Pleasant Hill PD Looking For A Would-Be Bank Robber
Pleasant Hill PD would like some help identifying this man, seen here during an attempted bank robbery at the US Bank at a Safeway store on Contra Costa Boulevard on Friday May 31, 2019 around 10:20 am. Investigators said the suspect in this case passed a demand note, asking for an unspecified amount of cash.…
Moragan Jack O’Connor Dead At 92
He was an Irish kid from San Francisco orphaned while in his early teens, rescued from the orphanage by a caring aunt, drafted by an army that pushed him out of working airplanes and sent him off to invade Japan – only to have him return with a love of the language and people he…
Man Dies After Officer Involved Shooting In Walnut Creek Sunday
A local man with mental health issues briefly terrorized family members and neighboring residents of a Walnut Creek neighborhood before challenging responding officers with a metal pole – shaking off hits from non-lethal beanbag rounds before he was brought down by police gunfire Sunday. The man, identified by the Contra Costa County coroner’s office as…
Teen Seriously Injured By Older Youth In Concord Knife Attack; Arrest Made
A 16-year-old boy has been arrested for a knife attack on a younger boy in a Bel Air Drive apartment Thursday, the victim airlifted to a local hospital for treatment of multiple stab wounds. The attack occurred just before 2 p.m., with investigators saying three male teenagers, two of whom are siblings, were playing video…
San Ramon Police Detain Three Suspects After Uber Driver Robbed Of Cell Phone Friday
Three people are in custody after an alleged assault on an Uber driver on Greenwood Place Friday morning. The trio is currently being interviewed by police, who are looking for the driver’s cell phone, taken during the alleged assault. Neighbors reported one of the trio beating the driver around 10:20 a.m., with the driver suffering…
Bad Luck, Poor Decisions, Good Neighbors Lead To A.M. Arrests In Orinda Thursday
A confluence of bad luck, worse timing and the intervention of good neighbors ended with time in jail for two Alameda County residents Thursday. Orinda Police Chief Mark Nagel said things started innocently enough around 8 a.m. Thursday when a car rolling on westbound Highway 24 ran out of gas and came to a stop…
Painted Rock Lives To Be Painted Again; Lamorinda Celebrates Acquisition
John Muir Land Trust will acquire and permanently preserve Painted Rock, the prominent 84-acre hill near the boundary of Moraga and Lafayette. Thousands of local residents made generous donations to The Campaign To Save Painted Rock and are celebrating what will become their newest public open space. The campaign needed to raise $2 million by a deadline…
San Ramon Man Dies After I680 Crash In Walnut Creek Monday
A 63-year-old San Ramon man died at John Muir Hospital after he was injured in a grinding crash on northbound Interstate 680 in Walnut Creek Monday. Two cars, a vintage black 1974 Porsche and a Jeep SUV were involved in the crash with the Porsche operator sustaining, identified as Richard Adeokun of San Ramon suffering…
Robbery Crew Strikes At Rheem Arco – Rough Up And Rob Employee; Suspects Caught After Police Chase
A crew of armed robbers struck the Arco station in Rheem Valley shortly before 8 p.m. tonight, Sunday, roughing up an employee and robbing him at gunpoint before fleeing through Lafayette and onto northbound I680. We have learned the getaway vehicle used in the theft, a black or dark blue Nissan Sentra with paper plates,…
The Sunday Scribblings
It has been a quiet but also quixotic week in the NEWS24/680 News Bunker – our merry little band churning out news of baby mountain lion sightings, fires, Grim Ironies and the often hard-to-believe-or describe-incidents of the day as we glide into our summer while snow is falling in the Sierra. In the end we…