Publisher’s Note: Please accept our apologies for the delay in getting these reports to you. We have two more to post from November.

Teenage car theft suspect arrested after threatening to “smoke” officer

Following are the Antioch Police calls for service highlights as published in City Manager Steve Duran’s Weekly Report dated November 10, 2016 and provided by Chief of Police Allan Cantando.

Calls for Service and Arrest Data Summary

Time Period: 11/03/16 00:00:00 – 11/09/16 23:59:59

Number of Calls for Service: 1,747

Number of Case Reports: 265

Number of Arrests: 67

Felony: 31 Misdemeanor: 35

Infraction: 1

Arrests with DUI charge: 2

The data is based upon unaudited CAD/RMS data at time of report generation.

• On 11/3/16 at 8:12 pm an officer was driving the License Plate Reader vehicle eastbound on Sycamore Drive when he received a hit on a stolen Honda Accord. He made a U-turn and caught up to the vehicle which was occupied by 3 subjects. A high risk stop was conducted on Auto Center Dr and all 3 subjects were taken into custody without incident. The vehicle was drivable and returned to the victim. The 25 year old driver, Thomas Costa, claimed he purchased the vehicle for $100 dollars from the flea market. He was sent to county jail.
• On 11/4/16 at 10:35 am 28 year old Moises Sanchez was detained by Strategic Threat Management Security Officer for trespassing on the Numero Uno Tacqueria property on Lone Tree Way. Sanchez has been warned and arrested several times for trespassing on the property. STM signed a citizen arrest form and Sanchez was placed under arrest. Sanchez was transported to the APD jail where he was booked and then released on his signed promise to appear in court.
• On 11/4/16 at 6:49 pm officers were dispatched to a call of shots fired followed by a vehicle collision on Buchanan Road and Somersville. A caller stated one of the drivers of the collision advised he was just robbed at gunpoint then shot at by the other vehicle. Once officers arrived on scene, they found the accident was in fact a roll over and found a 20 year old male still in the driver’s seat of his vehicle. He advised that his two passengers had fled the accident but one of the males in back seat that fled did fire a handgun. It was determined that he drove his vehicle to Straw Hat Pizza to pick up some marijuana with two male passengers. During the purchase, his two passengers robbed the victim at gunpoint of his wallet, cell phone, watch, and marijuana. The two passengers got back in the car and told him to drive. The victim began to follow them in his own vehicle, so the rear passenger began shooting at the victim. The two vehicles collided causing the rollover accident. The driver advised he knew they were going to buy marijuana but denied knowledge of the gun or planned robbery.
• On 11/4/16 at 8:19 pm officers were dispatched to Westbourne Drive for a suspicious circumstance where a 4 year was left alone and wandering around in a driveway. The homeowner rents their garage to 31 year old Josefina Flores, her boyfriend and her son. The homeowner returned home to find the 4 year old in the driveway and Josefina missing. We later learned Josefina had left in her boyfriend’s car, leaving her son in the residence alone. Josefina was put into missing persons and within a few hours we received a call from Tuolumne County Sheriff’s Office stating they responded to a suspicious vehicle call and located Josefina under the influence of narcotics. She was arrested. When asked about leaving her son alone, she stated she just needed to “take a break”. The 4 year old was placed into protective custody.
• On 11/5/16 at 12:30 am 28 year old Deanndra Garcia was causing a disturbance inside the 19th Hole. She was refusing to leave and began yelling at security and other customers. Security eventually escorted her to the parking lot and called APD. Officers contacted her in the parking lot. She was intoxicated and still causing a disturbance. She was taken into custody and booked into county jail.
• On 11/5/16 at 7:59 am officers conducted a pedestrian stop on three subjects in front of a home on South Lake Drive. When they were approaching the subjects, 33 year old Danny Adams attempted to hide a loaded .45 caliber Glock pistol underneath a vehicle. Adams was found to be a Parolee-at-Large and during a search of his person he was found to have an ounce of methamphetamine in his right front pants pocket. Adams was arrested for drug and gun charges along with the parole warrant and later booked into county jail.
• On 11/5/16 at 9:29 am an officer conducted a pedestrian stop on 34 year old Lawrence Wiley in the Quikstop parking lot on Sycamore Drive. Wiley was found to have a no-bail probation violation warrant. He was arrested and booked into county jail.
• On 11/5/16 at 2:03 pm a 16 year old male asked his 68 year old grandmother for some money. She refused to give him the money and he began to wrestle with her for the cash. During the tussle she fell to the ground. While she was on the floor the 16 year old rummaged through her pockets and stole approximately $400 cash, her wallet and cellular phone. He fled on foot prior to APD arrival. While officers were speaking to the victim, her grandson returned home and was found to be in possession of the stolen items. He was arrested without incident and transported to Juvenile Hall.
