52-year-old James Burge plead guilty to the unarmed robberies of nine SF banks in 2007 and 2008, including branches of Wells Fargos, Bank of the West and Bank of America, and was sentenced yesterday to seven years in prison. He also has to write apology notes to all the tellers he threatened with the gun he didn't have, and pay back the exactly $30,941 that he stole. His accomplice, Joseph Russoniello, plead guilty to *eleven* robberies last year in SF, LA, Portland and Seattle, but he only got five years in the clink. We call bullshit. more ›

Has anyone heard of this thing called the War on Drugs started by President Nixon, in which drug dealers and users get thrown in jail in order to clean up our streets and save our great nation from ruin, only to have them be replaced by different dealers and users the next day? Well, our new police chief George Gascon apparently sides with Nixon and Reagan on this debate, and recently announced a sweep of the Tenderloin in which 300 people were arrested in an effort to rid the area of drugs and prostitution. Good fucking luck! more ›

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Some of you may recall the case of two methamphetamine addicts, Richard Carelli and Michele Pinkerton, both now 39, who were accused of murdering of their landlord, Leonard Hoskins, in December 2007. It seems that Hoskins, who also had a history of meth use, had initiated eviction proceedings against the couple, who lived in his garage in-law unit on Mission Terrace. A neighbor witnessed Carelli hit Hoskins over the head with a wooden board and drag him into the garage. His body was found weeks later in the couples' van, which landed in the impound after they had high-tailed it to Baja, where they were arrested last April. Using meth-head logic, they justified their crime because an eviction would have hurt their chances of regaining custody of their daughter. more ›

SUNDAY / FILLMORE: Two peole are expected to survive a drive-by shooting in the Fillmore district. According to CBS 5, "One person was shot in the thigh and another in the ankle near Eddy and Laguna streets around 8:30 p.m." One suspect, much to our surprise, was arrested. But police are not sure if said detainee is a suspect. Or something like that. more ›