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Prostitution Busts 

A team of Berkeley patrol officers conducted an undercover prostitution sting early Wednesday morning, arresting four women along San Pablo Avenue. Two male officers posing as “johns” scoped San Pablo south of Dwight Way between 5 and 6 a.m., arresting Roberta Leflow, 40, of Oakland, Carolyn Wilson, 40, of Berkeley, Mary Hamilton, 20, of Oakland, and Sheila Nuzzo, 45, of Berkeley, on prostitution changes. The sting came in response to complaints by neighbors of rampant prostitution in the area. 

Robbery in the Park 

Four youths jumped a UC student riding his bike through Cedar Rose Park Tuesday around 9 p.m. According to police, a man and a woman materialized “out of nowhere” and blocked his path. When he tried to skirt them, two other males emerged behind him, one grabbing his waist and pulling him off his bike. One of the men told him that they’d hurt him if he didn’t surrender his wallet, and the women demanded his cell phone. Told that he didn’t have one, she searched his pockets and took his keys and wallet. They grabbed the cash from the wallet and raced from the park laughing.  

Hot Prowl Burglary 

Police arrested a Berkeley man on charges of burglarizing three homes. According to police, a resident of the 2600 block of Russell Street came home Tuesday afternoon to find the pins removed from the hinges of his basement door, which had fallen into a storage area. When the homeowner went to investigate, the burglar lunged from a crouching position and raced past him out the door with the homeowner in hot pursuit. The chase went east on Russell and then north on College Avenue, where the homoeowner borrowed a cell phone from a pedestrian and called police. BPD officers arrested Daniel Kiehn, 21, who they found hiding behind the house at 2819 Benvenue Ave. with the two hinge pins in his pocket as well as items reported stolen from two other Berkeley homes that morning.