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
SF News Hats And Memorabilia Stolen In Brazen Fisherman's Wharf Burglary Fisherman's Wharf was the scene of two burglaries last Friday, as business owners claim they were hit for potentially thousands of dollars in merchandise just before opening in the a.m. Video of
SF News As SF's Crime Wave Continues, Police Chief Touts City's Relative Safety We've talked before about how crime is spiking in San Francisco: some blame the income divide, others blame the passage of Prop 47, and still others blame SF's rapid population increase. Today the
SF News Wednesday Morning High-Speed Chase Sends SFPD Across SF A man and two women are in custody Wednesday following a high-speed chase that sent San Francisco Police Department officers through Hayes Valley, Russian Hill, the Tenderloin and the Mission. It all started
SF News Get Some ID Before You Let That PUC Worker Come In Your House It's kind of scary that when many of us see a person in an "official" looking vest, we assume that the person is actually "official." (Remember this guy?) But that trust is what
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
SF News Naked Intruder Awakens Balboa Park Couple, Bites Them A disturbing incident involving a completely nude, probably crazy, possibly drug-addled individual happened early Sunday morning on Brighton Avenue near the Balboa Park BART Station. The naked suspect had apparently been leaping across
SF News Petaluma Teen Allegedly Pilfers Almost 500 Pair Of Panties Sometimes thieves steal for the money — swipe an item, sell it, pocket the dough. But then there's a far rarer breed: the thieves who steal because they just gotta have the item. Like,
SF News Knife-Wielding Woman Sets Fire To Folsom Street Foods Co. What is going on with San Francisco's grocery stores, people? On the same day that a security guard was stabbed at the Haight Street Whole Foods, a woman with a knife set fire
SF News Burglar Stubbornly Remains on Telegraph Hill Cliffside [Updated] That (allegedly) thieving dude we discussed yesterday, the one who was chased until he jumped a wall and found himself on a sheer, brush-covered cliff on the eastern side of Telegraph Hill, remains
SF News Fashionista Cat Burglar Gets Released From Jail, Gets To Keep Stuff She Stole Judge Angela Bradstreet might have some fashionista sympathy for prolific cat burglar Pooja Gandhi (remember her?), because the judge has ordered that SFPD return to Gandhi all of the unclaimed stolen hats, shoes,
SF News Say It Ain't So!: Home of Parents of Dead Walnut Creek Teen Burglarized While They Were At Memorial We had no idea Walnut Creek life could be so brutal: While attending the memorial service last night for their teenage son Matthew Miller, who was killed last weekend while rafting with friend
SF News Man Helps Self to SFFD Clothes, TV, Exercise Facilities The Chronicle writes that 29-year-old burglary suspect, Eric Miller, successfully passed himself off as a firefighter for a few hours yesterday morning at Firehouse 19 near Stonestown Galleria. It's suspected that he sneaked
SF News Thieves Terrorizing Miraloma Park The residents and neighbors of Miraloma Park woke up today to discover inboxes filled with Christmas fear. For the past week, sketchy thieves have been targeting single family homes in the area and
SF News San Jose Cops on the Lookout for Muumuu-Wearing Robber A San Jose robber who held up a pay day loan store and a liquor store within a week of each other this past July has successfully and brilliantly eluded police. Witnesses were
misc West-Coast Puppet APB Issued The theft happened in Oregon, but there's no Portlandist so we're just going to have to post it here and try to get the word out. Tell your friends to be on the