A suspect arrested in connection with a flash-mob style theft at the Walnut Creek Nordstrom appeared in court Monday. Two more were scheduled to appear in court today, but were already released from custody, according to a report by ABC7 news.
The Sheriff’s Office now says it is investigating.
Real the full report by clicking HERE.
What do you expect from Diana Becton Soros?
Agreed! Vote her out.
She says…to the fullest extent of the law. Apparently that means catch and release. SMH.
Support Mary Knox for DA and vote out DA Becton.
Wow. Pointing fingers at each other – outstanding! Think I’ll change my profession to “Looter” …
@BOOYAH!, If you do decide to take up “looting” as a profession, you’ll need to use the correct phraseology. You would be an organized retail robber. Not looter.
… so who is surprised? Becton needs to go asap
Support Mary Knox in her run for the DA!
Catch and release by our wonderful County. Our fabulous DA Diana Becton is telling people to refer to the sheriffs office on this release.
Finger pointing, and lack of responsibility in this county. Sums up our society today. The leadership of the entire county needs to drastically change. Knocking off the DA is only going to do so much. The BOS needs to go, the city council in each city, the heads of “health department”, the mayors in cities, ALL need to go. If these “leaders” can place the blame on one person and let them be the fall guy they will just continue to do what they’ve always done and this area will keep spiraling downward.
I don’t expect much from an internal investigation from any agency be it local, state or federal “we have investigated ourselves and found our actions to be in compliance with blah blah blah”
Very unfortunate and very disappointing! But it actually doesn’t surprise me! All the tough talk from the liberal DAs in the Bay Area, along with the governor was too good to be true. I thought they would let the criminals out through the back door.
Let me tell you a citizens are finally awake to this crap. We’re going to throw all these criminal sympathizers out next election.
They genuinely care only about the criminal, and have a sort of resentment towards the rest of us hard-working law obeying citizens.
Unfortunately that’s how most the Democratic party has gone. I see no redemption at this point. They need to be thrown out of office
The left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing!
Amen.
Yes it does, and it’s called a “repetitive motion”. In layman’s terms: Political masturbation.
Liberals. Yes. I said it.
It’s California. Enough said. 🙄
Something’s not right. That was a horrific crime. This was strong-arm robbery. The co-conspirators are liable for each other’s crimes. A conviction should result in a five-year mandatory prison sentence. Then the cases will go down.
SmileWC, “the co-conspirators are liable for each other’s crimes” is often no longer the case. Individuals involved in a crime need to be charged and convicted of the crimes that they themselves committed using evidence that shows beyond reasonable doubt that those individuals were the perpetrators of specific crimes. Walnut Creek PD caught three people who were sill in the area at the time they arrived on the scene. Guilt by association won’t get far in a courtroom.
Someone HELP us !!!
There is no one who can help us.
We have to help ourselves.
Be like Kyle.
No surprise reading this headline…there must’ve been some residual fund’s availability from Kamala’s Minnesota Freedom Fund to get these looters out swiftly and quietly.
Good point!
It wouldn’t surprise me if Kamal Harris’s spring-from-jail-fund was behind this.
So Dawson (the one with a Glock) was released after posting $190K bail? That’s 19K cash to bail bondsman.
Impressive. Crime must pay really well these days.
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What the eff?
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This kind of BS is why criminals are emboldened to break the law again!!!
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Becton should be replaced!!!
Set free to loot again.
If the residents of Contra Costa County (and the state for that matter) do not wake up to what is going on and enact the necessary changes then this is what we can all expect to keep right on happening. People absolutely need to quit looking at every issue as being left vs. right that gets us nowhere. Try looking at things as right vs. wrong because a lot of issues are pretty clear cut.
Their ” tough on crime” is all talk, and nothing will change unless some serious changes are made, and talk won’t do it. Released to do more looting? No penalty at all. it is just pitiful. What about the 3 employees that were pushed, shoved, and one pepper sprayed? Did they get fired, since employees aren’t allowed to confront looters, or just traumatized? Looters can get away with anything but law-abiding citizens can’t, that is the message they are sending.
