Crash On Westbound 24 In Lafayette Following CHP Pursuit Wednesday
California Highway Patrol officers were behind a Ford F350 pickup truck wanted as a stolen vehicle Wednesday morning, the vehicle fleeing down I680 and onto westbound Highway 24 where it crashed just west of Pleasant Hill Road. Motorists report that a person fled from the crash site on foot but was detained shortly afterward. Two…
“Hello? Is This NEWS24/680/80/580?”
We’re defined by our own company name, which is – for the record – NEWS24/680. We chose the name because our bisecting highways have served as ready identifiers for our area of coverage. None of that seemed to matter yesterday as we were flooded by incoming calls about a developing incident at a theatre complex…
Walnut Creek PD Investigating Morning Shots Fired Call; Victim Located
Walnut Creek police are on the scene of a suspected shooting incident reported in the 100 block of Sierra Drive early Saturday. A police response to the scene located a victim suffering from unspecified wounds not far away. That person has been transferred to John Muir Hospital. The suspect’s custody status was not immediately known.…
Building-Ramming Trend Continues – This Time It’s A Walnut Creek Post Office
Hopefully not a portent of things to come but a second vehicle made its way into a local building Friday morning, hours after an Orinda police SUV lodged itself in the local Wells Fargo Bank branch. This time, a Jeep driver pushed through the front doors of the postal branch at 2244 Oak Grove Road,…
Postal Truck Robbers In Custody; Gun Recovered
As we Flashed to those of you who Flash, Concord Police tracked and stopped a car believed to have been used in the robbery of a postal truck in the city earlier in the day at about 10 p.m. Thursday. Patrol Officers and detectives identified the suspect vehicle and involved persons and initiated a high-risk…
Orinda PD Car Crashes Into Orinda Wells Fargo Thursday; Pursuing Theft Suspects
An Orinda police officer, apparently attempting to catch up to auto burglary suspects fleeing from Moraga into Orinda; lost control of his car and crashed through the brick wall of the Orinda Wells Fargo bank branch at 80 Moraga Way Thursday. The crash was reported at 11:30 p.m., shortly after police reportedly started getting reports…
Another Suburban Bank Mugging – This Time In Danville
A Chase Bank patron was robbed of her purse, phone and wallet by a hold-up crew in a blue grey sedan as she went about her business in the Danville Livery Shopping Center, 661 San Ramon Valley Boulevard Thursday. Police recovered the victim’s phone, apparently jettisoned from the car and found in the middle of…
Arrest Made In Lafayette Freeway Shooting Investigation
From the California Highway Patrol, Golden Gate Division VALLEJO, Calif – Detectives assigned to the California Highway Patrol’s (CHP) Golden Gate Division (GGD) Special Investigations Unit (SIU), with the assistance of the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office (ACSO), arrested 24-year-old Damari Calvin of Vallejo on Tuesday for his involvement in a freeway shooting that occurred in…
We’re Getting Cruised – Just A Little Bit
We don’t know why we channeled DeNiro’s oft-repeated line from Goodfellas but it came to us and seemed appropriate this morning. People who know us would say we tend to swing more to the realist than the alarmist. Being frightened of things we see happening around us tends to shut down the brain and we…
Suspected Package Thieves At Work In Lafayette
Police have detained three persons suspected of stealing packages in the area of Happy Valley Court and Lois Lane – near Lafayette BART – on Tuesday afternoon. Officers saturated the area and took the trio into custody after a brief foot chase, the second of the day. Police are attempting to locate the owners of…