SF News Civic Center Walgreens Ransacked by Shoplifters Sunday, Police Didn’t Respond for Four Hours Another brazen Walgreens shoplifting heist was captured on video Sunday, as burglars emptied the shelves of the Ninth and Market street store, but police did not respond to the incident until four hours later.
SF News Group of Suspects Ransacks and Robs Walgreens Store In Castro The Walgreens at Castro and 18th streets was robbed Tuesday night by an organized group of smash-and-grabbers who came with garbage bags to fill.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Another Walgreens Set to Close In SF A standoff ensued Tuesday night in Oakland after an eviction notice was served; a woman was rescued from floodwaters atop her car in Livermore; and a Walgreens in downtown SF is set to close.
SF News SF Supervisors Pass Ban on Security Guards Drawing Their Guns Over Property Crimes In the wake of April’s fatal Banko Brown shooting over an alleged Walgreens shoplifting incident, the SF Board of Supervisors passed a ban on security guards drawing guns for property crimes. But it wouldn’t be a shock if Mayor Breed vetoed the measure.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SFPD Nabs Retail Thieves Who Showed Up at Walgreens With Wagon The SFPD arrested six people who were part of a blitz-style robbery at an Excelsior District Walgreens; a San Jose mother and daughter have been arrested in connection with those two day-care drowning deaths; and the suspects arrested for a string of armed robberies in the Mission were arraigned.
SF News San Francisco May Ban Security Guards From Drawing Guns Over Property Crime Supervisor Dean Preston proposed a new ordinance earlier this year that would bar armed security guards from drawing their weapons in response to a property crime in progress — following the widespread outrage over the April killing of Banko Brown.
SF News State Bureau Fines Walgreens Guard Who Shot Banko Brown $1,500 This is by no means the end of the legal recriminations in the fatal shooting of Banko Brown by a Walgreens security guard, but the guard in question has been fined $1,500 by the state’s Bureau of Security and Investigative Services.
SF News Banko Brown’s Family Suing Walgreens, Security Firm, and Security Guard for Wrongful Death We figured there would be a lawsuit coming when the family of Banko Brown hired famed civil rights attorney John Burris over Brown’s fatal Walgreens shooting in late April, and that lawsuit is now here.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Walgreens Settles Theranos Consumer Fraud Case Walgreens has settled a case brought by consumers who received Theranos blood tests; the NTSB is looking into that small-plane crash near Half Moon Bay on Saturday; and Steph Curry just received the NBA's Social Justice Champion award.
SF News Walgreens Cuts Ties With Central Valley-Based Security Firm Whose Employee Shot Banko Brown Pharmacy chain Walgreens has fired the private security firm, Kingdom Group Protective Services, whose guard fatally shot a shoplifting suspect last month at a Market Street store.
SF News Walgreens Forced To Pay SF Record-Breaking $230 Million For Its Role In Creating Opioid Crisis Pharmacy chain Walgreens will have to pay San Francisco $230 million — the largest sum it will pay to any city — for its role in overprescribing opioids and helping create the fentanyl crisis.
SF News Protests Erupt Following Banko Brown Charging Decision, Video Release; Peskin Calls for AG and DOJ Review There was a protest Monday that marched down Market Street to City Hall following the announcement by SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins that no charges would filed in the Walgreens shooting of 24-year-old Banko Brown.
SF News Video of Banko Brown Shooting Released as DA Jenkins Announces Final Decision Not to File Charges Against Security Guard SF DA Brooke Jenkins announced Monday that her office has come to a final decision not to file charges against the Walgreens security guard accused of shooting alleged shoplifter Banko Brown, and with the decision the surveillance footage from the case has been made public.
SF News After Banko Brown Shooting, Supervisor Preston Wants To Ban Retail Security Guards From Using Guns As the controversy rages on over Banko Brown being shot and killed over $14 worth of shoplifted items, Supervisor Dean Preston is drafting legislation to prohibit retail security guards from drawing loaded weapons to protect store inventory.
SF News Banko Brown’s Family Has Hired Famed Civil Rights Attorney John Burris It’s never a good thing for a district attorney to learn that John Burris may be involved in a case against your office, but the family of Walgreens shooting victim Banko Brown has retained the lawyer who successfully represented Rodney King, and the families of Oscar Grant and Mario Woods.
SF News Peskin Calls On DA to 'Reconsider' Charging Walgreens Guard After Supporters of Slain Victim Protest at City Hall The San Francisco Board of Supervisors' meeting on Tuesday turned raucous when family members and supporters of Banko Brown — the trans man killed last week by a Walgreens security guard — swarmed the chamber demanding justice for Brown.
SF News No Charges Being Filed In SF Walgreens Shooting, Guard Claiming Self-Defense The suspect in last week's fatal shooting at the Walgreens near Union Square, who is a security guard employed by the store, has been released from custody without charges.
SF News Shooting at Market Street Walgreens Leaves 24-Year-Old Man Dead, Security Guard Arrested There was a fatal shooting Thursday evening near the busy section of Market Street outside the Westfield Mall, a few blocks from Union Square, and it involved a store security guard armed with a gun and an alleged theft in progress.
SF Politics Gov. Gavin Newsom Says California Is 'Done' With Walgreens Over Abortion Pill Decision Gavin Newsom took to Twitter early Monday to declare that pharmacy chain Walgreens is now on the list of entities the state won't being doing future business with, due to its decision not to ship medical-abortion drugs to women in 20 states.
SF News Walgreens CEO Says 'Maybe We Cried Too Much' About Shoplifting, Acknowledges Private Security Didn't Work The CEO of Walgreens now says that shoplifting seems to be down and maybe they made too big a deal about the issue — in SF and elsewhere — the last couple of years.
SF News Walgreens and CVS Agree to $10 Billion Settlement for Opioid Overprescription, But SF Case Still Looms Walmart has also reportedly agreed to be on the hook for a $3 billion settlement, but the Walgreens settlement does not stop the case that SF City Attorney David Chiu is bringing against that pharmacy chain.
SF News Judge Rules Walgreens Can Be Held Liable For Overprescribing Opioids in SF, In Landmark Decision A huge win for City Attorney David Chiu, as a judge rules in the city’s favor and against Walgreens, who apparently prescribed more than 100 million opioid pills in San Francisco alone.
SF News Notorious Walgreens Bike Theft Suspect Arrested Yet Again, at Stomping Grounds He’s Hit Before The bicycle-and-trash-bag scofflaw who gained viral fame in a Twitter video last year robbing a San Francisco Walgreens was arrested again last week over two incidents at the Haight Street CVS, and you can probably take a wild guess what he’s accused of doing again.
SF News SF Suing Walgreens for Creating an Opioid ‘Public Menace,’ and This Sure Changes the Whole Walgreens Discourse Could Walgreens be responsible for the very crime and drug issues they say are driving them out of San Francisco? A lawsuit from the city begs that question, and blames opioid overprescription.
SF News Walgreens Shoplifter From Viral Video Pleads Guilty, Gets 16 Months In Prison The ride is over for the fellow who rode his bike into a Walgreens and gained viral video infamy for purloining a trash bag full of cosmetics, but his guilty plea and 16-month prison sentence are unlikely to satisfy DA Boudin’s critics.