Business & Tech Have You Had Your Electric Bike Stolen? It Might Be in Mexico and Being Sold on Facebook A recent WIRED investigation uncovered a high-end crime ring that appeared to be shipping stolen Bay Area electric bikes to Mexico. New reporting shows that the local epicenter of this ring may be a transmission shop in San Jose.
SF News Deplorable Teens Attack KGO Reporter Dan Noyes, But He Thwarts Their Attempt to Steal His Bike Our thoughts go out to longtime local TV reporter Dan Noyes, who was attacked Sunday by teens in the Presidio — but he foiled their attempt to steal his bike by threatening to put them on TV.
SF News SF Theft Wave of High-End Bikes Vexes Non-Violent Crime Enforcement Reforms A theft ring targeting expensive bicycles is far more sophisticated than your standard Walgreens shoplifters, creating a new wrinkle for criminal justice advocates who prefer not to incarcerate non-violent offenders.
SF News Alleged Bike Thief Stabbed In Dolores Park Altercation The tables were turned on an alleged bike thief Wednesday, when the theft victim instead stabbed the robber. Police say the altercation occurred at 4:44 p.m. Wednesday, on the grounds of
SF News San Francisco Bike Thief Trades Old Ride For New One A Twin Peaks-area man found himself the victim of a nonconsensual trade Wednesday, when he discovered his bike had been swapped out by a presumed thief. Police say that the crime went down
SF News Prowler Swipes Booze, Bike From Lower Pac Heights Home An overnight theft deprived a Lower Pacific Heights man of two things most beloved by San Franciscans: wine and a bicycle. According to the San Francisco Police Department, the heist went down at
SF News Elderly Victim Of Attempted Bike Theft Sprays Attacker With Fire Extinguisher An elderly man confronted by a fire-extinguisher-wielding bike thief refused to give up the fight, turning the weapon on his attacker and eventually sending the thief to jail. The saga began at 7:
SF News SF Engineer Designs Bike Lock That Sprays Vomit-Inducing Chemicals When Cut Cyclists all know that SF has a bike theft problem. And even when cyclists use expensive u-locks, those can quickly be cut with angle grinders — a fact which many know all too well.
SF News Violent Bike Thieves Menace Teens At Pier 28, Mid-Market Having your bike stolen is an unpleasant San Francisco rite of passage, like stepping in feces of undetermined origin or having the 5 Fulton pass you by as you wait at the bus
SF News SFPD Conducts Sweep Of Mission Bike Chop Shops San Francisco Police Department Sergeant Matt Friedman is the Sisyphus of San Francisco. Since 2013, Friedman has been fighting bike theft not just on the streets but on Twitter as @SFPDBikeTheft, where he
SF News Video: Thief Steals Bike On Valencia In Broad Daylight Surveillance cameras outside of Valencia Street theater Stage Werx captured a distressing scene this past Friday, wherein a thief cut the lock off a bike with some sort of power tool — making a
SF News Middle School's Bikes Stolen For Second Time And Local Businesses Step Up To Replace Them Middle school is hard enough as it is, but that teeming cauldron of hormones and insecurity got a little harder over the Thanksgiving holiday for the students of Visitacion Valley Middle School after
SF News Bike Theft Continues To Plague SF State, University Doesn't Seem To Care A wave of bike thefts followed by little or no university action has left some San Francisco State University students feeling betrayed. The most recent incident, a brazen burglary of the enclosed "Bike
SF News Escape From Alcatraz Triathletes Have Their Bikes Stolen Before Race A couple went on a 3,000 mile cross-country roadtrip to San Francisco to take part in Escape From Alcatraz, only to discover their bikes stolen a day before the race. Chad Kimbrell
SF News Meeting A Knife With Bullets, SFPD Officers Shoot Alleged Bike Thief To Death In Mission SF: Officer shoots kills person at Folsom and 24th in Mission. Chief about to give details.#mapit pic.twitter.com/C9YQVr08YK— alan wang (@AlanWangABC7) February 27, 2015 Two plainclothes San Francisco Police Officers
SF News Arrest Made In Panhandle Attacks On Bicyclists, More Suspects Identified In at least six separate instances this fall, cyclists making their way through the Panhandle at night were attacked by men who knocked them off their bikes, then stole those bikes and rode
SF News Video: <i>Today</i> Show Chases Bike Thief In San Francisco Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Bike thievery. It's a national epidemic. But San Francisco is, as we all know, one place where it's happening with
Arts & Entertainment Video: Is This Truly An 'Unstealable Bike?' In San Francisco, where bike theft has gone up a reported 70% since 2006, a bike that can't be stolen seems like a pipe dream. Now three Chilean engineering students say they they've
SF News Bait Bikes Ready To Nab S.F. Bike Thieves A heads-up to all active and would-be bike thieves: SFPD will plant the city with bait bikes ready to tempt scheming ne'er-do-wells. "We have bait bikes deployed all over the city. Our bikes
SF News Woman Recovers Stolen Bike Via Sting With Help Of BART Police A woman whose $900 bike was stolen from one of the racks outside Macarthur Station in Oakland managed to get it back with some help from BART police, and get the thief arrested.
SF News Video: Woman Tackles Bicycle Thief In S.F. [UPDATE] Update: This video is from 2011. Yikes. Sorry about that, folks. A woman identified only as a "brave designer at the WCG office in San Francisco" (near the waterfront at 60 Francisco) saw
SF News Cyclist's Twitter Tip Leads To SFPD Chop Shop Raid [Update] STOLEN bicycle chop shop in FULL effect right now- 13th & Bryant. Can't anything be done @SFPDBikeTheft? (@plattyjo) pic.twitter.com/9QgRL2PKLP— meredithob (@meredithob) August 20, 2013 UPDATE: SFPD tells us that "no
SF News SFPD Now Shaming Bike Thieves On Twitter Well, this is just great news for anyone who's ever had a bike stolen in San Francisco (which is everyone with a bike in San Francisco, basically): The San Francisco Police Department has
