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."
SF News CHP Drug Crackdown May Involve Low-Level Stops That SF Police Commission Voted To Ban The Chronicle did a ride-along with California Highway Patrol officers on their fentanyl crackdown efforts, and found they may be pulling people over for low-level traffic stops that have been likened to racial profiling.
SF News Supervisor Dorsey Confirms That Yes, SF Police Are Arresting People for Being High on Drugs In Public About two weeks after Mayor Breed’s declaration about arresting people who are high, Supervisor Matt Dorsey says that a few people have been arrested, but admits there’s no visible difference in street conditions.
SF News Newsom’s CHP Operation To Stamp Out Fentanyl Trade In Tenderloin Starts Underwhelmingly There was reportedly not much California Highway Patrol presence on Day One of Gavin Newsom’s highly touted Tenderloin fentanyl crackdown, and it turns out the National Guard presence will only be “criminal case analysts” who will likely never be visible to the public.
SF News Three Dead After High-Speed Chase In Solano County In Allegedly Stolen Car Three people in a car that was reported as stolen in a Vallejo carjacking Tuesday night were killed in a crash following a high-speed chase with CHP officers on I-80 in Fairfield.
SF News Oakland Homeless Woman Found Dead In Tent Following Cold Night The Bay Area saw a major cold snap overnight with frost and hard-freeze warnings in various locales. And in Oakland, CHP officers found a homeless woman dead this morning in her tent, possibly because of the cold.
SF News CHP Makes Arrests In Two Separate East Bay Freeway Shootings From Earlier This Summer Some progress in the troubling rash of freeway shootings in recent years, as the California Highway Patrol feels they’ve solved the cases of two separate freeway shootings, one near Lake Merritt, the other near Mount Diablo.
SF News So... a Motorcycle Flew Off the Bay Bridge This Week The Bay Bridge has doubled as a stage for many odd scenes as of late, including a traffic jam caused by a detached mobile restroom that looked like one of SF's Painted Ladies. And this week, the 4.5-mile bridge saw a motorcycle fly off it, sinking somewhere in the SF Bay.
SF News Major Westbound Backup on Bay Bridge Caused By Pedestrian; CHP Officer Makes Arrest With Help From Drivers A major traffic situation unfolded Wednesday evening on the upper, westbound deck of the Bay Bridge, caused by a man illegally walking eastbound from San Francisco in a traffic lane.
SF News Video: 120 MPH Car Chase Ends When Suspect Tries to Swim Away in Bay at Emeryville Chevy’s, Does Not Get Far Fasten your seat belts for a wild, 11-minute California Highway Patrol high-speed car chase video, which ends with the suspect absconding into the bay, but lo, this tactic proves unsuccessful.
SF News Two Highway Patrol Officers Injured in Bay Point When SUV Plows Into Them After chasing down a blue Subaru Outback early Sunday morning in Bay Point, two officers got out of their cruisers to arrest the suspect. The suspect promptly mowed them down and drove off.
SF News Video: Truck Plows Wrong Way Through Bay Bridge Toll Gate, Hits CHP Cruiser A bizarre crash happened at the Bay Bridge toll plaza on Sunday afternoon in which a flatbed truck came barreling through the toll gates going the wrong way, pushing a CHP vehicle out of the way.
SF News Second Shooting on Highway 4 Leaves Driver Injured, Another Car Sprinkled With Bullet Holes Around 1:15 a.m. Saturday, a man was wounded when his red Nissan Altima was shot multiple times — from both sides, no less — while driving on Highway 4 in Pittsburg; this was the second shooting of a driver traveling on the same stretch of roadway this week.
SF News Maserati Attempting to Flee From CHP Pursuit In Oakland Launches Up and Under Overpass In Crazy Crash A Maserati SUV that was reportedly speeding above 100 miles per hour in Oakland on Sunday morning ended up wedged in the elbow of an embankment and a freeway overpass, but remarkably the driver escaped unharmed.
SF News Dog Stolen From Bay Bridge Crash Victim Returned to Owner A young pup was stolen by a not-all-too-good samaritan after he did a “welfare check” on an injured victim involved in last weekend's multi-car crash on the Bay Bridge — but CHP has now retrieved the dog, returning it to its rightful owner.
SF News Antioch Man Saves Elderly Oakland Driver Who Drove Into Sacramento River This past Thursday, a 67-year-old Oakland driver crashed his white GMC SUV into the Sacramento River around 10 a.m. — but he was swiftly saved and carried ashore by a thirty-something who came across the scene.
SF News CHP Begins Holiday Crackdown on Unsafe Drivers California Highway Patrol officers will be out in force beginning at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, pulling over speeders and unsafe drivers in the hope of preventing tragedies on the road.
SF News Couple Shot By CHP Officers In Oakland Were Driving Vehicle Allegedly Looted From San Leandro Dealership A man and a woman who were shot by CHP officers in Oakland Saturday night were reportedly driving a vehicle identified as one of the 70+ cars stolen off a dealer's lot during widespread looting in San Leandro a week ago Sunday.
