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Police logs for March 10

By Jonathan Morales
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 at 4:28 pm in Crime, Lafayette, Lamorinda, Moraga, Orinda.

Back from witnessing this awesomeness to bring you some highlights from this week’s police logs:

In Orinda, a car was stolen with the owner’s consent — kind of. A man who put his Mercedes up for sale for $22,000 on the Internets found a buyer who said he had a pre-approved $25,000 money order from Wells Fargo and wanted to use it to buy the car. The man agreed, and gave him $3,000 in check and cash to make up the difference. But when the man went to deposit the money order, he was told by Wells Fargo not only was the money order never purchased there, they only issue money orders for $1,000 or less. The police logs note that the “buyer” made calls to the man from phones with 916 (Sacramento) and 562 (Long Beach) phone numbers and had a South San Francisco address complete with 10001 ZIP code.

March 7 was a rough night on the 300 block of Hermosa Court. Burglars stole property from a home and two cars in the garage of that home, as well as the car of a neighbor.

That same day, Lafayette police also arrested a man on suspicion on stealing cash — $500 in total — from two Safeways, one in Lafayette and another in Alamo.

And lastly, there was the beating the Gaels gave the Zags on Monday night:

SMC beats da Zags cropped

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