SF News Mission Bay Coffee Shop Broken Into Twice In 24 Hours, Before It Even Opens A new coffee shop is slated to open in the former home of The Creamery at Fourth and Townsend streets, but the opening figures to be delayed, as the place was broken into twice on Sunday.
SF News SF Robbery Suspect Crashes Car Evading Police, Leaps 40 Feet From Overpass, Suffers Life-Threatening Injuries After an alleged three-robbery bender, a suspect evading SFPD totaled his car in a crash, lept 40 feet from a 101 overpass, and injured himself severely before being arrested and hospitalized.
SF News Vehicle Rams Into Union Square Louis Vuitton In Attempted Smash-and-Grab, Thieves Fail to Steal Anything Just two blocks from where smash-and-grab burglars rammed a car into the Union Square Dior store two weeks ago, another set of would-be thieves smashed their car into the Louis Vuitton, but were foiled from actually stealing anything in their attempted heist.
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 Union Square Dior Once Again Rammed Into by Car in Smash-and-Grab Burglary Nearly one year to the day after thieves rammed a car into the Union Square Dior storefront, another car pulled the same scheme just before 3 am Friday morning, and the suspects are still at large.
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 State Lawmakers Once Again Going After Prop 47 Amidst Retail Theft Blowback We’re now ten years into the Prop 47 era, and a pair of state Assembly members have introduced new bills to make it more likely accused thieves get charged with felonies under the law’s guidelines.
SF News Thieves Ram Into Outer Richmond Bank of America, Smashing and Stealing ATM In what’s fast becoming a copycat crime across the Bay Area, another ATM theft victimized a Bank of America at Balboa Street and 38th Avenue sometime after 3:30 a.m. Wednesday morning.
SF News Random Hero on Bike Foils Attempt to Steal Band’s Gear Outside Bottom of the Hill “Not all heroes wear capes. Some wear bike helmets,” declared Potrero Hill live music venue Bottom of the Hill, after a good samaritan on a bike somehow prevented hammer-wielding thieves from stealing the gear from a band’s touring van.
SF News Two East Bay Men Get Three Years In Prison for String of SF Snatch-and-Grab Sunglass Thefts A brazen snatch-and-grab sunglasses theft operation that hit several stores in SF and the East Bay has brought three-year prison sentences for two Contra Costa County men in their early 20s.
SF News Union Square Dior Store Rammed With Car In Burglary Heist, at Least Two Arrested A brazen Thursday morning smash-and-grab at the Union Square Dior store was heavy on the smash, as burglars rammed a car into the store and stole a reported $270,000 in merchandise — but one of the getaway cars then crashed and the suspects in it were arrested.
SF News Lululemon Store on Fillmore Targeted Twice For Organized Theft Last Week, Four Suspects Charged The SFPD made multiple arrests last week in connection with organized retail thefts in the city, but two incidents happened at the same store, the Lululemon at 2040 Fillmore Street.
SF News ‘Pirates’ Pulling Increasingly Brazen Thefts at the Docks of Oakland’s Marinas A recent rash of thefts at the house boats and sailboats at the 13 marinas in Alameda County is overwhelming the small number of maritime law enforcement personnel there, as thieves sometimes commandeer and steal entire boats.
SF News SFPD Arrests Three Teens, Three Young Adults For Alleged Organized Retail Burglary Ring In SF Six suspects were arrested for a Thursday robbery of a Lower Pacific Heights retailer, and in the continuation of a troubling trend in teen crime, some of the suspects are 13, 14, and 15 years old.
SF News SFPD Arrests 'Prolific Burglary Suspect' Tied To At Least 18 Robberies Across Town 29-year-old Patrick Potter has been arrested and charged with a five-month spree of burglaries, including allegedly stealing a haul of Chromebooks from a second grade classroom.
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 Now Oakland Burglars Are Disguising Themselves as Amazon Delivery Drivers The Oakland Police Department sent out a warning Thursday about “an uptick in residential burglaries where the individuals involved are disguised as Amazon workers” who ring the bell to see if you're home, and then they bust right in.
SF News Tenderloin’s Black Cat Jazz Bar Broken Into and Robbed — Twice In the Same Night The island of swank in an ocean of Tenderloin known as the Black Cat jazz bar suffered a break-in and burglary in the wee hours Tuesday morning, and once police cleared the scene, people promptly broke back in and robbed the place again.
SF News Fruitvale Avenue Ice Cream Shop Flavor Brigade Has Storefront Demolished In ATM Theft Security camera video catches the entire heist, as two suspects plow a car through the front window and all the way into the back of a Lower Dimond’s ice cream shop Flavor Brigade, just to make off with an ATM machine.
SF News Notorious Walgreens Bike Theft Suspect Arrested Yet Again, at Stomping Grounds He’s Hit Before The bicycle-and-trash-bag scofflaw who gained viral fame in a Twitter video last year robbing a San Francisco Walgreens was arrested again last week over two incidents at the Haight Street CVS, and you can probably take a wild guess what he’s accused of doing again.
SF News Hillsborough Police Release Video of So-Called ‘Criminal Tourist Burglary Crews From South America’ The public is getting its first look at a burglary crew suspected of making short work of a string of wealthy Silicon Valley homes, and authorities say they are professional "burglary tourists" from South America.
SF News $900K In Jewelry Stolen From Car At Ocean Beach, SFPD Seeks Help Finding Suspects Someone left some very valuable jewels in a duffel bag in the back of a Cadillac Escalade near Ocean Beach last month, and after that vehicle was broken into and the jewels were
SF News Thief Steals As Many As 30 Guns From SF Home A San Francisco neighborhood already smarting from a wave of burglaries and the subsequent release of the suspect has another reason to be on the lookout today, after yet another break-in netted a
SF News Man Accused Of Using Airbnb To Scout Mountain View Home Before Burglary A man stands accused of using the home-rental site Airbnb to scout and then burglarize a Mountain View home in a style of crime that police now say is a trend across the
SF News A Burglar Got Stuck In A Chimney And Died When The Homeowner Started A Fire "You better watch out" should perhaps be directed toward Santa himself this year. The A.P. reports that a man was in the middle of an attempted burglary of a home in rural
