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Nate Gartrell
Nate Gartrell covers crime and corruption in Contra Costa County. He joined the Bay Area News Group in 2014 after a year spent working at a beer supply warehouse. Outside of journalism, he doesn't do much. He endeavors to visit all 30 Major League Baseball stadiums.
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Two get 16 years for 2019 fatal shooting during Oakland marijuana robbery
Both defendants received the exact same sentence, which includes a court order to stay away from the surviving robbery victim.
Fremont: Police find dozens of cats, some dead, at home of suspected animal hoarder
The homeowner is a retired humane officer who was found with at least 73 cats in her home, and some animals were dead and decomposing in their cages, police said.
‘Our family hasn’t been the same since she’s been gone’: Pair receive life sentences for killing popular East Bay restaurant owner
Paul Paez, 43, and Donte Holloway, 45, were convicted of murdering 61-year-old Cindy Le during an April 2018 attempted robbery in Alameda.
Alameda man, 50, charged with sending lewd image to person posing as 14-year-old girl
David Baldwin Carlson, 50, is in jail on a felony charge of sending an image to an employee of a nonprofit that sends people to online chatrooms posing as minors.
Woman shot and killed outside San Leandro restaurant
Police say they were actively searching for a suspect.
A Fremont man’s armed romantic rival allegedly taped security camera and broke into his home. What followed was a life-or-death struggle
The victim jumped from a second-story balcony, fled as the suspect allegedly fired a pistol at him, then later somehow disarmed his attacker during a struggle, police said.
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Sinaloa Cartel ran complex ‘underground banking system’ to supply Chinese currency exchanges with drug profits, feds say
Details of the alleged scheme were released in a new federal indictment against 14 alleged Sinaloa Cartel associates.
Two charged in recent Oakland homicide; investigation led to police raid of auto body shop
Two men, aged 40 and 32, were arrested and charged with murdering 33-year-old Albert Servin-Ortega in an Oct. 10 shooting.
Antioch police union president, acting chief found officers’ violence was justified before FBI deemed it criminal, new records show
New records released by the city of Antioch show that police use-of-force incidents that are now charged as crimes were cleared by sergeants and lieutenants within the force, including the...
An Oakley woman insisted she would never deliberately crash the car with her kids inside. But her daughter had been filming, police say
Latyna Morgan, 44, now faces charges of murdering her own son on the drive home from a Mother's Day celebration in Oakland, in a case where police say there is...