SF News Victim In CHP Chase Crash Identified as Oakland Math Teacher, as More Details Emerge The victim in Wednesday's fatal hit-and-run crash in Oakland stemming from a chase initiated by California Highway Patrol officers has been identified as a high school math teacher.
SF News One Person Dead After Wednesday Night High-Speed CHP Chase in Oakland In an incident that will surely fan the flames of the debate over high-speed police chases, one pedestrian is dead after California Highway Patrol officers engaged in a high-speed chase near Lake Merritt Wednesday night.
SF News Carjacking Attempt in SF Sparks Bay Bridge Police Chase, Ends in Berkeley Arrests A carjacking attempt in SF’s Potrero Hill on Friday afternoon led to a police pursuit across the Bay Bridge and ended with the arrest of three suspects in Berkeley around 2:00 p.m.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Look Out for California Highway Patrol’s New ‘Camouflage’ SUVs A NorCal man was sentenced for running a $38 million stolen catalytic converter ring; A Pinole high school baseball coach was suspended over racist taunts; and CHP hopes to fool reckless drivers with their new ‘camouflage’ SUVs.
SF News Driver Killed In Multi-Car Crash On Bay Bridge Friday Night One man has died and another injured after a high-speed crash involving four cars on the Bay Bridge on Friday night. The crash temporarily closed westbound I-80 lanes near the incline.
SF News Saturday Links: Driver Tosses Grenade Out Car Window While Fleeing CHP In North Berkeley The founding guitarist from Bay Area death metal band Possessed was killed by police during a standoff over a tree debris dispute; the Hello Kitty Cafe Truck is celebrating its 10th anniversary in Walnut Creek on Saturday; and a driver fleeing CHP threw a grenade out of a car window.
SF News Innocent Passenger Killed as a Result of High-Speed Police Chase In East Bay Another death in the Bay Area can be chalked up to a high-speed chase involving law enforcement, this time in Pittsburg.
SF News Oakland Man Crashes Into Car With Two Kids Inside After Earlier CHP Chase A reckless driver in Oakland crashed into a car with two kids inside on Thursday after an earlier pursuit by CHP was called off.
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.
