Crime
Gearing up for next week’s anniversary of 100 days in office, Mayor Jean Quan spoke to the press on Thursday about her accomplishments and hopes for the upcoming months. “It seems like its gone very fast,” she said. “We’ve worked very hard to launch Oakland in a new footing.”
Oakland police announced today that 31-year-old Oakland resident Douglas K. Yim, Jr. surrendered himself to police in Firebaugh, California on Monday morning. Yim was wanted in connection with a shooting on April 2 that left one man dead and another wounded.
The front gate at the Oakland branch of weGrow, the country’s first “out of the closet” company that sells indoor marijuana growing equipment, is now locked up and its former owners are embroiled in a series of heated legal battles. The 15,000 square foot warehouse facility, located two miles away from the Oakland International Airport, opened last October with a press conference at which a number of city officials, including Oakland Mayor Jean Quan (a city councilmember at that time), showed up to support the store in front of the national media.
The Oakland Police Department is seeking information about the whereabouts of 31-year-old Oakland resident Douglas K. Yim in connection with a shooting on Saturday evening that left one man dead and another wounded.
More than 300 people convened at the North Oakland Senior Center on Saturday morning to share their concerns – most of them budget-related – with Oakland Mayor Jean Quan and Councilmember Jane Brunner.
Community members rallied alongside city leaders Thursday evening to protest the sexual exploitation of minors, shutting down 17th Ave at International Blvd in Oakland’s San Antonio neighborhood — a neighborhood where residents say encountering hookers, pimps and johns is a day-to-day part of life.
Several local publications including The San Francisco Chronicle’s Matier & Ross column and Alameda’s The Island are reporting that Oakland City Attorney John Russo has been selected as Alameda’s new city manager
Just as the hearing for the proposed Fruitvale gang injunction got underway on Tuesday, police officers entered the court and arrested Javier Quintero—one of the 40 alleged Norteño gang members named in the injunction—for a parole violation. Quintero was the first defendant to testify in the hearing, which began in mid-February, and has not missed a single day of watching the proceedings.
Newly appointed Chief Probation Officer David Muhammad spent an evening with community leaders discussing his plans for revamping the juvenile justice system in Alameda County.