Berkeley Police Log for Sept. 28-Oct. 5, 2011

Wednesday, Oct. 5

A guy with three outstanding Berkeley police warrants was arrested at 2547 Channing Way.

A black man in his mid-50s seen leaving the Unit 2 dorm bike racks with a green-and-white bike at 2:14 p.m. is suspected to have stolen it.

Two men involved in what UCPD described as "suspicious magazine sales" were thrown off campus for seven days. One of them was found to have a misdemeanor warrant out of Palo Alto and was arrested.

A middle-aged motorist was arrested in front of 2520 Durant Avenue on suspicion of drunken driving.

A couple returned to their home on the 1100 block of Hearst about 7 p.m. to find the front door ajar and the place looted of computers, jewelry and kitchenware, as well as their checkbooks. Police think the thieves entered through an unlocked bedroom window, then sauntered with their booty out the front door.

Tuesday, Oct. 4

The catalytic converter was stripped overnight from a UC-owned white 1998 Toyota 4Runner in the Recreational Sports Facility garage.

Two students who, in separate incidents, ran out on their Golden Bear Restaurant tabs will not be prosecuted.

Be on the lookout for a skinny white guy who may have stolen a moped about 2:30 p.m. from in front of the GPB.

About the same time, a Hyundai was broken into in a parking lot in the 1700 block of Fourth Street and the iPhone that had been left on the front passenger seat was spirited away.

While a guy worked in LeConte Hall, his $1,800 white B27 Specialized Rockhopper mountain bike disappeared.

A man asked a shop owner in the 2500 block of  San Pablo Avenue to show him an expensive gold necklace, which he grabbed and then ran with into a waiting car.

Two men found in campus Parking Structure C with a knife, marijuana, a probation violation and a Berkeley traffic warrant were arrested.

Monday, Oct. 3

A young couple who apparently spent the night at the Institute for East Asian Studies were spoken to about it. 

A woman who parked near Acacia and  Spruce streets about 9 a.m. to go running returned 90 minutes later to find her driver's side window smashed and her purse and its contents gone.

Something very similar happened to the guy who parked at 100 Seawall Drive at noon, except that he lost a Canon camera, backpack and laptop instead of a purse.

And the Lexus that was broken into a little while later at Hearst and Euclid avenues and divested of the purse inside had only been parked for 45 minutes.

A student who left his $650 gray Giant Mashup bicycle outside Moffitt Library for a late-night study session returned to find it gone.

More campus bike thefts: a gray Schwinn Ranger from the Unit 2 dorm racks; white/blue B24 Specialized from the Unit 2 cage; a gray/black Riley Roadster from the Unit 1 racks and a blue B24 Specialized Allez road bike from Upper Sproul Plaza.

Sunday, Oct. 2

A 26-year-old male student was arrested on suspicion of battery at I-House about 1 a.m.

Seven people, most of them in their 50s, were rousted from 2340 Durant Avenue at 1:45 a.m.

A 19-year-old Davidson Hall resident drank herself sick enough to require hospitalization.

But the 18-year-old male student who got ickily drunk in the Unit 1 dorm courtyard was obliged to sober up in jail.

A camera and change vanished from an unlocked auto this morning in the 1300 block of Delaware Street.

A guy who apparently spent the night in the Jones Child Care Center was spoken to about it. 

A young woman in People's Park with drug paraphernalia was cited.

Locks were cut in the 1100 block of Hearst Avenue, the 2300 block of Dwight Way and the 1600 block of Josephine Street; a bike was taken in each case.

A driver smashed into four parked cars about 9:30 a.m. on West End Way.

The glass in a door at Birge Hall was smashed about 10:30 a.m.; it's not clear what, if anything, was taken. 

A 24-year-old man who had no business lurking in the wooded area north of Clark Kerr Campus was told to move along. 

Someone’s afternoon was ruined in the 1900 block of California Street by the theft of his/her Webber Grill from his/her walkway.

