Moraga’s Campolindo High School, Other Bay Area Schools Targeted In Mass Swatting Incident
A specific threat of an armed person on the campus at Moraga’s Campolindo High School brought police on the double Tuesday with officers conducting a thorough search of the school before it was determined similar phone threats had been made to other area schools. The threats were similar in that they mentioned a specific, vengeful…
Felony Kidnap/Battery Charges Brought Against SRVUSD Student After Assault On School Official
A 16-year-old San Ramon Valley Unified School District student faces felony kidnapping and aggravated battery charges following a violent attack on a school official outside a Homecoming Dance at California High School in San Ramon on Saturday night. Two youths, who are not being identified due to their ages, were approached by a female Cal…
Friday Night Lights
Our gridiron days have long passed but apparently there were some high school games in the 24/680 tonight – and some youthful revelry afterward. Boolah Boolah. Hope your team won… these kids gathered in WalnutCreek for some post-game celebration.
Dublin Police Services Investigating Assault At Dublin High School
Investigators in Dublin are seeking information in the on-campus assault of a 15-year-old male victim at Dublin High School on August 23. Police said they went to the high school at about 3:30 p.m. on that day to find the youth suffering from non life-threatening injuries suffered in an apparent beating. Investigators determined that the…
Hoax Threat Forces Lockdowns Of Lamorinda Schools; Police Response, Traffic
Hoax call threatening violence at Lamorinda schools prompts school lockdowns, massive police response, campus searches, traffic throughout Orinda and Moraga Monday. Miramonte High School, Orinda Intermediate School and Del Rey School were all locked down upon receipt of the messaging, which hinted darkly of persons coming to the school to do harm. Residents on local…
School Threats Continue – Latest Today At Lafayette’s Stanley School
The unwelcome rash of anonymous threats against local schools appears to be continuing unabated, with students and parents reeling from the latest hint to “shoot up” a local school in Lafayette. Parents with children at Stanley Middle School received an explanatory letter from Principal Brian Mangold Monday confirming reports that a student had threatened to…
Cal High Classroom Intrusion Sparks Questions About Campus Security
As we noted at the time, three Dublin teens made their way onto the Cal High campus Monday, pushed past a math teacher and assaulted a student in class as classmates scattered. The trio eventually left campus and have subsequently been identified, but the incident was – of course – filmed by a student with…
Latest “Swatting” Incident Panics Pleasant Hill School, Parents
The latest in what appears to be a nation-wide trend toward “Swatting” – or calling down a heavy police presence on an unwitting subject – briefly panicked students and parents in Pleasant Hill Monday. As we reported via our Flash Alert system at the time, police responded to Pleasant Hill Elementary School, 2097 Oak Park…
Details Of Northgate High Stabbing Come To Light Tuesday
A male freshman at Northgate High School in Walnut Creek remains in custody at juvenile hall, facing charges of attempted murder and mayhem, after he allegedly lured a female classmate to a secluded part of the campus and attacked her with a knife without warning April 25. The girl, who reportedly underwent surgery to repair…
San Ramon’s Cal High Locked Down After Phone Threat Wednesday
Administrators at California High School in San Ramon invoked lockdown protocols for the campus Wednesday after a phone threat from an individual believed to have called on a disguised or “spoofed” phone line. As in another recent incident at Las Lomas High School in Walnut Creek, Wednesday’s threat coincided with others received at other schools…