COVID-Positive Inmate Dies In Jail Quarantine Tuesday
From the Office of the Sheriff: In-Custody Death Investigation The Contra Costa County Office of the Sheriff and the Contra Costa DA’s Office are currently investigating an in-custody death that occurred at the Martinez Detention Facility this afternoon. The 31-year-old, who is not being identified at this time, was arrested on December 31, 2022, by…
Thieves Use Rock To Smash Danville Bank Customer’s Car Window; Take Computer, Purse, Cash
An unnerving string of robberies at Bay Area banking locations resumed Tuesday after a brazen assault on a driver at the Wells Fargo branch in Danville. Thieves, described preliminarily as two black males and a black female in their early 20s, targeted a car at 3402 Camino Tassajara and apparently smashed the car window with…
24/680 Locals Using Tuesday To Prep For Expected Storm
Residents in our service area are using a break between storms to shore up their hillsides, patch their roofs and fill sandbags in advance of a predicted and potentially destructive storm forecast to slam into us on Wednesday. Hit hard by a storm that arrived and lingered over the New Year’s weekend residents battled widespread…
Mudding, Flooding, Running Creeks And Evacuations – A Helluva Day In The 24/680
Unceasing rainfall pushed local creeks to their limits and beyond, sank more than one SUV and prompted road closures and evacuations as water levels crept into local homes and businesses. Mudslides were reported in Orinda and Danville, flooding caused road closures and admonitions from local officials warning residents not to risk driving and to stay…
Booms, Bad Boys, And Bomb Squads
Getting harder and harder to get any sleep around here as jangled journalists embrace insomnia as a life-long condition and find themselves chasing things that go “bloop” in the night. Lensmen Sean McDonough, Eric Blume and Craig Cannon were out and about in the wet these past few nights, seeing the things photographers see that…
Man Allegedly Sets Fire To Apartment, Threatens Self-Harm With Machete
A resident of an apartment complex in the 1400 block of Contra Costa Boulevard allegedly set fire to his apartment before running into the street with a machete and cutting himself with the weapon before Pleasant Hill police brought him down with non-lethal ordnance Tuesday. The bizarre scene first came to light with reports of…
Suspected Armed Robbery/Carjacking In Moraga Tuesday
Details dribbling in about a possible armed robbery on Williams Drive early Tuesday, broken glass on the street attesting to what is believed to have been an armed carjacking at approximately 3:30 a.m. Early information is that a man, possibly a delivery driver in the area at that hour was approached by two armed suspects…
San Ramon Police Arrest Colorado Man For Christmas Eve Hate Crime Incident
San Ramon police have located and arrested a 40-year-old Denver, Colorado man suspected of an unsettling verbal attack aimed at area diners on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Jordan Douglas Krah, 40, was arrested Monday for violating California’s Hate Crime Laws, according to information released to Social Media by San Ramon Police Chief Denton Carlson.…
Unwrapping The Post-Christmas HoHoHo…
There’s nothing better than someone bringing you a locally-sourced, homegrown breakfast with fresh-squoze Orange Juice, Mother Pacifica supplying the backbeat and the Cascadia Subduction Zone refraining from any seismic antics while we visit. Odd how the heart rate evens out and the breath comes more easily when we’re on the coast. Riffling through the email…
Mt. Diablo Rescue Mobilized After Motorist Drives Off Summit Road Wednesday
San Ramon Valley fire crews mobilized for a late-night rescue on Mt. Diablo after a driver phoned police to report Satan had instructed him to stab himself and drive off the roadway. Fire and police reached the scene of the crash – near the summit of the mountain – on foot at approximately 11:35 p.m.…