Johannes Mehserle, the former BART police officer who shot and killed Oscar Grant III in 2009, was quietly released from jail early Monday morning. At approximately 12:01 a.m., Mehserle was released from the Los Angeles County Jail after serving 11 months for the involuntary manslaughter of Grant, the 22-year-old Mehserle Read More…
A Nissan Maxima was found submerged in the south end of the South Aquatic Park in Berkeley on June 7, though no one was found inside the car and no injuries were reported. At approximately 7:33 a.m., a man had pulled over his car to make a phone call by Read More…
It turns out that even Mariah Carey’s reputation failed to prevent covering up a recent extortion scheme orchestrated by a Berkeley resident who scammed a New Jersey investor out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Antywan Ross, 44, former head of the music promoter company The RDA Group LLC, was Read More…
A woman was allegedly attacked and robbed of her purse in North Berkeley last Monday night. At about 10:55 p.m., the 26-year-old woman was walking home from the Downtown Berkeley BART station when she was approached by another woman on Le Conte Avenue between Scenic Avenue and Hearst Avenue, according Read More…
When Berkeley police responded to reports of a shooting on the 1500 block of Fairview Street in South Berkeley Friday night, they found two men suffering from injuries sustained that night. At about 10 p.m., a group of young men were socializing in front of an apartment building on the Read More…
A former Berkeley High School student was found dead in her dorm room at Bennington College in Vermont on Thursday, though the cause of her death is still unknown. The Bennington Banner, a Vermont newspaper, reported that the cause of death for 18-year-old Emily Kassier, who graduated from Berkeley High Read More…
A jury announced Tuesday that it handed down guilty verdicts to two men in an Oakland triple-murder case — nearly four and a half years after the incident occurred. After deliberating for nearly a week, the jury found Asmerom Gebreselassie, 47, and Tewodros Gebreselassie, 43, guilty of all 14 charges Read More…
A man was arrested Tuesday night for alleged aggravated battery of multiple individuals between People’s Park and Caffe Mediterraneum after he arrived at the cafe and falsely accused another man of possessing a handgun. At approximately 10:38 p.m., the suspect, 27-year-old Jerry Thomas, flagged down a UCPD officer on patrol Read More…
One man was arrested after allegedly shooting another man with a BB gun in People’s Park on Sunday afternoon. At about 2:16 p.m., UCPD received a call regarding a man who possibly had a gun in the park, according to UCPD Lt. Alex Yao. Yao said the victim had run Read More…
A male student was allegedly robbed at gunpoint on the south side of the Valley Life Sciences Building on campus Wednesday night. At about 10:43 p.m., the 26-year-old student was walking westbound on the Grinnell Pathway near the Life Sciences Addition building wearing earphones when he allegedly felt someone grab Read More…