• On 11/6/16 at 11:26 am dispatch received a stationary License Plate Reader hit on a stolen vehicle in the Sycamore Dr corridor. An area check for the vehicle was conducted and it was located in the Quikstop parking lot occupied by 23 year old Michelle Arth and 32 year old William Hood. Both subjects were taken into custody without incident. A search of the vehicle revealed approximately 38 grams of methamphetamine and 1.5 grams of black tar heroin on the driver side floorboard. Hood was discovered to be on PRCS for narcotics and vehicle theft charges and also possessed a spare key to the car. Both subjects were sent to county jail.
• On 11/6/16 at 8:45 pm an officer conducted a pedestrian stop on 34 year old Janard Tillery behind Lowes on Auto Center Drive. Tillery was on probation for narcotic violations. During a probation search Tillery was found to be in possession of suspected methamphetamine and marijuana. Tillery was arrested and sent to county jail.
• On 11/7/16 at 1:58 am 23 year old Tony Brooks was contacted during a pedestrian stop on D Street and found to have a warrant for his arrest. Brooks was arrested without incident and sent to county jail.
• On 11/7/16 at 9:25 am a customer in the Safeway parking lot on Deer Valley Road was contacted by male wearing dark clothes and armed with a large knife while walking to his car. The man with the knife demanded the victim’s property which the victim gave up. The male then jumped into a waiting newer model dark colored Dodge Dart and fled on Hillcrest Ave. A possible plate of the responsible vehicle was obtained and further leads are being followed up on. The victim was not injured during the robbery.
• On 11/7/16 at 11:29 am officers went to city park to complete their extra patrol. They located 37 year old Tulsha Perkins walking away from behind the bathrooms. A consent stop was performed and Perkins was found to be on searchable probation. A search of his person was conducted and a glass smoking pipe and an eightball of methamphetamine was located. Perkins probation officer could not be reached so he was released with a citation from the scene.
• On 11/7/16 at 3:48 pm an officer was conducting a security sweep of the Quick Stop parking lot on Sycamore Drive clearing out numerous loiterers. A 17 year old male was contacted and refused orders to leave the parking lot. The officer exited his patrol car and the 17 year old approached the officer with his fists balled up and challenging the officer to fight and threatening to assault him. Several of the 17 year olds friends joined the group and the officer removed his taser from his holster telling the group to leave the lot. The group reluctantly did but not until after the 17 year old threatened several times that he was going to “smoke” the officer the next time he saw him. Cover units arrived and the group was contacted on Peppertree Way where the 17 year old was taken into custody during which time he continued to threaten officers. It took several officers to place handcuffs on him and he stiffened up his body and refused to cooperate. While at APD he continued his threats and remained uncooperative. He was ultimately taken to Juvenile Hall. It was discovered that he was one of several subjects recently arrested for an armed robbery that occurred in Brentwood where APD units located the suspect vehicle and pursued it in our city.
• On 11/7/16 at 6:12 pm an officer contacted 30 year old Michael Ward at the Executive inn on East 18th Street. Ward had a warrant for his arrest and was taken to county jail.
• On 11/7/16 at 7:45 pm and officer conducting extra patrol of a red tagged house on Canada Hills Drive contacted 32 year old Christopher Gleason walking away from the house. Gleason had 2 fixed blade knives strapped to his thigh and an axe handle with a metal chain wrapped around one side in his jacket. He stated he needed these weapons for protection. He was arrested and transported to county jail.
• On 11/8/16 at 11:48 am officers were called to 7-11 on Buchanan Road for the report of 38 year old James Patterson acting crazy in the store threatening to shoot and blow up the place because he felt the ATM machine had shorted him money. Upon arrival, Patterson was searched and found to be in possession of 20.2 grams of methamphetamine. He was arrested without incident and sent to county jail.
• On 11/8/16 at 10:10 pm officers were dispatched to Dave’s Liquors on Fitzuren Road for a subject passed out in a parked vehicle. Officers contacted 28 year old David Allen, unresponsive in the car. It took over 5 minutes to get him to respond. He showed symptoms of being under the influence of alcohol, including being unable to stand, speak clearly, and answer simple questions. He showed to be on probation for DUI. He was placed under arrest and taken to MDF.
• On 11/9/16 at 2:29 pm a neighbor of a home on H Street called dispatch to report that an adult male went into his neighbor’s backyard. Officers arrived on scene and caught 22 year old Esteban Flores climbing out of a back window of the residence with property stolen from inside. Flores was arrested for residential burglary and booked into county jail.
• On 11/10/16 at 1:49 am 25 year old Dennis Watson was contacted during a suspicious circumstance call on West 20th Street. Watson had a warrant for his arrest. Watson was arrested without incident and he was sent to county jail.

