Mid-Market / Bank Robbery: A woman attempted to rob the Chase bank at 8th and Market yesterday evening just before 6 p.m., handing a note to a teller demanding money. Having succeeded in her scheme and getting some cash from the teller, the woman, one Deann Olivia Lopez, 48, of Antioch, walked to the bank's lobby and blithely sat down. Police arrived and arrested her. No word on why she decided not to flee. [BCN/Appeal] more ›

The fuzz is on the hunt for an elderly rapscallion who allegedly robbed a downtown bank on Monday afternoon. Bay City News (via SF Examiner) reports: "Police spokesman Sgt. Troy Dangerfield said a middle-aged man entered the bank in the 100 block of California Street at about 11:40 a.m., threatened the bank manager with a gun and ordered everyone to the ground." more ›

Jason Dunlap, 35, was arrested in connection with a Wednesday afternoon bank robbery in downtown San Francisco. According to police, the incident, which happened at Borel Private Bank and Trust at 433 California Street, involved the suspect "jumping over the counter and held a knife to a female teller’s throat and ordered another female teller to give him all the currency in the drawer." The teller, scared for her life, handed over the money. He then jumped back over the counter and fled the bank. more ›

The fuzz nabbed the man suspected of robbing several banks in downtown San Francisco in late Marc and early April. Earl Lee Williams, 38, was arrested on April 15 in connection with the crimes. According to SFPD, "Police were conducting surveillance operations in the Central district where the robberies had been occurring. Based on surveillance photos obtained from the robberies, police saw Williams walking on Washington Street near Kearny, and arrested him without incident." more ›

Police are seeking the public's help with a series of bank robberies that have occurred since March 22 in downtown San Francisco. According to SFPD: more ›

Yesterday afternoon, according to SFAppeal, the Far East National Bank located at 500 Montgomery was robbed. Police say a white male entered the bank and "demanded money" from a teller. The teller handed over some sweet cash, then the rapscallion vanished south down Montgomery. more ›

Can the High School Musical franchise do no wrong? Not likely. Take, for example, two Concord bank-robbery suspects who were arrested in connection with an October 2008 robbery of a U.S. Bank on Clayton Road in Concord. It seems Donte Maurice Turner, 29, and Sterling Isaac Garner, 22, used a totally awesome High School Musical bag in which to hold their booty. Said bag was later identified and used to bust the two HSM fans/bank robbers. more ›

According to the Mayor of Concord (a blogger's moniker, not Laura Hoffmeister), "a black man wearing a blue bandanna and carrying a blue duffel bag," robbed the CD Federal Credit Union in Concord this morning. After grabbing some loot and running on foot, the bandit got into a car and zoomed off into economic glory. That is, until the two men were captured via a GPS device that was dropped into one of the bags of money.Good job, science! Anyway, the "suspects have been detained in Pittsburg." more ›

Maybe this morning's helicopters weren't just for the next exciting episode of Trauma? According to San Francisco Business Times, the Bank of America at Market and New Montgomery was robbed. "As helicopters circled the city’s financial district," Biz Times says, "those trying to enter the BofA branch shortly after the robbery were greeted by locked doors and a sign that read, 'Due to circumstances beyond our control, we are temporarily closed. We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your continued patronage.'" No on was injured. No arrests have been made. more ›

Perry Kucinich, the brother of Democratic Prez candidate Dennis Kucinich, has been found dead according CBS 5. His other brother, Larry, found 52-year-old Perry at his Cleveland home at around 9 a.m. this morning. Reports claims that there were "no signs of foul play." more ›

Hope you're having a bad-luck-free Friday the 13th out there, folks! Here's the ominous items we found on a casual search of San Francisco news sites. more ›

San Francisco is proud host of a new reality show called "How to Get the Guy" that's unfortunately not a descendant of Will and Grace, Queer Eye, The L Word, American Idol etc. Also a biodefence lab is coming to the East Bay and SFist teaches wine pairing. more ›

As a fan of , we've wondered about the innate practicality of robbing a bank in a mask. "Your peripheral vision must suffer" we'd muse "and it's gotta get hot in there! What a stupid idea." more ›

Crime doesn't pay, guys. The man who was shot at Van Ness and Post a few days back? He was wanted for murder. This other guy who got hit by a car on 101 Saturday night? Wanted for bank robbery. And a guy fleeing the cops after a traffic stop? Drowned in the bay. Creepy! New developments in the murder of Meleia Willis-Starbuck: the Berkeley police are now saying their theory of the case is that two friends of Willis-Starbuck's accidentally shot her while trying to help her break up a fight. The shooter is alleged to be one of Willis-Starbuck's friends from high school, with whom she felt so close that she called him her brother. The man driving the getaway car is another friend of Willis-Starbuck's, and has already turned himself in. There will be a memorial for Willis-Starbuck later today. And finally, the "Bag Lady Bandit," who was that woman who's been holding up supermarket bank branches, was finally caught, when sharp-eyed workers at a tribal gambling casino recognized her. They let her play 9 hours of slots before arresting her. more ›

J. Lo, do your krav maga thing! (Who even knew was set in San Francisco?) In San Jose, a man named Adam Wells puts a knife up to the neck of a man parked in a lot and tries to carjack him. But doh! The carjackee is a karate instructor! The karate instructor knocks the knife out of Wells's hand, throws him to the ground, and discovers that Wells is also carrying a gun. The karate instructor empties the gun of bullets, gives Wells a long lecture about "making bad decisions in life," and then gives him back the gun and the knife. Wells then leaves the parking lot -- and goes straight for a Wells Fargo across the street, which he proceeds to hold up (with the knife). The cops seem a little exasperated that the karate instructor didn't call 911 earlier, so maybe they could have stopped the bank robbery. more ›

Tune into KALW 91.7 next Tuesday at 1 p.m. to hear San Francisco's first female fire chief and first female police chief (pictured at left) speaking with SFist political reporter crush Adriel Hampton through the Commonwealth Club Broadcasts series (or stream it live now). Slippery criminals! A bank robbery suspect waiting to be interviewed by the FBI pried open a screen in the Federal Building in Oakland and then casually walked out past the U.S. Marshals office and out of custody. We hope he was whistling as he did it. The FBI re-caught the guy at the San Leandro BART station. And the Los Gatos police have made an arrest for murder in a missing persons case that's been unsolved for three years. The victim had gone out drinking in June 2001, met two guys at a bar, and then disappeared. The police finally solved the case when, about two years after the disappearance, someone living nearby contacted the authorities and said she'd found a rug matching the description of a rug missing from the victim's house. The police were able to trace fibers from the rug to the murder suspect. more ›