A cellphone vanished from a purse in the 2300 block of Shattuck Avenue.

A grey Volvo vanished from the 1800 block of Bancroft Way.

And a Yamaha scooter vanished from the 2300 block of Ward Street about 6 p.m.

Someone wandered into the unlocked garage of a home in the 2300 block of Fulton Street and stole a bike.

A female student was sufficiently creeped out by a male classmate's attentions to notify police.

Saturday, Oct. 1

A student walking across Lower Sproul Plaza at midnight was divested of her purse and $480 worth of stuff.

In separate incidents, two dorm residents drank themselves sick enough to require hospitalization.

A student who gave police some attitude at 2 a.m. was arrested at 2720 Bancroft Way.

Someone in the 2300 block of Eighth Street at 2 a.m. was arrested for clobbering someone else with a baseball bat.

A silver/blue Schwinn Ranger bike, value $250, was stolen from the Unit 1 dorms.

Somebody smashed a car window in the 1800 block of Alcatraz Avenue about 10 a.m., found cash in the car and took it.

But the person who stole cash from a car in the 2500 block of Derby Street had to cheat the lock.

Police are pretty sure they know who swiped those shoes from a shop in the 2500 block of Telegraph Avenue.

A middle-aged guy caught stealing utilities from Eshleman Hall was spoken to about it.

Friday, Sept. 30

A drunken young lady at Dwight Way and Bowditch Street at 1 a.m. was noticed.

A student whose black leather vintage Louis Vuitton satchel handbag was stolen last Wednesday in front of the Tully's Coffee in the ASUC got around to reporting it.

The threat of a gun enabled a teenager to steal someone's bike around 8:30 p.m. at Acton and Parker streets.

Two bikes were left unattended this morning in the 1500 block of Tyler Street, and they didn't stay there long.

Some poor vehicle at Fourth and Camelia streets is missing its rear license plate.

A kid who stole a bike in the 1400 block of Rose Street was being watched.

A Longia scooter was stolen about noon from Ellsworth Street and Bancroft Way.

Somebody was enjoying a noontime cafe break at Berkeley Way and Oxford Street when the iPod was rudely snatched from his/her table.

A bald man in his 30s walked into a shop in the 2900 block of College Avenue about 4 p.m., grabbed some rings and ran away.

A cellphone and change walked through the unlocked door of a home in the 2400 block of Ellsworth Street about 5 p.m.

A short time later, a laptop, backpack and calculator walked through the unlocked door of a home in the 2200 block of Dwight.

A vehicle was left unlocked about 7:30 p.m. at Allston Way and McKinley Avenue, and clothing and a stereo vanished from it.

A bike was taken from a yard in the 1600 block of Dwight Way.

A guy was seen boosting a laptop and purse about 9:30 p.m. from a vehicle at Dwight and College Avenue.

Engineering grad student Vadim Karagodsky, 31, was found dead in his campus apartment about 11 p.m. Investigators saw no sign of foul play; an autopsy is pending.

Police repeatedly told Cloyne Court partiers to dial it down.

Thursday, Sept. 29

Just after midnight, a man grabbed a pedestrian’s laptop at Durant Avenue and Ellsworth Street and fled into a waiting car.

A motorist in the 800 block of Allston Way went to his/her car this morning to find its registration sticker gone.

A guy lurking around the second-floor balcony of the ASUC at 7:27 a.m. turned out to have a felony no-bail warrant from the California Department of Corrections for violation of parole.

A guy who apparently spent the night in the courtyard of 2607 Hearst Avenue was told to move along. 

So was a guy who found the ambiance of Hearst Gym so tranquil that he spent the morning there.

Around 9:40 a.m., a young man in a sportcoat sauntered into a store in the 2000 block of Shattuck Avenue to shoplift his morning beer.

A student's backpack and wallet were snatched from a patio table at the Golden Bear Restaurant about 11:14 a.m.

