Robberies near the Ashby BART station. Image: CrimeMapping.com A 16-year-old boy was hit, held down and robbed over the weekend of his hat and shoes, police said this week. The teenager was walking just before 10 p.m. Saturday near Woolsey and Ellis streets when three males attacked him, said Officer Jennifer Coats, Berkeley Police spokeswoman. The assailants, […]
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Berkeley woman sprayed by liquid, struck, robbed
Image: Google Maps A woman walking in South Berkeley near Malcolm X Elementary School on Saturday night was assaulted and robbed, police said Monday, after being sprayed with an unknown liquid. The woman was walking at 9:45 p.m. near Prince and Ellis streets, not far from the Ashby BART station, when two people approached her, […]
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Berkeley kicks off Adeline Corridor improvements push
The city hopes to get a grant to look at improvements on Adeline Street from Ward Street to the Oakland border. Image: Google Maps Coming up later this year, the city of Berkeley has pledged to focus some of its resources on the Adeline Street corridor in South Berkeley to address chronic problems and try […]
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Police arrest 2 after man brandishes gun in laundromat
Two people were arrested on Sunday March 16 after a man pulled out a gun at the Washingtown laundromat on Adeline. Photo: Tracey Taylor Police arrested two people Sunday after responding to a report of a man with a gun at the Washingtown Coin Wash laundromat at 3215 Adeline St. (at Fairview) in South Berkeley. […]
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Alleged Berkeley wedding ring robber arrested, charged
Over the past six months, there have been at least six reported robberies at Woolsey and Tremont streets in Berkeley, and six others in the immediate vicinity. Image: CrimeMapping.com Authorities have charged an Oakland man — reported to have taken a wedding ring off a man’s finger while holding a gun on him during a […]
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Violent threats, man with knife reports scare neighbors
Image: Google Maps Twice in just four days this month, Berkeley Police officers received reports of suspicious men in the Halcyon neighborhood in a small cul-de-sac near Ashby and Telegraph avenues. In one of the incidents, a man was arrested after threatening to kill a woman who was returning home with her dog to the […]
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South Berkeley robberies on the rise near Ashby BART
There have been at least 15 reported robberies near the Ashby BART station in the past 60 days, with several others also nearby. At least eight of the robberies near BART involved firearms. One incident, at Woolsey and Tremont, is too recent to appear on the map. Image: CrimeMapping Armed robbers have been targeting the […]
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Police join forces on Berkeley-Oakland robbery series
Three recent Berkeley robberies, two of them confirmed to involve guns, at the points indicated on the map above, are believed to be related. Several similar ones in Oakland could also be related. Image: Berkeleyside/Google Earth Berkeley Police Department has started a joint patrol with BART Police and is collaborating with the Oakland Police Department […]
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Pregnant woman robbed at gunpoint in South Berkeley
Jen Boynton was mugged at gunpoint after she crossed this intersection, heading west, at Woolsey and Tremont, at 9:30 a.m. on Monday, Dec. 9, 2013. Photo: Google StreetView A pregnant woman was robbed at gunpoint yesterday morning a block east of Ashby BART station in Berkeley. Police believe the suspects who mugged her may have […]
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Berkeley man shot Sunday night at Ashby Flea Market
Berkeley police responded to reports of shots fired at the Ashby Flea Market at Ashby BART on Sunday Dec. 1. BART police are spearheading the investigation. Photo: Frances Dinkelspiel A 21-year-old Berkeley man was shot and injured Sunday night at the Ashby Flea Market and Ashby BART shut down for the evening. BART police received […]
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Berkeley police investigate gunshot at Ed Roberts Campus
Gunshot at Ed Roberts Campus, Nov. 29, 2012. Photo: Emilie Raguso The Ed Roberts Campus near the Ashby BART station has been locked and closed for the day following a report of a gunshot inside one of the building’s public restrooms. A sign on the doors as of about 3:15 p.m. informed people that the […]
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Woman killed by train at Ashby BART station
Update, 4:15 p.m. According to Jim Allison, deputy chief communications director at BART, the fatality at Ashby BART station was in all likelihood a suicide. “Everything the BART police told me points to a suicide,” he told Berkeleyside. “Witnesses said a woman was on the trackway at the end of the station and she didn’t do […]
