SF News Suspected Rapist Hits On Female Officer, Gets Arrested File under: Men Are Pigs. An accused rapist with a warrant out for his arrest just couldn't help himself Saturday, and he approached a police car at Third Street and Revere in order
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 Silly Burglar Gets Himself Stuck on Cliff on Telegraph Hill [Updated] A bumbling cat burglar managed to get himself trapped, and surrounded by cops, while trying to escape down a brush-covered cliff on the eastern face of Telegraph Hill last evening. The drop is
SF News L.A. Terrorized By Carsonist, Person of Interest Detained as Fires Continue Los Angeles has their very own carsonist(s), and it's been a tense holiday weekend for residents of Hollywood and West Hollywood as at least 55 cars were "firebombed" by what investigators believe
SF News Pinole Man Charged in the 1999 Murder of Girlfriend Alice Sin 40-year-old Raymond Wong of Pinole was arrested Christmas Eve and charged yesterday in a 12-year-old murder case that had gone cold years ago. Wong is accused of murdering his one-time girlfriend, Alice Sin,
SF News Burglar Alarms Basically Meaningless In San Jose The San Jose Police Department has decided that they aren't going to respond to burglar alarms anymore unless someone can confirm that an actual crime is taking place, or has taken place. There
SF News Overnight Shooting In Western Addition [Updated] An unidentified victim (we're not even clear if he/she was male or female) was shot last night around 8:40 p.m. near the intersection of Divisadero and Eddy Streets. The victim's
SF News Teen Girl Pistol-Whipped, Boyfriend Shot During Mission Mugging Just after 7 p.m. on Friday a teenage girl was robbed at gunpoint and pistol-whipped by a 30-year-old thief on the 100 block of Valencia, near Market Street. When her boyfriend tried
SF News Another Holiday-Season Shooting At That Same San Leandro Wal-Mart The Wal-Mart in San Leandro is apparently the kind of place you want to arrive at armed: Last night the parking lot was the scene of the second shooting in less than a
SF News Man Shot By Cops In Tenderloin Was Facing Third Strike 33-year-old Steven Michael Young of San Carlos was stopped by SFPD officers last Wednesday at Bush and Larkin for a vehicle registration inspection, after he'd driven into the city for what his family
SF News One Killed, Five Wounded in Multiple Oakland Shootings The holiday season appears to have brought with it a new wave of violence in Oakland, with "at least" six separate shootings occurring between Saturday and Sunday, injuring five and killing one man.
SF News Husband Sole Suspect In Murder Of Elderly Bernal Heights Woman Hao Mei Wu, the 72-year-old murder victim found unconscious in her Bernal Heights home on Friday night, appears to have been manually strangled by her husband. Police are still weighing a murder charge
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 Manhunt Underway In East Oakland For Black Friday Shooter [Update] Oakland police are currently surrounding a house in East Oakland where they believe a suspect in the November 25 shooting that injured a San Lorenzo man outside the Wal-Mart in San Leandro. Police
SF News Holiday Shoppers Pepper-Sprayed In Walnut Creek, Frightened By Quacking Homeless Man in Union Square In separate incidents last week, some holiday shoppers trying to subdue a thief got pepper-sprayed in their faces; and some other shoppers in Union Square found themselves being pursued by a crazed, aggressive
SF News Elderly Lady Arrested For Trying To Snip Husband's Penis With Scissors We do love a good tabloid headline ... 69-year-old Virginia Valdez of Palm Springs must not have been having a very good night on Saturday with her 62-year-old husband seeing as she tried to
SF News Good Samaritan Killed In Fairfield After Helping Jump-Start RV Well, this is terrible. Good samaritan Rudy Gonzales, 70, of Hayward was struck and killed by an RV at about 10 a.m. Thursday, in the parking lot of a McDonald's in Fairfield.
SF News 'Betty Boop' Murder Victim Exhumed For DNA Testing A woman known only to police as Jane Doe No. 89-3, found dead almost 23 years ago in Pacifica and never identified, was exhumed yesterday from her anonymous grave in Colma so her
SF News Yet Again, 16th & Mission Becomes Site Of Random Shooting Last night around 7 p.m. a 41-year-old man, minding his own business and sitting in a bus shelter at 16th and Mission, got shot in the foot by a stray bullet. He
SF News Last-Call Booze Run At Excelsior Safeway Turns Into Chaotic Hit-Run Injuring Cop We know it's probably been a boozy few days for some of you, but this story kind of takes it: A couple of dudes attempting to shoplift two bottles of vodka after the
SF News Confessed Cop-Shooter In 43-Year-Old Case Talks About Where He's Been All These Years Two weeks ago we told you about Ronald Stanley Bridgeforth, who emerged out of hiding to turn himself in to San Mateo County authorities in a shooting case dating back to 1968 that
SF News SFist Blotter: Man Shoots Sister In South S.F.; Carjacking Foiled By Stick Shift South San Francisco / Shooting, Hostage Situation: A man who's believed to have shot his own sister and then held his family hostage last night has been arrested. Alvin Baja Luis, 55, of San
SF News SFist Blotter: Madman Swings Metal Pole At Children; Ex-Girlfriend Pees On Ex-Boyfriend's Mother's Doorstep Chinatown / Crazy Person: A "metal pole-swinging madman" came a little too close to some schoolchildren Tuesday, and was arrested on the 600 block of Pine Street near Grant. After heartily resisting arrest, the
SF News SFPD Releases Man Held in Hate Crime Against Transgender Woman A man accused of assaulting and threatening to kill a trans woman on Valencia Street on October 31 has been released from custody, despite previously being held on $105,000 bail and facing
SF News Student Gunman Shot on UC Berkeley Campus Yesterday Has Died The transfer student who brandished a handgun while in the computer lab at the Haas School of Business at Cal and was subsequently shot by campus police yesterday has died. He's now been
