Harbor thieves in Oakland-Alameda Estuary use small abandoned or stolen boats to board yachts and large ships and steal what they can, residents and police say.
"We're in this little, lagoon area, where the water comes in. There's a condo complex, beautiful parks," Hill said."We started to see homeless people camping out there. That's never happened before.
The city of Alameda, an island and considered a suburb of Oakland, is separated from Oakland by a waterway.Hill described his personal run-in with some of the harbor bandits after he chased them across the harbor. "He was much faster than us. We lost him. Turns out it was the boat stolen from the Alameda Community Sailing Center, which had four boats stolen from them."Alameda Community Sailing Center didn't return Fox News Digital's call.Alameda Police Chief Nishant Joshi said his department is taking a"regional approach" by partnering with Oakland PD and the Coast Guard, which has a base in the Oakland-Alameda Estuary, to increase patrols and crack down on these crimes.
The partnerships are vital, the police chief said, because Alameda doesn't have its own marine unit and lost about 30% of its police department from years of attrition.
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