OAKLAND — A 57-year-old man has been arrested and charged with kidnapping and robbing a librarian who was leaving her job a brief distance from Lake Merritt, courtroom information present.
Clive Bryan, of Oakland, has been charged with kidnapping and second-degree theft in reference to the Oct. 21 incident. Bryan was arrested final week, and denied being within the space the place the incident occurred, in line with Oakland police.
The sufferer, a librarian at Lakeview Library, instructed police she was at a bus cease close to the library when a person approached her and sat down on the bench. He allegedly referred to her as his “white master” and made lewd feedback, then instructed her he had a knife and that he’d kill her in entrance of whoever was current if she didn’t comply.
The girl stated she by no means noticed a knife however that the person had his hand in his jacket and acted like he had one, authorities stated. She complied together with his calls for, strolling a brief distance to a close-by financial institution and withdrawing a number of hundred {dollars} in money for him, authorities stated.
The robber then allegedly walked her again to the bus cease and stayed until she obtained onto a bus and left, authorities stated. Detectives seized video from the financial institution and despatched it round to different officers, one in all whom acknowledged Bryan, in line with courtroom information.
Bryan was arrested on Dec. 3. Throughout a police interview he allegedly denied having been in that neighborhood for years, although he stated he was dwelling out of his van and stayed in numerous elements of city. He denied realizing the girl, however did establish himself from the financial institution video footage, earlier than strolling again the remark, stating that his imaginative and prescient is poor, and requesting a lawyer, authorities stated.
A decide set Bryan’s bail to $150,000. He stays at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin with a courtroom listening to set for later this week. Bryan’s lawyer has requested a decide to decrease bail or launch him, courtroom information present. Bryan has not but entered a plea.
Initially Printed: December 9, 2024 at 4:08 PM PST
