{"id":36872,"date":"2025-11-04T02:36:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T02:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/36872\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T02:36:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T02:36:17","slug":"police-release-surveillance-footage-of-2-suspects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/36872\/","title":{"rendered":"Police release surveillance footage of 2 suspects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Oakland police <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/v\/1BmbCMS8Km\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:released surveillance footage;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">released surveillance footage<\/a> Monday afternoon showing two people who investigators believe stole more than 1,000 collection items from a storage facility belonging to the Oakland Museum of California last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Surveillance cameras captured two suspects wandering through the storage facility, one wearing a black beanie with a white face mask and the other clad in a blue\u00a0hoodie and black gloves, according to images and video released by the Oakland Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators sought\u00a0help from the public to identify the two suspects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Oakland police and the FBI Art Crime Team were investigating the incident, which happened around 3:30 a.m. Oct. 15 at an off-site facility where the museum stored collection items.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police did not disclose the location of the facility. Records show the museum owns several warehouse buildings on the 400 block of Lancaster Street in Oakland&#8217;s\u00a0Fruitvale neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The thieves made off with more than 1,000 items, including historic memorabilia, Native American baskets, 19th century scrimshaw objects, daguerreotypes and modernist metalwork jewelry pieces, according to the museum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators believe it was not a targeted theft, according to the museum. Rather, it appeared to be a &#8220;crime of opportunity,&#8221; in which the thieves &#8220;gained access and took items that were most easily available,&#8221; the museum said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;There is no indication that the perpetrators specifically identified the facility as museum storage or sought particular artworks or artifacts,&#8221; the museum said in a statement released last Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Oakland Museum of California, or OMCA, offers a vast collection of art, history and natural science exhibitions inside a 110,000-square-foot gallery near Lake Merritt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;This is a loss not only for OMCA, but for the broader community,&#8221; said CEO and Executive Director Lori Fogarty. &#8220;The Museum takes its responsibility to steward California&#8217;s history and cultural legacy with the utmost seriousness and remains committed to recovering the stolen items and ensuring their continued care for future generations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Anyone with information was asked to contact the Oakland police burglary section at 510-238-3951 or submit a tip to the FBI at tips.fbi.gov or 1-800-CALL-FBI (225-5324).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally published at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/crime\/article\/oakland-museum-heist-theft-police-21136026.php?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=yahoo_syndication\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Oakland museum heist: Police release surveillance footage of 2 suspects;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Oakland museum heist: Police release surveillance footage of 2 suspects<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oakland police released surveillance footage Monday afternoon showing two people who investigators believe stole more than 1,000 collection&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,2536,144,2452,21778,3466],"class_list":["post-36872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-museum-of-california","tag-oakland-news","tag-oakland-police","tag-storage-facility","tag-surveillance-footage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36872","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=36872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}