SF News CHP Pulls Over Speeding Driver on I-580, Finds 270 Pounds of Marijuana in Car Pro tip: If you have 270 pounds of illegal marijuana in your car, do not drive at speeds of more than 100 miles per hour, as you are likely to attract Highway Patrol attention. One driver learned that the hard way Wednesday night in Dublin.
SF News Richmond Man Arrested for Putting CHP Decals on His Camaro, Impersonating Officer On Wednesday, two San Rafael police officers spotted an older model white Chevrolet Camaro with a California Highway Patrol insignia on the door, resembling patrol cars the agency used over a decade ago.
SF News Injury Crash on Southbound 101 In San Francisco Snarls Airport-Bound Traffic Anyone trying to run to SFO Tuesday afternoon for the Thanksgiving holiday could encounter a snag unless they avoid the 101 freeway until they're further south.
SF News Elected Officials and AAPI Groups Call on Newsom to Put CHP Officers on BART After three recent high-profile incidents of violence on BART trains or at its stations, a coalition of business leaders, elected officials, and community groups are telling Gavin Newsom to beef up BART security with California Highway Patrol officers.
SF News Alleged Hayward Drunk Driver Leads Highway Patrol on 90 MPH Chase With Four-Year-Old In Car Today’s Darwin Award nomination goes to a woman allegedly driving in Hayward at twice the legal DUI limit, going 90 miles an hour, and apparently had her four-year-old daughter in the car at the time.
SF News CHP Touts 1,100 Arrests, 2,000 Stolen Cars Recovered In Oakland This Year The governor's office and California Highway Patrol have provided another quarterly update on the CHP's efforts to aid Oakland police on the car-theft and sideshow front.
SF News Highway Patrol Copter Rescues Elderly Man Stranded on Mount Tam Hike He Couldn't Finish A man described as “elderly” took a hike in Mount Tamalpais State Park Saturday that he became too exhausted to finish, and late Saturday night, he was rescued by a California Highway Patrol helicopter.
SF News Concord Man Arrested For Allegedly Having 100 Pounds of Meth In His Car The California Highway Patrol conducted a routine traffic stop in I-680 in Concord, and a drug-sniffing dog indicated there may have been narcotics in the vehicle. And were there ever, as the CHP seized nearly 100 pounds of suspected methamphetamine from the car.
SF News CHP Efforts In Oakland Yield 800 Arrests, Over 1600 Stolen Vehicles Recovered Governor Gavin Newsom on Wednesday touted the success of the ongoing "surge" of California Highway Patrol officers doing added law enforcement in Oakland.
SF News Very Large Rabbit (or Hare) Rescued From Local Highway An alarmingly large wild hare (or rabbit?) was rescued by CHP officers Sunday night on Highway 17, likely from a terrible fate on that busy roadway.
SF News Newsom Says Highway Patrol Has Seized 42 Pounds of Fentanyl In the Tenderloin Alone This Past Year One year into Governor Newsom sending California Highway Patrol officers into SF in a fentanyl crackdown, he’s touting that they’ve seized 42 pounds of fentanyl just in the Tenderloin, and insists that crime is down significantly in SF.
SF News Oroville Nine-Year-Old Swipes Mom’s Car, Rams It Into Highway Patrol Cruiser A nine-year-old in Oroville took the liberty of grabbing his mom’s car keys and driving her car to school, but things ended poorly for the youngster when he ended up in a chase with a Highway Patrol car, which he then rammed into.
SF News CHP Announces They’ve Made 168 Arrests, Recovered 360 Stolen Vehicles In Oakland In the Last Five Weeks Governor Gavin Newsom says his Oakland crime crackdown is working, announcing that California Highway Patrol sting operations have netted 168 suspects and 360 stolen cars since early February.
SF News Man Rescued After Driving Car Off Big Sur Cliff and Getting Stranded For Two Days A Pacific Grove man was rescued Tuesday after being stranded on a cliffside for two days in Big Sur, following a harrowing car crash.
SF News Vallejo Suspect Leads CHP on 50-Mile Car Chase, Doesn’t Stop Even When Tires Are Spiked A high-speed chase that originated in Vallejo Wednesday night went all the way down to Hayward, featuring wrong-way driving, and a suspect who didn’t even stop after his tires had been spiked.
SF News Gov. Newsom Sends 120 Extra State Police Officers to Oakland in Crime Crackdown Governor Gavin Newsom announced that he's increasing state police presence in Oakland and the East Bay by a whopping 900% in response to a crime surge.
SF News [Updated] Officer-Involved Shooting on I-280 Snarls Traffic In SF There was a CHP-involved shooting Wednesday afternoon on I-280 in San Francisco, near the Mariposa Street on-ramp, and all southbound lanes of the freeway were subsequently closed.
SF News Wild Bay Bridge High-Speed Chase Ends With Driver's Arrest After Three-County Pursuit A driver led California Highway Patrol on a 45-minute-long late-night chase Saturday, apparently speeding up to 120 mph while crossing the Bay Bridge.
SF News Oakland Man Arrested in Alleged $137,000 Stolen Cigarette Fencing Operation Cartons upon cartons of stolen cigarettes were being sold in East Bay convenience stores, as the California Highway Patrol just learned in busting up a fencing operation with well over $100,000 in stolen cigarettes.
SF News Bay Bridge Protest Fallout: Transplant Organs Delayed; Two Motorists Claim They Were Wrongfully Detained The massive traffic nightmare Thursday morning that was caused by a pro-Gaza-ceasefire protest on the westbound Bay Bridge meant that several donated organs that were in transit to and from UCSF hospitals were delayed in getting transplanted into patients.
SF News CHP Busts Huge Retail Theft Ring In East Bay, Seizes $350K In Stolen Goods The California Highway Patrol's Organized Retail Crime Task Force made a major bust last week of a fencing operation for stolen retail merchandise — the kinds of stuff taken in brazen robberies at Walgreens stores, Target, and the like.
SF News Predictably, SFPD Bringing In Tons of Officers From Other Jurisdictions for APEC With a who’s-who of global leaders about to converge on San Francisco for the APEC summit, the Secret Service will be blanketing the city, along with officers from at least eight other outside law enforcement agencies to beef up the number of cops in town for the event.
SF News There Were Car Chases Galore on Bay Area Roads Early Thursday Morning, One Involving Nine Teens There were three high-speed car chases on Bay Area highways Thursday morning, one of which involved nine teens in a stolen car. Plus another East Bay chase Wednesday afternoon led to an on-foot manhunt for suspects wanted in a shooting.
SF News One Suspect Killed, Two Arrested After Struggle With CHP Officer Near San Leandro An incident that began with a police chase involving an allegedly stolen car on I-580 in the East Bay ended early Monday morning with one suspect fatally shot, either by a CHP officer or an Alameda County Sheriff's deputy.
SF News Governor Newsom Doubling the Number of State Officers Deployed in SF Fentanyl Crackdown Governor Gavin Newsom is doubling the number of Highway Patrol and California National Guard officers in his ballyhooed fentanyl crackdown in SF, and saying that this isn't "the old, failed war on drugs."