A kid who stole gum during the noon hour from a store in the 2300 block of Shattuck was arrested.

So was an adult who shoplifted ice cream a few minutes later in the same block.

A potbellied Asian or Latino man in the Recreational Sports Facility behaved in a lewd manner.

Sometime between 10:15 and 11:50 a.m., a grey Navara Express road bike, value $700, was stolen from the bike racks west of McCone Hall.

A scrawny 15-year-old strongarmed a woman out of her purse at Martin Luther King Jr. Way and Stuart Street around 3:45 p.m.

A person intending to buy drugs in the 1600 block of Russell Street at 4 p.m. was instead robbed at gunpoint by two teenaged boys.

Someone in or near the Berkeley Bowl Market rummaged around in a shopper’s baby stroller until he/she found the wallet tucked away there.

A rape was reported about 5:15 p.m. in the 800 block of San Diego Road.

Someone's wallet was lifted while she was in Moffitt Library around 5:15 p.m.

A toothless middle-aged black man with dark clothing and a grey bicycle was reported acting suspiciously near Stanley Hall.

A bike was stolen from a yard in the 3100 block of Ellis Street.

An unattended purse at Acton Street and University Avenue vanished in the company of a woman or girl wearing a red jacket.

A teenager accused of shoplifting food from Berkeley Bowl West at 6 p.m. was arrested.

Two vehicles were reported stolen from the 1100 block of Hearst Avenue: a 1994 Toyota 4-Runner and a 1992 Honda Civic.

Some time between 4:30 and 6:45 p.m., a student in Cesar Chavez Center was lightened of her backpack and $2,252 worth of stuff.

Around the same time, a $600 bike was stolen from 2610 Channing Way.

A 1988 Acura vanished from the 2400 block of Durant Avenue.

Wednesday, Sept. 28

A prematurely bald, or perhaps shaven, 20-something black man and his unseen accomplice pried open a window in the 3100 block of Colby Street before dawn and stole two bikes.

Two men who domiciled themselves in the Unit 1 dorm courtyard were spoken to about it.

A golfer who parked his vehicle in the 2700 block of Telegraph Avenue found his clubs gone at 6 a.m.

Around that time, a convertible was slashed in the 2700 block of Piedmont Avenue for the hell of it.

Two hours later, an unlocked car in the 30 block of Crystal Way offered up a GPS system, an iPhone, an iPod, a jacket and a tent.

But the thief who removed a laptop and hard drive from a vehicle at Hearst and Euclid avenues had to smash a window.

So did the person who stole a purse, laptop and phone from a vehicle in the 1100 block of Grayson Street sometime before 5:30 p.m.

Bikes were stolen from yards in the 2000 block of Ashby Avenue and at Hearst Avenue and Arch Street.

A woman outside 102 Sproul acted strangely.

Someone roaming around Giauque Hall just before noon acquired a $1,500 MacBook Pro and a hard drive.

A B-Twin Rockrider 5.3 bike, value $350, was reported stolen from Gianinni Hall.

A black Kona Dew B36 mountain bicycle, value $400, vanished around noon from the bike racks southwest of Kroeber Hall.

Also missing from Hearst and Arch is a MCZ GLK350.

The burglar who broke into a business in the 3000 block of Ashby Avenue cut the establishment’s phone line before making off with its laptop and other stuff.

Was it the same red-jacketed female who stole another unattended purse, this time at 1704 Ward Street?

A U-Haul truck rented in Arizona was stolen about 2:30 p.m. in the 1100 block of Allston Way.

Two kids suspected of helping themselves to deli items from an Oregon Street supermarket this afternoon were arrested.

A lock was cut in the 1800 block of University Avenue this evening and a bike taken.

Someone was arrested a tad after 9 p.m. in the attempt of removing a car stereo in the 1000 block of Jones Street.

A People's Park denizen was cited at 11:21 p.m. for trespassing in a tree.