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Crime Blotter: 1.5 Pounds of Cocaine Confiscated

A snapshot of recent police activity in San Leandro.

Pound and a Half of Cocaine. officers assisted the IRS with carrying out a search warrant at a residence on the 1300 block of Pacific Avenue on the morning of Tuesday, July 26. During the search, police found 1.5 pounds of cocaine, over $7,000 in cash, two semi-automatic handguns and items for packaging drugs, the police department said. One of the guns had its serial number removed, which is a crime, police said.

Kenya Brown, a 27-year-old San Leandro resident, was arrested at the residence on suspicion of possession for sale of cocaine, possession of a controlled substance while in possession of a firearm, altering and defacing a firearm, and possession of more than an ounce of cocaine, the police department said.

Police said they could provide no more information about the incident, since the search warrant was sealed. The IRS also refused to provide more information.

Brown’s bail was set at $360,000. She was scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday afternoon at the Hayward Hall of Justice.

Stolen “Mama.” A man parked his car in the Lucky’s parking lot on Fairmont Drive on Monday, July 18 and left his 2-year-old female Shih Tzu named “Mama” inside the car, the man told police.

He left the front and rear windows rolled down about three inches, he told police. He locked the front door, but said the right rear door of his car didn’t lock.

He went into Fairmont Cleaners around 11:40 a.m., and when he came back fifteen minutes later, his dog Mama was gone.

The man told police it would have been quite hard for the dog to escape out the window and said Mama had never run away. He told police he thought someone had opened the door and stolen the dog.

Not-So-Sure Storage. On Thursday, July 21, a woman got a call from an employee of Shurguard Storage on Marina Boulevard warning her that the lock on her storage unit was different than the one on the unit the previous day, according to a police report.

The woman arrived to examine her storage unit and found a lot of items missing, and a broken sculpture lying on the ground, she told police. Among the missing items was a 32-inch flat screen TV that cost nearly $1,000, she told police.

An officer who responded to the scene found that some of the wire ties holding the chain link fence to poles on the storage area’s west side were missing. The officer speculated that a thief could have entered the storage area that way.  

Female Purse Snatchers. A woman was putting her groceries into her car, with her boyfriend's help, in front of the Safeway on Washington Avenue on Sunday, July 24, when another woman tried to take her purse from the back seat, according to a police report.

The victim grabbed the purse back from the would-be thief, but then saw another woman standing at the back of the car with a semi-automatic weapon, according to the police report. The suspect pointed the gun at the victim and told her to hand over the wallet.

The victim threw the wallet at the suspect with the gun. The suspects, described by one of the victims as likely being 15 to 20 yearsold, ran off and got into a dark-colored four-door sedan, which drove off.

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Ken Briggs May 20, 2013 at 03:32 pm
looks like the school board has to cut some fat cat or cats on the board . getrid of someone andRead More give the teachers a fund to get what they need for the class room .
RHG May 17, 2013 at 03:08 pm
How did this go from "Ways for San Leandro Teachers to Save in the Classroom" to aRead More advertisement for Staples? I am wondering what Jessica Mitchell does for a living.
california girl May 18, 2013 at 08:05 pm
I loved the green tea!
anthony May 17, 2013 at 01:01 pm
go nuts, or one of each... for later of course. would go scone myself, old habits die hard.
Leah Hall May 19, 2013 at 01:59 pm
Young man! The stormtroopers get into the act.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuJXaVrvpXE
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Leah Hall May 16, 2013 at 05:04 pm
Youth development, healthy living & social responsibility... ...in San Leandro! For the firstRead More time ever! Thanks to everyone who brought the YMCA "Move-A-Thon" to San Leandro and all the families that participated! -Leah Hall SL Human Services Commissioner & Volunteer YMCA Youth & Government advisor (for our San Leandro delegation comprised of San Leandro high school students)
anthony May 18, 2013 at 04:31 pm
remembered reading this here, maybe ther's a forward in thereRead More somewhere...http://sanleandro.patch.com/groups/politics-and-elections/p/local-hungry-families-helped-by-urban-farmer. Don't hold me to this one, but I thought Tim at Zocalo Coffee was a keeper.
Richard Mellor May 15, 2013 at 06:38 pm
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Analisa Harangozo (Editor) May 15, 2013 at 12:02 am
Thanks for posting in our Announcements Board, Christa! I shared this on our Facebook page. I hopeRead More this helps you in your hunt for honey bees :)
RHG May 17, 2013 at 03:46 pm
First let me say sorry for the loss of one of your family. Ive been keeping my eyes pealed incase IRead More see him. But I'd recomend since he is going blind, it might be easyer for someone to catch him if we knew his name. Just a thought. Hope for his safe return.
Carol Parker May 14, 2013 at 08:45 pm
I'm happy to report Buster found a forever home on Mother's Day. There are other bassets availableRead More for adoption on Golden Gate Basset Rescue's website, however. Adoptable dogs will be on hand June 9 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Pet Food Express on Blanding Avenue (in the shopping center of Nob Hill Foods) in Alameda. Come down and see some hounds up close and personal.
Sarah Nash May 10, 2013 at 02:18 pm
Just had a chance to read this story. Loved it! While I believe that conscientious students wouldRead More try their best at the test, as I did when I took state aptitude tests in school, I can hardly imagine staying up nights worrying about it! There is nothing at stake except perhaps personal satisfaction so the test itself shouldn't impose stress. A high-strung parent, on the other hand, might.
David April 27, 2013 at 03:09 pm
Oh come on, Rob. You talk about me cherry picking stuff? 10/10? Sure. And as I've shown you canRead More pull out Maxwell Park, North Oakland, parts of SF (Glen Park, for example), parts of El Cerrito and other locations to show that API scores aren't well-correlated with property values. Again, why do homes sell for the same $/sq foot in Maxwell Park as Estudillo Estates? San Lorenzo's API is about the same or better than most of SLUSD. Property values there are lower. The clearest example of what effect API scores have on property values was mentioned below, about a 10% difference depending on which side of the tracks, er, 580 you live on in Castro Valley. 10%? whoopdedo, that kind of variation is washed out when you factor in commute times, crime, amenities, etc. In fact, API scores are likely to continue to shrink as a factor in RE values as more and more parents flee the public schools, no matter what the API (witness SLUSD, the 30% drop in OUSD enrollment in just the past decade, etc). In another generation, we'll be accused by our children of child abuse by having sent them to public schools.
Rob Rich April 27, 2013 at 12:38 pm
If you accept the premise that API scores are poorly correlated with real estate vualues, then is itRead More coincidental that the top school districts are in areas with high real estate values? http://www.greatschools.org/find-a-school/7046-ten-california-school-districts-highest-test-scores-2012.gs. In the old days, 10 for 10 was considered pretty good correlation.