{"id":257813,"date":"2026-04-08T16:38:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T16:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/257813\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T16:38:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T16:38:25","slug":"bold-break-in-at-oakland-auto-body-shop-caught-on-camera-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/257813\/","title":{"rendered":"Bold break-in at Oakland auto body shop caught on camera \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A newly released video shows the lengths some thieves went to in Oakland to pull off a crime.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Guzman, the owner of Karkachas Auto Repair, was planning to retire soon, but he told NBC Bay Area he is now putting that off because of a break-in late last month that was captured by his surveillance cameras.<\/p>\n<p>The video shows two masked men inside his shop along 24th Avenue for more than an hour in the middle of the night, rummaging and picking what to steal.<\/p>\n<p>The thieves stole two cars belonging to his wife and son, using one to ram through the garage door before taking off.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey took my scanner, my tools,\u201d Guzman said. \u201cI\u2019d say more than $20,000, and the cars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEmma Goss reports on a bold break-in at an Oakland body shop that was caught on surveillance camera.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Guzman tracked down both stolen cars and repaired them.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly two weeks later, Oakland police have not identified the suspects or recovered the stolen items.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Oakland Police Department, this was not the suspects\u2019 only activity in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Someone down the street told police their belongings were also stolen.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the recent break-ins, Guzman told NBC Bay Area those kinds of crimes are unusual for the Oakland neighborhood where he has run his shop for 32 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A newly released video shows the lengths some thieves went to in Oakland to pull off a crime.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-257813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257813","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=257813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}