SF News Marine Veteran Dies After Sedation in Hayward Police Custody During Mental Health Crisis Marine vet Nathan Hoang died in Hayward police custody after being sedated with midazolam during a mental health crisis. His case, disclosed 6 weeks later, raises concerns over sedative use and police response to psychiatric emergencies.
SF News BART Police Arrested 7 Suspects In Separate Incidents Thursday Night People were booked on charges from a range of offenses, such as having two fixed-blade knives, trying to bite an officer, being in possession of fentanyl, and more.
Contra Costa Massive Anti-Human Trafficking Bust in East Bay Leads to Arrest of 13 People, Identification of 30 Survivors California has one of the largest concentrations of human trafficking survivors in the United States, and Contra Costa county is no exception.
SF News Three Men, One Teenager Arrested After Drug Bust Recovers Over 20 Pounds of Fentanyl in Oakland and SF The bust was the result of SFPD's joint investigation with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency on drugs into the Tenderloin, DA Brooke Jenkins said.
SF Politics Mohammed Nuru Arrested After Allegedly Pulling a Knife While Volunteering at Food Bank Former San Francisco Department of Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru was reportedly arrested Wednesday morning following a strange-sounding incident at the SF-Marin Food Bank warehouse in the Dogpatch neighborhood.
SF News More Police But Fewer Arrests At San Francisco's Pride Celebration Happy Pride from the women of the SFPD!!! pic.twitter.com/ITyirrzc9r— Teresa Ewins (@TLCapt) June 26, 2016 In the wake of the Orlando attacks, SF Pride organizers arranged for security screenings at
SF News Outside Lands 2015 Arrests, Citations, And Crimes By The Numbers Nearly everyone had a great time at Outside Lands, right? Especially this guy. But some folks had a little too much fun (or tried to) and the numerous San Francisco Police Department officers
SF News Pride Sunday's SFPD Activity By The Numbers Though San Francisco Police Department Chief Greg Suhr told the Chron that Sunday's Pride celebration and parade was "off the hook," he didn't mean that in an law-breaking way — the event that he
SF News Pride Saturday's SFPD Activity By The Numbers According to San Francisco Police Department spokesperson Officer Carlos Manfredi, Saturday was a busy day for police officers watching over the throngs of folks celebrating Pride. In addition to last night's shooting, Manfredi
SF News SFPD Braced For Shenanigans If The Giants Win Tonight If the SF Giants win tonight, there will be much cause for rejoicing. After all, this will be their third National League pennant, and their next stop will be the World Series. Hooray!
Arts & Entertainment 140 Gate Crashers, 1000 Pounds Of Cheese: Outside Lands By The Numbers The three-day-long food/music/comedy fest known as Outside Lands is over, and the west side of San Francisco is quiet once again. Now that the dust has cleared, let's look at some
SF News New Video Shows Arrest Of Balls-Out, Bison-Taunting Bay To Breakers Runner After yesterday's incident in the Golden Gate Park Bison Paddock during Bay to Breakers, reader Jake M. sends in a brief, but amusing, video of the suspect who hopped the fence and tried
SF News Food Not Bombs Marchers Arrested At S.F. May Day Rally Thursday's May Day rally in San Francisco overlapped with Food Not Bombs' weekly food share at 16th and Mission, resulting in the arrests of both marchers and FNB workers. Police even allegedly flipped
SF News Oh No, Leland Yee: 'Shrimp Boy' Arrested, Jaws Of Life Brought In Now jaws of life on scene as SFFD continues to try and gain entry to a safe at the Freemasons temple. #LelandYee pic.twitter.com/92X5fP862j— Kale Williams (@sfkale) March 26, 2014 Shortly
SF News Muni Justice: Pepper Spraying 38-Geary Mugger Busted By Tipsters SFPD's new favorite thing is touting arrests that didn't require much legwork on their part, apparently. The latest crowdsourced arrest happened earlier this month when 25-year-old suspect Michael Diles was busted for allegedly
SF News John McAfee Arrested in Guatemala, Blogs Crazy Stuff From Jail As Gizmodo notes today, "John McAfee is basically liveblogging his jail stint on a Central American murder rap from the personal computer of a Guatemalan jail warden." Yep. McAfee was detained yesterday in
SF News Well-Known Cyclist Beaten Unconscious By Police, Arrested For Assault Kachusha Munkanta, known among the local cycling community as "Chuey" and a generally peaceful guy, was allegedly jumped and beaten unconscious by SFPD officers after observing another arrest early last Friday morning. Chuey
SF News SFPD's Fuzzy Crime Stats Inflated Number Of 'White' Arrests A new report has revealed some misleading arrest rates recorded by the San Francisco Police department over the course of more than a decade. Since 1999, the Bay Citizen has learned, the SFPD
SF News Lesbian Arrested After Seeking Marriage License In North Carolina Mary Jamis, 52, a lesbian who attempted to obtain a marriage license in North Carolina on Thursday, was arrested along with a heterosexual friend for refusing to leave a government office. Several other
SF News Occupier Collars Stabbing Suspect, Makes Citizens Arrest Thursday morning, an Occupy protester helped bring down the suspect wanted in Sunday's stabbing assault at the rebuilt 101 Market camp. According to the Examiner, Occupier Nick Shaw recognized the man, known around
SF News Attempted Murder Suspect Squats Aboard Aircraft Carrier In Alameda A man suspected of trying to murder his mother-in-law is in custody after U.S. Marshals found him living aboard a decommissioned aircraft carrier docked in Alameda. Todd Stuart of Washington State had
SF News Four Arrested In San Jose Child Porn Ring Bust Four suspects were arrested today in a bust of a potential South Bay child pornography ring, NBC Bay Area reports. The four suspects, all booked for allegedly possessing child pornography, were brought down
SF News A Dozen or So Drunk People Arrested After Outside Lands Last Night Folks got a little drunk and disorderly as they streamed out of Golden Gate Park last night after the Arcade Fire and Deadmau5 sets. The SFPD reports they arrested about twelve people after
SF News Arrests Made in Shooting of 11-Year-Old Girl Struck by Stray Bullet An 11-year-old girl was hit by a stray bullet in the Western Addition late Friday night during gunfire that resulted from an argument amongst some nearby teens, reports Bay City News. According to
SF News Arrests Made in Saturday's Mid-Market Shooting Two teenaged suspects were arrested in connection with the gang-related shooting that occurred on Saturday evening at about 6:15 p.m. on Market between 6th and 7th, just blocks from the Pride
