OPD Donates Bicycles to Middle School Children – On Thursday, September 24, 2015, Oakland Police officers delivered 10-plus bicycles to East Bay Innovative Academy, where the students had suffered a very disappointing loss over the past weekend. The bicycles they had been repairing to donate to various charities throughout Oakland were stolen. When OPD officers learned of the loss, they gathered bikes to deliver to the kids. Ten of the bicycles came from the OPD Bicycle Recovery Unit; others were personally donated by officers.
The bicycles were delivered by Traffic Operations Section Sergeant Dave Carman, Police Service Technician (PST) Dan Dowd, Officer Barry Ko, and PST Darryl Wilson. Dan Dowd is the coordinator of the OPD Bicycle Recovery Unit. We’d like to thank him for gathering the bikes to be donated to the children.
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Man Arrested for Attempted Robbery and Carjacking – On Tuesday, September 22, 2015 at approximately 11:00 PM, Oakland Police officers responded to the 2400 block of Northgate Avenue. When they arrived, the victim told them that the suspect had just attempted to rob and carjack him. The victim provided the officers with a detailed description of the suspect and the direction the suspect was last seen. When the officers checked the area, they located the suspect and arrested him in connection with the attempted robbery and carjacking.
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Carjacking Suspect Arrested – On Monday, September 15, 2015 at approximately 10:53 PM, Oakland Police officers were dispatched to the 1400 block of 89th Avenue to investigate a report of a carjacking. When they arrived, the victim told that he had been carjacked at gunpoint and provided officers with a description of the suspects. On Sunday, September 20, 2015, at about 7:20 PM, Oakland Police officers saw the stolen car in the 9800 block of Bancroft Avenue and conducted a traffic stop. The driver was identified as one of the suspects in the earlier carjacking. The officers arrested the suspect in connection with the carjacking and possession of a stolen vehicle.
