Pursuit Flurry In The 24/680 Wednesday
We are not sure why but several – apparently unrelated – groups of alleged bad guys are running from police on our namesake freeways Wednesday. One car was eventually stopped at the Wilder exit in Orinda and at least one person detained by police. Reports that a child was found in the car, which reportedly…
Fatal Motorcycle Crash On Crockett Boulevard Saturday
At about 10:19pm Saturday, CHP Contra Costa was advised of a solo motorcycle crash on southbound Crockett Boulevard north of Cummings Skyway with passersby reporting a rider down and in the road. Officers determined that the motorcycle had been traveling south at an undetermined speed when for reasons unknown it collided with the guardrail. During…
Antioch Store Clerk Shot, Killed During Botched Robbery Saturday
From the Antioch police department: On 11/26/22, at approximately 02:05 AM, the Antioch Police Department Dispatch Center received an emergency call from 2701 Contra Loma Boulevard. The call was from an employee at the Extra Mile convenience store. Several Antioch police officers responded to the scene and found a male down on the floor, just…
Chanel Scanned, Returned After Pinole Home Invasion
To the list of objects desired by the local criminal element it appears we can add French Bulldogs. A Pinole resident and bulldog named Chanel found this out the hard way when several men forced open the front door of a home in the 500 block of Sunnyview Drive at 12:36 p.m. on Nov. 17.…
Dublin Shooting Death Appears To Be Self-Defense, Police Say
A November 20 shooting at the Sofi Apartments, 7100 block of San Ramon Road, appears to have been self-defense, Dublin police reported Tuesday. An initial investigation into the shooting has found that a woman’s estranged husband confronted another man at the apartment that afternoon, the pair getting into an argument that escalated and ended with…
Danville ATM Stickup Latest In String Of Robberies At Area Banks
A Danville resident became the latest in a string of victims to learn the hard lesson that thieves favor bank robberies because: “That’s where the money is…” As we reported shortly after it happened Monday night, the victim was at the Chase Bank branch in the Danville Livery when she was approached by a “heavy-set”…
Five Dead In Midnight, Head-On Crash In Pittsburg
Five people – three of them juveniles – died in a head-on collision on westbound SR4 just west of Loveridge Road in Pittsburg early Thursday, one of the two cars involved in the crash bursting into flame after the impact. The crash was reported just after midnight, California Highway Patrol officers finding four people in…
Chaos In Concord Wednesday After Construction Crew Nicks Gas Line
An excavator was destroyed Wednesday after a crew working in the 2700 block of Grant Street in Concord nicked a gas line and scattered as the area was consumed by fire. Firefighters were unable to save the vehicle but were able to control the blaze until PG&E crews arrived to shut down the gas line…
Note-Passing Bank Robber Visits Lafayette Wells Fargo Tuesday
Police and bank officials still assessing how much cash was lost but a lone robber entered the Wells Fargo bank branch at 3630 Mt. Diablo Boulevard at 2 p.m. Tuesday, passing a note to the teller demanding money. The suspect, described as a white male in his 30s, bald, blue eyes, wearing a brown beanie,…
Two Dead In Walnut Creek Townhome Blaze
Two people died and a third was injured when a 2-alarm fire tore through a townhouse on Countrywood Court in Walnut Creek Monday. The fire, which Contra Costa County Fire Protection District sources said was confined to three units in the complex, has been declared accidental in nature by ConFire investigators. The area of origin…