them for that moment. >> the response from the alameda police department was one of the most touching responses we've had since this diagnosis. >> that suspect buttigieg has not been accused of any new crimes so far. if you want to learn more, you can go to ktvu.com or download our fox local app. that's it for the special crime files. i'm henry lee. we'll see you on air and online. bay area crimes that traumatize victims. >> it's terrifying for a small business to be attacked in this way. >> many incidents caught on video. what are you doing? forcing some victims to take action themselves. >> it's unfortunate that we have to do this to protect ourselves as citizens. >> look on in shock. >> this is crazy. you cannot take people's life. >> this is crime files with henry lee. hello, i'm henry lee,

and welcome to crime files. here in the bay area, there's been no shortage of crime, which has had devastating effects on victims. over the next half hour, we'll take a look at some of the cases that have made headlines here on ktvu. it seems like nothing is sacred when it comes to things people steal. we begin in north oakland, where police investigated a most unusual theft in april. >> bees and i heard somebody say, hey, free bees. and then a moment later, i heard a car door shut. >> beekeeper sue donahue says that's when thieves stole a colony of 10,000 honeybees and a queen bee. she had put in an observation hive like this one outside her north oakland home. this after she gave away a couple of other colonies and queen bees disrupting the hives. >> those bees are a little pod. >> this is donahue's apiary in her backyard on manila avenue. she's a chef by trade, but got into beekeeping about seven years ago. once a month, donahue sets up tables for the observation hive, a tasting table and jars of honey to sell

to neighbors and to teach kids about bees. >> and instead of showing them how bees behave in a hive, we were explaining to them about theft. >> these insects were not freebies, so to speak. >> it looked like someone was setting up for something. whether it's a garage sale, street sidewalk sale, there wasn't a free sign on it. >> she doesn't think these thieves know anything about beekeeping, so these bees might end up dying if they're not properly maintained. she says the thieves could potentially get stung if they open up the structure. she is frustrated that even bees aren't safe in oakland. >> i just kind of think there's a loose permission structure and no consequences for any activity. >> this fake owl in place to scare off birds. donahue never imagined she needed to scare off thieves. she says she can rule out a certain group of suspects. >> another beekeeper would never do this. >> in other words, they behave.

neighbor al fowler has had beehives in his yard. >> the fact that someone would take it is it's. it's just unfortunate. i wonder what's going through people's minds when they do something like that. >> the bees in donahue's yard have access to food and water. the bees in that observation hive? >> less so. it'd be nice if they brought them back. those bees don't have enough resources inside that observation hive to survive much longer. >> beekeeper tells me the hive that had its queen bee taken has since collapsed, and that it did not requeen or replace the queen bee. in newark, police investigated a more traditional kind of crime. in may a smash and grab at a jewelry store, one of many across the bay area. i've learned 23 suspects in five different cars armed with sledgehammers and pickaxes, escaped with millions of dollars in jewelry. >> the drive thru is a mcdonald's drive through, but for jewelry, quinn chen says she was working next door to bindi jewelers in newark when she heard loud noises and saw two cars double parked out front. we

thought there was construction next door. it was just like banging and booming, but it wouldn't stop. we were like, this is the most loudest construction we've ever heard. >> but no one was building anything. >> 15 guys literally just started smashing away. >> instead, it was the sounds of at least a dozen masked, gloved intruders smashing their way into the store near new park mall. >> they were running out with armloads. we just heard the glass and like, was trying to figure out what it was. and then we saw him running out of the store. >> so much was taken that chen says the robbers spilled some of the jewelry all over the parking lot. >> it was like a path to collecting a leprechaun trap, because it was like a whole row of jewelry. taken from inside te store and shared with ktvu shows extensive damage, with smashed display cases and the shop in disarray from the smash and grab that had scared workers hiding in the back. here you can see some tools that were left behind by the robbers. >> i would describe this as an organized, coordinated effort. >> newark police captain julie macias says the intruders didn't pose as customers and wasted no time getting inside.

