This Democrat mayor may finally start cracking down on crime.
The Democrat mayor of Oakland had her city-owned car stolen on Monday.
Mayor Barbara Lee, who serves as Oakland’s mayor, had her vehicle stolen after a thief stole her keys from inside her office.
Fox News broke the story and provided details on the suspect:
The mayor of Oakland, California’s city-owned SUV was stolen this week when City Hall was closed for Presidents Day.
“We know that someone jimmied open 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 on Monday,” Sam Singer, a spokesperson for the Oakland Police Officer’s Association, told Fox News Digital on Friday, after Mayor Barbara Lee’s official vehicle was taken. “She reported it, her staff reported it.”
Singer said the SUV was found around 24 hours later.
The Oakland Police Department confirmed on Thursday that a suspect had been arrested.
“This afternoon, the Oakland Police Department (OPD) arrested a suspect in connection with [the] theft of a city-owned vehicle,” the department said on Facebook. “This is an active ongoing investigation. No additional details are being released at this time.”
Singer identified the suspect to Fox News Digital as Logan Tell DeSilva, 29, who was reportedly arrested on suspicion of burglary, auto theft and vandalism after the SUV was found in Vallejo.
Here’s a photo of the suspect and the vehicle that was stolen:
Oakland squatter accused of stealing mayor Barbara Lee's SUV from City Hall is a Catholic school teacher https://t.co/ZrzK7DF2oK pic.twitter.com/X0vD81u0vx
— New York Post Metro (@nypmetro) February 20, 2026
Mayor Jean previously refused President Trump’s offer to send the National Guard to Oakland to help crack down on crime, per Yahoo News:
With local crime far above the national average, they have been preparing for the possibility of a federal intervention like those seen in Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles, Memphis, Tennessee, Charlotte, North Carolina and Portland, Oregon.
Lee said federal action aimed to foment racial division and single out Americans of color.
“We’re not letting Donald Trump divide and conquer Black and brown and white people from each other,” Lee said.
“Nobody in Oakland knows Donald Trump and his playbook better than Barbara Lee,” said Lee, who served in Congress from 1998 until last year. “We have to push back on any effort to occupy, to send a military force here and occupy our city.”
In August, President Donald Trump labeled Oakland and Baltimore as “so far gone … we don’t even mention them anymore.”
