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: 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.
The Case Of The Quick-Changing Contractor – What Really Happened On Lucas Court?
One of the strangest cases to cross the police blotters in Lamorinda in recent years will be played out in a Martinez courtroom.
Rare Four-Alarm Grass Fire Prompts Huge Response In Orinda
A smokey, wind-whipped grass fire flared up on the ridgelands overlooking Ivy and Descanso drives in Orinda shortly after 1 p.m. Monday, prompting a rare Four-Alarm response and a massive turnout by area firefighters.