{"id":263348,"date":"2026-04-12T01:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T01:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/263348\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T01:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T01:59:08","slug":"missing-cafe-owner-ai-venture-housing-milestone-and-flock-assisted-investigation-the-eville-eye-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/263348\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing Caf\u00e9 Owner, AI Venture, Housing Milestone and Flock-Assisted Investigation \u2022 The E&#8217;ville Eye News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" data-attachment-id=\"83183\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/evilleeye.com\/news-commentary\/march-16-31-emeryville-newswire\/attachment\/missing-person-amy-hillyard\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/evilleeye.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/missing-person-amy-hillyard.jpg?fit=1140%2C1140&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1140,1140\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"missing-person-amy-hillyard\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/evilleeye.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/missing-person-amy-hillyard.jpg?fit=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/missing-person-amy-hillyard-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-83183\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Former Emeryville Caf\u00e9 Co-Owner Missing Since March 25<\/p>\n<p>The search for Amy Hillyard, co-owner of Farley\u2019s Coffee, remains ongoing more than two weeks after her disappearance on March 25. <a href=\"https:\/\/evilleeye.com\/news-commentary\/small-business-voices-amy-chris-hillyard-of-farleys-coffee\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/evilleeye.com\/news-commentary\/small-business-voices-amy-chris-hillyard-of-farleys-coffee\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hillyard and her husband Chris<\/a> co-owned Farley\u2019s on 65th from 2011-2016 (slated to become <a href=\"https:\/\/evilleeye.com\/news-commentary\/january-2026-food-drink-updates-new-matcha-cafe-banh-mi-virtual-brand-pizza-gallery-opens-tokyo-central-grand-opening-weekend\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/evilleeye.com\/news-commentary\/january-2026-food-drink-updates-new-matcha-cafe-banh-mi-virtual-brand-pizza-gallery-opens-tokyo-central-grand-opening-weekend\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">For the Love of Matcha<\/a>) and still own locations in Oakland and SF.<\/p>\n<p>Hillyard was last seen around 2 p.m. leaving her home in Oakland\u2019s Cleveland Heights neighborhood and is believed to have left on foot. Surveillance footage later captured her near Dimond Park at approximately 4:30 p.m., marking the last confirmed sighting.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have classified her as \u201cat risk\u201d due to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/bayarea\/article\/amy-hillyard-disappearance-22199440.php\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/bayarea\/article\/amy-hillyard-disappearance-22199440.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">recently disclosed<\/a> bout of anxiety and depression which Hillyard was addressing with medication.<\/p>\n<p>Family members and volunteers have organized ongoing search efforts, distributing flyers and canvassing neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<p>Police are asking anyone with information to come forward as the search continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Emeryville Caf\u00e9 Co-Owner Missing Since March 25 The search for Amy Hillyard, co-owner of Farley\u2019s Coffee, remains&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-263348","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\/263348","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=263348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}