Garden of Eden, or fix that poxy drainage issue. At least, that’s what he said he’d do. Like other pirate contractors operating in the 24-680 Corridor, investigators said Adan Rivas – or Contreras, it…
Read MoreOrinda-Based Thug Goats Invade, Defile Pebble Beach Home
Oh, those kids. And some adults, apparently, as a local goat herd on a vegetation-clearing mission in Pebble Beach butted in to a local home and made themselves comfortable last week – living up to their reputation as voracious eaters and chewing on everything from curtain ties to artificial flowers to real ones in the…
Read MoreMORAGA: Carr Ranch Saved From Development; Cows Breathe Easier
A 600-acre chunk of largely pristine California ridge land has been snatched off the list of local sites open to potential development, much to the joy of locals who once roamed its valleys, at least one resident mountain lion, and the cows who will continue to graze there. The John Muir Land Trust announced Thursday…
Read MoreLAFAYETTE: Mexican Colonial Masterpiece Rescued From Under Local Couch
An 18th century painting produced by the most accomplished Mexican artist of his age and lost over intervening decades has been located and recovered from its resting place: under Christina Jones Janssen’s couch in Lafayette. Miguel Cabrera’s long lost De Español y Morisca; Albina – number 6 in an allegorical series of paintings done by the artist in Mexico…
Read MoreMORAGA: Rare Street Robbery Rattles Little Moraga
In a criminal act rare for Moraga, two of three men who had apparently been riding through town in a search for a victim confronted and robbed a woman walking on Camino Ricardo at Danefield Place Monday evening – taking her purse and escaping in a black Mercedes with tinted windows. The incident was the…
Read MoreLAFAYETTE: Police Describe Takeover-Style Robbery Of Trader Joe’s
Lafayette police described the takeover-style robbery of the Lafayette Trader Joe’s store Saturday night, saying three suspects succeeded in robbing the store without displaying a weapon or firing a shot.
Read MoreALAMO: Home Invasion Robbery On Crest Avenue
At least three men, believed to be carrying “rifles” of unknown type, entered an Alamo home early Wednesday, threatened the occupants and demanded valuables before getting away with some of the occupant’s belongings, a sheriff’s spokesman said Wednesday.
Read MoreMARTINEZ: Former CHP Officer Pleads Guilty To Phone Cracking Charges
Former California Highway Patrol officer Sean Harrington pleaded no contest Tuesday to two felony counts of searching the cell phones of female DUI suspects and covertly forwarding intimate photos of the women to himself and other officers.
Read MoreLAMORINDA: High-Pressure Sales Teams Flood Neighborhoods; Sent Packing
Teams of organized, highly mobile and extremely aggressive salespeople descended on Moraga and Lafayette again Tuesday, inspiring the wrath of homeowners unused to their techniques and attracting the attention of police.
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