{"id":471605,"date":"2026-09-22T05:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T05:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/471605\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T05:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T05:18:09","slug":"suspect-held-in-attack-of-woman-as-she-opened-west-oakland-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/471605\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect held in attack of woman as she opened West Oakland restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6h8wkr3tvfm95e2w.jpg\" alt=\"Unhoused man accused of attacking Oakland empanada shop employee\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-892ef6a8=\"\"\/>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6h8wkr3tvfm95e2w.jpg\" alt=\"Unhoused man accused of attacking Oakland empanada shop employee\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"vod-poster-image vod-poster-image--embedded\" data-v-a3924c54=\"\"\/>     <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">OAKLAND, Calif. &#8211; A suspect was arrested for allegedly attacking a woman as she opened a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/alameda-county\/oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">West Oakland<\/a> restaurant on Monday morning, police said.<\/p>\n<p>   Man seen on video lurking in parklet before attack <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTVU\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The suspect, whose name was not released, lurked in a parklet before coming up from behind and assaulting her outside Javi&#8217;s Cooking at the corner of 35th and Market streets at about 8 a.m., according to surveillance video of the incident.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">On the video, the two can be seen struggling. She tries kicking him. But he pushes her against the roll-up door. She manages to push him away.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The woman was taken to a hospital and released later Monday.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Shortly before the attack, the suspect had asked the woman for cash, said restaurant owner Javier Sandes.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">&#8220;I think she&#8217;s more psychologically damaged than physically, because she got really scared,&#8221; Sandes said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Sandes said the man had been going in and out of the restaurant.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">&#8220;This individual went inside, asked her for money. She said, &#8216;No, I&#8217;m sorry I don&#8217;t have any money, I need to open up, can you please move out?&#8217; &#8221; Sandes said.<\/p>\n<p> Latest in string of incidents near eatery <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTVU\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Sandes said this is just the latest incident near his restaurant, where he&#8217;s had to deal with other homeless people setting up shop on the sidewalk outside or vandalizing his property, like when a big-screen TV was damaged in June, offsetting the joy of hosting big crowds at his restaurant during a World Cup watch party.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Also in June, he said a man on a bike set fire to his Dodge Ram pickup truck, angry he&#8217;d been sent to jail for pulling a knife and setting fire to his parklet months earlier.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">&#8220;Every week there&#8217;s always (something) that we have to deal with besides running a business,&#8221; Sandes said.<\/p>\n<p> Owner moved business to Oakland <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTVU\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Sandes moved his restaurant to Oakland from Hayward back in 2018, because the site already had walk-in coolers and a production kitchen. Employees makes empanadas on site from scratch, producing them for retail and wholesale.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Sandes said there have not been enough police to show up in a timely manner and that his complaints to city officials in the past have gone nowhere.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Customers said they were concerned.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">&#8220;He&#8217;s got a good location, but also you know you&#8217;re right by the freeway underpass and there&#8217;s just a lot of homeless activity around this area,&#8221; said a man who wished only to be identified as Ivan.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Another customer, Analisa Haidinger said, &#8220;I live in the area and luckily I haven&#8217;t had to experience any of that, and yeah, it&#8217;s disheartening but I know there&#8217;s a lot of people who need help that are on the streets.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Henry Lee is a KTVU crime reporter. E-mail Henry at Henry.Lee@fox.com and follow him on X @henrykleeKTVU and www.facebook.com\/henrykleefan<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information from this story comes from KTVU reporter Henry Lee and the Oakland Police Department.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/alameda-county\/oakland\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/homeless\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Area homelessness<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND, Calif. &#8211; A suspect was arrested for allegedly attacking a woman as she opened a West Oakland&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[389,1184,2042,969,100,143,145,144,1181],"class_list":["post-471605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-alameda-county","tag-ca","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-homeless","tag-news","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471605","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=471605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}