SF News Police Swarm Oakland Residence During Standoff With Man Barricaded In Home With Toddler Hostage Oakland police arrested a man after an hours-long standoff around 11:30 p.m. Friday night, after he barricaded himself inside an East Oakland residence with a small child.
SF News Person Found Critically Injured In Burning Car In Oakland A person was found "fully engulfed in flames" Thursday morning inside a car on fire in East Oakland, and Oakland police are seeking leads in the case.
SF News Late Summer Brings Another Violent Week to Oakland, With Six Homicides Since Sunday Oakland is seeing another tragic week of fatal shootings — and it is feeling like a repeat of last year, with the homicide count rapidly approaching the deadly toll of 2022.
SF News Sunday Saw Three Separate Homicides in Oakland During a 15-Hour Period It was a deadly Sunday in Oakland, as the city saw four separate shootings and three homicides in a 15-hour period, though police believe all of the shootings are unrelated.
SF News Fatal Shooting Leaves One Dead at Lake Merritt BART Station There was a fatal shooting Tuesday afternoon outside the Lake Merritt BART station in Oakland, adding to an already violent summer in Oakland.
SF News Crime in Oakland Soaring Across the Board, According to New Statistics It’s not just sideshows, as every major crime category shows sharp increases in Oakland, with spikes of 20%, 40%, or even 90% in specific crime categories compared to before the pandemic.
SF News Dead Body Found In West Oakland After Fire Is Set Near Freway Off-Ramp CHP is investigating the death of a person whose body was found near the I-980 off-ramp at 17th Street early Tuesday.
SF News Oakland Police Investigating Deadly Shooting in Church Parking Lot, Amid Spate of Weekend Shootings Several separate incidents left two dead and six others injured from gunfire throughout Oakland over the weekend, amid recent outcry from residents about crime.
SF News Oakland Police Arrest Trio In Connection With Carjacking Spree, Including Attempt Caught on Video While a spate of robberies and carjackings by multiple crews still may not be over, Oakland police say they've arrested three individuals who they believe were working together on a spree of carjackings, including an attempted one earlier this week that was caught on dashcam video.
SF News Carjackings, Robberies, Juvenile Crimes On Rise — Just Another Pandemic Hangover? Two recent, violent carjackings — one of which ended shortly thereafter in a spectacular crash in a normally quiet part of San Francisco's Castro District — are examples of what seems to be an uptick in these types of crimes, many of which appear to be committed by juveniles.
SF News Woman Shot and Injured Near Oakland's Lake Merritt Early Monday A 22-year-old woman was reportedly shot in the early morning hours of Monday near Lake Merritt in Oakland. Her injuries are not life-threatening.
SF News US Marshals Help Oakland Police Make Arrest In Chicago In Shooting of Flower Delivery Man Oakland police announced Thursday that an arrest has been made in the June 21 fatal shooting of Brazilian flower delivery man Matheus Gaidos in Oakland's Koreatown.
SF News Oakland’s 24-Hour Colonial Donuts On Lakeshore Avenue Rocked by Armed Robbery No one was injured in the early Friday morning armed robbery of the Colonial Donuts on Lakeshore Avenue in Oakland, but four employees were held at gunpoint, and the three suspects are still at large.
SF News 19-Year-Old San Francisco Man Charged In Brutal Dragging Death of Oakland Baker Jen Angel A 19-year-old San Francisco man has been arrested and charged in the February 6 death of Oakland bakery owner Jen Angel, who was dragged to her death after getting caught in the door of a car being driven by thieves who snatched her belongings.
SF News Dana Rivers, Convicted In 2016 Triple Murder In Oakland, Seeks New Trial Dana Rivers, the trans rights activist and alleged biker gang "enforcer" who was convicted in November of killing two women and their son in a gruesome 2016 triple murder, has launched a last-ditch effort to avoid a spending the rest of her life in prison.
SF News Oakland Woman Reunited With French Bulldog Stolen In April Toya Zheng, the Oakland-based lawyer who went on local television to plea for the return of her two-year-old French bulldog Boba after he was stolen out of her car in April, now says the dog has been returned to her.
SF News Oakland Woman Charged In Horrific Death of 10-Year-Old Daughter An Oakland woman whose daughter was found dead in her apartment last month has been charged with the girl's murder, in addition to several enhancements. And a relative says this was the sad result of a home plagued by domestic violence.
SF News Hundreds of Angry North Oakland Residents Bring Out the Pitchforks at Town Hall On Crime Oakland District 1 city councilmember Dan Kalb and other city officials had plenty of shouting directed their way at a Tuesday night meeting about the recent crime spike in the North Oakland area, and Kalb seems to be drawing some political battle lines in response.
SF News Nine Deplorable Teens Arrested In Connection With 35 Robberies; Oakland Police Vow New Approach Amid Crime Wave It sounds like the Oakland Police Department has solved the case of a string of robberies across multiple neighborhoods, and the culprits are a group of juveniles. But the 35 robberies they've been connected to represent only a fraction of a recent wave of crime in Oakland.
SF News Oakland Police Arrest Multiple Suspects In Alleged Robbery Spree That Included Injury to Toddler After several days of high tension in Oakland's typically quiet Trestle Glen neighborhood following an attempted robbery that injured a toddler with bullet shrapnel, Oakland police did a full-court press with undercover officers and they say they've made multiple arrests, or at least one arrest.
SF News 21-Year-Old Oakland Woman Was Killed By Angry Man Who Was Randomly Shooting at 'Noisy' Cars A 21-year-old woman was fatally shot last weekend in East Oakland by a man, prosecutors say, who had come out of his house mad at "noisy" cars coming down his street late at night, and began randomly shooting at them.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Raising Cane's Restaurant In Oakland Closes Dining Room Due to Crime Less than a year after the opening of the first Bay Area location of popular chicken-finger chain Raising Cane's in East Oakland, that location has decided to close its dining room to patrons out of safety concerns.
SF News A 'Caravan' of Thieves Hit Multiple Oakland Businesses Thursday, In Chinatown and Elsewhere Oakland's plague of business robberies continued this week with a brazen caravan traveling in multiple vehicles — or possibly multiple crews — that hit at least 20 businesses in multiple commercial districts early Thursday.
SF News 23-Year-Old Man Fatally Shot In Bed at Oakland Long-Term Care Facility A man was killed early Saturday morning, possibly while sleeping, in a gang-style hit at a long-term care facility in Oakland's Adams Point neighborhood, and two gunmen are being sought by police.
SF News Violent Weekend In Oakland Leaves Five Dead, Police Address the Public Three people were fatally shot in Oakland in separate incidents in the same three-hour period on Friday, and that burst of violence was followed by multiple other incidents throughout the weekend that left two more people dead and five others wounded.