>> i don't believe there was any type of an attempt to be buzzed in. i think it was purely just smashed from the from the beginning. >> police say the robbers escaped in many cars with a substantial amount of jewelry. officers later found two of the cars, both stolen, abandoned in fremont. >> it's terrifying for a small business to be attacked in this way, and the fact that there are so many people that could just walk in and smash the door with no kind of ramification. >> no arrests have been reported, but one of the two stolen cars used in the robbery, a red acura, was found by fremont police. police not only go after stolen cars, they often go after stolen bikes to a certain degree. one victim from north oakland told me in august he got a much better response when the thief ended up in berkeley. surveillance video shows a man riding a bike with a stroller in tow to a home in north oakland. he enters the side gate and sees the $7,000 cargo e-bike belonging to desmond brand. >> he rode in on a much worse

bike, i guess. >> the man goes into the backyard, much to the displeasure of brand's cat named gerald, who begins meowing. >> the cat that was defending my stuff. he's a maine. that's why he's so big. >> as the cat looked on, the man fiddles with the bike and peers into the home, not knowing or caring that he's on camera. after figuring out how to move the kickstand, he walks off with the bike, not realizing there's an airtag hidden on the frame. brand realized hours later his bike was gone. he found it pinging near hayes and fulton in berkeley south side neighborhood. he saw his bike, spotted the suspect, and called berkeley police. officers came within minutes. >> i'm very lucky that the guy wrote it to berkeley, because i've had experiences calling 911 in oakland here, where i live, and it like it takes like 28 minutes or longer. >> police swooped in and arrested 57 year old sharon hopkins, totally busted by surprise. god help me, please. hopkins became agitated as officers detained him. brand was impressed by how the officers calmed him down and interacted

with him. >> let's go to the car, please. >> thanks for doing an amazing job. my expectations, admittedly, were low given my previous interactions with police around here, but berkeley berkeley police were amazing. they they came promptly. they arrested him. >> berkeley police have a history of tracking down suspects with airtags. this man, alfredo morales, has been charged in a spree of break ins across the east bay after berkeley police tracked a stolen e-bike also outfitted with an airtag to oakland. >> definitely once. once i used it to recover this bike, i realized, wow, that was a great investment. i definitely paid off. >> that suspect has since been arrested for vandalism and pleaded no contest to battery on a police officer in unrelated cases. after the break, a beloved corre ional officer killed welcome back to

crime files. when a law enforcement officer is injured or killed, colleagues and loved ones band together. that was the case in sonoma county in august, where a well-liked correctional officer lost her life in a dui crash. a memorial of candles and flowers sits at the intersection in santa rosa, where sonoma county juvenile correctional officer jessica avila munoz was struck and killed by a suspected dui driver. the 31 year old munoz was driving to pick up her 13 year old daughter from school at the time of the crash. now, her family and law enforcement colleagues are in mourning. >> she was a juvenile corrections counselor with our county and a single mother, and

the whole situation is just absolutely tragic. >> the crash happened along busy sebastopol road at lombardi court. munoz had just finished working out at this gym and was making a turn in her honda onto sebastopol. when police say she was t-boned by a man who ran a red light in a dodge dakota pickup truck. munoz was knocked unconscious and died at the hospital. santa rosa police sergeant patricia stephan says the suspect, 68 year old nhan van nguyen, showed signs of being under the influence. he suffered minor injuries and was arrested. this isn't his first dui related incident. >> the suspect did have four prior dui arrests, with the first being out of san francisco county in 1987. >> i've learned he has three dui convictions in sonoma county for incidents in 1991, 2004, and 2016. >> the family was very proud of what she had accomplished through her education and then becoming a peace officer for sonoma county probation. >> damian evans is president of the union that represents county probation and correctional officers. he says munoz began

