SF News Update: SFPD Releases Photo of Suspect In Racist Threats at Home of Alamo Square Dogwalker; He Knows Her From Neighborhood A 67-year-old woman who was recently reported missing is the suspect that the SFPD has been seeking in connection with racist threats that were left at the home of local dogwalker Terry Williams, in the weeks before his family's Alamo Square home mysteriously burned down.
SF News Retrial Begins for Man Accused of Intentionally Setting 2021 Hopkins Fire In Mendocino County You may recall Mendocino County’s 2021 Hopkins Fire, which destroyed more than 250 acres and nearly 30 homes, and now a 23-year-old man is on trial for the second time for allegedly starting it, after his first trial was declared a mistrial.
SF News East Bay 'Scholar-Activist' Arrested for UC Berkeley Arson Incidents That Were Possibly Linked to Pro-Palestinian Protest A 34-year-old man was arrested Monday in connection with multiple arson incidents and the firebombing of a campus police vehicle at UC Berkeley, and these may have been acts of protest over the university's treatment of pro-Palestinian protesters.
SF News SFPD Has ‘Possible Suspect’ In Case of Dog Walker Whose Home Burned After Racist Threats Police say they’ve executed two search warrants and have a “possible suspect” in connection to an Alamo Square dog walker who’d received racist threats prior to his house burning, though it’s unclear whether these leads are concerning the threats, the house fire, or both.
SF News House Fire Near Alamo Square Potentially Linked to Racist Threats A house fire that broke out on the same block as the famed Painted Ladies gutted a two-unit building, and it happens to be the home of a longtime neighborhood dog-walker who was recently targeted with racist threats.
SF News Another Carsonist? Four Cars Set Ablaze In San Francisco Sunday Morning We may have another carsonist on our hands, or else the same individual who set fire to two Teslas in SoMa in February is back at it.
SF News Are the Waymo and Tesla Arsonists the Same Person? The SFPD has reportedly made an arrest in connection with the arson of an autonomous Waymo taxi in Chinatown last month, and they say the suspect is linked to other vehicle arson cases.
SF News SFPD Suspects An Arsonist Is Targeting Teslas After Two Catch on Fire in SoMa Police are investigating after they discovered two Tesla Model Ys on fire within a few blocks of each other in San Francisco’s SoMa neighborhood early Saturday morning.
SF News Waymo Self-Driving Vehicle Vandalized, Set on Fire in San Francisco Chinatown Saturday Night A group of vandals surrounded and tagged an empty autonomous vehicle in Chinatown, then set of a firework inside the car that set the entire car ablaze.
SF News Someone Is ‘In Custody’ In Connection With Bernal Heights Car Fires — But They’re Not In SF There’s been a development in the case of four cars torched in Bernal Heights on New Year’s Eve, as someone, somewhere is in custody in connection with the investigation. But they’re in custody elsewhere “for an unrelated matter,” according to SFPD.
SF News Another Car Torched In Bernal Heights, Prompting Serial Arson Concerns After four cars were set ablaze on New Year’s Eve in Bernal Heights, yet another car was lit on fire some five blocks away on Tuesday night, though in this case the described arsonist had actually lit a disposed Christmas tree on the curb.
SF News Arsonist Torched Four Cars in Bernal Heights on New Year’s Eve, Reportedly Tried to Burn House Too The normally quiet neighborhood of Bernal Heights saw an arsonist destroy four cars by setting them ablaze around 9:30 p.m. on New Year’s Eve, and some yet-unconfirmed reports say the same individual may have tried to burn at least one house, too.
SF News Person Found Critically Injured In Burning Car In Oakland A person was found "fully engulfed in flames" Thursday morning inside a car on fire in East Oakland, and Oakland police are seeking leads in the case.
SF News Series of Fires Along I-580 in East Alameda County Investigated As Arson Multiple fires broke out early Saturday morning along an eight-mile stretch of I-580 near the Altamont Pass, and California Highway Patrol confirmed that they were deliberately set.
SF News Daly City Target Store Damaged In Suspected Arson Fire A fire broke out at the Serramonte Center Target store on Thursday, and it is being investigated as a case of arson.
SF News Two San Francisco Women Arrested on Suspicion of Arson, Burglary, and Vandalism at Rohnert Park Condo Two SF residents, Danesha Morales, 26, and Breanna Lewis, 36, are accused of setting a fire to their former residence in the North Bay that caused $200,000 of damage.
SF News Body Found In East Bay House That Appeared to Be Set On Fire Investigators in the East Bay city of Concord suspect foul play in the death of a person whose remains were found in a house that was likely set on fire Thursday evening.
SF News Vacaville Woman Charged With Setting 10 Los Altos Wildfires In One Day It was a busy Saturday for the Santa Clara County Fire Department, the local Cal Fire Unit, and the Foothill-De Anza Community College Police Department, as they battled 10 fires — all allegedly set by the same person.
SF News Could SF Have Another Toilet Torcher? Porta-Potty Fire on McCoppin Threatens Buildings Way back in 2009, a string of porta-potty arsons led SFist to nickname the perpetrator the Toilet Torcher. And any time a new incident of porta-potty torching arises, we still have to wonder, are they back?
SF News Four East Bay Arson Suspects Arrested For an Astonishing 33 Fires in a 48-Hour Period It’s unclear whether the four suspects and more than 30 fires set over two days are in any way related, and while no one was hurt, one report says that a suspect managed to escape custody.
SF News Man Accused of Setting San Jose Home Depot on Fire Identified and Charged A 27-year-old man from San Jose is now behind bars, accused of setting fire to a Home Depot two Saturdays ago as he stole several items.
SF News Illegal Marijuana Farmer Found Guilty for Starting the 2020 Dolan Fire The Dolan Fire that killed a firefighter and 12 California condors was started intentionally, and the 31-year-old illegal marijuana grower who started it was found guilty of arson on Thursday.
SF News Bail Reduced For Accused Caldor Fire Arsonists; Clue Emerges About Machine Gun We still don't know what the prosecution's theory is in the ignition of the Caldor Fire in August, but the father and son accused of starting it are now free on drastically reduced bail.
SF News Father and Son Arrested on Suspicion of Starting the Caldor Fire in August A father and son who were in the vicinity of the ignition point of the massive Caldor Fire in August, and who made the first 911 calls about the wildfire, are now under arrest and set to be charged with wildfire arson.
SF News Somebody Set the Christmas Tree In Oakland's Jack London Square on Fire The Christmas tree in Jack London Square was torched early Monday, but may have been saved from being a total loss — though it's not clear if it will be able to be restrung with lights and used for a tree-lighting ceremony on Saturday.
