ALAMEDA \u2014 A former Alameda Unified School District employee has been arrested and charged with burglary for allegedly stealing at least one safe from a district office, court records show.<\/p>\n
Paul Borg III, 24, of Oakland, was charged with one count of felony burglary in the June 7 break-in, and also with two felony counts of possessing a concealed pistol when police arrested him on June 23, according to court records. Authorities say Borg worked for two years as a custodian for AUSD, but lost his job in 2024 amid a conflict with another employee.<\/p>\n
Borg was identified as a suspect in the break-in after a privately-owned license plate reader system identified his Mercedes as being in the area around 3 a.m. when the burglary took place. Borg and another unidentified suspect were seen on video breaking into a district building in Challenger Drive in Alameda and making off with two safes, according to police.<\/p>\n
Borg was identified as a suspect in a February break-in of the same building, but he hasn\u2019t been charged, court records show. When police searched his home in June, they reportedly found a safe that had been damaged with a sledgehammer and had a melted hole, possibly from a blowtorch.<\/p>\n
Arrested in Emeryville, after driving the same Mercedes across the Bay Bridge, Borg told police he\u00a0\u201cjust found a safe on the side of the road.\u201d Police say they found a gun in the car that had last been registered in the 1960s, to a Solano County resident.<\/p>\n
Borg was released after a June court appearance by Judge Thomas Reardon, over th eobjections of prosecutors, according to court records. He has pleaded not guilty and is due in court for a preliminary hearing in August, records show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALAMEDA \u2014 A former Alameda Unified School District employee has been arrested and charged with burglary for allegedly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[84795,162796,162797,861,862,143,145,144],"class_list":["post-406044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-alameda-burglary","tag-alameda-school-burglary","tag-alameda-school-crime","tag-bay-area-crime","tag-california-crime","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406044","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=406044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}