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Pedestrian Struck By Car In Walnut Creek Monday
A man walking with his wife was struck by a car in the area of South Main Street and Botelho Drive Monday afternoon, suffering a laceration to his head. The 1:54 pm collision touched off a brief road closure and resultant traffic jam as motorists looked for ways around the site. The victim was alert…
Read More“Hello? Is This NEWS24/680/80/580?”
We’re defined by our own company name, which is – for the record – NEWS24/680. We chose the name because our bisecting highways have served as ready identifiers for our area of coverage. None of that seemed to matter yesterday as we were flooded by incoming calls about a developing incident at a theatre complex…
Read MoreWalnut Creek PD Investigating Morning Shots Fired Call; Victim Located
Walnut Creek police are on the scene of a suspected shooting incident reported in the 100 block of Sierra Drive early Saturday. A police response to the scene located a victim suffering from unspecified wounds not far away. That person has been transferred to John Muir Hospital. The suspect’s custody status was not immediately known.…
Read MoreCareful When Picking Your Co-Conspirators
A gentleman in Walnut Creek found himself in bracelets Friday after allegedly asking a passersby he met on the street if he wanted to help burglarize a local business in the 2600 block of N. Main Street. Turned out the chosen collaborator was related to the owner of the targeted business so – as they…
Read MoreSome Photos Are Just Begging For A Good Caption…
We’re in a bit of a news cycle here on the site and Holy Moley are the wires singing with Flashers Flashing, readers writing, photographers shooting and writers overloading and trying to put it all into words. Fat chance. Most of you know about the unfortunate crash into a Walnut Creek post office branch on…
Read MoreBuilding-Ramming Trend Continues – This Time It’s A Walnut Creek Post Office
Hopefully not a portent of things to come but a second vehicle made its way into a local building Friday morning, hours after an Orinda police SUV lodged itself in the local Wells Fargo Bank branch. This time, a Jeep driver pushed through the front doors of the postal branch at 2244 Oak Grove Road,…
Read MorePostal Truck Robbers In Custody; Gun Recovered
As we Flashed to those of you who Flash, Concord Police tracked and stopped a car believed to have been used in the robbery of a postal truck in the city earlier in the day at about 10 p.m. Thursday. Patrol Officers and detectives identified the suspect vehicle and involved persons and initiated a high-risk…
Read MoreOrinda PD Car Crashes Into Orinda Wells Fargo Thursday; Pursuing Theft Suspects
An Orinda police officer, apparently attempting to catch up to auto burglary suspects fleeing from Moraga into Orinda; lost control of his car and crashed through the brick wall of the Orinda Wells Fargo bank branch at 80 Moraga Way Thursday. The crash was reported at 11:30 p.m., shortly after police reportedly started getting reports…
Read MoreAnother Suburban Bank Mugging – This Time In Danville
A Chase Bank patron was robbed of her purse, phone and wallet by a hold-up crew in a blue grey sedan as she went about her business in the Danville Livery Shopping Center, 661 San Ramon Valley Boulevard Thursday. Police recovered the victim’s phone, apparently jettisoned from the car and found in the middle of…
Read MoreMissing Your Mail? Concord Postal Carrier Robbed At Gunpoint Thursday
A Concord mail carrier was held at gunpoint as his mail and packages were taken by up to three armed men Thursday. The getaway car with reportedly Nevada plates and gunmen is still at large. Happened on Salem St. just off Mendocino Dr. A large Concord Police presence at the scene about 1:30pm. Agents were…
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