San Ramon Bank Robbed Monday, Hostage Briefly Taken… Released
San Ramon police are searching for a man who entered the US Bank branch at 2821 Crow Canyon Monday, briefly taking a hostage before making off with an undetermined amount of cash. Police determined the suspect entered the bank at approximately 11:59 a.m., contacting several bank tellers and demanding money, telling them to give him large bills. …
LOCATED: NEWS24/680 Gearjammers ID This Car – Police Find It With Stolen Items Still Inside
UPDATE: Lafayette police announced a breakthrough in a case they are working – the first “kick-in” burglary in the city in 2017. This was especially galling for the folks at LPD and they went to work tracking a car believed to have been used in the crime – releasing surveillance photos so the Pit Crew…
Spike In Broken Car Windows Along Highway 24 In Lafayette; CHP Looking For Cause
There are a number of things that can cause automotive glass to shatter spontaneously and when it happens many shocked drivers usually fear the worst – that they have been shot at or someone has thrown something at their car. A recent spike in the number of cases involving shattered windows along Highway 24 in…
Sheriff’s Investigators, FBI Working With Orinda PD To Recover Weapon Stolen From Agent’s Car
Detectives from the Contra Costa County Office of the Sheriff Investigation Division are working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Orinda police after an MP5 semi-automatic rifle, ammunition, and a police vest were stolen from an agent’s car. Investigators said the 10 mm rifle was lawfully stored in the vehicle. Anyone with any information…
One Arrested, One Hospitalized After Foot Chase In Danville Monday
Officers in Danville spotted a car listed as stolen at the Railroad Avenue parking lot in town Monday and attempted to contact two people as they returned to the car with unintended results, according to spokesman Geoff Gillette. The incident kicked off at approximately 1:10 p.m. Monday as officers were alerted to a stolen Nissan Sentra via…
Car Belonging To Missing Teen Found In Alameda Creek; Recovery Operation Underway
Swift water rescue experts and divers reached the battered car belonging to a Tracy teen missing since a car accident sent the vehicle plunging into raging Alameda Creek Saturday. Divers found Jayda Jenkins’ upended Honda Accord far downstream from where a witness said he saw it go into the water shortly after the accident Saturday.…
Moraga Man Dead After Domestic Confrontation Goes Wrong Sunday
Police found a Moraga man dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound early Sunday after an armed confrontation at a Lafayette home earlier in the evening touched off a widespread but initially futile search involving police helicopter and canine units. Neighbors reported seeing a heavily armed police presence outside a Moraga home around 1 a.m. Sunday,…
Danville Man Dies After Pleasant Hill Freeway Crash
A Danville man died after his pickup truck left Highway 680 at around 8:58 a.m. Tuesday, striking two other cars before eventually coming to rest partially inside an unoccupied home. The 77-year-old victim was unconscious and unresponsive inside his white Ford F-250 when bystanders and first responders reached him, according to the CHP. In the initial…
Friends, Students Mourn Loss Of Lafayette Teacher Killed In Berkeley Double Stabbing
Friends of Lafayette’s Sienna Ranch were reeling Sunday night with the news that a popular local teacher had been killed during an apparent knife attack in Berkeley Friday. Berkeley police have yet to officially identify the young woman found dead in an Ashby Avenue home but a notice issued by Sienna Ranch over the weekend confirmed that…
Woman Killed By Falling Tree At Canyon Lakes Golf Course Saturday
A 56-year-old woman severely injured when she was struck on the head by a falling tree limb at the Canyon Lakes Golf Course Saturday morning has died of her injuries, according to police. The incident was reported at approximately 10:50 a.m. on the 7th hole of the golf course, the woman’s husband reporting that his…