Thursday, Sept. 1

A man stole a liter of saline solution from a medical facility in the 2900 block of Telegraph Avenue. 

Wednesday, Aug. 31

The tires of at least 74 vehicles in a large area of South Berkeley and North Oakland were found to have been slashed and punctured overnight. The seemingly random damage was first reported in a 17-block radius along California Street from 62nd to Blake streets and the 1600 block of Julia, the 1500 block of Russell, and the 2800-3000 and 3400 blocks of King streets.The body count included 13 vehicles in Oakland, police said Thursday night. As of then, BPD was continuing to get calls from people just learning that their vehicles had been vandalized. Said BPD's Sgt. Mary Kusmiss: "The investigation is continuing and officers are pursuing some potentially viable leads."

Two white guys seen trying to steal a bicycle outside Evans Hall about 2:20 p.m. were arrested on charges including possessing burglary tools and a knife, possessing a hypodermic needle, conspiracy, and violation of felony probation.

Bikes were reported stolen later in the afternoon from the Unit 2 dorm bike storage (a red Roadmaster MT Stone, value $100); University Hall (a Trek 8000, value $800); Evans Hall (a silver Trek 24-speed men's mountain bike, $200) and the south racks of Moffitt Library (a red/white Fuji Roubaix Pro 9-speed road bike, $500) 

A student's wallet walked out of the Recreational Sports Facility about 4:20 p.m.

A People's Park denizen was cited on three outstanding warrants.

Tuesday, Aug. 30

A man who appeared to have spent the night in Hearst Gym was spoken to about it.

Within 15 minutes of 11 a.m., B60 Hildebrand Hall was looted of a student's backpack and a grad student's mountain bike.

A student's MacBook Pro, with backpack and contents, vanished about 1:45 from 77 Haas Pavilion.

A young man rakishly layered a Levi's jacket at McCaulou's under his own letter jacket, then became physical and abusive when the sales clerk suggested he pay for it or give it back. 

Customizing one's leather Luna bike seat with blue-and-yellow writing makes it more, not less, valuable to school-spirited thieves.

A green Trek road bike, value $500, was stolen from outside North Gate Hall some time between 4:30 and 6 p.m. Two more bikes were reported stolen from outside Evans Hall about the same time, while a blue/red Specialized B21 mountain bike, value $800, vanished from Wheeler. 

A student who stole food from the Golden Bear Restaurant was messed with a little.

Two women walking to their cars in the 1800 block of Alcatraz Avenue about 10 p.m. were confronted by a man who claimed to have a gun and took both their purses. The two went in one woman's car to call police; when they returned, they found the thief had used the stolen keys to steal the other woman's car, a 2008 white Toyota Matrix.

A 19-year-old Kensington man drove his Chevy into two parked cars on Ensenada at Tacoma avenues about 4:53 p.m. When police arrived, he explained that he had been drinking beer. Police corroborated this at length and took him to jail.

Monday, Aug. 29

Two 20-year-old nonstudents seen lurking around the Unit 3 dorm courtyard were thrown off campus for seven days.

A black and red Mongoose mountain bike was stolen from the Unit 2 dorm bicycle cage; a blue-and-white Trek hybrid was stolen from the Unit 1 bike cage; a silver 27-speed Trek 1000C vanished from outside Hearst Gym, and a $650 blue Scattante R560 bike was stolen from Wurster Hall.

Police scolded the gentleman known as "Moonshadow" for once again making a nuisance of himself in People's Park.

Sunday, Aug. 28

A resident of Beverly Cleary Hall was hospitalized with an alcohol-related illness about 1:30 a.m.

A 1996 Chevy Impala was missing this morning from the 2200 block of San Pablo Avenue, while a 1990 Mustang was stolen around 8:30 p.m. from San Pablo and Hearst Avenue.

A $1,300 green Bianchi Nirone road bike vanished from the Unit 2 dorm bicycle racks.

The rear license plate was stolen in mid-afternoon from a vehicle in the 1700 block of Harmon Street.

Someone smashed a vehicle window in the 1200 block of Hearst about 3:20 p.m. and stole the driver's tools.

A home window in the 2000 block of Parker Street was pried open about 4:30 p.m., and some jewelry taken.

Someone broke into a vehicle at Ninth and Carleton streets about 7:30 p..m, and stole a laptop, a purse and a guitar.

The door of a home in the 2700 block of Dwight Way was left unlocked, and a laptop walked through it.

A lock was cut about 9:30 p.m. at Shattuck Avenue and Addison Street, and a red Schwinn hybrid bike taken.

Four young men were seen breaking into a vehicle at Hearst Avenue and Fourth Street about 11:14 p.m., then escaping into a car driven by a teenaged girl.

A suspected drunken driver was arrested on Yolo Avenue north of The Alameda just before midnight.

Saturday, Aug. 27

Two residents of the Unit 1 and 2 dorms drank themselves sick enough to require hospitalization, while a third was deemed OK to sober up by herself.

Someone pried open the window of a home in the 2900 block of King Street and stole two laptops.

But the laptop that vanished from a home at Bowditch Street and Bancroft Way left through an unlocked window.

The new and old boyfriends of a Fifth Street woman were arrested about 5 p.m. at her home after an argument over the proper raising of the woman's child devolved into gunfire. Also arrested was an associate of the new boyfriend who police said provided the gun. Two men were shot, neither critically.

A convertible was slashed this morning in the 3000 block of Dohr Street and cash taken from it.

A green mountain bike was reported stolen this morning from the Smyth-Fernwald housing complex.

