SFist Blotter

No one does mafia like the Chinese mafia: the FBI has gotten in on the investigation of the mysterious death of Chinatown businessman Allen Leong, who was shot to death in his office on Jackson Street. Leong, who was active in a number of Chinatown fraternal groups, also known as tongs, had rejected another tong's request for $100,000. The rejected group then vandalized a number of storefronts and sent taunting letters to Leong's tong, to the point where Leong had contacted the authorities. Leong was also active with the Freemasons and imported shark fins. We hope the FBI is looking into animal rights illuminati groups too.

An 18-year-old Berkeley resident made his own special kind of martini last weekend, involving two parts gin, one part security guard. The 18-year-old was trying to steal alcohol from an El Cerrito Safeway, and when he was confronted by the guard, hit the guard with a bottle of gin. He then ran off, but left his sweatshirt with his ID behind. The El Cerrito cops drove to the address listed on the ID, where the family agreed to turn the kid in the next day.

And last week's high winds sent a crane toppling through the roof of the Vallco Fashion Park in Cupertino and into a bridal shop. Women in bridal gowns raced out of the store and then had to stand out in the rain waiting for help. The store owner said "it looks like 9/11." Well, the mall's only two stories tall, it didn't collapse, and there were no planes, but other than that -- exactly the same!