Week in Review: False Carjacking Report Leads to Police Standoff; City Council Appoints A New Member

A in Fremont led to an in Newark on Thursday. Police closed off a quarter of a mile of Cedar Boulevard to surround a home on the 36000 block of Cedar Boulevard as part of the investigation. Two suspects were detained, but authorities determined the . Instead, he owed the pair of suspects some money. The victim is being charged with filing a false police report and the two suspects are facing charges related to drug and weapons violations.

The City Council is now complete with the appointment of longtime planning commissioner Robert Marshall to fill the council seat that became vacant upon Mayor Al Nagy being elected in November. Marshall will surrender his seat on the Planning Commission at its next meeting on Tuesday and will take the oath of office for the council seat on Thursday. Marshall was selected from a pool of 12 candidates who were interviewed during a public meeting on Monday.

Colleagues of a fatal crash victim remembered him . Robert Cheney, 69, of Pleasanton worked at KWJ Engineering Inc. in Newark. Cheney was killed Jan. 18 after that was occupied by three burglary suspects. Two of those suspects now . The third two days after the accident.

The Newark Unified Board of Education this week briefly discussed Tuesday the possibility of adding changes to a board policy that would allow drug-sniffing dogs on school grounds in order to “detect prohibited substances.” A detailed presentation regarding the proposal will be made at the board’s next meeting at 7 p.m. on Tuesday.

On Facebook, Newark Patch readers warned one another this week about a man who was going door to door asking for money. Newark police announced Wednesday the man was not a burglary suspect but was told to stop asking for donations. Click here to read the full report.