Bradley Marshall Jr. parked his Chevy pickup truck next to the job site on Linda Avenue, a tree-lined street in Piedmont where he had been hired to repair a leaky waste line. Finding no one at the customer's home, Marshall sat in the truck and waited, jotting estimates on a clipboard. Then he heard a tap on the passenger side window, and saw a figure in a ski mask. Turning to the driver's side, he glimpsed the barrel of a semiautomatic handgun pointed right at his head. "I put my hands up," Marshall said, recalling his terror on that July day in 2021, a shudder catching in his throat. "I said, 'just take everything.'" Within seconds, the thieves forced Marshall into the street and fled in his Chevy, which was packed with expensive plumbing tools : a new sewer jetter worth $15,000, a saw cutter, jack hammers, two sewer snakes, extension cords, copper and a mechanical shovel. Piedmont police later arrested three people, but Marshall said he could not positively identify them, because they were wearing masks. The truck-jacking at gunpoint was one in a string of power-tool heists in the Bay Area last year, a crime that appears to… Read full this story
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