But the person observed stealing stuff from a vehicle at University Avenue and Fourth Street about 8:15 p.m. was arrested.

A campus visitor's iPhone was stolen from him in front of Dwinelle Hall about 2 p.m.

A lock was cut about 4 p.m. in the 2000 block of Kittredge Street, and a bike was stolen.

Sunglasses vanished from an unlocked auto about 6 p.m. in the 1600 block of Harmon Street.

Someone left her purse for a bit in the 700 block of University Avenue about 9:45 p.m., and it, too, vanished.

So did the jewelry in an unlocked car in the 1500 block of Sacramento Street.

Someone wandered through the unlocked door of a home in the 3000 block of Regent Street about 8:20 p.m., but didn't take anything.

An 18-year-old Cal student was  strongarmed out of his iPhone about 8:50 p.m. on the 2700 block of Bancroft Way by two men in their 20s who then ran away.

Three men assaulted another Cal student who was walking alone just before 9 p.m. in the 2400 block of Channing Way, grabbing his iPhone and wallet.

A leather chair left unattended in the 500 block of The Alameda was stolen a few minutes before midnight.

Friday, Aug. 26

Someone woke up in the 2700 block of Acton Street to find his or her black Honda Pilot gone.

An arsonist set fire this morning to an exterior wall of a home in the 2000 block of Ward Street.

A student was asked why he was leaving Cal's Dance Studio with its street sign at 2:10 a.m.

The Lawrence Hall of Science parking lot seems like a secluded place to enjoy weed at 2:30 a.m., but a police checkpoint is a few yards up the street.

Cash and a driver's license disappeared from an unlocked vehicle in the 1500 block of Woolsey Street.

The front license plate was stripped from a vehicle in the 700 block of Spruce Street.

About 8:30 a.m., two laptops and a camera disappeared through an open door in the 1700 block of Stuart Street.

About 10 a.m., a laptop disappeared through an open window in the 1300 block of Albina Avenue.

A library user's backpack and laptop were stolen from the north reading room of Doe Library about 10:15 a.m.

One People's Park denizen who beat up another lost his hanging-around privileges for seven days.

People in the 1200 block of Haskell Street came home about 3:45 p.m. to the unpleasant realization that someone had tried to pry open their door.

Campus bike thefts: a white 24-speed, value $300, from west of Lewis Hall; a Raleigh Venture 2 mountain bike and a silver 24-speed road bike, both from the Unit 2 dorms, while a student's $60 Marin seat and post were stripped from his bike at the Life Sciences Addition.

A Cal employee left work to find that her 1999 Camry had been stolen from the 2427 Dwight Way parking lot. It was found five days later at 2533 Telegraph Avenue.

A woman left her purse unattended in the 2700 block of Channing Way, and soon it was gone.

A man who claimed he had a gun divested someone of a laptop, cellphone and wallet at Woolsey Street and Shattuck Avenue about 9 p.m.

But a teenager who tried the same threat at Shattuck and Channing Way at 12:30 a.m. was unsuccessful.

Thursday, Aug. 25

A disabled Cal student reported the theft of his $16,000 electric wheelchair from his apartment at 2415 Dwight Way. 

A large Latino guy in his late 20s was observed prying the door of a home in the 2300 block of Dwight Way at 4 a.m., but it's not clear what, if anything, he took.

Someone in the 1600 block of Cornell Avenue awoke to find that an aesthetically savvy burglar had stolen the flowerpots.

An orange Huffy Howler mountain bike was found on Cal's West Crescent, east of Oxford Street. UCPD has it if you can prove it's yours.

A man seen on the Anna Head School site at 7:30 a.m. was found to have outstanding BART and UCPD traffic warrants and packed off to jail.

A lock was found cut in the 2000 block of Francisco Street about 10 a.m. and a bike missing.

Cal declined to prosecute a student who stole his lunch from the Golden Bear Restaurant.

Someone pried open a vehicle window in the 1800 block of Francisco Street and removed the stereo.

A $400 Specialized Rockhopper mountain bike vanished from Wheeler Hall's east bike racks just before noon, while a navy Raleigh Hybrid Cadent FT1, value $500, was stolen from the Dwinelle Plaza racks in the late afternoon.

A campus employee's wallet was stolen over the lunch hour from Wheeler Hall, and the crooks were already using her credit cards three hours later.

The security system in the home in the 1900 block of San Pablo Avenue, including a monitor and digital video recorders, did not foil the thief who stole it a few minutes after noon.

A $1,500 AMX touch-screen control panel was stolen from 235 Dwinelle Hall.

Two cars were broken into in the 100 block of Seawall Drive between 4 p.m. and 5 p.m., and jewelry, a laptop and other valuables taken.

Two men, at least one of them armed, stole cash and equipment from a business in the 800 block of  University Avenue about 6:18 p.m.

A 2000 Chevy Silverado is missing from the 2300 block of West Street.

Ditto a blue Honda Civic from the 700 block of Euclid Avenue.

And a blue Mazda 323 from Vine Street and Shattuck Avenue.

A woman with pink hair, pink hoodie and black capri pants stole a purse from Barrows Hall about 8 p.m. and went to town on the credit cards therein.

A car stereo was stolen on the 2300 block of Spaulding Avenue about 9:25 p.m.

Jewelry walked through an unlocked door in the 1400 block of Stannage Avenue a few minutes later.

A blue AMX Xtreme MX100 bike was found on the Grinnell Path east of Oxford Street. UCPD has it if you can prove it's yours.