Koichi Kawakami, Photo: BPD Update, 11:33 p.m. BPD watch commander Lt. Mike Durbin confirmed that Kawakami has been located. Update, 11:22 p.m. A BPD officer has found the missing man, according to scanner traffic reviewed by Berkeleyside. Koichi Kawakami was located at San Pablo Avenue and Oregon Street, about a mile from his home on Ward. He’s being given […]
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Bones of missing UC Berkeley student found in Marin
Shuqin Zhang. Photo: BPD A 22-year-old UC Berkeley student who had been missing since January has been confirmed by authorities to have died in Marin County. Two sets of bones found on a beach in April were recently confirmed to have been a DNA match for Shuqin Zhang, who disappeared about a week after New […]
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Police: Missing 84-year-old Dorothy Ewing has been found
Dorothy Ewing. Click on image to enlarge. Photo: BPD Update, 8:40 p.m.: Good news: Dorothy Ewing has been located. According to a Nixle alert issued by BPD at around 7:45 p.m., Ewing was found at about 6 p.m. Monday evening in downtown Oakland. The Berkeley Police Department said it would like to thank the public for its assistance in locating […]
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Police seek Berkeley woman missing since Friday
Photo: Gail Saari Update, Feb. 22: According to the coroner’s office, the cause of death has not been determined pending toxicology results. Hajisaari was, however, seen removing her clothes and entering the water near the Martin Luther King Jr. Regional Shoreline Park. Update, Jan. 29: A body located by an Oakland Police Department Air Support Unit and […]
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Update: Police find car of missing UC Berkeley student
Shuqin Zhang has been missing since Thursday. Photo: BPD Update, Jan. 10, 8:30 a.m. Berkeley police are reporting that, during their search for missing student Shuqin Zhang, “several items identified as belonging to Shuqin were located on the cliff above the ocean.” This was by the Point Reyes lighthouse near where the 22-year-old’s car was […]
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Update: Missing man found safe in Oakland
Willie Powell. Photo: BPD Update, 10:22 p.m. Police announced shortly after 10 p.m. that the missing man has been found safe in Oakland. Original post, 8:46 p.m. Berkeley police are asking the community for help in locating a missing “at risk” person. Willie Maxie Powell, an 86-year-old man, is described as being 5 feet 4 inches tall and […]
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Update: Missing Berkeley woman found
Antonia Rodriguez. Image: BPD Update, 5:17 p.m. Police have canceled the alert, citing the work of a good Samaritan who found the missing woman at a local laundromat in Berkeley. Original post, 4:34 p.m. The Berkeley Police Department is asking for help from the community to find a missing at-risk woman, according to an alert sent […]
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Missing at-risk woman reunited with family in Berkeley
Frances Green. Image: BPD A woman who went missing from the North Berkeley Senior Center on Friday, whose whereabouts were unknown for approximately seven hours, was reunited with her family Friday night after being spotted by an observant passer-by who was on her way home from work, authorities said. Seventy-year-old Frances Green, who has Stage […]
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Update: Missing at-risk woman found in Berkeley
Update, 8:18 p.m. Authorities have located the missing at-risk woman, Frances Green, in the 1900 block of Dwight Way. Original story, 7:20 p.m. Police are asking for the community’s help to find an at-risk woman missing out of Berkeley since early afternoon Friday. Frances Green, 70, has stage 4 Alzheimer’s and has been missing since about […]
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Police honor 10-year-old for helping find missing man
Berkeley police officers Jessica Nabozny and Stephen Burcham give high-fives to fifth grader Brandon Coleman for his success in helping find a missing man with dementia in Berkeley on Jan. 14, while his mother Niema looks on. Photo: Mark Coplan A fifth grader at John Muir Elementary School in Berkeley was honored in his classroom […]
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Update: Missing man with dementia found in Oakland
Monte Winterhalter, 61 years old and suffering from dementia, is missing. He was last seen near Domingo and Ashby avenues in Berkeley. Photo: courtesy BPD Update, 5:40pm: Good news: Monte Winterhalter has been found. This just in from BPD: “BPD would like to announce that Mr. Winterhalter has been located safe in Oakland. We would like […]
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16-year-old missing 6 months, possibly seen in Berkeley
Gaijin Holquin in 2012 The Oakland Police Department is asking for help in locating missing person 16-year-old Gaijin Holquin, who was last seen by his family in August 2012. On August 3, 2012, at about 9:00 a.m., Holquin told his mother that he was going to see a movie at the AMC theaters and then […]
