{"id":183938,"date":"2026-02-19T02:58:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T02:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/183938\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T02:58:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T02:58:06","slug":"oakland-police-investigate-theft-of-mayor-lees-city-issued-vehicle-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/183938\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland police investigate theft of Mayor Lee\u2019s city-issued vehicle \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee&#8217;s city-issued vehicle was stolen from City Hall on Tuesday, but the mayor&#8217;s office and police officials aren&#8217;t releasing many details.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about the theft of the mayor&#8217;s SUV, Oakland police said the car was recovered within hours and they are following up on potential leads. No other details were provided.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one in Oakland should have to worry about their car being stolen, whether they&#8217;re a resident, a city worker, or the mayor,&#8221; Lee said in an email Wednesday. &#8220;Public safety is a priority across our entire city.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As with criminal cases such as this, the Oakland Police Department is actively investigating, and we cannot comment further at this time,&#8221; Lee said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee&#8217;s city-issued vehicle was stolen from City Hall on Tuesday, but the mayor&#8217;s office and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":{"0":"post-183938","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-oakland","9":"tag-oakland-headlines","10":"tag-oakland-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183938","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=183938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}