It turns out that Tuesday's regional Amber Alert was all the result of a big misunderstanding. First of all, accused shoplifter Roy McCamey, 54, was known to employees at the Safeway on Redwood Road in the Oakland Hills, and he was pretty easily found and questioned on Wednesday (he'd been arrested for theft before).
He did, allegedly, attempt to shoplift steak and lobster from the Safeway, and may have threatened employees with a knife, but the burgundy sedan that was passing the entrance of the store as he fled turned out to be his getaway car even though witnesses said that the occupants in the car, described as an older black man and a "13-year-old" girl, yelled that they didn't know the man getting in their car. Also, it turns out that said girl was, in fact, an adult woman.
Glad it has a sort-of happy ending!
The three individuals are not related, as the Tribune reports, so all three are now potentially suspects in the theft or attempted theft of the food.
Long story short, a legion of local cops, helicopters and all, were deployed all because three people wanted surf-and-turf and couldn't afford it.
