Posts Tagged ‘Walnut Creek’
Saturday Morning Murder In Downtown Walnut Creek Stuns Residents
Walnut Creek police are looking for a gunman they say fired several shots into another man as he was leaving a local nightclub at Locust and Cypress streets at 1:28 a.m. Saturday – a virtually unprecedented act of gun violence in the very heart of the city. Investigators reported that their dispatch center received reports of several shots…
Read MoreCar Fleeing Lafayette Police Officer Takes Evasive Action, Crashes Into Walnut Creek Building Wednesday
A speeding car attempting to evade a Lafayette police officer who had called off the chase minutes before, left the eastbound Highway 24 offramp at high speed Wednesday night and crashed through the rear of a building at 2300 Boulevard Circle – eventually landing on its roof in the basement of a building housing a…
Read MoreFelony Charges Filed Against Richmond Road Rage Driver Who Killed Walnut Creek Man
Richmond police traffic officers have tracked down and arrested a 32-year-old Richmond man suspected of running a red light and ramming a car driven by 77-year-old Anthony Tonti of Walnut Creek during a road rage incident with another car – and then leaving the scene of the crash. Tonti was found unresponsive in the wreckage…
Read MoreCyber Crimes Continue To Shock, Amaze Victims In The 24/680
Computer crime continues to shock, baffle and dismay those victimized by it while those attempting to combat the fraud marvel at the increasing inventiveness and audacity of perpetrators. While many such crimes and scams have their origin in a simple street crime – a stolen purse or pilfered personal information – others are the result…
Read MoreConcord City Attorney Jumps To His Death From Locust Street Garage Tuesday
Concord City Attorney Mark Coon died after leaping from a parking structure in the 1100 block of Locust Street in Walnut Creek Tuesday, a fall police are calling a suicide. Contra Costa County Fire Protection District firefighters and Walnut Creek police tended to Coon after witnesses watched a man, described as in his 50s, climb into…
Read MorePerpetrator In Walnut Creek Murder-Suicide Built His Own “Ghost Guns”
Questions about the origin of the weapon used by a Lafayette man and Stanford engineering student to murder a friend and then take his own life were partially answered Tuesday after investigators in Walnut Creek determined that Scott Bertics had secretly built two untraceable weapons from parts he ordered through the mail. In a release issued…
Read MoreLafayette Parking Officer’s Discovery Triggers High-Speed Pursuit, Two Arrests
Two people from Antioch and Martinez were in custody Wednesday after a Lafayette parking enforcement officer equipped with an automated license plate reader identified a stolen car in the city, calling in another officer who gave chase after the car sped away at speeds estimated at 100 mph. An LPD spokesman said the incident began at…
Read MoreLafayette Man Suspected In Walnut Creek Murder-Suicide
In the second such case of its kind to stun the 24-680 Corridor in recent weeks, a man is suspected of murdering a woman – in this case a former girlfriend – before turning the gun on himself. Police responded to an address in the North Homestead neighborhood in Walnut Creek at 6:50 a.m. Tuesday in answer…
Read MoreAnother Mobile ID Theft Crew Busted; Walnut Creek Residents Allegedly Involved
Two Walnut Creek residents were arrested at a Novato hotel with credit cards and financial information allegedly stolen from dozens of victims in Novato and the East Bay, according to a story published Tuesday in the Marin Independent Journal. Samantha Ann Surls, 30, and Michael Allen Whalin, 23, were booked into Marin County Jail on…
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