Unknown substance found in cups on van roof, Berkeley CA


A resident found five Starbucks cups containing an unknown substance placed on top of her van near Tacoma Ave. She is worried about what the substance might be and asked for police assistance but does not want to remove the cups herself.
Audio|Source: Berkeley Police and Fire
01:56
Transcript:
00:00
Good morning, how you doing? I have a resident complaining about somebody putting bunch of cups on top of her van.
00:08
She's not sure what is it? Is that somebody we can send out?
00:11
Confirming cups? Are they full of something?
00:13
It's like five Starbucks cups.
00:15
She's afraid she don't know what's inside the cups and she don't want to drive the car away.
00:20
I mean, there's not much that a PD is going to do except throw the cups out if she's able to do that.
00:27
I don't think there's much of an officer going to be able to do.
00:31
Well, her concern is she not sure what's inside a cup.
00:34
Okay, copy.
00:35
What's the 20?
00:36
near Tacoma Ave.
00:40
Can we confirm that there is actually something inside this so we don't send an offer out to empty cup?
00:49
Let me try, but I can't really reaches this on top of the band.
00:53
It's passed A to zero.
00:54
Go ahead. Yeah, there's something in a cup.
00:56
She's concerned could be urine or something else, so she don't want me to get a stick and knock her down.
01:01
Okay, copy.
01:02
I'll put in a call, but can you tell her to call the non-emergency line?
01:05
Careful, thank you.
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Location mentioned:
Near Tacoma Ave, Berkeley, CA 94707
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