SF News Two East Bay Men Get Three Years In Prison for String of SF Snatch-and-Grab Sunglass Thefts A brazen snatch-and-grab sunglasses theft operation that hit several stores in SF and the East Bay has brought three-year prison sentences for two Contra Costa County men in their early 20s.
SF News U-Haul Truck Full of Shadow Puppets Found Abandoned In Richmond, Puppeteer Very Grateful A puppeteer passing through San Francisco has been reunited with hundreds of Persian shadow puppets that were inside a U-Haul van stolen from Van Ness Avenue Sunday night.
SF News Vallejo Police Arrest 'Red Bull Thief,' Who Allegedly Stole $15K Worth of Vodka, Red Bull, and Other Goods Police in Vallejo have arrested an alleged repeat offender who targeted the same store for repeated thefts, and his favorite things to steal, police say, were cases of Red Bull and bottles of vodka.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Thieves Steal Hundreds of Puppets From Touring Show Thieves stole a U-Haul truck containing over 500 handmade puppets from a touring show in SF; a suspect was arrested for a Monte Rio homicide on Sunday; and SF restaurateurs discuss their anxiety amid declining business.
SF News Alaska Airlines Pilot Arrested For Trying to Bring Down Plane Lives In Pleasant Hill, Described as 'Family Man' The Alaska Airlines pilot currently in custody in Portland over a Sunday evening incident — in which he allegedly tried to shut down a plane's engines while off-duty and riding in the cockpit — is being described by neighbors as "normal" and a "family man."
SF News Former MLB Player and Accomplice Arrested in Connection With Deadly 2021 Lake Tahoe Shooting Former pro pitcher Danny Serafini, 49, and another woman were arrested in Nevada for allegedly shooting Serafini’s mother-in-law and father-in-law inside their Tahoe home, which left the father-in-law dead and Tahoe area residents stunned.
SF News Two Suspects Charged In Smash-and-Grab Involving Car at Union Square Dior Store The pair of suspects arrested in connection with last week's brazen smash-and-grab robbery at the Christian Dior store in Union Square — a robbery that involved ramming through the front gates and door of the store with a car — have now been charged.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SFPD Nabs Retail Thieves Who Showed Up at Walgreens With Wagon The SFPD arrested six people who were part of a blitz-style robbery at an Excelsior District Walgreens; a San Jose mother and daughter have been arrested in connection with those two day-care drowning deaths; and the suspects arrested for a string of armed robberies in the Mission were arraigned.
SF News Double Shooting In Tenderloin Closes Leavenworth Street There was a shooting Thursday afternoon near the intersection of Leavenworth Street and Golden Gate Avenue, and reportedly two people were shot.
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 SFPD Arrests Two For String of Recent Armed Robberies In the Mission District San Francisco police announced the arrest of two individuals, both men in their 30s, for a series of armed robberies in recent weeks that targeted businesses in the Mission District.
SF News SF Police Arrest Man For Spree of Violent Assaults Downtown on Sunday San Francisco police announced the arrest of a man in connection with four separate, unprovoked attacks on other people in downtown early Sunday morning.
SF News East Bay Store Clerk Set On Fire After Confronting Shoplifter A clerk at a store in El Sobrante is recovering from severe burns that he got in an altercation with a shoplifter two weeks ago.
SF News Police Pursuit Ends In Fatality and Injury Following Armed Robbery A police pursuit of suspects in an armed robbery and multiple auto burglaries took a deadly turn in San Francisco on Saturday, resulting in one fatality and another individual sustaining injuries.
SF News Oakland PD Announces Arrests of Ten Alleged Gang Members, All Tied to Carjackings and Armed Robberies As Oakland gets more restless over the city's current crime spike, Mayor Sheng Thao and the Oakland police held a Thursday press conference making a big to-do over the arrest of ten alleged gang members they say were running a significant carjacking and robbery ring.
SF News San Francisco May Ban Security Guards From Drawing Guns Over Property Crime Supervisor Dean Preston proposed a new ordinance earlier this year that would bar armed security guards from drawing their weapons in response to a property crime in progress — following the widespread outrage over the April killing of Banko Brown.
SF News Lululemon Store on Fillmore Targeted Twice For Organized Theft Last Week, Four Suspects Charged The SFPD made multiple arrests last week in connection with organized retail thefts in the city, but two incidents happened at the same store, the Lululemon at 2040 Fillmore Street.
SF News A Known Fencing Operation For Stolen Goods In the Tenderloin Isn't Being Shut Down For Some Reason ABC 7 stumbled on a curious story Friday involving a San Francisco man who had tracked his own stolen camera equipment to a spot on Leavenworth Street that is apparently already known to police.
SF News There Was a Homicide on Twin Peaks Saturday Night San Francisco police are investigating a homicide that occurred late Saturday night/early Sunday on Twin Peaks, which took the life of a 19-year-old man.
SF News DA and Others Like to Blame SF Judges For Setting Drug Dealers Free, But Have You Served on a Jury? Finger pointing about who's most to blame for the open-air drug market that has existed in San Francisco's Tenderloin and SoMa neighborhoods for decades is de rigeur, and every politician here feels the need to shift blame away from themselves.
SF News Napa Homeowner Allegedly Stabbed By Trespasser Pulls Knife Out of His Own Back, Stabs Suspect A Napa County resident engaged in a seriously cinematic act of self-defense on Saturday morning, attacking his attacker with the same knife he was stabbed with.
SF News East Bay Man Arrested For Apparent Fencing Operation With $190K Worth of Retail Goods A 52-year-old man was arrested at his home in El Sobrante last week and was found in possession of nearly $200,000 worth of allegedly stolen goods from retailers including Lululemon, Victoria's Secret, CVS, Walgreens, and Target.
SF Politics SF Mayor, Police Tout 300 Drug Dealer Arrests In Three Months, 160 Kilos Seized The crackdown on Tenderloin and SoMa drug dealing and drug use is having an impact, at least according to some numbers released by Mayor London Breed on Friday — though the effectiveness of the strategy to throw users in jail for public intoxication or possession remains to be proven.
SF News [Update] Beloved Corner Store Clerk Reportedly Dead After Alleged Baseball-Bat Beating From Shoplifter The longtime cashier at the Outer Richmond corner store Richmond Market has reportedly died after an alleged baseball bat attack at the hands of a shoplifter who made off with a bottle of water and two beers, and is still at large.
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.