crime

UPDATED: Police arrest one suspect in school backpack thefts

PUSD staff noticed suspicious persons near the gym where several students were playing volleyball.

It can cost several thousand dollars to purchase a replacement, and a vehicle can't pass a state-mandated smog test without one.

Toyota Priuses and similar cars are targets; the crime can take as little as 60 seconds and residents should take precautions.

Catalytic converters are valuable because of the metals in them. Toyota Priuses were often targets in the crime.

Following on Sunday's two armed robberies, PPD responded to the scene of an Oakland stop, found and identified stolen items from both robberies.

Police have strung together a timeline of his whereabouts leading up to the festival. The attack appears to have been pre-planned.

Closing for the defense: Multiple fire and police officials had visited the building on multiple occasions and hadn't pointed out any problems.

The prosecutor's closing argument said the two men's lies to authorities "[show] their consciousness of guilt."

Almena said he didn't learn until after the fire that "the building had been registered for 71 years for storage only."

Piedmont police, following up on a resident's report of a party of juveniles, discover weapons and more. Two were arrested and transported to jail.