OAKLAND \u2014 A man accused of breaking into Oakland police headquarters Sunday night roamed several floors and stole a police radio before officers found him inside the building and arrested him, authorities said.<\/p>\n
The 57-year-old was charged Tuesday with second degree commercial burglary and vandalism, according to court records. Prosecutors say the vandalism charge stems from him allegedly throwing a brick through a glass security door to get inside the building.<\/p>\n
Authorities said the man broke the glass door about 7:15 p.m. Sunday at the six-story building in the 600 block of Washington Street, part of the police administration complex that spans Washington Street, Broadway, and Sixth and Seventh streets.<\/p>\n
The portion of the building he entered once housed municipal courts and county offices but is now used by several police department units, including the training section.<\/p>\n
An officer returning from a homicide scene discovered the break-in, prompting an extensive search of the building.<\/p>\n
Before officers found the man on the third floor about 8:20 p.m., he had searched offices on several floors and taken a police radio from one of them, authorities said. Police said he did not know how to use the radio and still had it in his possession when officers arrested him.<\/p>\n
Nothing else was reported stolen.<\/p>\n
The man declined to give a statement to police, authorities said.<\/p>\n
Court records show the man has three prior felony convictions: a 1989 Alameda County case involving transportation of a controlled substance and two Illinois convictions \u2014 one in 1991 for being a felon in possession of a firearm and another in 1995 for aggravated battery causing great bodily injury. He served a prison sentence for the firearm conviction and was placed on probation in the other cases.<\/p>\n
The burglary was the second break-in at a prominent Oakland government building in two weeks.<\/p>\n
Over Presidents Day weekend, a man entered City Hall, took keys to an SUV assigned to Mayor Barbara Lee and drove off with the vehicle from a city garage. The SUV was later recovered in Vallejo and the suspect was arrested and charged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND \u2014 A man accused of breaking into Oakland police headquarters Sunday night roamed several floors and stole…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[389,184,861,7,8,138,8520,332,1529,181,23,100,143,145,144,407,385],"class_list":["post-205252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-alameda-county","tag-bay-area","tag-bay-area-crime","tag-california","tag-california-news","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-downtown-oakland","tag-east-bay","tag-east-bay-crime","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-oakland-police-department","tag-regional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205252","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=205252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}