{"id":296912,"date":"2026-05-02T18:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T18:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/296912\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T18:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T18:45:09","slug":"oakland-police-arrest-2-people-suspected-of-organizing-2025-sideshow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/296912\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland police arrest 2 people suspected of organizing 2025 sideshow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oakland police said two people suspected of organizing sideshows were arrested Friday. <\/p>\n<p>One person was arrested after a residential search warrant was served in East Oakland. At their home, officers found two guns and fake license plates,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/oaklandpoliceca\/posts\/pfbid028j5qysuLf6e4g4hKPysctLPWaVtDzZht1zGV7vPYTGFhDmH8q6FV2xxif5naNkNTl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> police said<\/a>. The second person was arrested later in the day. <\/p>\n<p>Police did not release the identity of the two people, but said the investigation and arrests stem from a sideshow that happened on Sept. 25, 2025. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The event began in the area of Market Street and West Grand Avenue, then moved to the 2200 block of Middle Harbor Road and later spread into neighboring cities,&#8221; police said. <\/p>\n<p>Investigators have identified other organizers, police said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;OPD will continue to take decisive action to disrupt sideshows and hold accountable those who put the community at risk by organizing and participating in such activities,&#8221; Oakland police said.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oakland police said two people suspected of organizing sideshows were arrested Friday. One person was arrested after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144,43006],"class_list":["post-296912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-sideshows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296912","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=296912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}