Richmond Confidential

Mark Oltmanns is a first-year graduate student in the School of Journalism at UC-Berkeley where he studies video production and multimedia reporting. He covers crime and public safety for Richmond Confidential. Mark grew up in and around Chicago and received his undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with majors in Political Science, Asian Studies, and International Studies. After graduating, Mark moved to Bangkok, Thailand where he received a Blakemore Fellowship to study advanced Thai and worked as a translator in a central police station. Currently, Mark is also pursuing a Masters in Asian Studies. He has extensive experience abroad, including five years in Southeast Asia where he reported on security issues in the region. He has covered political unrest in Myanmar, landmines in Cambodia, and insurgency in southern Thailand. Mark speaks Thai and French and is currently studying Indonesian.

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• Posted on: DNA evidence implicates four defendants and two unidentified males

  I want to clarify that sperm cell DNA only linked to ONE unidentified source. Thanks. #

  December 17, 2010 at 7:44 pm

• Posted on: Combatting the invisible problem

  Dave. Thanks for the correction. The mistake is my own and not that of the police. I saw many different kinds of bullets that day and believe I may have confused the two. We appreciate your feedback. #

  November 10, 2010 at 3:11 pm

• Posted on: Every gun has a story

  Ike Conoclast, Thanks for your comment. I think you and Lt. Threets are on the same page. He was talking about the original dealer and purchaser too. Perhaps I failed to make that clear in my article. Lt. Threets was making the point that this information can help police figure out if there is a pattern to the guns coming into their city. Police in Richmond have so far found no such pattern. #

  November 10, 2010 at 8:15 am

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