Driver charged with hit-and-run injury crash in Berkeley
Witnesses followed the driver, Misty Bancroft, until police arrived to arrest her, court papers show.
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Police arrest kidnapping, sex crime suspect near UC Berkeley
Police arrested Wilmer Guerra Peña, 28, on suspicion of kidnapping to commit a sex crime, assault with intent to commit rape and other crimes.
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SVU investigators are trying to find the victim, a teenage girl, in one case and the location captured in a photograph in another.
Update: Police investigate kidnapping near UC Berkeley
BPD says investigators hope to find two good Samaritans who helped the victim, a 21-year-old woman who was attacked on her scooter.
Berkeley OKs new surveillance cameras to help solve crime
They will be mounted at 10 key intersections where authorities hope they will be more likely to record people entering and exiting Berkeley.
Berkeley police recover Honda after carjacking on McGee
Police say a man walked up behind a woman as she was about to open her front door and pointed a gun in her face. She had just gotten home.
BPD: Catalytic converter thief dumped car, said it was stolen
The thief fled in his vehicle but eventually ditched it and ran. Police impounded the car and found four catalytic converters inside, BPD said.