Posts Tagged ‘Lafayette PD’
Lafayette Street Sealed Off After Homicide Saturday; Chico Man Under Arrest
Curious neighbors were asked to leave the street and return home following a sizable police response to a residence on Westminster Place in Lafayette on Saturday, scene of a suspected stabbing. Heavily-armed officers from several local agencies descended on the quiet residential street at 11:36 am Saturday, quickly sealing off the area and ordering gathering…
Read Moree-WildOnes Try To Outrun Moraga/Lafayette PD Tuesday; One e-Arrested
Most of you know by now that our Flash System lit up last night with word of a police pursuit of sorts pushing from Moraga into Lafayette with officers behind a group of teens on electric motorcycles. Here’s a bit more of that story, from Moraga PD: At approximately 5:15 PM, a Moraga Police officer…
Read MoreLafayette Pursuit Ends In Fiery College Avenue Crash Wednesday
Witnesses reported a police pursuit from downtown Lafayette Wednesday evening, bystanders watching as a LPD car followed a speeding Nissan on Mt. Diablo Boulevard from Happy Valley Road and onto westbound Highway 24 at around 8:45 p.m. It was not immediately known why police were interested in the car, its driver fleeing west on Highway…
Read MoreLafayette Police Detain Two, Arrest One After Brief Pursuit And Crash Saturday
Lafayette Police Chief Benjamin Alldritt on Tuesday confirmed our earlier account of a brief pursuit and car crash on Acalanes Road Saturday night. Two suspects were detained after a “gray colored BMW vehicle with paper plates matching the description of the suspect vehicle seen in video surveillance 24 hours prior” fled at high speed from a…
Read MoreSunday Afternoon Parking Ticket Rager Leads To Strongarm Robbery Arrest In Lafayette
This site took a, we believe, understated approach to details of an incident stemming from a local man’s ire about getting a parking ticket downtown on Sunday but, as we have learned over the years – there was more to the story. Our rationale was to illustrate the competition and angst which accompanies parking in…
Read MoreInterrupted Burglary In Lafayette Triggers Police Chase, Crash In Front Of Canyon Post Office Tuesday
A Lafayette homeowner arrived at her Los Palos Manor home Tuesday just in time to see a man she had never seen before running out of the residence and jump into a waiting car. Police converged on the area and quickly pinpointed a black ’97 Audi fleeing the area at speed, a pair of Moraga…
Read MoreUPDATE: Arrest Made In Sweet Drive Burglary; Lafayette PD Says Charges Pending
UPDATE: Images of a vehicle captured on neighborhood cameras as it left the scene of a burglary on Sweet Drive Thursday have led to the identification of the car and the arrest of a suspect, Lafayette police said Wednesday. Witnesses confirmed the vehicle captured on the cameras was the vehicle from the crime scene and LPD…
Read More“I Think We’re Going To Need A Bigger Car…” – Lafayette PD Collars Suspected Burglars In Battered MINI Cooper
Lafayette police corralled a pair of busy suspected burglars caught stuffing a MINI Cooper with other folk’s belongings this Thanksgiving Week, chasing the chugging compact around town a bit before closing in and cuffing the occupants while they tried to negotiate Deer Hill Road with two tires blown out. The battered Mini, a little the…
Read MoreLafayette Police Investigating Daylight Burglary On Leland Drive Tuesday
A Lafayette resident who left her Leland Drive residence for a short time Tuesday returned to find that the home had been burglarized while she was gone. Police were summoned to the 1000 block of Leland at 12:41 p.m. The resident reported they had arrived home approximately five minutes earlier and found the glass from…
Read MoreLafayette Police Detain Three At Gunpoint On Mt. Diablo Boulevard Monday
Lafayette police, alerted by a hit on an Automated License Plate Reader (ALPR), homed in on a white Ford truck on Moraga Road Monday – detaining two men and a woman at gunpoint as locals cruised past – gape jawed. Officers began searching for the vehicle after the automated license plate scanner returned a positive…
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