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New: Teenage Girl Found in Berkeley's Elmwood District

By Scott Morris (BCN)
Wednesday April 16, 2014 - 10:12:00 PM

Police are investigating reports that a teenage girl was kidnapped and robbed in Oakland and dropped off in Berkeley's Elmwood neighborhood this morning, an Oakland police spokeswoman said. 

The girl in her late teens was found at 6:21 a.m. in the 2900 block of Piedmont Avenue in Berkeley, about two blocks from the Claremont Hotel, police spokeswoman Officer Johnna Watson said. 

She told investigators that she had been kidnapped in Oakland, robbed and dropped off there. 

Police have not determined where she was taken from in Oakland, Watson said.