Crime & Safety

Moraga PD: Recovery of Shoplifted Whiskey Bottle

Also, a couple of reports of reckless driving, and other collaborations and crimes reported to the Moraga police from April 12 to April 15.

April 12
Reckless driver. Reported to Moraga police at 6:33 p.m., a Campolindo Drive resident reported a red Ford Fusion in the neighborhood that was careening, almost hitting some children. The driver was described as a white man, about 30 years old, wearing a blue shirt. Officers were unable to locate the driver.

April 14
Whiskey River, don't run dry. A white male, estimated to be 17 years old, left Safeway around 1:25 a.m. with a bottle of Crown Royal whiskey. The suspect, when confronted by Safeway employees in the parking lot, returned the whiskey and sped off in a waiting vehicle, police said. Officers are investigating.

Suspicious. At 3:40 a.m., officers observed a subject getting out of a Toyota 4Runner in the area of Campolindo Drive and Moraga Road and looking around the neighborhood. Officers contacted the subjects in the 4Runner and discovered they were minors out late at night without their parents' knowledge, police reported. The subjects told officers they thought they were being followed while driving "so they parked until they were no longer being watched." Offices contacted parents who came to drive their children home.

April 15
Expensive collision. Police estimated $15,000 damage to two vehicles in a non-injury collision in the parking lot of the Soda Aquatic Center on the campus of Campolindo High. Police said a driver was exiting his vehicle around 1 p.m. when it surged forward and struck a parked car.

Another collision. Reported at 4:45 p.m., a driver in the Center Street parking lot in front of TJ Maxx store pressed the accelerator when she was attempting to press the brake and her vehicle struck a water pipe valve. Officers estimated damage at $1,000.


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