a violent gang robbery captured on a surveillance cam raw. police make an arrest, but tonight that man is back on the streets by mistake. good evening, everyone. i m larry beil. dan ashley has the night off. i m carolyn johnson. police are confident they arrested the right man, but a snafu in charging him forced them to let him go. and tonight he is on the fbi s most wanted list. he is believed to be armed and dangerous. abc7 news reporter alan congress is live at the detention center. why was he released? carolyn, that is a good question that hasn t belly expla fully explained at this time. the contra costa sheriff s department says he did released him from this jail. timing is everything, and this blunder revolves around four crucial minutes. it allowed a suspected it bank robber to walk through the doors with a chance at freedom. police say this is 22-year-old gary casdell before he jumped over over the counter in pinole and stuck a gun to the teller s head and make of
. good evening, nearly an hour after a brad new police hub opened police officer were fighting crime. , if you ask residents the area around sixth and mark has been plagued by crime, in the week since the hub opened they have noticed a change and some of the action was captured on camera. when the sixth street public safety hub opened residents and business owners hoped for quick results. impact is what they got. cameras captured this crime an hour after the official opening. the target an 80-year-old man with a walker. watch as the thief picks his pocket and punched him if the face. a officer runs to the rescue. able to take him into custody. police say this illustrates the need for the new hub and it s effectiveness. there s probation and homeless service and 24 officers assigned to patrol the area on foot. with the increase in staffing of the foot beat they have noticed a difference. i didn t see drug attics addicts. it s cleaner. what you do see is lots of polic
i m just red carpets, big spectacles and the a-list. that s only the beginning. i have more than one red carpet. i like all sorts of spectacles. from the grandiose, to the impromptu. to the completely unexpected. and you ll only have to think about a list. when you cross this, off your own. los angeles. endlessly entertaining. plan your getaway at discoverlosangeles.com the f-b-i has joined the search for an oakland man wanted for robbing a bank in pinole. 22-year-old gary fite junior was already arrested for the crime earlier this month. but mis-communication between law enforcement agencies led to his release. kron four s philippe djegal explains. reporter: less than a half hour after robbing the mechanics bank on pinole valley road fridaym, march first. pinole police arrested gary fite junior for the crime. he and his accomplice were taken into custody. booked into contra costa county jail. by law, law enforcement and the district attorney have to file charges and arraig
inefficiency. it is totally irresponsible, totally irresponsible. we have enough crazy people around. the senior deputy d.a. told abc7 news that we took the time because we thought we had the time. pinole police chief says his department was aware of the deadline, but on our end we should have been more definitive to push the time issue and we didn t. now the fbi says it is urgently trying to recapture a man who could be dangerous, desperate and willing to fight for the freedom that was mistakenly handed to him. police say he is 5 foot 8 and 180 pounds and he has ties to oakland, vallejo and antioch and also reknown, reno, nevada. reporting live from richmond, alan wang, abc7 news. thank you. what a mistake. also new at 11:00, a scary daylight attempted kidnapping in pinole. a 12-year-old girl said a man asked if she wanted a ride as she walked home from school this afternoon. when the girl said no, she claims the man grabbed her wrist, but she was able to escape. the
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