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Drug arrests made 

A search warrant was served at 8:30 a.m. Friday on residents in an Oakland home by the Berkeley Special Enforcement Unit. The warrant was issued based on information that the suspects living there had been selling drugs in several Berkeley locations. During the search police found one wrapped piece of rock cocaine inside a Newport cigarette box. Clarence Brown, 44, and Freddie Lee Christian, 42, were arrested on charges of possession of a controlled substance. 

DUI alleged in crash 

Following a collision at Harmon and King streets, at 6:16 p.m. Friday in which the driver of the vehicle ran into a stop sign, police officers observed that the driver had bloodshot and watery eyes. The driver also failed the Field Sobriety Test, according to police reports. Gilberto Echeveste, 20, a Berkeley resident, was arrested on charges of driving under the influence and for not having a valid driver’s license. 

Verbal fight escalates 

Two men seated in front of a cafe at 2475 Telegraph Ave. were conversing about 5:15 p.m. Monday when a man they did not know came up to their table and started yelling at one of them. 

The cafe customers stood up to the interloper and told him they wanted to be left alone, but he refused to leave. The man who was the target of the yelling put his hands on the shoulders of the man who instigated the confrontation and tried to push him away from the table, but the interloper bit his hand. The man with the injured hand notified a police officer that he wanted to make a citizen’s arrest. Albin Woodey, 29, was arrested on a charge of battery. 

– Daily Planet Staff