Berkeley High student robbed at gunpoint during dice game
Three unidentified males took the student's backpack, which contained a laptop and $5,000 in cash, Berkeley police said.
A Berkeley High student was robbed at gunpoint last week during a dice game with other high school students, authorities report.
The robbery happened Thursday at about 2:20 p.m. behind the Berkeley Main Post Office at 2000 Allston Way, which is right across Milvia Street from Berkeley High.
Berkeley police said three unidentified males walked toward the student as one of them displayed a handgun in his waistband.
The trio took the student's backpack, which contained a laptop and $5,000 in cash, police said.
Police are reviewing area surveillance footage and the city's Flock camera system as they investigate what happened, authorities said Tuesday.
There have been at least 21 robberies in Berkeley this year, compared to 31 over the same period last year. That's a 32% drop.
But robbery reports in Berkeley appear to be ticking up: There were 10 robberies in January, according to preliminary BPD data, and have already been 11 in February, as of Feb. 16., with nearly half the month still to go.
Historically, Berkeley averaged about one robbery a day, although those numbers fell during the pandemic.
