Photo of bank robber released

Walnut Creek are seeking the public's help in finding this man who robbed the Bank of the West on California Boulevard Wednesday morning.

Here are details from a Walnut Creek police press release:

On February 29, 2012 at about 9:30 AM the suspect entered Bank of the West on California Blvd. and demanded cash from the teller. The suspect was given an undisclosed amount of money from the teller and then fled the bank. He was last seen walking northbound on California Boulevard. No weapons were seen. Officers searched the area, but were unable to locate the subject. Anyone with information is encouraged to call WCPD at 925-943-5844.

Three Oakland residents arrested in gas station robbery

Walnut Creek police arrested three people from Oakland early Sunday, including a 17-year-old boy, on suspicion of strong-arming a clerk at the Shell Gas station on North Main Street.


Lt. Bryan Hill said that at about 1:55 a.m. an officer on patrol saw the clerk involved in a struggle with two people inside the station's food mart. The officer broke up the struggle and arrested those two people, and detained two others who were with them.


Police subsequently learned that the two had just stolen several cartons of cigarettes and had returned to steal more when the clerk tried to stop them. As the clerk was dealing with those two, a third went ahead and stole the cigarettes. That's when the officer intervened.


The clerk was not injured, and police determined that the fourth person in the group was not involved in the thefts. 


The two adults arrested were Ivan Nesby, 32, and Ethel Hands, 25. They were booked into County Jail in Martinez. The 17-year-old boy was booked into Juvenile Hall. 

Another Iron Horse Trail attack involving a Walnut Creek student

These notices come in about middle and high school students being confronted by suspicious characters or robbed on the Iron Horse Trail in and around downtown Walnut Creek. ... And my immediate thought is: The Iron Horse Trail sounds like a dangerous place for my sixth grader to be walking. 

Here's news about the latest incident. Actually, it involved a Las Lomas High freshman who was robbed of his IPod and earphones while walking to school Friday morning along the trail near Safeway.  

Las Lomas High Principal Pat Lickiss alerted parents at his school that: 

Earlier [Friday], it was reported to our offices that a student had been approached while walking to school and jumped from behind by a man demanding his money. ... A student reported to his English teacher, that on his way to school this morning on the trail by Safeway a heavy set Hispanic man about 5 foot 7 inches with a black hood, bandana over his mouth, and wearing dark blue jeans jumped him from behind demanding his money. The man did get his earphones and IPod. The student said there were no injuries or weapons and he "used what he learned in PE class to get away." 

I realize that we all need to put these incidents into perspective and not leap into panic mode. We need to think of the statistics and probability. I'm sure that the vast majority of us--young and old--are safe while walking, running, or cycling along various stretches of the Iron Horse Trail at different times of day. I'm sure that this sort of incident isn't all that common--despite the fact that it receives attention from school officials and a blogger like me. 

With regard to the Iron Horse Trail, I've gone running along different parts of it early in the morning and at night, after dark. I'm not going to stop doing that because of reports of this kind of crime. I'm not afraid, though I'm always on alert and wary. 


On the other hand, I will let my son know.  Actually, he and his friends at WCI don't use the Iron Horse Trail much at all. It's just the thing he crosses every morning and afternoon while coming and going from school. 


Walnut Creek Intermediate School Principal Kevin Collins is letting parents know because "many WCI students use the trail to get to and from school, and we are asking for parents to again discuss personal safety with their children." 

Teen-ager robbed by four other teens, hit by their truck

A 15-year-old boy was listed in good condition at John Muir Medical Center after being robbed by four teenagers Friday afternoon who backed over him while making their escape.

Lt. Shelley James said the boy was riding his bicycle with several friends at about 4:40 p.m. in a parking lot near North Wiget Lane and Shadelands Drive.

One of the three passengers of a F-150 Ford approached him and took some cash. The passenger got back into the truck, which had four other teens, all around 18 years old, in it. While backing away, the truck rolled over the victim, then drove off on Wiget Lane towards Ygnacio Valley Road.

Officers checked the area, but couldn't find the robbers. Anyone with information is asked to call the Walnut Creek police department at (925) 943-5844.

Man arrested after attempted robbery on Iron Horse Trail in downtown Walnut Creek

A man armed with a gun was arrested after attempting a hold-up on the Iron Horse Trail. The attempted robbery occurred on the trail at about 7:30 p.m. Monday near Lincoln Avenue and Carmel Drive and Civic Park.

