Oakland police on Thursday announced a series of arrests involving a homicide and robberies involving alleged sex workers and their pimps along International Boulevard in East Oakland. Smash-and-grab retail thefts that result in major damage to businesses will bring longer sentences in California after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed bill into law Thursday. Police in Palo Alto arrested a man after he allegedly attacked another man in the city's downtown on Monday.
Police in San Rafael have released surveillance video of a group of suspects who targeted jewelry display cases at a consignment shop during a brazen robbery early Tuesday evening. San Rafael police have shared this surveillance video from Home Consignment Center in the hopes that the public can help identify suspects seen smashing display cases and allegedly stealing jewelry in Sept. San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins details the charges that will be brought against the year-old Tracy boy accused of shooting 49ers rookie Ricky Pearsall during an attempted robbery at Union Square Saturday afternoon.
The shooting of 49ers rookie Ricky Pearsall in Union Square over the weekend is just the latest challenge for what was once one of San Francisco's thriving retail centers. Sooji Nam reports. A restaurant owner in the Castro District of San Francisco who has been dealing with repeated break-ins, is wanting the cycle of crime targeting his business to stop. Prosecutors charged an Oakland man for allegedly robbing two Pleasant Hill stores earlier this month and threatening employees with a stun gun.
Mendocino County Sheriff's deputies arrested a man earlier this week after he allegedly robbed his girlfriend following an argument, according to authorities. In recent months dozens of women who live at Westlake Christian Terrace in Oakland have been attacked as they leave the complex to go shopping.
Two children aged 11 and 13 years old were among a group of suspects in what police called "violent and prolific" organized retail crime that included dozens of smash-and-grab robberies in San Francisco, police said Thursday.
