{"id":445520,"date":"2026-08-27T22:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T22:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/445520\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T22:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T22:36:10","slug":"weapon-found-arrest-made-after-woman-kidnapped-in-east-oakland-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/445520\/","title":{"rendered":"Weapon found, arrest made after woman kidnapped in East Oakland, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Oakland made an arrest and recovered a weapon after officers said a woman was kidnapped in East Oakland on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after 5 p.m., officers were called to the 1700 block of Embarcadero, near Interstate 880 on reports of a kidnapping. The victim told officers that an unknown male who was armed had kidnapped her and drove a short distance before she was able to leave the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the woman was able to provide a description of the suspect vehicle. ARGUS, the department&#8217;s helicopter, located the vehicle near 10th Avenue and International Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p>Officers in the helicopter said they followed the vehicle at a safe distance and spotted the suspect throwing a firearm out of the window. The suspect was arrested in the 2000 block of San Pablo Avenue in downtown Oakland after police said he struck a parked vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/oakland-armed-kidnapping-082726.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"oakland-armed-kidnapping-082726.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Firearm that police said was connected to an armed kidnapping of a woman on the 1700 block of Embarcadero in Oakland on Aug. 25, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>                CBS<\/p>\n<p>Police did not release the suspect&#8217;s name. The firearm was recovered.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement Wednesday, police said the department&#8217;s special victims unit is conducting a follow-up investigation. Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 510-238-3641.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police in Oakland made an arrest and recovered a weapon after officers said a woman was kidnapped in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[25755,143,145,144],"class_list":["post-445520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-kidnapping","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445520","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=445520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}