The Contra Costa Times says the suspect's identity was not immediately available. Walnut Creek police detained the suspect, then turned him over to the custody of the East Bay Regional Parks District police.

Woman robbed on Iron Horse Trail in downtown Walnut Creek

A man with an Eastern European accent and who claimed to have a gun robbed a woman of her iPod while she was strolling along the Iron Horse Trail Tuesday afternoon.

According to East Bay Regional Parks police, the woman was walking on the trail, just north of Newell Avenue, when she was confronted by the robber. While he signaled that he had a gun in his waistband, the woman did not see it. Still, still handed over her iPod.

The robber walked south on the trail toward Newell. Police describe him as white, between 18 and 20 years old, 5 feet 8 inches tall with a stocky build and blue eyes. He was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and baggy jeans.

Anyone with information about the robber or the crime can call police at 510-881-1833.

Four in custody on suspicion of early Monday morning carjacking

Walnut Creek police report that four Concord men are in custody Monday following an armed robbery that occurred at Second Avenue and North Main Street at about 2:15 a.m.

Police say that the victim and a friend were approached by a man, armed with a gun, who demanded money from them. A second man arrived, and a struggle broke out, and the two robbers fled in the victim’s car.

Police later found the two robbers. An investigation led to the arrest of two more suspects, who were identified as being involved in planning and executing the robbery.  All four were arrested on suspicion of robbery and carjacking and transported to the Contra Costa County Jail for booking.

The four are identified as:

Christian Hernandez, 20: Raul Valle, 21; Cruz Jacobo, 22; Javier Perez, 20.

Walnut Creek police looking for two men who robbed two banks on Tuesday and Wednesday

Two lone men, armed with guns, robbed two Walnut Creek banks of undisclosed amounts of cash in separate incidents. No one was injured in either incident.

The first happened Tuesday at about 10:52 a.m. at the Chase Bank in the Palos Verde Mall, located at the corner of Pleasant Hill Road and Geary Boulevard.

According to Lt. Brian Hill, the robber displayed a gun, demanded and received cash and left the bank. He was last seen climbing into a light-colored vehicle. The robber was described as a white male adult.

On Wednesday, about 9:10 a.m., a man (pictured above) robbed the Bank of the West at 2050 North California Blvd.

Says Sgt. Roman Martinez, the robber, armed with a handgun, entered the bank, showed his gun, and demanded money. After receiving the cash, the robber fled the bank.

He is described as a black male adult in his 20s, about 6 feet tall, with a medium build. He was last seen wearing an olive green parka with a fur lined hood, black ski mask, black shirt, black gloves, dark pants, and dark sneakers.

In both cases, the police searched the surrounding area, but couldn’t find the robbers.


Anyone with information on either robbery should call the Walnut Creek Police Department at (925) 943-5844.

Police looking for masked men, one armed, who robbed Walgreen's on North Main

Two men robbed the employee of Walgreen's on North Main Street Saturday morning.
According to Lt. Shelly James:

At  approximately 6:25 a.m., the victim was approached while opening the front door to the business. The victim walked into the business and was confronted by two black males wearing ski masks. Suspect No. 1 pointed a silver revolver at the victim and ordered him to walk through the store and open the safe. The victim complied, and the suspects left with an undisclosed amount of cash. The victim was not injured.

The suspects are described as:
1: Black male, 5’10”, wearing a black ski mask, black jacket with red writing, dark pants, armed with a silver revolver.

2: Black male, approximately, 5’8”, wearing a black ski mask, black hooded sweatshirt, black pants.

Police searched the area but didn't find the robbers. Anyone with information should call the Walnut Creek Police Department at (925) 943-5844.

An American Tragedy: Alamo 2009

An American Tragedy is the name of a very long, dense classic novel, published in 1925, about a man whose fierce but over-reaching desire to enjoy his share in the American dream ends in violence.

This novel, by Theodore Dreiser, was based on the true-crime 1906 drowning death of a single young pregnant woman at an upstate New York lake resort, and the subsequent arrest and prosecution of her lover. An Academy Award-winning 1951 film adaptation, A Place in the Sun, starring Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor at their most beautiful, expertly depicts the young man’s yearning for material comforts and social status, and then his desperation when he feels those aspirations slipping away.

