Embattled Oakland District Attorney Pamela Price had her work laptop stolen during a car smash-and-grab outside a family justice center on Friday afternoon.
The crime that has become frequent in the Bay Area, leaving many to bemoan the lax policies of liberal leaders has now targeted a George Soros-backed prosecutor.
The vehicle burglary happened around 3.30pm, while Prince was attending a domestic violence victims event near 27th Street and Telegraph Avenue. Price was told by police to report the crime online to avoid waiting for an officer to come.
It is unknown exactly what materials and documents were stored on the laptop or who committed the crime.
ABC7 reported her bodyguard parked the $90,000 county Tahoe SUV just outside the Family Justice Center and came back to find the windows smashed.
Oakland District Attorney Pamela Price (pictured) had her work laptop stolen from a county SUV on Friday afternoon
While the burglary happened, the DA was at a domestic violence victims event where she honored those who were murdered resulting from domestic violence and to empower women
Price was surprised with a hand-made denim quilt from VOICES members. Denim is symbolic of rape victims and October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month
Almeda County has honored the day of remembrance since 1996, where names of victims killed in domestic violence incidents are read and members of all agencies are honored.
In a post on X from the Almeda County DA’s Office, pictures of Price were shared as she mingled with others and made a speech to the crowd – a her car was targeted.
A source from the Oakland Police Department reported that Price waited an hour for authorities to arrive before she decided to file a report online.
The DA has yet to comment on the alleged theft.
The Oakland Police Department have confirmed that several people were involved in the District Attorney’s laptop burglary.
On the police department’s website there is an option to report a crime online.
‘Do not report a crime online if you need help right away. If you need help right now call 9-1-1,’ the website said.
It also added that the online tool is used to report a ‘non-emergency crime’.
Price was elected in 2022 and has gone on to represent victims of sexual assault, retaliation, wrongful termination, religion, disability and much more. A press release from October 24 revealed that Price would be at Friday’s event as she herself is a survivor of domestic violence.
‘My office is committed to seeking justice on behalf of victims,’ Price said in the release.
George Soros, a billionaire investor and philanthropist funded Price $130,000 and gave her boyfriend a six-figure position in her office, according to The Washington Free Beacon.
The Oakland DA was elected in 2022 and has faced major criticism as the crime rate in Oakland and the entire Bay Area has rapidly increased
Oakland has experienced a multitude of crimes including vehicle smash-and grabs and store smash-and-grabs
Price has faced criticism as crime has sky-rocketed in the community.
Oakland NAACP leaders called for a state of emergency in August over the soaring crime rate, as they attributed it to the defund the police movement and Price.
The Black advocacy group wrote a letter that was aimed directly at Price.
‘Failed leadership, including the movement to defund the police, our District Attorney’s unwillingness to charge and prosecute people who murder and commit life-threatening serious crimes, and the proliferation of anti-police rhetoric have created a heyday for Oakland criminals,’ the letter said.
‘If there are no consequences for committing crime in Oakland, crime will continue to soar.’
Her office responded and said that Price was ‘disappointed that a great African-American pastor and a great African-American organization would take a false narrative on such an important matter.’
In March Price had also pushed to reduce prison and jail time for criminals, including murderers.
The Berkely Scanner revealed in a leaked Almeda County memo that the DA circulated around her office, that she hoped to reduce reoffending and bring back balanced sentencing.
Price is aligned with a national movement of progressives attempting to reduce mass incarceration and push for reforms at the county level by seeking top prosecutor seats.
Price also said she would resentence people facing life without parole, and to prosecute police misconduct.
In August Oakland NAACP leaders called for a state of emergency over the soaring crime rate and blamed Price for it
In March Price had also pushed to reduce prison and jail time for criminals, including murderers
In January a car smash-and-grab took place in a busy parking lot in Oakland near an airport. The suspect pulled up in an SUV and briskly opened up another car’s trunk and stole a backpack
Car smash-and-grabs have plagued Oakland in recent years, including one that took place in a busy parking lot near an airport as a man’s trunk was broken into while he was in the vehicle.
The suspect emerges from a Cadillac XT6 before he goes toward the back of the victim’s Buick Envision SUV, pops the trunk open and snags a backpack before he drives off.
Tyson Wrensch was in the driver’s seat of the rented car when it all went down.
‘I’m in my car, I should be safe. And then you see him reach down and push that little button underneath,’ Wrensch told KTVU.
Wrensch initially thought that he accidentally hit the trunk button when it happened, and it wasn’t until hours later that he noticed his backpack was taken.
His laptop, passport and documents were inside the stolen bag.
Just days later the same Cadillac came back to the parking lot and stole from Wrensch’s rental car again.
In another Oakland smash-and-grab vehicle incident, a family who stopped for coffee on their way to the Oakland International Airport.
A gang of men in an SUV pulled up to the family’s car and raided it right in front of them.
The thieves busted through their back car window and stole the luggage in the car before they called the police, who the victims said never showed up.