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Middle School Stoners 

Berkeley Police are looking for the 10 or so youths who hurled stones at a motorist just before 8:30 a.m. Thursday from the ground of Willard Middle School. 

According to Berkeley Police spokesperson Officer Joe Okies, the rocks shattered the vehicle’s rear window. 

The case remains under investigation. 

iPod Grabber Nabbed 

Police arrested a 20-year-old fellow on robbery charges early Thursday afternoon after he grabbed a pedestrian’s music player near the corner of Benvenue Avenue and Parker Street. 

Rape Under Investigation 

Citing an ongoing investigation, Officer Okies declined to offer details of a rape that occurred near the corner of Delaware Street and San Pablo Avenue just before 7 a.m. Friday. 

Signed Off to Jail 

A man wielding a wooden sign like a cudgel earned himself a hefty set of criminal charges following a Friday evening dustup outside the Nomad Cafe on Shattuck Avenue. 

Officer Okies said the fellow slammed the sign into the front of the cafe shortly before 9:30 p.m. 

When cafe employees stepped outside to investigate, the brazen basher charged them, swinging the sign. 

The workers retreated inside the eatery, calling police and barricading the door until officers arrived. 

Still the suspect refused to let go of his weapon of choice, earning him a charge of resisting arrest in addition to counts of assault with a deadly weapon and vandalism. 

Bottle Bashers 

Emergency room workers at Alta Bates hospital called Berkeley police at 1:44 a.m. Saturday after a young man arrived, bleeding from a head wound inflicted by a quartet of hooligans who accosted him outside his frat house at 2728 Bancroft Way. 

The victim said his assailants were all in their late teens to early 20s. 

Punched for Cell 

A young man in a dark hooded sweatshirt slugged a 33-year-old man in the head near the corner of California Street and Alcatraz Avenue shortly before 8 p.m. Sunday.›