Clift's (and Dreiser's) protagonist comes from the poor side of a family. In A Place in the Sun, he goes to work in his rich uncle’s swimsuit factory, gets involved with a fellow factory worker (played by Shelly Winters), impregnates her, then tries to dump her when he meets and becomes involved with the town’s most desirable young debutante (Taylor). When Winters’ shopgirl presses him to marry her, he says OK, but let’s first take a romantic rowboat trip around a lake. Needless to say, she doesn’t make it back to shore, and he winds up arrested, put on trial for her murder, convicted, and then sentenced to death. Clift’s performance in the film and Dreiser’s long but riveting account of the police interrogation and trial testimony of the protagonist--in some ways, an American everyman--offer fascinating portraits of human desperation and a person's descent into reckless, self-centered, cruel criminality.

I couldn’t help but think about the Dreiser book and A Place in the Sun (one of my favorites) while reading Friday’s story in the San Francisco Chronicle about what led up to the shootout last Thursday night between an Alamo contractor and a jewelry store owner in his hometown.

Thomas Paul Bennett was not a hungry young man, but a man in mid-life, 50 years old. And, apparently, like a lot of men and women in our community he was hungry and perhaps felt entitled to a certain way of life. And he possibly got way in over his head, while seeming to have acquired the 21^st century version of material comforts and social status that Dreiser’s Clyde Griffiths was desperately seeking. Bennett had his own business, a wife, a son and a daughter, and a $2.5 million home in a cul-de-sac in one of the East Bay’s toniest zip codes.

But according to what prosecutor Bruce Flynn told the Chronicle’s Henry K. Lee, Bennett was on the verge of losing his home—and, one wonders, much more—so, he made a plan to rob a man who had been a friend “in a desperate attempt to stay afloat.”

On last Thursday evening, Bennett, armed with three guns—including a .22-caliber weapon outfitted with a homemade silencer—drove to Oscar Herrera’s jewelry store in the Alamo Square Shopping Center.

Herrera, 53, who was on a first-name basis with Bennett, told investigators that Bennett came into his store at about 7 p.m., pulled a gun and said he had to rob him to save the home where he has lived for eight years with his wife, son and daughter.

Somehow during this exchange, Bennett opened fire and struck Herrera in the chest, Flynn told the Chronicle. Herrera, pleading for his life, moved to the back of the store, grabbed his own gun, and shot back, striking Bennett in the neck, mouth, and wrist.

Responding Contra Costa Sheriff’s deputies pulled Herrera out, and got him to the hospital. Bennett refused to surrender for about an hour, at one point standing in the doorway, pointing a gun at his own head and threatening suicide.

Now, both he and Herrera are recovering from their injuries at John Muir medical center, and Bennett has been charged with attempted murder, attempted robbery, commercial burglary.

Meanwhile, his family is dealing the possible loss of the home Bennett was apparently trying to save. Lee says that public records that that “Bennett and his wife, Sutton, were notified in August that they were $35,631 in default on their six-bedroom, 6,200-square-foot home, which they bought in 2001 for $1.2 million.”

“On Nov. 27, the couple received a "notice of trustee's sale" detailing an unpaid balance of $2.3 million and indicating that their home would be sold at public auction Dec. 21, records show.”

According to a realty website, the Bennett property is in pre-foreclosure. “The homeowner has missed at least one payment and may be willing to sell this home at an attractive price, in order to avoid foreclosure.”

Suburban dad with his own business and prosperous home now a suspect in botched robbery and murder attempt

Driving up to the home of Thomas Paul Bennett, even at night, you would definitely think he has made a very nice life for himself. And that the 50-year-old builder is a very unlikely candidate to try to rob a jewelry store.

His contemporary ranch-style home sits on top of a hill, at the end of a long winding driveway. To get to his home, on a small cul-de-sac off Stone Valley Road, you pass other multi-million-dollar Alamo homes—faux Colonials, Cape Cods, Mediterranean villas—some twinkling with Christmas lights in the mist of a cold December night.

Yes, I took a short drive to Bennett’s house last night, after seeing that he owned a construction company, and that, according to the San Francisco Chronicle's Henry K. Lee, he lived in a $2.5 million house with Mt. Diablo Views and flew his own private plane. Of course, something very terrible must have been going on in his life for him, according to Contra Costa Sheriff’s investigators, to arm himself with a gun Thursday night and attempt to hold up a small jewelry store in his hometown.

