{"id":292227,"date":"2026-04-29T23:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T23:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/292227\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T23:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T23:48:09","slug":"block-of-shattuck-avenue-closed-explosives-team-called-in-response-to-suspicious-suitcase-crime-and-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/292227\/","title":{"rendered":"Block of Shattuck Avenue closed, explosives team called in response to \u2018suspicious suitcase\u2019 | Crime and Safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Update 04\/29\/2026 at 3:47 p.m.: This story has been updated to reflect that the streets have now been opened.<\/p>\n<p>The Berkeley Police Department closed the 1700 block of Shattuck Avenue to both vehicle and pedestrian traffic after discovering a \u201csuspicious suitcase\u201d in the area.\u00a0As of press time, all streets are now open.<\/p>\n<p>The suitcase, which was reportedly making \u201cbeeping noises,\u201d was found in the surrounding bushes, according to BPD officer Byron White.<\/p>\n<p>BPD officers trained to handle explosives have been called onto the scene, according to BPD Officer Byron White.<\/p>\n<p>BPD is currently advising people to avoid the area.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Update 04\/29\/2026 at 3:47 p.m.: This story has been updated to reflect that the streets have now been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[7872,143,145,144,16344],"class_list":["post-292227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-berkeley-police-department","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-shattuck-avenue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292227","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=292227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}