By Nick Goodrich

A public hearing was held by the Antioch City Council, at its November 8th meeting, to discuss a request for more funding for the Delta Courtyard Apartments affordable housing project. In a 4-1 vote, with Councilmember Mary Rocha dissenting, the Council chose to deny developer Pacific West Communities’ plea for the city’s financial help in order to move ahead with the plans.

The Delta Courtyard Apartments project, designated by the city as an affordable housing opportunity, was set to include 126 units on 4.62 acres, located across from the Tri Delta Transit headquarters and just east of the Lakeshore Apartments on Wilbur Avenue.

At their meeting on September 7th, the Antioch Planning Commission approved the project. Upon further review of the project cost, however, Pacific West Communities realized they would be unable to move forward without additional city help.

The developer’s appeal included reduced Police CFD participation, the deferral of Development Impact Fees, and the waiver of Measure O fees. If granted, the requests would cost the city nearly $1.8 million over a period of 30 years, as Antioch would take on the costs on behalf of the developer.

According to Forrest Ebbs, head of Antioch’s Community Development Department, “The city does not need to guarantee the feasibility or financial success of every affordable housing project.” Antioch’s only obligation is to make sure it doesn’t present any unnecessary roadblocks or discourage the project.

“The cost is simply too high, for what they’re asking for,” Ebbs told the Council.

With that in mind, Ebbs and city staff recommended that the Council deny Pacific West’s appeal of the reduced Police CFD fees and the waiver of Measure O fees.

Bill Span, representing the project on behalf of Pacific West Communities, was present at Tuesday’s meeting.

Even a partial payment of the Police CFD and Measure O fees would allow the project to move forward, he said, but without the city’s help, it would not make sense to continue.

According to Span, Pacific West was not aware of the extent of the two fees until the Planning Commission approved the project in September.

“Our operating expenses are now much higher because of the CFD and [Measure O] landlord taxes”, he told the Council, making the project financially infeasible.

He noted that while Pacific West Communities would be constructing the development, it would ultimately be managed by a nonprofit organization, making it eligible for property tax waivers down the line.

In addition, the re-zoning of the parcel on which the apartments would be built is imminent, perhaps sometime next year, Span said.

This would mean higher Development Impact fees for any future project, to the tune of $3.4 million, according to Span.

Several members of the public stepped up during the hearing to offer their opinions to Council.

Antioch resident Nancy Fernandez worried that future developers might request similar concessions from the city if Pacific West’s requests were granted.

 

“We cannot waive Measure O fees, something that the public voted on. It will be setting a horrible precedent,” she said. “Every builder coming in from now on will want their fees waived.”

Lynette Solario, a landlord in Antioch, was worried about the parking problems a new development would bring to the area.

Solario voted for Measure O, saying that the $150 per unit fee was needed. And overcrowding, she noted, brings other problems, such as increased crime, drug use, and more.

But Mike Serpa, another Antioch landlord and part-owner of the Aviano Project that initally created the CFD, was in favor of assisting Pacific West.

He cited squatters, police problems, and issues with the land parcel as several recent problems. Pacific West, however, has found resolutions to many of those issues, in his opinion.

“There’s no development that works there…but this is a beautiful project. It’s a wonderful project.” Serpa argued that the developer should be exempt from the city’s landlord taxes because it would be managed by a nonprofit, rather than a for-profit company.

Ultimately, however, the Council voted down Pacific West’s appeal.

