What started as a routine check at a shoreline parking lot ended with a quiet arrest backed by an eye in the sky.
Last Friday, officers with the East Bay Regional Park District Police Department and deputies from the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office arrested a wanted person without incident at the Arrowhead Marsh staging area of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Regional Shoreline. Park police say the stop followed the discovery of a vehicle tied to multiple outstanding warrants, and that officers watched the scene while they coordinated a tactical approach. The operation unfolded in the shoreline parking area and ended with responding units taking the subject into custody.
According to a Facebook post by the East Bay Regional Park District Police Department, officers located a wanted vehicle at the Arrowhead Marsh staging area and “formed a tactical plan” before taking the subject into custody. The post says EBRPD officers used an unmanned aerial system to monitor the vehicle while Alameda County Sheriff’s deputies assisted at the scene…