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Pleasanton police are investigating a robbery that occurred last Saturday outside a bank on Hopyard Road, where a man reportedly stole from a woman.
Officers briefly located a vehicle that they believed was connected to the crime the next day and started a pursuit, but subsequently lost track of the vehicle, Pleasanton Police Department Lt. Nicholas Albert told the Weekly.
“This investigation is ongoing and we have no additional information to distribute at this time,” Albert said.
On Saturday (March 14), at around 12:17 p.m., police responded to the Chase Bank located at 4747 Hopyard Road after an adult woman who withdrew money from the bank was robbed after exiting the building.
Albert said the suspect — described as a Black man, 20 or 21 years old, approximately 5 feet, 7 inches tall and 155 pounds — approached the victim before forcibly taking her tote bag, a wallet and an envelope.
“We are not able to comment on specifics of what was taken for investigative purposes,” Albert noted.
The thief proceeded to flee in a black Dodge Charger with black tinted windows, no license plate and a broken left wing window. Albert said the vehicle was driven by a second person but said police did not have a description for the driver.
Albert said the following day at around 3:15 p.m. a caller reported seeing the black Dodge Charger in the area of Santa Rita Road and Stoneridge Drive. Police ended up locating the vehicle and attempted to stop it before the driver fled.
A pursuit ensued on the westbound Interstate 580, but officers lost sight of the vehicle near Eden Canyon Road.
“A helicopter from East Bay Regional Parks helicopter and deputies from Alameda County Sheriff’s Office searched the area for the vehicle but could not locate it,” Albert said.
He also noted that while the vehicle does not have any license plates, the city’s automated license plate readers are able to alert officers to vehicles without a license plate.
But the ATM robbery wasn’t the only case that had Pleasanton officers busy that day.
Officers also responded to a reported retail theft in progress involving several suspects who stole over $1,000 worth of products from the Macy’s store. The incident took place just before 8 p.m. that day, according to the department’s crime map.
Albert said the suspects fled the area after threatening staff at the mall but were later pursued and arrested by outside agencies.
“Several individuals were detained following the pursuit and transferred into the custody of Pleasanton PD,” Albert said.
According to the department’s arrest log, Issac Love and Angelo Castelluccio — both 18 years old — were arrested around 11 p.m. that day and charged with first degree robbery, conspiracy to commit a crime and organized retail theft. Castelluccio also had an outside misdemeanor warrant, according to his arrest log.
Albert also said a juvenile was transported to the Juvenile Justice Center.
These latest crimes occurred just a couple of weeks after a string of home invasions took place in a couple of residential neighborhoods in Pleasanton. Notably, the ATM robbery on Saturday comes almost a year after Pleasanton saw a number of similar robberies occur across the city.