Mayor Pro Tem Lori Ogorchock said, “We voted on Measure O, and I feel we can’t ignore Measure O.” She echoed some resident’s concerns about parking, and also stated that not enough feedback had been received from the citizens in the project’s vicinity.

Mayor Wade Harper agreed with her, saying, “To me, when developers want to come in and not have to pay the CFD, that’s a non-starter.”

Councilmember Mary Rocha, in her dissent, was the lone voice willing to give Pacific West Communities a chance. She argued for more research and feedback before a decision was made, noting the city’s need for affordable housing and its potential benefits.

But, City Attorney says legal and financial ramifications if changes in contracts are attempted by new council

By Allen Payton

Last week the Antioch City Council voted unanimously to give all city staff increases in pay and benefits for the next five years. This week, City Manager Steve Duran admitted that if the city’s half-cent sales tax, known as Measure C, isn’t renewed four years from now, the city will face “massive layoffs” in police and Code Enforcement.

Duran responded to questions to him and the council members, about the new contracts and their timing after the election, even though all but one had expired prior to the election.

In an email Duran wrote, “Contract negotiations are very complex and time consuming. They took how long they took. It’s not unusual in any city for labor negotiations to go beyond the term of the existing agreements.”

He then provided an answer to the question of what the council’s plans are should Measure C not be renewed or if the city’s revenue hasn’t increased enough by then to cover the amount received from Measure C.

“As for the impacts of the new labor agreements on the City’s finances, the increases are pretty close to what we projected in our last budget and amount to a very small impact compared to the projected annual Measure C revenue of $7 million an year,” he responded. “The bottom line is that if Measure C is not extended, massive cuts will again have to be made to staffing, especially Police and Code Enforcement because that is where we have made significant increases in staffing since the passage of Measure C.”

The contracts approved by the Council are only tentative and won’t be finalized until early next year.

In the staff report on the contracts, it states, “If the City Council adopts the Tentative Agreement, the parties will continue to prepare an MOU to memorialize and replace the Tentative Agreement. The existing MOU will continue as modified by the terms of the Tentative Agreement until the MOU is completed. When completed, the MOU will be submitted to City Council for approval and adoption.”

When asked when the MOU’s would be placed on a Council agenda for a vote, Nickie Mastay, the City’s Administrative Services Director, wrote, “This will be a January – February timeframe. Since there are five Memorandums of Understanding, we are continuing to confer with the unions to ensure accuracy of the Memorandums of Understanding.”

Asked if a new council majority could renegotiate the contracts to reduce their length to three or four years, or if they have to just vote down the MOU’s, City Attorney Michael Vigilia said, “That’s something they can certainly discuss with their labor negotiators. I don’t know. I’ll have to look at the MOU a little closer. Usually, if you want to reopen the negotiations it’s because there’s been a change. Perhaps new council members would be considered a change.”

“That’s really more of a policy issue. There’s not really a legal issue,” he continued. “I can’t think of any legal issues off the top of my head. We’ll cross that bridge and deal with legal issues if there’s a council policy.”

“It’s something that labor negotiators would have to take up in closed session,” Vigilia stated. “New council members have the prerogative to say what they want about the MOU’s. If they can get a third council member to go along with them, then we would talk with the labor negotiators.”

“There are all sorts of policy issues that need to be worked through. It’s really more of a policy thing,” he added.

UPDATE: However, in emails received later, Vigilia backpedaled on his earlier comments.

“To follow up on our conversation…while it’s true that this is primarily a policy issue, there are also significant legal risks associated with a City Council potentially deciding to attempt to re-negotiate a tentative labor agreement that has already been approved by both a union and the City Council,” he said.

Duran also responded with similar comments.

“The tentative agreements contain all business terms that were negotiated in good faith by the parties over many months,” Duran wrote. “They constitute, in writing, the business terms that the MOUs must contain, and have been ratified by the unions and approved by the City Council. Nickie and I have consulted with our professional labor negotiator and our City Attorney on this matter. Trying to change any of the business terms to which the parties have agreed is wrought with rather unpleasant legal and financial dangers to the City.

Vigilia, Duran and Mastay were then asked if since the agreements are tentative and not finalized until the MOU’s are voted on, then how can there be legal ramifications if a new council majority wants to reopen negotiations and do something such as shorten the period?

