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Police Blotter

By RICHARD BRENNEMAN
Friday June 25, 2004

 

Pistol-packin’ Bandit Robs Pair of Purses 

A gun-wielding robber confronted two women near the intersection of Hearst Avenue and Second Street minutes before 3:30 p.m. Monday and demanded their purses. 

He grabbed up the loot and jumped into a dark, late model car—possibly a Saturn—which then sped away from the scene. 

 

Bump and Dip Artist Walk off with Cell Phone 

A thief bumped into a woman near the corner of 62nd Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Way about 10:45 Monday night, departing with her cellphone. 

 

Hate Crime at Graduate Theological Library 

Berkeley Police were summoned to the Flora Lamson Hewlitt Library at the Graduate Theological Union at 2400 Ridge Road after racist flyers were discovered stuffed into some of the library’s books, said Officer Joe Okies, BPD spokesperson. 

Several books had also been vandalized, with pages torn out.›