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.
SF News Rappin' 4-Tay Arrested In Alleged Home Invasion Local hop-hop star Rappin' 4-Tay, a.k.a. Anthony Forté, was arrested Wednesday in an alleged attempted home invasion in the Mission. Mission Local reports that Forté was identified by a witness on
SF News Sunset Residents Enraged As Suspect In Hot Prowl Burglaries Is Released From Jail A suspect in multiple burglaries in the Outer Sunset in recent weeks has been released from jail for the second time in a month, and both the SFPD and the neighborhood's residents are
SF News SF Car Break-Ins Down 18 Percent As Of July The scourge of car burglaries which have been noticeably on the rise in the last two years in various neighborhoods, hitting a five-year high last summer may finally be slowing down thanks to
SF News Crime On The Decline In 2016, Says SFPD Opera-goer muggings aside, crime is actually down this year according to new stats from the SFPD. As the Examiner reports, new data from May shows a downward trend in the frequency of robberies,
SF News SF Now Has Highest Per Capita Property Crime Rate In The US We've been talking about the smash-and-grab epidemic in San Francisco for a while now, and now the New York Times has picked up the story of this wealthy city's wave of car burglaries
SF News Crazed, Armed Burglary Suspect Jumps From Russian Hill Roof During Police Chase, Lands On Audi This is the car alleged burglar landed on after jumping from roof of apartment. #abc7now pic.twitter.com/ZglRcw7B9f— Elissa Harrington (@EHarringtonNews) April 16, 2016 An insane foot chase happened Saturday that began
SF News Spike In Car Break-Ins Has Many Blaming Prop 47 Since last summer we've been talking about the recent spike in petty crime, in particular car burglaries and car thefts, and new numbers out of the SFPD suggest that car break-ins in particular
SF News Stuff Store On Valencia Is Latest Victim Of Smash-And-Grab Robbery The vast, high-end flea market known as Stuff was the latest victim of a smash-and-grab robbery on Wednesday morning, with a group of four to six thieves breaking through the glass front door
SF News Smash-and-Grab Is Officially The Crime To Commit Of Early 2015 Yet another smash-and-grab robbery at a high-end audio equipment store happened early this morning, this time at Music Lovers Audio and Video on Bush Street a store which was also hit by a
SF News Tinder Helps ID Suspected Burglar Caught On Surveillance Video Remember this case of the woman clearly caught on camera burglarizing an office in SoMa multiple times back in July? Frustrated by the fact that all his efforts to publicize her image on
SF News Chinatown Freaked Out By Another Serial Burglar A serial burglar/home-invader has been scaring Chinatown's elderly in a series of four crimes in this normally not-crime-ridden neighborhood at least crime that's not being perpetrated by Shrimp Boy and the Hung
SF News Uptick In Office Burglaries Includes Video-Surveilled Incidents In SoMa, Mission Do you recognize any of these thieves? SFist has gotten a couple of direct reports in recent days, as have other news media, about separate incidents of office burglaries in different neighborhoods, involving
SF News Mayor Lee's Glen Park Street Is A Hotbed Of Car Theft; Burglaries On The Rise Too The cul de sac where Mayor Ed Lee lives in Glen Park saw three middle-of-the-night car thefts in three months earlier this year, and it's an indicator of an overall uptick in stolen
SF News More Oakland Neighborhoods Hiring Private Security Firms To Reduce Crime If the cops don't show up, what's a worried neighborhood to do? As cash-strapped, crime-challenged cities like Detroit, L.A., Atlanta, and Oakland face continually dwindling budgets and smaller police forces, there's been
SF News Burglary Scam Involving Snake Ruse Hits Peninsula The same two suspects appear to be connected to at least three burglaries, one in Burlingame, one in San Mateo, and one in Fremont, in which homeowners were distracted by one suspect in
SF News Drive-In Jewelry Thieves Smash Into Walnut Creek Tiffany's A bold group jewelry thieves opted for a drive-in breakfast at Tiffany's early this morning. Around 5:45 a.m. Thursday, four suspects crashed a stolen Ford pickup truck through the trademark metal
SF News Bayview Home Invasion Ends In One Arrest, Two Still At Large Early Sunday morning in the Bayview, a female suspect wearing all black lured one resident of Palou Avenue to his door around 12:15 a.m. After convincing the man to open the
SF News Tomahawk Crime: 18-Year-Old Burglar Not Very Good At Axe Throwing In the latest crime to involving uncommon bladed weapons, an 18-year-old man was busted last weekend for attempting to throw a tomahawk at the owner of the car he was pillaging. The ruffian
SF News Thief Tries To Escape Arrest By Hitching Ride On Roof Of Car Here's a fun story from the crime blotter, via the Examiner and Nevius: A man who was suspected of breaking into a woman's garage in Ingleside and stealing a television tried to escape
SF News 'Door Knock' Burglaries on Peninsula Being Blamed on East Bay Hooligans There's been a rash of burglaries in various Peninsula cities in recent months in which teams of thieves knock on the doors of homes to see if anyone answers. If they get no
SF News Guy Who Burgled Steve Jobs' House Gets Seven-Year Sentence Kariem McFarlin, who unknowingly broke in to the under-construction home of the late Steve Jobs last summer and stole iPads and jewelry, among other items, has been sentenced to seven years in prison.
SF News Noe Valley Woman Nabs Package Thief, Chases Him Down With Sword, Sprays Him With Bear Spray Thanks to the bravery and frustration of one Noe Valley resident who was tired of her Amazon boxes being stolen, the man the neighborhood had dubbed the Bicycle Bandit is now in custody.
SF News Nancy Pelosi's Burglar Busted After Returning To Steal Coin Collection A 21-year-old Napa County man was busted yesterday for burglarizing six homes up in wine country, including two trips Nancy Pelosi's vacation home outside of St. Helena. After his first trip to the
SF News Nancy Pelosi's Wine Country Home Burglarized Before Election On Monday afternoon, before being re-elected to her 13th full term in Congress, House Minority leader Nancy Pelosi's Napa County home was burglarized in a curious midday break-in. Authorities from the local Sheriff's
