Officers investigating a case involving multiple vehicles stolen in a single night developed a lead that brought them to an area along railroad tracks in East Oakland, the Berkeley Police Department said in a press release. Along a portion of the tracks between 50th and 66th avenues, officers found four Honda vehicles that had recently been stolen and were stripped of parts, with the engines removed and staged for pickup, police said.
Officers began surveilling the location and the next morning saw several people loading the stolen engines into a pickup truck, police said. They were tracked by members of the Alameda County Regional Auto Theft Task Force, which led investigators to a second location in East Oakland.