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It was stunning to read about the second armed robbery of Heller Jewelers at its new location in City Center San Ramon.
According to the San Ramon Police, a group of masked and armed men robbed the store and then fled in cars they had waiting in the valet parking at the shopping center Monday afternoon. Police started to follow them, but then left the tracking to aerial units who tracked them to locations in Dublin and Oakland. Police announced the arrest of six adults and a juvenile Tuesday and said there were about 18 additional suspects at large.
The heist took place about 2 ½ years after Heller’s store was hit in a similar robbery on St. Patrick’s Day in 2023. Five men were arrested for that robbery.
It’s great to see the police reacting so quickly and strongly because this type of crime typically has not taken place other than in Walnut Creek during the riots a few years ago.
Heller Jewelers has served San Ramon and surrounding communities since 1996 from the Magnolia shopping center located off the Crow Canyon Road exit of Interstate 580. I can’t recall similar robberies at the former store that the Scott Heller family left when they moved into the City Center location. I’d be willing to bet that they certainly didn’t see this coming and the cops have to put an end to this trend ASAP.
Speaking of San Ramon, there’s news from the Pac 12 studios that relocated there from San Francisco after the implosion of the conference. The product outfit remains in business and just cut a deal to utilize Goal Line Studios, Joe Madden’s studio down I-680 in Pleasanton.
Joe invested a chunk of money in a huge video wall that is 106 feet across by 20 feet deep. It’s amazing for events—Innovation Tri-Valley has used it for a few of its gatherings and it’s impressive and designed for video from the studio or feeds live streamed from elsewhere.
Pac 12 studios is using it for the Saturday live football broadcasts as well as other athletic events. Nice to see football returning there—the late John Madden built it so he had a studio to film his commercials in his hometown.
Let me leave you with a success story from Tri-Valley Seek and Save. Roland Ellingsen, the leader, reported that they received a phone call from a local pastor about a disoriented woman on the church property on a Saturday. The woman (Lilly) spoke very limited English so communication was very challenging.
Two Seek and Save missionaries took her to a hotel and then Roland his wife, Pam, met her on Sunday. Through another missionary who grew up in Viet Nam, he reported it was clear she had suffered trauma and they connected with the Livermore Police’s evaluation team on Tuesday. They found a nephew in the military and located her brother the next day who came with his sister to pick up Lilly.
She had been missing for 10 years.
