Blue city mayor's official SUV stolen after thief breaks into office, swipes keys: police

The politician of Oakland, California’s city-owned SUV was stolen this week erstwhile City Hall was closed for Presidents Day.

"We cognize that idiosyncratic jimmied unfastened the mayor’s office, they stole the keys to her car, they went to the City Hall parking lot, they stole the car. This occurred connected Monday," Sam Singer, a spokesperson for the Oakland Police Officer’s Association, told Fox News Digital connected Friday, aft Mayor Barbara Lee's authoritative conveyance was taken. "She reported it, her unit reported it."

Singer said the SUV was recovered astir 24 hours later.

The Oakland Police Department confirmed connected Thursday that a fishy had been arrested.

The politician of Oakland, California’s city-owned SUV was stolen this week erstwhile City Hall was closed for President’s Day. (Lea Suzuki/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

"This afternoon, the Oakland Police Department (OPD) arrested a fishy successful transportation with [the] theft of a city-owned vehicle," the section said connected Facebook. "This is an progressive ongoing investigation. No further details are being released astatine this time."

Singer identified the fishy to Fox News Digital arsenic Logan Tell DeSilva, 29, who was reportedly arrested connected suspicion of burglary, car theft and vandalism aft the SUV was recovered successful Vallejo.

The SUV is utilized to instrumentality the politician to and from authoritative events, FOX 2 reported.

Fox News Digital has reached retired to the OPD for comment.

"No 1 successful Oakland should person to interest astir their car being stolen, whether they’re a resident, a metropolis worker, oregon the Mayor," Lee said successful a connection earlier this week. "Public information is simply a precedence crossed our full city."

After her authoritative SUV was stolen, Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee said information is simply a apical precedence for the city.  (Santiago Mejia/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

The theft comes months aft the Oakland Police Officers Association claimed that the metropolis had defunded the police, which Singer reiterated to Fox News Digital connected Friday, adding that City hallway uses backstage information and the metropolis spends much than $20 cardinal for backstage information for each its metropolis properties. 

"Crime successful Oakland continues to beryllium retired of power due to the fact that there’s not capable constabulary officers and the politician herself has present go a victim," Singer told Fox News Digital. 

Huy Nguyen, president of the Oakland Police Officer’s Association, told KRON-TV past year, "The operational spot is astir 530, truthful realistically, we’re down 300 constabulary officers positive successful our metropolis conscionable to beryllium astatine a baseline."

Oakland constabulary astatine a transgression scene. (Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images)

The national added successful a connection past twelvemonth that the city’s caller fund volition "result successful further defunding successful the Oakland Police Department and summation the information of transgression for residents and businesses."

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While caller information has shown convulsive transgression trending down successful Oakland, the metropolis was named the 2nd astir unsafe spot to unrecorded by U.S. News and World Report for 2025-2026. Memphis, Tennessee, nabbed the apical spot.

Lee's bureau did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital’s petition for comment.