As you’ve read here and in other news accounts, that attempted heist ended up with Bennett allegedly exchanging gunfire with the owner of Alamo Jewelry Mart in the Alamo Plaza shopping center. The store’s owner, Oscar Herrera, 53, of Hercules, was wounded in the upper torso. Late Friday, Herrera was listed in critical condition. Bennett was also wounded in the shoot-out, but initially refused to come out of the store.

Sheriff’s deputies say they found him, standing in the doorway of the store, holding a gun to his head and threatening suicide. Although wounded in the neck, mouth and wrist, he initially refused to come out and an hour-long standoff ensued with deputies finally talking him into surrendering. As of Friday, he was also in the hospital, and under arrest on suspicion of robbery and attempted murder.

And on Friday night, several Sheriff’s cars were crowded into the cul-de-sac below the home he shared with his wife, daughter and son, and from where he operates his Bennett Construction, according to the San Francisco Chroncile.

A couple, relatives of Bennett, emerged from the house, descended the driveway and got into the car. They said the family was declining comment: “Our family is going through a lot right now.”

I told them I was sorry. Some would say my sympathy is misplaced, that it should be with Oscar Herrera and his family. Well, I’m sorry for both of them and their families. Some would also say I was being intrusive and voyeuristic, driving up to Bennett’s house, maybe hoping to talk to someone, but a reporter’s habits die hard. The Chronicle added that in Bennett’s driveway was a boat and a pickup truck with National Rifle Association and Air Force Academy stickers.

Sheriff’s Captain Dan Terry said Bennett had been dealing with financial problems, but doesn’t know yet whether that was the motive in this incident. Terry also told the Chronicle that Bennett and Herrera had "at least one prior contact with each other" before Thursday's shootout. "It appears there might even be some kind of association here," he said. But again, it’s still not clear whether that association had anything to do with the robbery.

An online advertisement for Bennett Construction says the family-owned company has been in business since 1992. It specializes in window and door installation. “We will handle your project with the utmost care.” The ad also says the owner loves to work in this area and, in his spare time, loves working on his own home. A customer praised the company: “Just that thepeople were very nice, professional, great attention to details. Referred them to anyone, very good.”

Death penalty for the accused killer of Rylan Fuchs? Wouldn’t be usual, says DA

The 19-year-old Berkeley man, arrested in the January 20 pot-robbery killing of Danville teen Rylan Fuchs, is facing murder charges that carry special circumstances, because the killing took place during the commission of an attempted robbery. Authorities believe that Fuchs was selling marijuana, and Walter Bell went to his home to rob him of his pot. The special circumstances mean that if Bell were convicted of murder, he could face the death penalty.

Prosecutors have not decided yet whether they will seek lethal injection for Bell, who is being held without bail.

However, Harold Jewett, the prosecutor in charge of the D.A.'s office homicide division, says, in an e-mail to me, that it would be “unusual for us to do so in a case where the defendant is young and where the shooting may not have been intentional.”

Jewett told the Contra Costa Times that Bell says he fired the single, fatal shot--which struck Fuchs in the throat—as Bell was trying to rob Fuchs of marijuana.

“Put it another way,” Jewett continued in his e-mail. “A jury is unlikely to impose the death penalty unless they know beyond question that the defendant intentionally and personally took the victim’s life.”

I appreciate Jewett getting back to me. Actually, I didn’t contact him to ask him specifically about whether his office would seek the death penalty against Bell, but on a closely related issue.

I read about the special circumstances charges against Bell, and the possibility of the death penalty, and that got me thinking and wondering.

Fuchs’ father, Bill Fuchs of Alamo, questions whether his son was selling pot and whether police are using the marijuana-deal-gone-bad excuse to preserve Danville’s image.

I’m sorry for Mr. Fuchs loss, but, unfortunately, it does look like Rylan, a senior at San Ramon Valley High, in fact died in a drug deal gone bad.

And that drug-deal-gone bad scenario is what got me ruminating about the death penalty issue, possibly in this case, but in general. Drug deals gone bad are regular occurrences, if not in safe, affluent suburbs like Danville, then in tough neighborhoods in towns like Oakland, Richmond, and in the unincorporated community of North Richmond. Some of those drug deals gone bad result in homicides, and, more likely than not, the killers and their victims are minorities.

