Nordstrom Rack & Safeway Evacuated Due To Violent Criminal Inside

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Nordstrom Rack & Safeway Evacuated Due To Violent Criminal Inside

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Pleasant Hill, California Police evacuated a Nordstrom Rack and the Safeway next door as there is a violent criminal holed up inside the store possibility in the attic.

It started as a Concord, California Police chase for a stolen car that led to the Nordstrom Rack.

This is all happening at the Nordstrom Rack and Safeway building in the parking lot of Sunvalley Mall. This was formerly a Longs Drugs and Mervyn's store. Safeway came first then put CVS out of business just years later. Then Nordstrom Rack moved in. This Mervyn's suffered a roof collapse years ago during a rainstorm. It had to be totally gutted and remodeled afterwards. Then it closed a few years later.

This Safeway is very dangerous. An employee once told me not to go inside as there was a violent homeless man inside. No police response back then.
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The police left at 7:30 AM after giving up the search. However, the police were called back after the suspect was spotted again. He had changed into a new outfit from Nordstrom Rack and escaped through an opening. They arrested him behind the store around noon. He had driven to the store in a stolen car the night before.
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My gosh, keep this Nextdoor.com nonsense to the local Mom’s Facebook group. There is no relation to an unrelated person, during an unrelated police chase, happening to seek refuge in a location that happened to be a store.

This stuff happens everywhere in the world everyday and quite frankly no one cares. These continued posts about unimportant events in one specific corner of the world drag down the quality of content on this forum and make myself (and others) much less likely to care to read it.

If this is the status quo, should I start posting every crime committed within 1000 ft of a retail establishment? To start I have the first batch below,

On Monday a man in Ohio robbed a Walmart and went off on a police chase. Should I have posted about that? https://www.sciotopost.com/breaking-hig ... ay-county/

A jeweler was brutally attacked in Delaware yesterday. https://www.delawareonline.com/story/ne ... 521838007/

A clerk in North Carolina was killed during a robbery on Monday. https://www.reflector.com/news/crime/gr ... bed6f.html

Last week a Texaco was robbed at gunpoint in Texas. https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2022/09 ... y-suspect/


A family was robbed walking into a Florida grocery store. When will Florida stand up to the relentless mob terrorizing it’s retail establishments! https://tamaractalk.com/man-attacks-rob ... dren-29232

Where was the post when 10 people were killed at a predominantly black supermarket in upstate New York? Or the shooting at King Sooper’s in Colorado? Members of the retail family were killed, surely this is more important than an unrelated event randomly involving a Nordstrom Rack in a town no one has heard of.

Let’s get back to discussing pertinent events, not being a East Bay Area Scanner page on Twitter.
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I think it is more of a reminder to keep your eyes open in these areas. 10-15 years ago in a place like Pleasant Hill, you would not think twice about much of anything, regardless what time it was. This type of stuff just... did not happen there. This absolutely impacts the retailers, customers, and employees.
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storewanderer wrote: September 29th, 2022, 12:29 am I think it is more of a reminder to keep your eyes open in these areas. 10-15 years ago in a place like Pleasant Hill, you would not think twice about much of anything, regardless what time it was. This type of stuff just... did not happen there. This absolutely impacts the retailers, customers, and employees.
This is incorrect. All recorded types of crime are down or stable in Pleasant Hill since 1999. The growth of social media, sensationalizing media, and websites (such as what this one has become) such as Nextdoor.com give the appearance of crime being higher.

https://www.macrotrends.net/cities/us/c ... statistics
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lake52 wrote: September 29th, 2022, 5:18 am
storewanderer wrote: September 29th, 2022, 12:29 am I think it is more of a reminder to keep your eyes open in these areas. 10-15 years ago in a place like Pleasant Hill, you would not think twice about much of anything, regardless what time it was. This type of stuff just... did not happen there. This absolutely impacts the retailers, customers, and employees.
This is incorrect. All recorded types of crime are down or stable in Pleasant Hill since 1999. The growth of social media, sensationalizing media, and websites (such as what this one has become) such as Nextdoor.com give the appearance of crime being higher.

https://www.macrotrends.net/cities/us/c ... statistics
Don't confuse people with facts, just because a whole industry exists of outlets that trade on fear and non-existent apocalypses that distract from real ones, not to mention all the nostalgia stuff that trades on a past wasn't really that rosy.
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lake52 wrote: September 29th, 2022, 5:18 am
storewanderer wrote: September 29th, 2022, 12:29 am I think it is more of a reminder to keep your eyes open in these areas. 10-15 years ago in a place like Pleasant Hill, you would not think twice about much of anything, regardless what time it was. This type of stuff just... did not happen there. This absolutely impacts the retailers, customers, and employees.
This is incorrect. All recorded types of crime are down or stable in Pleasant Hill since 1999. The growth of social media, sensationalizing media, and websites (such as what this one has become) such as Nextdoor.com give the appearance of crime being higher.

https://www.macrotrends.net/cities/us/c ... statistics
EXACTLY and thank you :)

But there could be serious withdrawal symptoms from not being able to single out California all the time........

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lake52 wrote: September 29th, 2022, 5:18 am
storewanderer wrote: September 29th, 2022, 12:29 am I think it is more of a reminder to keep your eyes open in these areas. 10-15 years ago in a place like Pleasant Hill, you would not think twice about much of anything, regardless what time it was. This type of stuff just... did not happen there. This absolutely impacts the retailers, customers, and employees.
This is incorrect. All recorded types of crime are down or stable in Pleasant Hill since 1999. The growth of social media, sensationalizing media, and websites (such as what this one has become) such as Nextdoor.com give the appearance of crime being higher.

https://www.macrotrends.net/cities/us/c ... statistics
Go to the area and look at security measures taking place now vs. in decades past.

Maybe places are just trying to be more "secure." I'm sure that's it. Same story in San Francisco and Portland for sure.
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