SF News San Jose Police Arrest Trio Linked to Nearly 80 South Burglaries, Mostly Targeting Asian Households Three men have been arrested in connection with a slew of home burglaries in several South Bay cities, and authorities estimate the value of goods stolen around $1 million.
SF News SF District Attorney Charges Two In Connection With Union Square Dior Store Burglary Two suspects were charged and entered not-guilty pleas in connection with an October smash-and-grab burglary at the Union Square Christian Dior store, a heist that involved at least 10 individuals, and that resulted in the theft of nearly $300K in handbags.
SF News Inner Richmond Dispensary Robbed by Thieves Who Sledgehammered Their Way Through the Windows The Inner Richmond location of the California Street Cannabis Company was hit by burglars in the wee hours Thursday morning, who smashed through the front window with sledgehammers, and got away just as police were arriving.
SF News Three California Lawmakers Introduce New Tough-on-Retail-Crime Bill Aimed at Smash-and-Grab Thefts There’s a flurry of new proposed California legislative bills that would chip away at Prop 47, including one intended to lock up people identified as “professional retail thieves.”
SF News 30-Year-Old SF Woman Accused of Committing 20 Separate Retail Thefts at Westfield Mall The San Francisco District Attorney's Office is calling attention to a case in which one woman suspected of participating in a rampant spree of retail thefts has been arrested and charged.
SF News SF Sees More Than 20,000 Car Break-Ins a Year, Arrests Made Around 1% of the Time An SF Board of Supervisors committee broke down the car break-in problem Thursday, hoping to craft legislation to lower the approximate 23,000 auto burglaries SF sees every year — only about 1% of which result in arrests.
SF News Thieves Use a Forklift to Break Into and Rob Oakland Cannabis Business There were three attempted robberies of cannabis dispensaries and businesses in West Oakland early Tuesday morning, and in one particularly brazen pot burglary, the thieves rammed their way into the storefront with a forklift.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Two Restaurants In Sunset Robbed In One Night A man killed in a freeway shooting in Oakland last week has been identified; two Sunset District businesses were burglarized the same night last week; and a fresh cold front has arrived and will be bringing us a little more rain.
SF News A 'Caravan' of Thieves Hit Multiple Oakland Businesses Thursday, In Chinatown and Elsewhere Oakland's plague of business robberies continued this week with a brazen caravan traveling in multiple vehicles — or possibly multiple crews — that hit at least 20 businesses in multiple commercial districts early Thursday.
SF News Organized Retail Theft Ring That Targeted California Apple Stores Busted, Eight Arrested An organized retail theft ring that netted around $1 million in stolen Apple products over the last six months has been busted following an investigation by the CHP's retail theft unit.
SF News Marina Residents Sound Off With Crime Complaints at Raucous Town Hall Just one day after an alleged 17-car break-in spree in the Marina, riled up residents were itching for a fight at a Tuesday night town hall meeting, and gave plenty of grief to Supervisor Stefani, DA Jenkins, and SFPD Chief Bill Scott.
SF News Another Hayes Valley Retailer Is Closing Up Shop Over Rampant Thefts Another retail store owner has closed their doors in San Francisco and gone public with their complaints about "rampant organized theft," with generalized complaints about the city having descended into "chaos."
SF News South American Tourist Burglars Might Be Back In Hillsborough; Town Hit With Rash of Home Break-Ins Hillsborough police announced on Monday that four break-ins had occurred in the town since September 8, and the modus operandi of the thieves sounds very similar to the suspected Chilean or South American crews we heard about earlier this year.
SF News SF Man Accused of Stealing Xfinity Van, Dressing As Comcast Technician to Rob Marin Home A San Francisco man was arrested on July 4th for allegedly trying to break into a home in San Rafael well posing as a Comcast technician, with the help of a uniform and a stolen Xfinity van.
SF News 'Prolific' San Jose Thief Arrested After Police Find Cache of Millions of Dollars In Stolen Goods, Ghost Guns A 24-year-old alleged thief who police say was keeping storage lockers packed with millions of dollars worth of stolen property that he was selling online is now in the custody of San Jose police.
SF News Mission Street GameStop Hit by Flash Mob Robberies Three Times in Six Days The flash mob-style burglaries we saw in Union Square last November popped up again on Mission Street, as the GameStop store suffered a reported three robberies in less than one week.
SF News SF's Castro Theatre Was Burglarized Twice This Week — By the Same Person On Friday, SFPD responded to a call of another thieving at the Castro's nearly 100-year-old cinema house. After the second break-in, police re-arrested a burglar previously detained concerning Tuesday's burglary.
SF News Three Arrested For Burglary of Castro Theatre Three men were arrested on suspicion of breaking into and burglarizing the historic Castro Theatre early Tuesday morning.
SF News Burglar Uses Power Saw to Break Into San Francisco Newsstand, Takes $20,000 In Cash and Merchandise Sunday morning, surveillance video captured a man slicing through the iron gates of one of the city's last remaining newsstands with a circular saw.
SF News Atherton and Hillsborough Mansions Hit With 'Burglary Tourism' By Chilean Gangs Out of L.A. Police say the MO of the thieves matches what's been seen in Southern California and elsewhere, where organized groups of Chileans have been methodically breaking into the homes of the wealthy.
SF News Suspect Dressed As Spider-Man Sought In South Bay Burglary Two men, including one dressed in a full-body Spider-Man getup, are being sought by Campbell police in a Wednesday morning burglary — and the Campbell Police Department added a fun soundtrack to the surveillance footage they posted to Twitter.
SF News Burglaries Were Down Nationwide Last Year; In SF They Went Up 50% San Francisco's no good terrible pandemic year was indeed different, crime-wise, than in most other cities in America. But it was a whole lot less violent, as it turns out.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Rash of Russian Hill Wine Burglaries Suggest We’ve Got a Wine Thief on the Prowl Two successful break-ins, plus another attempt, show a pattern where the perpetrator is interested in stealing Italian wine — while leaving cash and other valuables untouched.
SF News Roof-Leaping Burglary Suspect Dies After Being Trapped Between Two Buildings In Russian Hill A suspect in a residential burglary in San Francisco's Russian Hill neighborhood died Tuesday night following a brief pursuit in which he was reportedly jumping from roof to roof between multiple buildings.
SF News Man With Bad Dreadlocks Arrested For 'Prolific' String of Burglaries in SF The SFPD announced Tuesday that it had arrested a 43-year-old man last week who is suspected in a series of commercial burglaries in and around Chinatown and Nob Hill.