working at juvenile hall just ten months ago, and had just moved into a new home with her sister this month. >> 16 days there and they haven't even finished unpacking. when i talked to the sister today, so it's pretty traumatic to where they're about to start their next journey. >> the tragedy is a grim reminder of the dangers of drinking and driving, and it's always see to be that the one that causes the crash is the one that lives. annie mccarter stopped by the memorial. >> she had a daughter, and i'm thinking the daughter waiting for the mom to come pick her up, and then she finds out like that. it's heartbreaking. >> the defendant has been charged with murder because of his previous dui crashes at the sun valley mall in concord. a store is thought of a creative way to deter shoplifters. posting surveillance videos on tiktok. >> so mostly hide it. and then they just walk away acting that nobody's going to find out. >> fed up with five finger discounts, edwin ramirez and his mother decided to make sure the

whole world finds out about thieves at liz cosmetics, their store in concord sun valley mall. they're posting surveillance videos of shoplifting suspects on tiktok. some of their posts have had millions of views. >> that's digital footprint right there. so once it's on social media, it never goes away. and at the end of the day, it's unfortunate that we have to do this to protect ourselves. >> tiktok definitely has more a lot of traffic of peoples. all the peoples watching tiktoks and some little thing can go viral. >> but they're not sending these viral videos of lipstick or lash lifters to concord cops. >> there's no reason to call them and waste their time. but at the same time, it's not fair for us as business owners. >> instead, ramirez hopes the videos discourage thieves, especially if they're recognized. >> people are reaching out to me saying, hey, we know these people or this person, you know, went to my school. >> shoppers are greeted by this sign warning them that thefts will be posted on tiktok. ramirez says the sign itself has been a deterrent. >> they see it and they get

alerted, and then they just walk around and then exit immediately. >> the sign has also been targeted by thieves. this video shows a group of teens at the store, and one of them steals the sign as pageviews go up. thefts have gone down. it used to be once a day or every other day. >> now i'm happy to say like once every other week or once a month, because the shop does not usually call the police. >> thieves there may not get caught stealing, but instead get caught on video for many to see. after the break, two crimes disrupt the relative calm in two

cities in contra costa county. surveillance video came into play in september in the case of a disturbing break-in in danville, but it also took canines, helicopters and sightings by neighbors to help lead to the suspect. surveillance video shows a stranger lurking outside a danville home. he's got a dog with him. the man uses a knife to try to cut out a doorbell camera. at one point, there's a clear view of his face, and then he ends up getting inside the home on alexander lane in danville's west side. the victim tells me, off camera, she and her husband were awakened in their bedroom by the man shining a flashlight, claiming to be from an alarm company. the husband confronted the man, who threw his knife down in their doorway and chased him away. the couple later discovered he had loaded up tools and soda from their garage and put it in their suv, apparently hoping to make a quick getaway. they also found he had used a sharpie to write do not call police, do not panic

on their kitchen counter. but the couple did call police. officers chased him but lost him in a nearby shopping center. >> it's definitely unsettling and concerning. it's not the sort of thing that happens in this neighborhood. >> steve smith was awakened by the police activity. >> i heard the tires screeching and the sirens coming by about 430 or 5 or whenever that was. it woke me up with my dogs up. >> police called in their canine unit and the contra costa county sheriff's helicopter. >> when the helicopter started circling for a really long time, that's when we, like, shut the windows and, you know, made sure the garage door was closed and that sort of thing. >> shannon mondelli lives nearby and says while the incident was disturbing, she wasn't overly concerned because stuff happens and we're not immune from it. >> but we also are really tight knit community. we have neighborhood watches on, you know, on our street for sure. >> danville police say it was sightings by neighbors near las trampas wilderness preserve that helped them find the suspect more than nine hours later. the sheriff's helicopter and officer spotted 26 year old clayton mckay wearing only pink underwear on camino encanto,