Vigilia responded with, “To put it simply, the parties have reached a meeting of the minds as to the major terms of the MOU’s and each party has relied on the representations of the other party in deciding to agree to the terms. Once there is a meeting of the minds there is an enforceable legal obligation which would be very risky to break. The City, at the very least, risks breach of contract claims being asserted against it. Additionally, to attempt to renegotiate the terms exposes the City to potential charges of unfair conduct from the Public Employee Relations Board, which enforces collective bargaining laws covering public employees. This exposes the City to potential fines. As Steve and I stated, there are significant legal ramifications.”

The new council member, Lamar Thorpe and possibly a new mayor will begin their terms on Tuesday, December 13 following an oath of office ceremony expected that night. The final vote count in the Mayor’s race is expected to be provided by the County Elections office, tomorrow, Friday, December 3 by 5:00 p.m.

Accusations it includes fraud, bribery, corruption; requires Senate passage during lame duck session

By Allen Payton

On Wednesday, November 30, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the 21st Century Cures Act (H.R. 34) on an overwhelmingly bipartisan vote of 392-26. The almost 1,000-page bill is designed for medical innovation, additional funding for cancer research, and to combat the nation’s growing opioid and heroin epidemic. But opponents say what the bill includes continues and advances corruption. Plus, they don’t like the fact it’s being considered and voted on by a lame-duck Congress, some of whose members weren’t re-elected in November and will be leaving, soon.

Congressman DeSaulnier (D, CA-11), who represents most of Contra Costa County and voted for the bill, issued the following statement lauding its passage.

“This legislation will help ensure the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have the resources needed to continue important work improving biomedical research and developing innovative treatments. Included in the bill is funding for the Vice President’s Cancer Moonshot, which is essential to continuing the program under the new Administration, as well as funds to combat the growing opioid and heroin epidemic facing our country. While this bill is not perfect, it provides $4.8 billion in new funding to ensure NIH is able to further its work for patients and families relying on research, treatment and recovery options. As a survivor of cancer and a beneficiary of the remarkable progress this country has made in treatment and research, I know all too well the value of these investments and how many lives can be saved as a result.”

According to other news reports, the legislation was introduced by Rep. Fred Upton, R-Michigan and Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Colo., “in hopes of speeding up the discovery, development and delivery of life-saving drugs and devices for diseases such as cancer, Alzheimer’s and diabetes. It passed the House 344-77 in July, but later stalled in the Senate. A reworked version was released last weekend.”

Congressman DeSaulnier offered an amendment to the bill, which would have helped improve doctor-patient communication when patients are diagnosed and receiving treatment for severe or chronic diseases. No amendments were included in the final version of the bill. He will continue to work on these important issues.

White House Supports

The bill will now go to the Senate for a final vote and if passed the White House has indicated President Obama will sign it. In a statement, issued Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest praised the passage of the bill.

“This critically important legislation will get states the resources they need to fight the heroin and prescription opioid epidemic. It invests the $1 billion the President has repeatedly said is necessary to help communities that have seen far too many overdoses. It also responds to the Vice President’s call for a Moonshot in cancer research by investing $1.8 billion in new resources to transform cancer research and accelerate discoveries. Plus, it invests nearly $3 billion to continue the President’s signature biomedical research initiatives, the BRAIN and Precision Medicine Initiatives, over the next decade to tackle diseases like Alzheimer’s and create new research models to find cures and better target treatments.

H.R. 34 also takes important steps to improve mental health, including provisions that build on the work of the President’s Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Parity Task Force. It further advances the drug approval process by taking steps like modernizing clinical trial design and better incorporating patients’ voices into FDA’s decision-making processes. Like all comprehensive legislation, the bill is not perfect, and there are provisions the Administration would prefer were improved, but the legislation offers advances in health that far outweigh these concerns. The Senate should promptly pass this bill so that the President can sign it.”

Liberal Opposition

However, not everyone in the Senate is supportive of the bill, including DeSaulnier’s fellow Democrat, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass). She has been generally supportive of the legislation, but will now work against its passage, blasting it for being favorable to the pharmaceutical industry, saying “there’s a lot of bad stuff” in the bill, and called it extortion, and includes “special favors for campaign donors and giveaways to the richest drug companies in the world.”

In a floor statement on Monday night, which can be viewed here, she said that “Big Pharma hijack(ed) the Cures bill. This final deal has only a tiny fig leaf of funding, for NIH and for the opioid crisis. And most of that fig leaf isn’t even real. Most of the money won’t really be there unless future Congresses passes future bills in future years to spend those dollars.”