There are no “leaders” in California….. only politicians that’ll lie to get your vote.
ALL of them need to be removed and replaced.
+1
I’m surprised there is one remaining in custody.
The people you elected have failed again.
Time for new people, not politicians, to represent all of us.
Term limits, one and done.
Jail time for those who broke the law.
The criminals should immediately be sent to homes of the person/persons responsible for releasing them!
So the former DA Mark Peterson got ousted over some BS $60,000 misappropriation of campaign funds and gets replaced by a DA who IGNORES CRIME, IGNORES COVID PROTOCOLS aka Having a Wedding at her residence.
Nothing to see here.
@Anon- Peterson needed to go, he played favorites in the office and caused all kinds of strife within. And he spent funds he shouldn’t have..As for Becton she’s desperately trying to keep her head above water and everything she’s doing is to try and save her job, yes she needs to go!
Hopefully county voters actually look at future candidates and who is backing them..
I urge voters to look at Mary Knox for DA!
For those of you who keep voting for this mess we have in California it is time for you to step up during the next election and say enough is enough!
You can not still be supporting this!
This is starting to look like the PRI in Mexico making deals with criminals. California has officially become a Banana Republic; largest in the world. Watch out for the Federales; they’re no better.
Who are the real enemy’s of honest law abiding citizens and the police officers who enforce the laws? It’s of course the criminals themselves; and its very much so the county DA, whos priority is to support and enables the criminals.
The wacko woke. Off the rails…
What is there to investigate? I’m surprised they were even arrested and taken to jail.
Ca you voted for all this catch and release BS.
It’d absolutely suck to be in law enforcement now days, they should be issued fly swatters instead of guns to satisfy all the liberal dumbazzes out there.
The biggest joke are city Mayor’s and city council members. Crap runs downhill, and Ca has a ton of it in office.
All of the (liberal) mayors are now wanting to hire more police.
Like I said in another thread – too little, too late. You made your bed, now sleep in it. You wanted “social workers” in place of police and you decriminalized many of the crimes from felonies to misdemeanors. Then you don’t file charges.
It’s about damn time that these politicians, including the soft on crime DAs, to be kicked to the curb. Every one of them. And for those hand-wringing liberals who still want less police – you’re no better than those looters that will never be “rehabilitated.”
Catch and release is aiding and abetting criminals. Liberal DA’s are responsible! AND those who vote for them.
Catch and Release is a fishing term. For certain species you must also use a barbless hook. ( or else you are the criminal )
Key punch error at Sheriff’s Office.
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No they are not…they are too busy stopping commuters during commute hours on Clayton Road & then complaining to the driver that he had to pull you over because you were exceeding the speed limit. This officer does this daily on Clayton Road between Treat & Quimet Brothers. Why is the Sheriff’s Department pulling drivers over on city streets? This is abuse of power, not in their job description & definitely out of their jurisdiction.
Sorry bdml. You’re wrong on that.
Don’t play lawyer and hide behind a keyboard. You obviously know nothing about law enforcement.
Go get some education.
Sheriff and CHP have jurisdiction everywhere, do some research dude before mouthing off.
EQUITY
All you Becton haters gonna vote the Sheriff out too or does he get a free pass for some reason? His office mistakenly released one and the other bailed out? There are legitimate criticisms to be made of Becton, but I fail to see how this relates to her.
Bail is set by the judge, not the sheriff.
The sheriff’s Dept will make the arrests – but it’s up to the DA to file charges and pursue the case. Becton has consistently failed to file charges, meaning the criminals are released right back on the street. In other words, it’s a waste of time if they don’t file.
I’ve heard of maybe 3-4 “errors” in releasing arrestees in 20+ years. And a couple of them were due to incomplete information being sent from the courts to the sheriff.
How many mistakes have YOU made in 20+ years? Not defending the sheriff but look at the entire picture.