about two miles away from the original burglary. he had ditched the black clothes and gloves he had been wearing and had no shoes on. mckay is being held at contra costa county jail on numerous felony counts. his bail is set at $350,000. police say during active searches, they eagerly welcomed tips of suspicious people who may be hiding in yards or neighborhoods. also in contra costa county, residents were unnerved by a shooting in september in orinda that authorities say was the result of road rage. >> two young, too fast. it was a #### of a kid. i hadn't seen him in ten years. >> robert decker is saddened by the shooting death of his estranged son in a road rage incident in orinda. a vase of flowers marks the spot where 50 year old scott patrick decker died. decker, driving a toyota forerunner, was shot and killed by an older man driving a tesla model y. neighbors say the two drivers have been involved in a rolling dispute that ended when the older man pulled out a gun and shot decker dead at las vegas road in la espiral. the shooter, who was detained, told

police decker had gotten out of his suv and punched him. a day after decker was killed, i spoke to his father by phone. >> it's just sad. it's just so sad that such waste of talent. >> i asked him about reports that the man accused of killing his son told police he had acted in self-defense. >> i have no idea what scott did. you know, he could be pretty aggressive at times, so i don't know. but i'm going to let. i'll let the cops figure that out. and i don't even want to get involved with that. >> neighbors tell me decker was engaged to be married and had been taking care of his fiancee's children in orinda on friday. no one answered the door of the suspected shooter's home, a half mile from the crime scene. earlier in the day, i called the number linked to the home and a man hung up on me. >> it's shocking for everyone in the neighborhood, for sure. >> new mayor who didn't want her face shown as she walked her dog, says her husband heard the gunfire. >> i think he heard a gunshot and then he started barking. so we jumped out. and by the time police were here and then trying to resuscitate him, the driver of the tesla who opened fire has not been charged with a crime.

>> after the break, unrelated

shootings leave two attorneys dead. welcome back to crime files in napa. police say a man shot and killed his girlfriend and her attorney before leading police on a wild chase and then turning the gun on himself. bro, what are you doing? a dramatic ending to a deadly double shooting in napa that took the lives of a mother of three and her attorney. i've learned from

a neighbor. the suspect is the woman's new boyfriend. to get away from napa police chased the suspect into kennedy park, ramming his chrysler 300 oh oh. the suspect, 28 year old baltazar rangel juarez, later shot himself during a standoff after his car became disabled. he's being treated at a hospital. the incident began when police say the suspect showed up at his girlfriend's apartment at the napa park homes complex on lincoln, near soscol. this woman lives nearby and did not want her face shown. she told me she heard people fighting and the woman referring to the suspect by name. she says she then heard four loud sounds, took cover and called police. she says the woman was a mother of three young girls. on friday, napa police identified the victims as 38 year old georgina padilla and ralph andino. the third, 54 years old, andino, works as an attorney. this is now the second double homicide in napa this year in april. two young women were shot and killed near the napa river shoreline. a

man and a woman have been charged with special circumstance murder. in a statement to ktvu, napa mayor scott sedgley said of the latest tragedy. our thoughts and prayers go out to innocent family members impacted and the well-being of our police officers. the suspect has since died from his injuries. in november, there was another case of an attorney being killed, this time in sonoma county, but it's not clear if his job was a factor. the valley ford area in sonoma county, marked by lush green fields, rolling hills and cows. a most unlikely spot for a homicide, but sonoma county sheriff's investigators say this is where 77 year old michael mullen was bludgeoned to death on november 16th by a suspect with a baseball bat, according to his linkedin profile. mullen is an elder law attorney. he lived on this expansive property where his wife bred and raised horses, and the couple worked on their farm. sergio dominguez lives nearby. >> he was kind. he would wave to you, you'd see him walking his dogs out. looked like a nice, humble guy.

