Orinda Teacher Arrested For “Unlawful Relationship” With Two Students While At Acalanes High School
On Wednesday, January 8, 2020, at about 6:30 PM, Detectives from the Contra Costa County Office of the Sheriff arrested 54-year-old Kyle Ann Wood at her home in Pleasant Hill. The Lafayette Police Department, assisted by the Sheriff’s Office Investigation Division, recently began an investigation into Wood after receiving reports of alleged inappropriate and unlawful…
Concord, Walnut Creek Beset By Multiple Burglaries Wednesday; Possible Arrests In Concord
A flurry of brazen kick-in burglaries ripped through Concord and Walnut Creek this morning, thieves putting the boot to resident’s front doors and making off with everything from guns to electronics. Concord Police did stop a carload of suspected burglars on Kaitlin Place, detaining the occupants at gunpoint and processing the car. This is ongoing…
Hayward Pair Take Danville’s Bait (Bike) – Don’t Get Very Far
From Danville PD: Danville Police this morning arrested two individuals in connection with the attempted theft of a police department bait bike. At approximately 7:52 am, Danville Police Detectives were alerted via the Bait Bike GPS system that someone was tampering with the bike located near the intersection of Hartz and Railroad Avenues. An undercover…
Thieves Target Safeway Pharmacy In Pleasant Hill Friday; Two Men Arrested Within Minutes
Two men have been detained following a strong-arm robbery believed to have been targeting prescription drugs at the Safeway pharmacy on Contra Costa Boulevard Friday night. Witnesses said two men entered the store shortly after 7 p.m. Friday, eventually vaulting a counter to the pharmacy and allegedly assaulting a worker. An ambulance was called to…
Wanted Felon Arrested Following Pursuit From Lafayette To San Leandro
On Thursday, January 2, 2020, at about 11:16 PM, the Contra Costa County Office of the Sheriff was advised of a stolen vehicle on Highway 24. The vehicle was stolen out of Alameda County. A Lafayette police officer located the stolen vehicle on westbound 24 at the Wilder exit and followed it. The Sheriff’s Office…
Dublin Man Arrested After Brief Chase Through Downtown Danville Friday
A blip on an Automated License Plate Reader triggered a brief car chase, a slightly longer and more dramatic foot chase, and the eventual arrest of a local man on a burglary warrant Friday. Town spokesman Geoff Gillette said a prepositioned ALPR device recorded the passage of a stolen car downtown at 8:27 a.m., officers…
Dublin PD Investigating New Year’s Day Shootout
Police in Dublin are attempting to sort out a lethal, armed encounter at a home in the 3400 block of Monagham Street reported at 11:30 p.m. on Jan. 1. According to the resident of the home, he was awakened by someone pounding on his front door at that time and, when he went to investigate,…
Six House Burglaries In San Ramon Saturday – Police Looking For “Organized, Selective” Crew Of Thieves
We first wrote of an apparent “burglary flurry” in San Ramon on Saturday night as residents and neighbors began to realize a dedicated crew of thieves was in town and busy. San Ramon PD Sgt. Bob Ransom on Monday confirmed that a total of six homes were broken into and a variety of items taken…
Pleasanton-Dublin Reels After Christmas Day Crash Leaves Three Teens Dead, Two Injured
Three teenagers – two twin brothers among them – died Christmas night after a Hyundai with five youths aboard crashed near the Castlewood Country Club outside of Pleasanton. A family member said twins Mark and Michael Urista, 16, both died in the crash, reported just before 10 p.m. Wednesday on northbound Foothill Road north of…
Burglars Bedevil The 24/680 – Four Break-ins In Orinda Thursday
No city or town seems exempt from a recent spate of local burglaries and some areas are getting especially hard hit on an apparently rotating basis. Thursday was Orinda’s turn in the crosshairs, apparently, with Chief of Police David Cook confirming his officers dealt with four residential burglaries over the course of their day. “The…