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Lafayette Gas Station Robbery Ends Badly For Robber Tuesday
A robbery at a downtown Lafayette Chevron station sparked a circuitous pursuit, crash, brief foot pursuit and eventually ended in the capture of a suspect on Howard Hills Road. The incident was reported at approximately 12:30 p.m. with a suspect holding up a person at the station and fleeing west on Mt. Diablo Boulevard in…
Read MoreThe Walking Invisibles – When The Demons Take Control
We get a lot of photos now. People send them to us because, apparently, it’s clear that we like them. Some are unintentionally funny, a big, fleshy finger across mid-frame, or the composition disrupted and a-kilter – as if the picture had been taken in the middle of a 7.2 quake. Bobcats. Butterflies. Baseball games.…
Read MoreOrinda Neighbors Look Up “EOD” After Military Ordnance Turns Up In Local Home
Eyebrows lifted skyward in Orinda Monday when a truck carrying a military bomb disposal squad and with EOD painted on its side rolled up to take possession of a rusty old missile located in a local home. No one in an official capacity was willing to talk on the record but to our untrained eye…
Read MoreSuspects In Moraga Wells Fargo Mugging Sought In Other Bank Assault Cases Sunday
A woman robbed outside the Moraga Wells Fargo Bank Branch Sunday was the latest in a string of victims targeted by thieves driving a white BMW SUV and striking at bank branches throughout the East Bay. The unidentified bank patron told police she was confronted by a group of young, black males ages 16 to…
Read More“Saturday’s Alright For Fightin'” – Brawls, Arrests In Downtown Walnut Creek
The city’s downtown club scene turned a bit ugly Saturday after a sizable brawl broke out at 1515 Main Street, spilling over into several smaller fights and skirmishes that kept police on the run and busy into early morning. Other disturbances were reported at Main at Bonanza by a Wells Fargo with a large number…
Read MoreRaw Video From Scene Of Officer-Involved Shooting In Martinez Friday
Police opened fire on one of two cars fleeing the scene of an attempted burglary at a Martinez Cannabis dispensary early Friday morning. (See earlier story) One man was killed and another believed wounded. Two more hurt in a resulting crash. The four police officers who opened fire after one of the cars allegedly veered…
Read MoreShots Fired Following Attempted Burglary Of Martinez Cannabis Dispensary Friday; At Least Two Hit
A large portion of Sunrise Drive off of Pacheco Drive in Martinez has been closed off as police investigate what is initially believed to be the attempted burglary of a local cannabis dispensary – followed by an apparent shooting in which four officers opened fire and one suspect died of his wounds. Tahmon Kenneth Wilson,…
Read MoreFire Damages Sierra Drive Home In Walnut Creek Thursday
Fire tore through the attic of a home in the 200 block of Sierra Drive in Walnut Creek on Thursday, causing considerable damage and briefly going to 2-alarms before crews were able to bring it under control. Neighbors reported seeing smoke coming from the home at approximately 2:16 p.m. and arriving firefighters reportedly found smoke…
Read MoreShot Fired At Walnut Creek Walgreen Wednesday
A man, believed to have been intending self-harm, drove his pickup truck to the Walgreens store at 2900 N. Main Wednesday night, announced an intention to kill himself and fired at least once into the air in the parking lot at that location. A police search for the individual, described as a white male, about…
Read MorePoking Our Heads Above The Parapet
One of the many hard-earned lessons we’ve learned in this business is that people are perfectly happy urging someone else (us) to leave the safety of the trench and tackle a difficult subject they won’t. This dovetails neatly into another hard-learned lesson: that the person who leaves said trench (us) is usually the first trooper…
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