SF News Alleged Lululemon Thieves In Napa Chased By CHP Plane to Oakland, Where They Crashed Their Car A car crash on Oakland's Lakeshore Avenue Monday afternoon was apparently connected to a retail theft at a Lululemon store in Napa and a law enforcement chase across four counties.
SF News Elderly Woman Attacked and Beaten at Oakland Laundromat, Suspects Let Go and Only Charged With Misdemeanor Despite there being video footage of an obvious assault with several punches landed on an 65-year-old, 88-pound woman at a laundromat near Lake Merritt, only one of the two suspects was cited for a misdemeanor, and police released them.
SF News Oakland Finally Names a Police Chief: Former Lubbock, Texas Police Chief Floyd Mitchell The year-plus search for a new Oakland Police Chief has finally concluded, as Mayor Sheng Thao has named Floyd Mitchell as the new chief, who’d previously held that role in Lubbock and Temple, Texas.
SF News Oakland Man Sentenced to 18 Months For Helping Launder Drug Money, Wire It to Mexico and Honduras An Oakland man who owns a money-wiring service has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison in a plea deal, after pleading guilty to money-laundering charges.
SF News Oakland Police Warn of Rise In Smash-and-Grabs of Occupied Vehicles The Oakland Police Department says that it's deploying more officers in response to the uptick in crime, but department-wide response times still lag.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Multiple Oakland Taco Bell Restaurant Shut Down Their Indoor Dining Rooms, Probably Due to Crime Four Oakland Taco Bell restaurants appear to have gone drive-thru only, though some only in the evening, in the latest hit to Oakland’s fast-food landscape.
SF News Oakland Police Chief Candidates Appear Virtually at Public Forum The four candidates for the next chief of police in Oakland that were put forward this week by the city's police commission addressed the public and introduced themselves at a candidate forum Thursday night.
SF News Fourth Suspect Charged With Murder in Fatal Shooting of OPD Officer in December Dispensary Burglary While three suspects had been charged with murder in the December 29 shooting and killing of Oakland police officer Tuan Le, a fourth figured he could just plead guilty to robbing the cannabis shop and have that be that. But now that suspect is facing murder charges too.
SF News Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao Thumbs Nose at Police Commission, Says She Will Not Attend Forum With Candidates The wheels turn and the drama persists in Oakland over the ongoing effort to install a new police chief, and it's coming down to a battle of wills between the police commission and the mayor.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland Dive Bar Ruby Room Set To Reopen Under New Ownership Friday Night The red-hued Lake Merritt-area Oakland bar Ruby Room closed New Year's Eve, but has reopened in sputters since, and reopens permanently on Friday night under a new local ownership team.
SF News Oakland Police Commission Still Playing Politics, Unveils Latest Slate of Four Candidates for Chief The Oakland Police Commission has taken over two months to present Mayor Sheng Thao with a new slate of candidates for the chief-of-police role after she rejected the last one and — guess what! — one of the latest candidates was one of the rejects from the earlier slate.
SF News Oakland Taco Truck La Parilla Loca Robbed at Gunpoint A well-established taco stand called La Parilla Loca does business six days a week in the East Oakland area, and was the latest food establishment to suffer an armed robbery this week.
SF News Supporters of Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao Push Back on Recall Campaigners, Comparing Them to 'Right-Wingers' Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao held a press conference Wednesday to announce a state grant supporting a street-ambassador program, but protesters were on hand calling for Thao's recall, and the event turned into a shouting match.
SF News Well-Known Oakland Auto Repair Shop Owner Shot and Killed in His Own Store A 68-year-old Oakland auto repair shop owner, who once worked alongside Cesar Chavez in the United Farm Workers movement, was on the verge of retirement. But he was shot and killed in his shop, ending that dream.
Bay Area Sports The Newly Formed Oakland Ballers Will Renovate and Play Ball at West Oakland’s Raimondi Field Oakland is getting a new minor league baseball team called the Oakland Ballers (or “The B’s”). They just announced they’ll be playing at Raimondi Field in West Oakland, and spiffing the place up with a $1.6 million renovation.
SF News Owner of East Bay Popeyes Who Allegedly Hired a 13-Year-Old Fined For Child Labor Violations and Wage Theft The owners of a Popeyes franchisee, which ran three fast food restaurants in Oakland, Tracy, and Newark, had to pay $212K after a federal investigation revealed numerous labor law offences.
SF News Another Bay Area Carjacking Involves Child Left In Backseat; Child Found Safe, Suspects Arrested Via 'Find My Phone' Just last month we had an incident in San Francisco in which a car was stolen with a child still in the backseat, and now we have another in Oakland, which happened on Tuesday.
SF News Federal Judge Has Had It With Oakland Taking So Long to Find New Police Chief The U.S. District Court judge in charge of the Oakland Police Department's federal oversight says he’s “concerned” that the city hasn’t had a police chief for a full year now. Well, how do you think 450,000 Oakland residents feel, pal?
SF News The Only In-N-Out in Oakland Is Closing ‘Due to Ongoing Issues With Crime’ The Oakland In-N-Out at 8300 Oakport Street has stunningly reported more crimes than any address in the entire city of Oakland over the last five years, so In-N-Out corporate has decided to just shut the place down entirely, even though the location is profitable.
Arts & Entertainment Sheila E. and Father Pete Escovedo Get Street Named After Them In Oakland The glamorous life is coming to Oakland’s Ivy Hill neighborhood, where a block of East 21st Street has been honorarily renamed “Escovedo Way” in honor of 80s pop star Sheila E. and her groundbreaking percussionist father Pete Escovedo.
SF News Oakland Recorded Three Homicides In a 24-Hour Period on Saturday and Sunday Three people were shot and killed in separate incidents Saturday night and Sunday morning in Oakland, and Oakland has now seen four homicides in just the first week of 2024.
SF News Now Even the Mother of Man Accused of Killing Oakland PD Officer Has Been Arrested as an Accessory A highly unusual development in last week's fatal shooting of undercover Oakland police officer Tuan Le, as the mother of the man accused of pulling the trigger has herself been arrested as an accessory to the crime.
SF Politics Very Predictably, Effort to Recall Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao Now Afoot It’s unclear whether this is a real grassroots movement, or just sour grapes from defeated candidates in the last mayoral election, but the signature gathering is underway to recall Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao.
SF Politics Oakland City Councilmember Pushing Mayor to Declare State of Emergency, Push Aside Police Commission Tensions are mounting in Oakland over the nearly yearlong selection process that has still not resulted in a satisfactory nominee to be the city's next chief of police. And following the on-duty death of a police officer last week, one city council member is urging the mayor to take decisive action.
SF News New Details on Killing of OPD Officer: He Was a Four-Year Veteran, Shooting Was Over Dispensary Robbed Twice Friday We still don’t know the identity of the undercover Oakland police officer who was shot and killed this morning, but at a Friday press conference, we learned he was shot by suspects who robbed an Oakland cannabis dispensary for the second time in one night.
