{"id":297049,"date":"2026-05-02T21:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T21:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/297049\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T21:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T21:38:08","slug":"2-sideshow-promoters-arrested-after-seven-month-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/297049\/","title":{"rendered":"2 sideshow promoters arrested after seven-month probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officers arrested one suspect in connection with a Sept. 25, 2025, sideshow after executing a search warrant at an East Oakland home, where they also seized two firearms and fake driver\u2019s licenses. Another suspect was later located and arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Last year\u2019s \u201clarge, highly disruptive sideshow\u201d started on Market Street and West Grand Avenue before moving to the 2200 block of Middle Harbor Road and neighboring cities, police said. Investigations have identified other suspected organizers.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they remain committed to disrupting and preventing sideshows. Separately, Oakland officers arrested two people and seized six cars <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/sf\/article\/oakland-police-arrest-alleged-sideshow-21045772.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">last September<\/a> in connection with an August sideshow.<\/p>\n<p>In San Francisco, lawmakers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/sf\/article\/sideshow-fine-sauter-21075916.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">passed legislation<\/a> last year to double fines for misdemeanor sideshows from $500 to $1,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officers arrested one suspect in connection with a Sept. 25, 2025, sideshow after executing a search warrant at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[184,7,723,332,143,145,144],"class_list":["post-297049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-bay-area","tag-california","tag-crime","tag-east-bay","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297049","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=297049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}