State's Top Cop Gets His Tires Stolen

Even the chief law enforcement officer in California is not immune to crime:

A scofflaw made off with the two passenger side tires from state Attorney General Jerry Brown's state-owned Toyota Camry hybrid as it was parked outside his Oakland hills home, his office said Thursday.

Brown, Oakland's former mayor, was attending the state Democratic convention in Sacramento when the theft occurred on the night of April 24, said Brown's spokesman Scott Gerber.

It was not known whether the culprits knew that the black car was used by Brown, police said. No arrests have been made, said Oakland police Sgt. Rich Vierra, chief of staff to acting Police Chief Howard Jordan.

Amy Morosini, 40, a neighbor of Brown, said she was driving with her family to a college reunion on Saturday when she saw the car on a cinder block. "I guess I kind of chuckled at first," Morosini said today. "I kind of just pointed it out to my husband and said, 'Oh my God, look! Someone stole Jerry's tires!"

Morosini said the incident underscored her belief that "we have nobody here in Oakland, basically, who can manage the city and protect us. Nobody's immune here in Oakland. Nobody."

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