{"id":279850,"date":"2026-04-22T06:24:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T06:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/279850\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T06:24:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T06:24:33","slug":"man-robs-oakland-bank-the-mercury-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/279850\/","title":{"rendered":"Man robs Oakland bank \u2013 The Mercury News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OAKLAND \u2014 A man robbed a Piedmont Avenue district bank Monday afternoon, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The robbery happened about 2:38 p.m. Monday at the Wells Fargo Bank, 151 40th St.<\/p>\n<p>According to initial police reports, a man approached a teller, simulated that he had a gun tucked inside his jacket and handed over a hand written note to the teller that demanded cash.<\/p>\n<p>The robber was given an undisclosed amount of cash and was last seen walking southbound on Piedmont Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>According to the reports, the robber was described as white, about 6 feet 2 and 220 pounds with long brownish hair. He was wearing a black leather jacket and blue jeans.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information may contact investigators at 510-238-3326.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND \u2014 A man robbed a Piedmont Avenue district bank Monday afternoon, authorities said. The robbery happened about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[389,184,861,7,8,138,332,1529,181,100,3271,143,145,144,385,2480],"class_list":{"0":"post-279850","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-alameda-county","9":"tag-bay-area","10":"tag-bay-area-crime","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-california-news","13":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","14":"tag-east-bay","15":"tag-east-bay-crime","16":"tag-latest-headlines","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-north-oakland","19":"tag-oakland","20":"tag-oakland-headlines","21":"tag-oakland-news","22":"tag-regional","23":"tag-robbery"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279850","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=279850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}