>> the killing happened just two hours after sheriff's deputies initially encountered the suspect at the farmhouse inn in forestville, where staff said he had been acting erratically. ezra wallach has been covering the case for the sebastopol times. >> he was harassing people at the hotel. he at one point grabbed one of the employees, and people at the hotel reported that he was acting manic. he was asking the same questions over and over again. >> deputies spent an hour with adrian yanez, but let him go. >> he had no warrants. he was not on probation. he did not qualify for a mental health hold. he was not determined to be under the influence, and there was no legal reason to arrest him or detain him any further. >> later that same afternoon, authorities say yanez showed up at mullins home, screaming outside. >> the man, who turned out to be arnaz ultimately broke down the door with a baseball bat. >> authorities say yanez used that bat to bludgeon the victim. a motive is not known, and it's unclear if the victim's job as an attorney was a factor. yanez, who is from fairfield, had little or no connections to sonoma county. wallach spoke to

a relative of the suspect who was reported missing to fairfield police a day earlier. >> he's 1,000% sure that yanez had no prior contact with the victim. >> the sheriff's office says the outcome is tragic, but that the deputies did all they could at the time. >> we can't predict crime, so we don't know when somebody is going to commit a crime or where that's going to occur. >> now, loved ones and neighbors are left wondering why. >> when you think of like, getting brutally killed like that for. as of right now, no reason at all. it's, you know, it's scary. >> the case remains under investigation, and authorities have not revealed a motive. in september. daly city police investigated a homicide on a residential street. turned out the suspect had followed the victim home after an argument at a gym over behavior issues there. >> the confrontation here was over cleanliness in the gym. >> authorities say a deadly shooting in daly city was the result of an argument over the suspect's ongoing behavior issues at the fitness 19 gym at westlake shopping center. the victim was 60 year old rolando

yanga, a grandfather and father of four. his wife of 24 years tells me he was a loving husband and hard worker who was always giving of himself. san mateo county da steve wagstaffe says the victim was a custodian at the gym, who told the suspect, 21 year old maurice afridi, he wasn't following the rules, walking around barefoot, not taking care of cleaning things, putting things in the toilet didn't belong there and the victim called him out on it. yanga left the gym in his nissan frontier and drove to south mayfair avenue, where he lives. authorities say he was followed by the suspect who was being driven by his mother. surveillance video shows the victim driving past, followed closely by a second car a few moments later. gunfire. >> it's an execution. >> murder. the da says the suspect fired about eight shots from a ten millimeter handgun, gets within 15ft of him and opens fire on him, hitting the victim. >> the victim went down and the suspect then walked up to him and pumped some additional

rounds into him at point blank range. >> the shooting suspect has been charged with murder and the special circumstance of lying in wait. his mother, 50 year old zaibunnisa afridi, has been charged as an accessory. neighbors are shocked by the violence. >> this is crazy. you cannot take take people's life. he has a very good life. >> for this to happen, it's just senseless. and it's just a terrible crime that someone can just kill someone over a dispute at the gym. >> daly city mayor jocelyn manalo knows the victim's wife. >> this is a rare occurrence here in the city of daly city. and this tragedy just. you know, we're deeply saddened by this because this doesn't happen in our community. >> the suspect has been charged with special circumstance murder, which means, if convicted, he could face life in prison without parole. in november, animal rights activist daniel andreas san diego was arrested after a two decade manhunt. san diego was charged with planning two bombs in august 2003 at chiron corporation, a biotech company

in emeryville. the second bomb was rendered safe before it could explode. >> all we know that there were possibly plastic devices with egg timers as a part of the device. >> a month later, the suspect allegedly set off a bomb strapped with nails at shaklee corporation, a nutritional products company in pleasanton. authorities believe he targeted the firms because they had done business with the new jersey lab that conducted animal experiments. the bombings did not injure anyone, but authorities say the devices had the potential to do great damage, especially because they had timers. >> anyone who uses a timing device for a bomb makes a sophisticated bomb. >> sharif ibrahim was on the uc berkeley bomb squad at the time of the incident. >> with all the resources that are put to capturing those people, for somebody to be out there for 20 years and not found means that they put a lot of effort to being not found. >> that's it for this edition of crime files. if you want to learn more, you can go to ktvu.com or download our fox local app. i'm henry l . we'll see you on

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