Since July, boats in Oakland and Alameda marinas have been stolen, stripped down and either sunk or left behind.fighting off seafaring banditsAnother woman said she rescued a man whose sailboat drifted into the bay without a motor or any way to get back to shore after one of the"pirates," which is what the resident call the burglars, cut his boat line during an argument.
Pirates have been stealing boats or using old, abandoned dinghies to board large ships and yachts in the Oakland-Alameda Estuary, Dan Hill said. "I have asked the BCDC if there is any other issue that currently poses a greater threat to San Francisco Bay," de Lappe said."I was told no. This is the top problem."
‘STATE-SANCTIONED SWATTING’ ALLOWED COP TO ASSAULT TEENS IN ‘PERSONAL VENDETTA’ FOR DOORBELL PRANK: LAWYER Mary Spicer, who founded a group of volunteers that has been cleaning the estuary since 2017, canceled their cleanup this year"because of safety concerns" from a particular homeless encampment, where she said there have been violent incidents.
Meanwhile, its neighbor across the water, Oakland, is rippled by homelessness, which a neighborhood advocate told Fox News Digital in a previous interview hasAlameda Police Chief Nishant Joshi told Fox News Digital that his department is working with the Oakland PD and the Coast Guard, which has a base in the estuary, to curtail this issue by taking"a regional approach.