{"id":295549,"date":"2026-05-01T21:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T21:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/295549\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T21:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T21:08:13","slug":"thieves-steal-dozens-of-memorial-plaques-from-popular-alameda-park-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/295549\/","title":{"rendered":"Thieves Steal Dozens Of Memorial Plaques From Popular Alameda Park: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALAMEDA, CA \u2014 Community members are growing concerned after more than two dozen memorial plaques were stolen in one night from Jean Sweeney Open Space Park in Alameda, according to a report from <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7news.com\/post\/dozens-bronze-memorial-plaques-stolen-jean-sweeney-open-space-park-benches-leaving-families-shocked\/19009461\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ABC7<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear who stole the plaques, which are meant to memorialize community members&#8217; loved ones, or why. A theory from Dorothy Freeman, who serves on the park board, appears to be that whoever stole the plaques did so for their material, according to the report. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Evidently, they use the bronze, and they can probably melt it down and sell it,&#8221; Freeman told ABC7. <\/p>\n<p>Bronze contains copper, which is a highly sought-after scrap metal because its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesilverlining.com\/safety-tips\/copper-theft\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">value has increased<\/a> in recent years. Currently, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solomonmetals.com\/scrap-metal-prices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">scrap copper is selling<\/a> at about an average of about $4.40 per pound. <\/p>\n<p>Park leaders are now looking at how to prevent other plaques from being stolen. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALAMEDA, CA \u2014 Community members are growing concerned after more than two dozen memorial plaques were stolen in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-295549","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\/295549","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=295549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}