SF News Heir to Hills Bros. Coffee Fortune ID'd as Owner of Tesla Parked In Alta Plaza, Arrested In Bizarre East Bay Incident We're now getting some clues about that Tesla that was found parked in the middle of a walkway in Alta Plaza Park last week, and it appears linked to a local resident from a prominent family who may be in the midst of a mental health crisis.
SF News Two Alleged Squatters Charged In Vallejo Death of Friend and Sword Attack on Landlord It had apparently been three years since some suspect squatters had paid any rent to stay on property belonging to an 80-year-old man in Vallejo. And their stay ended in tragedy, and now two of them have been charged with murder and attempted murder.
SF News Suspect In San Carlos Beheading Reportedly Had Mental Illness, Had Made Serious Threats Weeks Earlier The man accused of brutally murdering his ex-girlfriend and mother of his child last Thursday made his first court appearance Monday, as new details in the case continued to emerge.
SF News North Bay Man Takes His Own Life By Guillotine, Home Taken Over as Squat By Meth Heads Who Disposed of Body Wow. Another story of a squat where some (probably) meth-addicted squatters ignored or otherwise forgot about some human remains in order to occupy an empty house!
SF News Squatters Suspected Of Killing Las Vegas Woman Absolved As Police Say She Likely Died Earlier and They Just Buried Her A movie-of-the-week-worthy case of a woman whose dismembered body was found buried in the side yard of her home that initially had been ruled a homicide has now been deemed a death by natural causes — and squatters in her home found her already dead in a chair.
SF News Mother of East Bay Man Killed at Oroville Campsite Seeks Answers The mother of the young man who was fatally shot in his tent over the July 4th weekend at a campsite by Lake Oroville remains in shock and still has no information from investigators about why her son was killed.
Business & Tech Former Santa Clara Police Captain Pleads Guilty In Bizarre eBay Cyberstalking Case 55-year-old former Santa Clara police captain Philip Cooke entered a guilty plea in federal court in Boston Tuesday, joining six other former eBay employees implicated in a wackadoo intimidation scheme aimed at a couple of Boston-based bloggers.
SF News Alleged Marin County Pedophile 'Sir Sicko' Arrested After Telling Undercover FBI Agent He Wanted To Film Murder Of Girl A Fairfax man and previously convicted sex offender has been charged in federal court after allegedly telling an undercover agent in an online chat that he wanted to rape and murder his ex-girlfriend as well as a five-year-old girl, and film the acts to sell online.
SF News Guy Breaks Into SoMa Kennel, Frees Dogs, Steals Dog Toys, Gets Caught On this week's bizarre crime beat, we have the story of 59-year-old Michael Grunwald, an apparent dog-lover who broke in and tried to burgle a SoMa doggy daycare called K-9 Playtime (590 Brannan
SF News Bizarre Break-in Involving Clearly High Individual Ends In Rooftop Standoff In San Jose Are bath salts back in the news? Whatever the guy was on, an obviously intoxicated individual caused a lengthy, totally wacky standoff on the roof of a home in San Jose on Sunday