By CBS Bay Area<\/p>\n
A woman who was pistol-whipped and kidnapped in Oakland last week was found unharmed, the department announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The incident happened at around 9:30 p.m. on June 3 on Redding Street just south of MacArthur Boulevard in the Laurel neighborhood of East Oakland.<\/p>\n
In a Tuesday press release, the Oakland Police Department said a man struck the victim with a firearm and then forced her into a dark colored, four-door sedan. The vehicle drove away westbound from the area with the victim inside.<\/p>\n
Police described the victim as a white woman, approximately 30 to 32 years old and about 130 pounds. Her height, hair color, and eye color were not known. The suspect was described as a Black man, approximately 30 to 32 years old, about 5\u201910\u201d and 140 pounds.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Police said the man was last seen wearing a black hooded sweatshirt, blue-and-white pants, and was armed with a black Glock-style handgun.<\/p>\n
In an update Tuesday evening, police said the suspect was detained and released pending further investigation.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information was asked to contact the Police Department\u2019s missing persons unit at (510) 238-3641 or call 911.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By CBS Bay Area A woman who was pistol-whipped and kidnapped in Oakland last week was found unharmed,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-390419","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\/390419","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=390419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}