{"id":29256,"date":"2025-10-29T22:15:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T22:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/29256\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T22:15:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T22:15:14","slug":"brazen-theft-at-oakland-museum-storage-facility-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/29256\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Brazen&#8217; theft at Oakland Museum storage facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OAKLAND \u2014 At least two people stole more than 1,000 items from a storage facility containing artifacts belonging to the Oakland Museum of California earlier this month, authorities said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Police and the FBI were investigating the heist, which happened just before 3:30 a.m. on Oct. 15 at the facility. The facility where the items were stored is in the Fruitvale District.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said Oakland police believe at least two people were involved but that there could be more. The items included Native American baskets, jewelry and other unspecified artifacts. Authorities said the value of the theft was in excess of $100,000.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe theft that occurred represents a brazen act that robs the public of our state\u2019s cultural heritage,\u201d Oakland Museum of California Executive Director and CEO Lori Fogarty said in a statement. \u201cMost of these objects have been given to the Museum by generous donors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fogarty said museum officials are working with the FBI and police detectives \u201cto see that those objects are returned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police urged anyone with information to contact the Oakland Police Department burglary section at 510-238-3951 or the FBI Art Crime Team at tips.fbi.gov or 1-800-225-5324.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Oakland police and the FBI are investigating the Oct. 15 theft of more than 1,000 items from the Oakland Museum of California's collection at an off-site facility, including Native American baskets, jewelry, and other historic artifacts. (Oakland Police Department)\" width=\"1920\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/EBT-L-MUSEUMHEIST-1030-1.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"12293239\" \/>Oakland police and the FBI are investigating the Oct. 15 theft of more than 1,000 items from the Oakland Museum of California&#8217;s collection at an off-site facility, including Native American baskets, jewelry, and other historic artifacts. (Oakland Police Department)\u00a0<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Oakland police and the FBI are investigating the Oct. 15 theft of more than 1,000 items from the Oakland Museum of California's collection at an off-site facility, including Native American baskets, jewelry, and other historic artifacts. (Oakland Police Department)\" width=\"1920\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/EBT-L-MUSEUMHEIST-1030-2.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"12293240\" \/>Oakland police and the FBI are investigating the Oct. 15 theft of more than 1,000 items from the Oakland Museum of California&#8217;s collection at an off-site facility, including Native American baskets, jewelry, and other historic artifacts. (Oakland Police Department)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Staff writer Harry Harris contributed to this story. This is a developing report. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND \u2014 At least two people stole more than 1,000 items from a storage facility containing artifacts belonging&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[21617,21618,7,9,8,2801,2536],"class_list":["post-29256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-brazen-theft","tag-21618","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-items","tag-oakland-museum-of-california"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29256","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=29256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}