I contacted Jewett because I began to wonder if the special circumstances and the death penalty talk was being applied to the Fuchs case because 1) the killing happened in Danville; 2) the victim is white; and 3) the defendant is African-American. Yes, I wondered if race and class bias were coming into play in this case.

Racial disparity in death penalty prosecutions and in sentencing is a huge issue, in California and around the United States. Many of us have probably heard that minorities are more likely to be executed than whites for murder in the United States. But what many might not know is that more recent studies have pointed to another racial difference between who lives and who dies at the hands of the state: the color of the victim. As a USA Today editorial says:

While blacks and whites are murdered in roughly equal numbers in the United States, the killers of white people are six times as likely to be put to death, according to a statistical analysis by Amnesty International USA. It found that of 845 people executed since the United States resumed capital punishment in 1977, 80 percent were put to death for killing whites, while only 13 percent were executed for killing blacks.

So, my mind was on this track yesterday morning, and I wondered whether this racial disparity applies in Contra Costa special circumstances prosecutions, and whether it would apply to the prosecution of Walter Bell case. Would an African-American defendant, who shot and killed an African-American victim, in a similar kind of drug-deal-gone bad in North Richmond, be charged, like Bell, with special circumstances and face the death penalty. The racial breakdown for defendants and victims in Contra Costa capital cases was not available yesterday, and may not be readily available.

But I e-mailed Jewett, and he provided this response:

“Walter Bell is a young black male. Rylan Fuchs was a young white male. In this county, we have prosecuted white defendants for killing white victims; white defendants for killing black victims; black defendants for killing white victims; and black defendants killing black victims. Of course there are also permutations with other ethnic groups, primarily Hispanic and Asian. I would say imposition of the death penalty is roughly equal between cases with white and black defendants, and cases with white and black victims. I don’t see a pattern there.”

And then he addressed Bell’s prosecution specifically and how “I cannot whether this office will seek the death penalty in the Bell case.”

Second strong-arm robbery Monday; suspect sought

A woman parking her car at her home in the 1500 block of Geary Road was robbed of her purse Monday evening. Walnut Creek police say the robber approached the woman as she pulled into her residence in her car. The robber demanded her purse. She handed it over to him, and he ran off.

The robbery is described as a Hispanic or black male adult, 20 to 30 years old, 5 feet 11 inches, with a thin build, clean shaven, and wearing a blue fleece jacket, blue beanie, and dark colored pants.

Officers checked the area without finding anyone. Anyone with information should contact the Walnut Creek Police Department at (925) 943-5844.

Police looking for robbers who pointed gun at victim and punched him in the face

Walnut Creek police are looking for three teenagers who robbed a man Tuesday evening in the 1500 block of Sunnyvale.

The robbery occurred at about 8:50 p.m., says Lt. Shelley James. The robbers, estimated to be between ages 16 and 19 and all wearing hooded sweatshirts, approached the victim as he was sitting in his parked vehicle.

The robbers knocked on the victim's window and demanded he roll it down. One of the robbers pointed a shotgun at the victim and demanded money.

The victim was punched once in the face by a second robber and had his money taken from his pocket. The robbers fled on foot westbound on Sunnyvale Avenue. Police searched the area but couldn't find the three.

Here's a description of the suspects:
1: Black male, 17-19 years old, short, thin, close cropped hair, wearing dark colored jeans and a dark hooded zip sweatshirt with numerous designs on the front.

2: Black male, 16-19 years old, approximately 5-foot 10 inches thin build, wearing dark colored jeans and a dark zip hooded sweatshirt over a white T-shirt.

3: Black male, 16-19 years old, thin, close cropped hair, thin facial features, dark colored jeans, black jacket over a gray hooded sweatshirt.

Anyone with any information is encouraged to call the Walnut Creek Police Department at (925) 943-5844.

Armed robbery at 7-Eleven near Back 40 Restaurant

The Contra Costa Sheriff's Department says that two robbers with guns held up the 7-Eleven in the 3100 block of Oak Road, in unincorporated Walnut Creek, early Friday morning.

Here are more details from Sheriff's spokesman Jimmy Lee:

Two suspects with handguns entered the store and ordered the clerk to the floor. The suspects took some cash and some items from the store. It was unknown which direction they fled and whether or not a vehicle was used. The race of the suspects is unknown as they were wearing masks. They were wearing dark clothing. No one was injured, and a security tape is being reviewed.

