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FBI Agent Latest Victim Of Lafayette Car Burglars

It’s no secret that Lafayette – like most other Bay Area cities these days – has been particularly hard hit by car burglars prowling area parking lots looking for loot while car owners dine. An unidentified Federal Bureau of Investigation agent learned this the hard way Saturday while parked outside the American Kitchen restaurant on…

Assistance Program Helps Lafayette Businesses With Loan And Grant Applications

From the City of Lafayette: The City of Lafayette has partnered with the Chamber of Commerce and Townsend Public Affairs to launch the Lafayette Business Assistance Program, a way for Lafayette businesses and non-profits to get help on Small Business Administration (SBA) loan and grant applications. The City designed the program to make it as…

“What’d I See?” – Minor Injuries For Lafayette Pedestrian After Near Miss Tuesday

We dispatched Flash Alerts for what we knew of an attention-getting scene on Moraga Road at School Street Tuesday night but have been getting additional questions throughout the day. Chief Ben Alldritt confirms that a woman pedestrian was struck by a car at that location, suffering minor injuries to her lower legs, and that she…

Summer In The Suburbs: Lafayette Horses Demand Drive-Thru Lane

First they muscled their way into the Roundup Saloon, now the local horses want a dedicated drive-thru lane at the local eatery. The Bobtail had a Big Mac and the Grey opted for a Bacon Ranch Grilled Chicken Salad because she’s been getting a little hippy lately.

County Work Crews Preparing To Dig Into Pleasant Hill Road

Contra Costa County Public Works will perform roadwork on Pleasant Hill Road approximately 300 feet north of the intersection of Rancho View Drive on Thursday, June 14 and Friday, June 15, weather permitting, to replace the center-divide crash cushion system. Traffic will be controlled with temporary single-lane closures reducing the two lanes to a single lane…

Police Pursue Suspect Vehicle From El Sobrante Into Lafayette Wednesday

Lamorinda police and neighboring agencies are currently tracking a vehicle which fled from police on San Pablo Dam Road, drove east in the westbound lanes of Highway 24 through Orinda and is now on Sessions Road in Lafayette. A helicopter, believed to be a sheriff’s aircraft, is orbiting the area of Sessions Road and Northridge.…

Lafayette Teacher, Area-Wide Babysitter Arrested On Suspicion Of Lewd Acts With A Child

On June 4, 2018, the Walnut Creek Police Department arrested Brandon Genest at his residence in the city on a warrant for two counts of Lewd or Lascivious Acts with a Child and three counts of Indecent Exposure. The arrest occurred after an investigation into allegations that Genest had the victims inappropriately touch him while…

“Fill ‘Er Up… We Mean, Hands Up!” Lafayette PD Arrest Stolen Car Suspect While He’s Getting Gas Sunday

A trip past the neighborhood gas station turned into a bit of a real-life crime episode Sunday after NEWS24/680 reader Pamela Dunn happened upon this scene at the 76 Station off Mt. Diablo Blvd. in Lafayette. Turns out a passing Honda Civic triggered the town’s all-catching license plate readers and the city’s finest were vectored…

State Supreme Court Upholds Death Sentence For Killer In Lafayette’s Daher Murder Case

The California Supreme Court has unanimously upheld a death sentence for one of three men convicted of murdering a Lafayette woman during their invasion of her Rose Court home in 1998. A Contra Costa County jury found Joseph Perez Jr. guilty of robbing and murdering Janet Daher, 46, after he and two other men selected…

Chow, Baby – Lafayette Hotspot Loses Its Safe To Burglars

Lafayette police have had a pretty good run of luck of late, recently citing sharp declines in residential burglaries and other crime stats that normally turn a police officer’s hair prematurely grey. But during the lull it seems the inmates were quietly digging. It wasn’t a “tunnel job,” the thieves excavating a shaft to their…