Off-Duty Alameda County Sheriff Robbed In Dublin

DUBLIN, CA — An off-duty Alameda County sheriff’s deputy was robbed at gunpoint Friday at a Dublin shopping center, the sheriff’s office has confirmed.

The deputy was robbed of jewelry by a male with a gun at around 12:35 p.m. in the parking lot of the Hacienda Crossing Shopping Center, Alameda County Sheriff Lt. Ray Kelly told KTVU and the East Bay Times. The deputy, whom Kelly said had been with the department for five years, was not hurt.

Plainclothes deputies in the area spotted the suspects’ vehicles after they fled, and began following it, Kelly told The East Bay Times. The suspects got off at the 98th Avenue offramp of I-580 in Oakland and crashed before fleeing the vehicle on foot. Nearby deputies and police officers were able to arrest them at about 1 p.m. in Oakland, Kelly said.

Friday’s incident is the latest in several armed jewelry robberies that happened in broad daylight in the East Bay. In Danville, three armed suspects robbed a man of his watch at gunpoint at the Livery Shopping Center on Aug. 6. Three armed suspects robbed another man of his watch in July at the Danville Trader Joe’s.

18-year-old Leon Cathay, a suspect in the Trader Joe’s robbery, has also been charged with armed robbery in Walnut Creek in June. In August, two men reportedly beat a man in a Walnut Creek parking lot for his Rolex watch, leaving him bleeding.