{"id":183493,"date":"2026-02-18T21:41:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T21:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/183493\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T21:41:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T21:41:25","slug":"suv-used-to-shuttle-oakland-mayor-barbara-lee-stolen-near-city-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/183493\/","title":{"rendered":"SUV used to shuttle Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee stolen near City Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/barbara-lee.png\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">OAKLAND, Calif. &#8211; An SUV used by the security detail for Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee was stolen after a thief found the keys for the vehicle in her office, sources tell KTVU.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">\u00a0The city-owned Ford Expedition was found in Vallejo.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">The incident happened over the Presidents Day weekend. A source says someone &#8220;stumbled&#8221; across the keys to the SUV during a break-in at Lee&#8217;s office at City Hall.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">The SUV was taken from a garage near City Hall but was later recovered in Vallejo.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTVU\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">The SUV is primarily used by Lee&#8217;s security detail, sources said. Lee is accompanied by a combination of private security and Oakland police officers, who are often in plainclothes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Sources say a suspect has been identified and that an arrest warrant has been issued.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Henry Lee is a KTVU crime reporter. E-mail Henry at Henry.Lee@fox.com and follow him on X @henrykleeKTVU and www.facebook.com\/henrykleefan<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: KTVU reporting<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/alameda-county\/oakland\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article OAKLAND, Calif. &#8211; An SUV used by the security detail for Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee was stolen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[389,1184,2042,100,143,145,144,1181],"class_list":{"0":"post-183493","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-alameda-county","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-crime-publicsafety","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-oakland","13":"tag-oakland-headlines","14":"tag-oakland-news","15":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}