The shooting of the Gourmet Ghetto mountain lion has provoked enormous debate here on Berkeleyside. It has also generated a wave of calls to the Berkeley Police Department. According to Sergeant Mary Kusmiss, the BPD public information officer, many calls have expressed “gratitude and sadness”, but there has also been “outrage” and “many whys”. There [...]
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Update on Sacramento shooting
Berkeley police have released further details about this afternoon’s shooting on Sacramento Street. Here are the details from Sergeant Mary Kusmiss: On 08-31-10 at approximately 1:46 p.m., the City of Berkeley Police department began receiving many 911 calls regarding gunshots in the area of Sacramento and Oregon Streets. A White Cadillac with three occupants were [...]
Shots fired on Sacramento
Berkeleyside reader Thomas Lord sends in the following: Shortly after 2 p.m. on this last day of August approximately 10 shots rang out on Sacramento St. in Berkeley. No injuries are reported although an occupied vehicle driven by a resident of the neighborhood was struck through the rear window. The south-bound portion of Sacramento St. in that area is [...]
Mountain lion tours Gourmet Ghetto
A mountain lion was reported wandering through North Berkeley’s Gourmet Ghetto last night, and after a pursuit by Berkeley police was shot at 3:26 a.m. on Walnut Street. According to Sergeant Mary Kusmiss, the first reports of the mountain lion were received shortly after 2 a.m. A community member reported seeing the animal in the [...]
Crime mystery: Who mailed this wallet?
On July 13, 2010 Hamed Mirabdal received a manila envelope in the mail. When he opened it, he gasped. Inside was his wallet, stolen from him four years earlier during a brutal assault in which he almost died. There was a short note in the envelope. “Found this while gardening on San Lorenzo Avenue in [...]
Family still looking for Berkeley teen missing 15 years
Fifteen years ago, Peter McColl walked out of his north Berkeley home. He told his younger brother Joseph that he was taking the bus to visit Cody’s Books on Telegraph. No one in his family has seen him since. McColl, who was just days away from starting his junior year at Berkeley High, disappeared around [...]
Fight to bring pedicabs to Berkeley
For the last year, Ken Lin-Ott has taken to the streets of Oakland late at night, offering rides to anyone who wants to hop into his pedicab. Passengers usually take a short ride – to a restaurant or bar, or a trip back to their car. Lin-Ott doesn’t charge anything for the service. He just [...]
Berkeley’s Southside gets new joint police focus
Residents living on the Southside of campus will soon see a greater police presence in their neighborhood, particularly late at night on the weekends and during Cal football games. The city of Berkeley police department and the UC Berkeley police department announced Tuesday that they are forming joint patrols to cruise the neighborhood. They hope [...]
Police looking for missing woman
Berkeley police are asking for the public’s help in locating a developmentally disabled woman whose mother last saw her five years ago. In June 2009, the mother of Heather Bloom called Berkeley police to ask for assistance in locating her daughter who had been living with her sister in Berkeley. The mother, who lives in [...]
Breaking: fatal shooting at Milvia and Russell
Berkeley police are investigating a fatal drive-by shooting that took place around 5:30 p.m. today near the intersection of Russell and Milvia. Berkeleyside has called the police for details and we’ll update the information as we receive it. Update 7:11 p.m. Regular commenter Thomas Lord reports through the comments: For what little it’s worth: closer [...]
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