WALNUT CREEK: Transient Arrested After Sunday Night Wine Storage Arson
A “known transient” was arrested after an arson fire damaged a wine storage facility on Arroyo Way Sunday night. Police said surveillance cameras caught the suspect at the scene. NEWS24-680 reported the outbreak of fire in a strip mall at 1207 Arroyo Way in Walnut Creek at 9:20 p.m. Sunday, firefighters finding a gas can…
WALNUT CREEK: Woman Kidnapped, Driven To Bank, Robbed At Gunpoint
A Walnut Creek woman was confronted in her front yard by an armed intruder who drove her to a downtown bank and forced her to withdraw money while he waited outside Tuesday morning.
SAN RAMON: Twenty Felony Charges Filed In Cal High Wrestling Coach Case
The Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office filed 20 felony charges of sexual impropriety with minors against the 27-year-old head wrestling coach at California High School in San Ramon.
SAN RAMON: Cal High’s Head Wrestling Coach Arrested; Suspicion Of Child Molestation
San Ramon police have arrested the head wrestling coach at California High School after investigators were informed of an illicit relationship between the coach and a minor child.
WALNUT CREEK: Police Officer Resigns, Pleads No Contest To Baseball Bat Attack
A serving Walnut Creek police officer resigned days before he entered a no contest plea to assault and vandalism charges stemming from an early morning baseball bat assault on a woman he felt was vandalizing a family property in Richmond.
WALNUT CREEK: City Officer Arrested For Richmond Assault
A Walnut Creek police officer remains on paid administrative leave this week after allegedly assaulting a woman with a bat in Richmond Aug. 16. Officer Gregory Thompson, 53, of Martinez, was arrested in Richmond after witnesses called police to report a masked man assaulting a woman there.
DANVILLE: Local Math Teacher Arrested On Child Porn Charges
A 58-year-old middle school mathematics teacher was arrested early Friday after police served a search warrant at his home in an unincorporated part of town. Mitchell Wolf, a teacher at Diablo Vista Middle School, is currently in custody on charges of possessing child pornography.
WALNUT CREEK: Three Arrested For Nightclub Drug Sales
Three people have been arrested for allegedly selling cocaine at downtown Walnut Creek restaurants, bars, and nightclubs, police announced Wednesday.
MORAGA: School District Pays Up For Predatory Teachers
Tiny Moraga, proud of its schools and the achievements of its students, now also has the dubious distinction of paying out a record $14 million settlement to former students who were preyed on sexually for years while district officials looked away.
Terraces Lite – What’s Not To Like?
Almost from the moment it was proposed the Terraces of Lafayette project came out swinging, with lawyers and developers expressing a willingness to bludgeon the city into submission and push the project through.