SF News Prosecutor Outrage Ensues as Serial Car Burglar Gets Probation After Long String of Car Break-Ins In SF 27-year-old Robert Sonza was in court Thursday for a series of car thefts and gun charges dating back to 2019, having been given probation and then reoffending each time. Yet an SF Superior Court judge gave him probation yet again, despite more than a dozen arrests.
SF News SF Man and Juvenile Arrested for Auto Burglaries After Pursuit In Oakland A San Francisco man and a juvenile accomplice were arrested last week in connection with a possibly wide-ranging auto burglary "operation" that included at least two burglaries in Alamo Square and near the Palace of Fine Arts.
SF News First Suspect Arrested In SFPD’s ‘Bait Car’ Campaign Has Prolific History of Car Break-Ins The SFPD’s ballyhooed bait-car campaign yielded its first arrest a week into the effort, and a KGO I-Team report found the suspect has a doozie of history of car break-ins — and of walking free after previous arrests.
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 Tourists' Car Broken Into at Palace of Fine Arts Just as SFPD Holds News Conference On Break-Ins Nearby SF officials held a press conference Thursday morning to discuss a long overdue crackdown on the epidemic of car break-ins in the city. And just as they were about to kick it off, a break-in was occurring a short distance away.
SF News Police: Bay Area Thieves Using Bluetooth Technology to Locate Electronics In Trunks, and Unlock Cars Car burglars these days are more tech-savvy than most of us realize, and with just a smartphone or an app downloaded from the dark web, they can quickly find cars to break into where expensive electronics may be stowed in the trunk.
SF News Another Tourist Couple Loses Pet In Smash-and-Grab Car Burglary, Says City Should Do More to Alert Tourists There is another story of a pet being stolen in the course of a smash-and-grab car burglary in San Francisco, and this time it was a beloved Chihuahua puppy stolen near Fisherman's Wharf.
SF News Quickly Boba Shop on Larkin Busted In DA's Office Sting, Was Allegedly Helping Front a Car Burglary Ring As Chesa Boudin's office scrambles to score some public wins ahead of the June recall election, news arrives of a big bust involving a boba tea shop that was being used to traffic good stolen in SF car burglaries, some of which ended up shipped to Hong Kong and Vietnam.
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 SF Father Solves His Own Luggage Theft Case, Despite Lack of Action From ‘Do-Little Cops’ In another iteration of a San Francisco crime victim complaining that the police did nothing to help, and made no attempt to arrest the suspects, one SF dad successfully took matters into his own hands to recover his belongings.
SF News Car Theft and Burglary Suspect Injures Multiple People While Trying to Flee Police In San Francisco A suspect believed to be connected to multiple recent auto burglaries in the North Beach area and whom police say they found driving a stolen vehicle in the vicinity on Tuesday, now faces multiple possible charges stemming from a reckless chase through the city.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Car Burglary Suspect Fires Shot at Witness Witnesses confronting alleged car burglars near the Embarcadero had a gun fired at them on Wednesday night, a hit-and-run crash flipped a car on Sutter Street, and mask rules for the unvaccinated are largely going to be on an honor system after next week unless businesses do their own carding.
SF News San Francisco Dog Owner Pays $1K Ransom To Get His Best Friend Back After Car Break-In Nothing nowadays seems safe from prying vehicle vigilantes — not even three-year-old Cavalier King Charles Spaniels. Though, at least one belonging to Dave Ford was returned to its owner Saturday afternoon... after the SF dog owner paid a $1K ransom.
SF News Car Dealership Burglarized In the Richmond, Suspects Make Off With Three Luxury Cars At least three suspects broke into a Toyota dealership in the Inner Richmond on Saturday, ransacked the office, and made off with three used cars worth about $150,000. All three cars were later found abandoned in the Bayview and the Sunnydale housing projects.
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