Yet another drug store robbery; more Oxycodone stolen

A man holding a weapon that apparently looked similar to a machine gun held up a pharmacy in the Ygnacio Valley Shopping Center at Oak Grove Road and Treat Boulevard this afternoon, the Mayor of Claycord is reporting.

There is no word on whether this robbery, just after 4 p.m. at the Oak Grove Pharmacy, is connected to two other drug store robberies, September 23 and October 9, in Walnut Creek. In both those cases, no weapon was seen--although in the October 9 case at Walgreens on North Main Street, the robber said he had a gun. In the September 23 robbery at Safeway on South Broadway, the robber handed the pharmacist a note, demanding Oxycodone and Norco, and made off with five bottles of medication.

There are two suspects in today’s heist, the Mayor says. One was a white male adult with a gray hooded sweatshirt and a ski mast with tape on it. He fled to a getaway vehicle, with unknown plates, driven by a white female adult with black hair. The suspects got away with Oxycodone.

Another robbery of prescription drugs--this time at Walgreen's on North Main Street

Walnut Creek Police are searching for a man wearing a baseball cap who robbed the Walgreens on North Main Street of prescription drugs Friday afternoon.

Lt. Brian Hill says the robber entered the store at about 3:40 p.m. and approached the pharmacist. He told the pharmacist he had a gun, although no weapon was seen, and demanded prescription medications. He was given undisclosed medications and fled to fled to a nearby vehicle, which was last seen going south on Interstate 680.

The suspect is described as a white male adult, average build and height. He was wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt, sunglasses, blue denim jeans, a baseball cap and white shoes.

There's no word yet on whether this robbery is related to a heist at the Safeway pharmacy in Walnut Creek on September 23. In that case, a white male adult, also wearing a baseball cap, handed the pharmacist a note demanding Oxycodone and Norco. He made off with five bottles of medication.

Anyone with information about either case is encouraged to call the Walnut Creek Police at (925)943-5844.

Armed robbery, with shots fired, in church parking lot

A man parked in the lot at St. Vianney Church, and near the Walnut Festival, was robbed by two men of his wallet Thursday night.

Lt. Shelley James said, shortly after 10 p.m., the victim was parked in his vehicle in the parking lot at 1650 Ygnacio Valley Road. That's the address of St. Vianney Church.

The first robber pointed a semiautomatic handgun at the victim and ordered him out of the vehicle. The victim complied and was ordered to hand over his wallet. The suspect then went through the victim’s pants pocket and again demanded his wallet. The suspect then reached inside the vehicle and removed the victim’s briefcase, ran off, discharging his handgun several times in the general direction of where the victim was standing. The victim was not injured.

The two suspects got into an older model , possibly green pickup truck with a camper shell that was parked nearby and drove off westbound on Ygnacio Valley Roard. Officers responded to the scene and searched the surrounding area but didn't find anyway.
The two suspects and weapon are still outstanding.

Anyone with information on this robbery should call the Walnut Creek Police Department at (925) 943-5844.

Police looking for man who robbed the South Broadway Safeway's pharmacy of drugs

Police are looking for a man in a baseball cap, who robbed the pharmacy at Safeway Wednesday afternoon of five bottles of prescription medication, specifically Oxycodone and Norco.

Here are the details from Lt. Shelley James:

On September 23, 2009 at approximately 3:05 p.m., the suspect entered the grocery store at 600 S. Broadway. The suspect approached the pharmacy manager and produced a handwritten note demanding all of the Oxycodone and Norco prescription medication they had. The suspect made off with 5 bottles of medication. No weapon was used or seen during the robbery.

The suspect left the store on foot in an unknown direction. Officers responded to the scene and searched the surrounding area with negative results.

The suspect was described as a white male adult early 20s, 5 feet 10 inches, medium build, clean shaven, dark hair covered by a dark colored baseball cap, and wearing a dark polo shirt with a white stripe and light colored shorts.

Anyone with information on this robbery should call the Walnut Creek Police Department at (925) 943-5844.

Oxycodone is an an opioid analgesic medication. The best known drug containing oxycodone, OxyContin (Rush Limbaugh's drug of choice?). It is "notable for its sales; for controversies concerning its patent status and marketing; and for its potentials for hazardous use, harmful use, and dependence. Norco consists of acetaminophen and hydrocodone, also an opioid, which is commonly sold under the name Vicodin.