Crime Blotter: Bag 'o Guns, Vengeful Vandals and Unlucky Mobile Salesmen

Making off with Louis Vuitton. On Monday, June 27, around 6:30 p.m., officers responded to a report of a carjacking in the area of Washington and Bradrick avenues. One of the victims told the reporting officer that he and his partner sold handbags and wallets out of their car and advertised their merchandise on Craigslist.com, according to the police report.

The victims had received a call from a potential buyer who wanted to meet them. The man changed the requested meeting place several times, finally settling on the Valero gas station on Washington Avenue, one of the victims told police.

Four men and one woman in a light blue, early 2000s model Dodge Caravan drove up to meet with the vendors around 6:20 p.m. in the parking lot across from the gas station. Four of the suspects got out of the car and started looking at the merchandise, which the vendors had in a green Nissan Quest van. The female suspect quickly got back into the driver’s side of the suspects’ car, according to one of the victims.

Suddenly, one of the men appeared holding a shotgun and ordered the victims to give him the car keys, police said. The victim with the keys handed them over.

Three of the suspects took off in the van, and the other two in the suspects’ vehicle.

The victims said the van contained about 10 Louis Vuitton bags, five Louis Vuitton wallets, a Blackberry and about $2,700 in cash.

The suspects and their vehicle were caught on surveillance video from the Valero gas station. 

Robbing the work-absorbed. On the morning of Friday, July 1, a woman reported having her house burglarized and car stolen while she was working on her computer in the backyard.

The victim told police she had gone out back to work around 8:30 a.m. and had left her bedroom window open in the front of the house. All the doors of the house were locked and all other windows were closed, she told police.

When she went back into her house around 11:30 a.m., she noticed her car keys, which she had left on top of a cabinet next to the front door, were missing and the front door was open. She looked outside and saw that her car, a maroon two-door convertible, was gone.

The victim then looked around her house and saw that all the bedrooms had been ransacked. It appeared the burglars had entered through her front bedroom window, according to the police report.

Found: bag full of guns. Several San Leandro High School football players were on their way to practice on the afternoon of Wednesday, June 29, when they stumbled upon a bag full of guns, according to a police report.

The players said they found the bag on Grand Avenue. They brought it to their coach, who called the police.

When an officer arrived on scene, he opened the bag and saw that it contained a box with three pellet guns. Two of them were replicas of handguns, the officer reported. He turned the box and guns into the San Leandro Police property section for destruction, according to the police report.

Vengeful coworkers?  An officer was detailed on the morning of Sunday, July 3 to a residence on 141st Avenue regarding a vandalism report. Someone had slashed all four tires of the victim’s Ford Fusion, and scratched an unflattering term starting with the letter “B” into the hood of her car, according to the police report.

The victim said she suspected the perpetrators could have been a couple of fellow San Leandro Hospital employees who were about to be fired. However, she told police, she hadn’t had any previous problems with the employees and they had not made any threats. She estimated the damage to be about $2,000.