Warren continued, saying “In the closing days of this Congress, Big Pharma has its hand out for a bunch of special giveaways and favors that are packed together in something called the 21st Century Cures bill.

And when American voters say Congress is owned by big companies, this bill is exactly what they are talking about. Now, we face a choice. Will this Congress say that yes, we’re bought and paid for, or will we stand up and work for the American people?

Medical breakthroughs come from increasing investments in basic research. Right now, Congress is choking off investments in the NIH. Adjusted for inflation, federal spending on medical research over the past dozen years has been cut by 20%. Those cuts take the legs out from under future medical innovation in America. We can name a piece of legislation the “cures” bill, but if it doesn’t include meaningful funding for the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration, it won’t cure anything.”

Her reasons for opposing the bill include her argument that “this funding is political cover for huge giveaways to giant drug companies.” She stated it would “legalize fraud” and “cover up bribery,” and, in her usual practice of partisan attacks, also said it would “hand out dangerous, special deals to Republican campaign contributors.”

Warren said that “this Cures bill that would shoot holes in the anti-fraud law. Make it easier for drug companies to get away with fraud.”

Another accusation she made is “the Cures act offers to sell government favors. It delivers a special deal so people can sell…treatments without meeting the FDA gold standards for protecting patient safety and making sure these drugs do some good.”

Warren gave a list of other reasons she opposed it.

“The Cures Act – a bill that was supposed to be about medical innovation – has a giveaway to the gun lobby,” she said. “The bill cuts Medicare funding. It raids money from the Affordable Care Act. It takes health care dollars that should have gone to Puerto Rico. It makes it harder for people with disabilities to get Medicaid services. There’s a lot of bad stuff here.”

“It is time for Democrats – Democrats and Republicans who should be ashamed by this kind of corruption -to make it clear who exactly they work for. Does the Senate work for big pharma that hires the lobbyists and makes the campaign contributions or does the Senate work for American people who actually sent us here,” Warren concluded.

Conservative Opposition

Some conservatives are also opposed to the bill, but not all for the same reasons as Warren’s. The conservative Heritage Foundation gave four reasons they oppose the bill, calling it a “Christmas Tree, loaded with handouts for special interests.”

On their website, they wrote, “Congress has taken this legislation, which was initially a 300 page bill, and turned it into an almost 1,000 page omnibus health care spending bill. The negotiators have added pieces of a mental health bill, makes changes to Medicare Part A and B, another bill making significant changes to the federal foster care system, a “cancer moonshot” requested by Vice President Biden, additional funding for opioid abuse prevention, etc., in addition to the NIH funding and the FDA funding, for a grand total of over $6.3 billion dollars. In Washington terms, backroom negotiators have turned the Cures bill into a Christmas Tree, loaded with handouts for special interests, all at the expense of the taxpayer.  Therefore, conservatives should oppose the 21st Century Cures Bill for four main reasons.

First, the bill’s “pay-fors” rely on budget gimmicks, and even worse, the new spending is not subject to the budget caps. Second, NIH and FDA do not need additional funding. Instead, they need to spend the money they already have on critical research instead of wasteful projects. Third, Congress has no business considering an almost 1,000 page omnibus health care spending bill during the lame duck session. Fourth, and finally, the process has been questionable and the bill will likely be closed to amendments.

An email to DeSaulnier’s office asking for his comments on Warren’s statements opposing the bill was not responded to before publication time. Please check back later for any updates.

A vote by the Senate on the bill is expected to take place early next week. For the complete text of the bill, please click here.

By Corporal James Stenger 3604, Field Services Bureau

On Wednesday, November 30, 2016 at about 11:39AM, Antioch Police Dispatch received several calls about shots being fired in the 2400 block of Cedar Court. Officers arrived on scene and could not locate any victims. A short time later, two males showed up at area hospitals with injuries related to this incident: a 29 year-old Bay Point male had a head wound from being physically assaulted, and a 35 year-old Antioch male had stab wounds to his lower body.

Neither of these subjects’ injuries were life threatening. No victim of a shooting was located. The case is currently under investigation.

This preliminary information is made available by the Field Services Bureau. There will be no further information released regarding this case at this time.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Antioch Police Department non emergency line

at (925) 778-2441. You may also text-a-tip to 274637 (CRIMES) using the key word ANTIOCH