SF News BART Throat-Slashing Suspect Has Had Multiple Arrests for Robberies, Drugs The 34-year-old man arrested Sunday for a Saturday incident in which he allegedly slashed the throat of a woman on a BART train in San Francisco has a fairly extensive rap sheet.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: BART Police Make Gun Arrest Following Fare Evasion BART police made an arrest Tuesday of a felon with a loaded handgun; a domestic incident leads to a man's death in San Leandro; and BART was experiencing delays early Thursday.
SF News Charges Filed Against Suspected BART Station Kidnapper On Friday, San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins announced that charges had been filed in the case of an alleged kidnapping of a 17-year-old girl that took place at a BART station last week.
SF News Suspect In BART-Shove Killing Charged With Murder The 49-year-old homeless man suspected of pushing a 74-year-old woman into an oncoming BART train Monday night has been formally charged with murder.
SF News 74-Year-Old Woman Killed After Being Pushed Into Oncoming BART Train In SF, Homeless Male Suspect Arrested An elderly woman was allegedly pushed toward an oncoming train Monday night at Powell Street Station, hitting her head and landing on the platform.
SF News BART Police Confront and Arrest Stabbing Suspect Outside Powell Station A woman was arrested Monday morning on Market Street outside of the Powell Street BART station after she allegedly slashed a man on the train platform with a knife after the two exited a train.
SF News Man With Machete Arrested on Crowded BART Train In SF A machete-wielding man, who was reportedly just casually waving his large knife around while seated on a crowded BART train, was arrested Monday morning in San Francisco, and it sounds like he's been a frequent flyer with local authorities.
SF News BART Police Arrest Man Menacing Riders With AR-15-Style Rifle on Christmas Eve It was a wild Christmas Eve on BART, as a man with a semi-automatic rifle was “bothering other riders,” until BART Police arrested him and had him hauled off to Santa Rita Jail.
SF News Box of Puppies Found in Stolen Vehicle at Coliseum BART Station Parking Lot BART Police engaged in a car chase Tuesday afternoon with a vehicle that had been reported stolen in Fremont. But when they finally nabbed the driver, they made the unusual discovery of five newborn puppies inside the stolen car.
SF News Stabbing On BART Train In Oakland Leaves One Injured There was a stabbing overnight on a BART train in Oakland that appears to have been unprovoked, and the incident is sure to add to public perception that the trains are unsafe.
SF News BART’s Answer to Its Financial Woes Is Putting More Police on Trains and Giving Officers Major Raises A new agreement for BART police officers gives them substantial pay bumps of 20% and mandates at least half of the transit police department's officers patrol trains, amid the transit system's fiscal deficit.
SF News BART Police Making Lots More Arrests Since Beefing Up Police Force This Year BART claims that March and April of this year saw “two of its highest monthly arrest totals since the arrival of the pandemic,” and is engaging in a PR campaign that hopes more people getting arrested on BART will make riders more comfortable coming back on BART.
SF News People Are Ditching BART Because of Safety and Uncleanliness, Says Pro-Business Group Poll A new poll suggests that it’s not remote work, but safety and lack of cleanliness keeping people off of BART. But the survey is from a business group with a history of somewhat dubious polls.
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.
SF News Suspect Arrested In Pistol-Whipping and Shooting On BART Train A suspect is in custody for the March 16 pistol-whipping incident onboard a BART train that resulted in a shot being fired in the train car.
SF News BART Beefing Up Police Presence In Hopes It Will Bring Riders Back BART Police say “We are going to saturate every train and hit every train in Oakland and San Francisco” as the BART board of directors is on the verge of agreeing to more than double the presence of officers.
SF News BART Police Files Reportedly Leaked By Hackers, Now On Dark Web Numerous news organizations are reporting that BART police files have been hacked and posted onto the dark web, including allegations of child abuse against officers, and perhaps your information if you’ve ever been cited by BART Police for a crime.
SF News BART Police Investigating Christmas Eve Incident Involving Fire Extinguisher Sprayed at Passengers A teenage suspect having a verbal altercation with one other individual on a BART car Saturday, as it sat at Coliseum Station, can be seen on video spraying the car full of fire-extinguisher discharge as he backs out of the door — and those caught in the cloud included a baby and a small dog.
SF News Suspect In Fatal Stabbing at SF BART Station Arrested BART announced that SF police arrested a suspect in the deadly stabbing that happened at the 24th Street Station in San Francisco on August 28.
SF News BART Police Arrest Two Suspects In Weekend Shooting BART police have arrested two suspects, a San Francisco man and an Oakland woman, in connection with a Saturday shooting that took place onboard a train.
SF News Video: Stolen Pickup Drives Wrong Way on I-880, Rams BART Police Van and Other Vehicles in San Leandro A wrong-way car chase had both Oakland police and BART police in hot pursuit Thursday evening, and news chopper video shows a BART police SUV and three other vehicles taking damage before the suspect was nabbed.
SF News East Bay Woman Sues After BART Police Forcibly Detain Her For Fare Evasion An East Bay woman has filed a civil rights lawsuit over a December 31, 2019 incident in which she was forcibly detained and bloodied by BART police officers over fare evasion at San Leandro's Bayfair Station.
SF News BART Police Puts 12 Officers On Regular Evening Train-Patrol Duty For First Time BART Police are going to be regularly patrolling trains on nights and weekends as part of a new program that launched Monday, and the news has some regular riders going "Really?... Now?"
SF News BART Likely to Launch Unarmed 'Ambassador' Program To Address Quality-of-Life Complaints The BART Board of Directors is inching closer to approving a program that's been in the works nearly two years in which unarmed "ambassadors" will roam trains cleaning up needles and other "biohazards" and providing outreach to the homeless.
SF News BART Director Stirs the Pot With Op-Ed Accusing Management and Fellow Directors of Negligence On Safety BART director Debora Allen, has been an outspoken critic of new General Manager Bob Powers and some of her fellow directors in recent weeks. And last week's stabbing on board a train in South Hayward has pushed her to pen a scathing opinion piece in the East Bay Times.
