SF News Oakland Police Claim Early Success In Car Break-In Crackdown, Tout Seven Arrests in One Day With smash-and-grab auto burglaries up a stunning 40% over the last year in Oakland, police claim their new crackdown is getting results, with seven car break-in suspects arrested in three separate incidents last Thursday.
SF News Oakland PD Announces Arrests of Ten Alleged Gang Members, All Tied to Carjackings and Armed Robberies As Oakland gets more restless over the city's current crime spike, Mayor Sheng Thao and the Oakland police held a Thursday press conference making a big to-do over the arrest of ten alleged gang members they say were running a significant carjacking and robbery ring.
SF Politics Oakland Police Chief Search Halted as Police Commissioners Boycott Their Own Meeting Some next-level dysfunction in the search for a new Oakland police chief, as the members of the Oakland Police Commission boycotted their own meeting Thursday, denying the commission quorum or the ability to make a vote.
SF News Two People Killed In Oakland Hit-and-Run Involving Stolen Car From Daly City A high-speed collision Sunday morning in East Oakland left two people dead and another injured, and the 25-year-old driver who was allegedly responsible tried to flee the scene.
SF News US Marshals Arrest 4,500 Nationwide in Crackdown, Including 137 in Oakland A more than year-long crackdown called Operation North Star has yielded its third mass arrest of thousands of suspects across the country, including 137 in Oakland on murder, assault, robbery, and gun charges.
SF News Oakland Private School Wins Fight for Giant Expansion After Years of Neighborhood Pushback The Head-Royce School has won permission to expand their Oakland campus from 14 to 22 acres, despite their neighbors’ concern that the expansion could create additional wildfire risk.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 38-Year-Old Oakland Vietnamese Restaurant Le Cheval Closing Permanently, Citing Crime Concerns Oakland Vietnamese restaurant Le Cheval has been doing business at Clay and Tenth streets since 1985, but will shutter permanently on September 30, with the owner blaming crime for the shutdown.
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 Restaurants, Food & Drink Good Luck Gato, a Mexican-Japanese 'Izakaya Cantina,' Set to Take Over Former Hopscotch Space In Oakland This Week A new culinary mashup concept is getting set to open in Oakland's Uptown, taking over the space from beloved Japanese-influenced diner Hopscotch, which shuttered in June after 10 years.
SF News Seven Oakland Shootings Between Friday Night and Monday Leave Four People Dead A rash of shootings in Oakland between Friday night and about 3 a.m. Monday morning has left four victims dead, and as of yet, there are no arrests reported, suspects named, nor suspect descriptions released.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Four-Year-Old Dies In Tragic Oakland Bike Accident A four-year-old girl thrown from a bike in an Oakland "dooring" incident has died from her injuries; SF-based Instagram is setting its IPO price; and gay hookup app Grindr has lost half its staff in a return-to-office revolt.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cellarmaker Brewing Opens Its New Taproom and Pizza Restaurant In Oakland Growing craft brewery Cellarmaker, which began life in a small space in SoMa a decade ago and has since expanded with a Berkeley-based brewing operation and some highly acclaimed Detroit-style pizzas in the Mission, has just debuted its much-anticipated Jack London Square brewpub.
SF News Lake Merritt Shootout Leaves One Innocent Bystander Critically Injured by Gunfire An unidentified woman in her early 20s was shot at Lake Merritt Monday afternoon, and police describe her as an innocent bystander caught in the crossfire of gunshots between two white Lexus vehicles.
SF News Oakland’s Chabot Elementary School Shut Down Tuesday Over Bomb Threat With ‘Racial Undertone’ A Rockridge elementary school was forced to close Tuesday after a bomb threat police described as having “a racial undertone,” the day after a prominent right-wing social media account made the inaccurate claim the school had an event that excluded white students.
SF News ‘Pirates’ Pulling Increasingly Brazen Thefts at the Docks of Oakland’s Marinas A recent rash of thefts at the house boats and sailboats at the 13 marinas in Alameda County is overwhelming the small number of maritime law enforcement personnel there, as thieves sometimes commandeer and steal entire boats.
SF News Facing $50 Million Lawsuit, Two East Bay Marijuana Entrepreneurs Just Flat-Out Disappear A gigantic legal marijuana grow in East Oakland pissed off their neighbors for years by running diesel generators nonstop. But they also weren’t paying their mortgage, and when their bank sued, two of the managing partners disappeared in a cloud of smoke.
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 Trio of Sideshows Rollicked East Bay Sunday Morning, One Car Ruthlessly Tagged and Set on Fire The East Bay saw three sideshows in a two-and-half-hour span between 1 a.m. and 3:30 a.m. Sunday morning, and at one in Oakland's Redwood Heights, one of the cars was left consumed by flames.
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 Three Months After Wood Street Encampment Cleared, Few Have Found Permanent Housing After the controversial clearing of the enormous Wood Street encampment in West Oakland. The New York Times takes a look at what happened to the hundreds of people who were swept out.
SF News Eight-Year-Old Boy Struck In Freeway Shooting Crossfire In Oakland Is Paralyzed A young boy who became the second child victim of a freeway shooting in the East Bay in three months is now permanently paralyzed from the neck down, and his family is hoping to raise funds for his homecoming and ongoing care.
Arts & Entertainment Children’s Fairyland in Oakland to Host ‘After-Hours’ Music Festival Featuring Sun Ra Arkestra The Bay Area’s music festival-mania is coming to Lake Merritt’s Children’s Fairyland, which will play host to a September nighttime festival called “Through the Looking Glass,” with the Sun Ra Arkestra and Oakland-based pop star Spellling.
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.
Arts & Entertainment 'Euphoria' Actor Angus Cloud Dead at 25, Found at Home In Oakland It appears that actor Angus Cloud, who played Fezco on two seasons of the HBO series 'Euphoria,' has taken his own life at age 25, and he was found dead in his family's home in Oakland.
SF News Oakland Residents Fume Over Crime at Community Meeting With DA, Oakland Police As an East Bay crime wave continues, Alameda County DA Pamela Price and Oakland PD top brass faced the music at a Thursday night community meeting, where people largely just shouted the speakers (and each other) down.
