SF News Charges May Be Dropped Against Homeless Man Who Struck Former Fire Commissioner With Metal Pipe The family of former SF fire commissioner Don Carmignani claims that charges are going to be dropped against the man who hit him with a metal pipe earlier this month, and they say that Carmignani himself may face charges.
SF News North Beach Shooting Happened During Attempted Mugging, One Suspect Now In Custody San Francisco police now seem to know the outlines of what occurred Sunday night near the Condor Club in North Beach, when five people ended up with gunshot wounds, one of them fatal. And one suspect has been arrested.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Civic Center Whole Foods Employees Say Store Didn't Close Just Because of Crime Much like Walgreens before them, Amazon-owned Whole Foods may be scapegoating San Francisco's petty crime problem and feeding into a narrative in order to avoid talking about the economics of the store they just shut down.
SF News More Retired SFPD Officers Being Deployed as 'Ambassadors' In a Half Dozen SF Neighborhoods The SFPD's Community Ambassador Program, in which retired, civilian officers are deployed to do foot patrols and deter crime, is expanding by 50 percent, as Mayor London Breed and SFPD Chief Bill Scott announced Friday.
SF News Oakland Police Are Warning Drivers About a Wave of Carjackings and Robberies That Start With Intentional Collisions The Oakland Police Department (OPD) says that they are getting an increased number of reports about armed robberies and carjackings that follow a similar pattern, and they were urging drivers to be "vigilant" and take steps to reduce their risk of being a crime victim.
SF News SF District Attorney Slams 'Reckless and Irresponsible' Tweets By Musk and Others Following Murder Arrest SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said some pointed things Thursday aimed squarely at Elon Musk and others who took to bashing San Francisco immediately in the wake of a tech executive's stabbing death last week.
SF News Reactions Pour In to the Arrest In Tech Exec Bob Lee's Murder We can expect many of the San Francisco doomsayers and friends of Elon Musk to either stay silent or turn defensive following the revelation that a fellow tech entrepreneur is the prime suspect in Bob Lee's stabbing.
SF Politics Supervisor Aaron Peskin Says He Wants to Confront Mayor Breed In U.N. Plaza About the City's 'Humanitarian Crisis' Tensions are heating up again at City Hall, as Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin says that he wants to drag Mayor London Breed out to U.N. Plaza for some political theater.
SF News Man Accused of Marina Attack of Former Fire Commissioner Claims He Was Pepper-Sprayed First The suspect in last week’s alleged Marina District crowbar attack of a former fire commissioner claims through his attorney that he was pepper-sprayed first, though DA Jenkins is not buying it, and has filed felony charges.
SF News Three Suspects Arrested After Alleged Armed Robbery at Santa Rosa Safeway, High-Speed Chase Down 101 Three men in their 20s surrendered to police after leading them on a high-speed chase for miles down Highway 101 Thursday night, following an alleged armed robbery at a Safeway store in Santa
SF News 78-Year-Old Berkeley Woman Fends Off Deplorable Teen With Stick In Mugging Attempt A 78-year-old woman who was out walking her dog last Friday in Berkeley managed to knock a gun — what turned out to be a BB gun — out of the hand of a 16-year-old who was allegedly trying to rob her.
SF News Two Recent Cases of Drug Dealers Arrested In SF End In Mistrials; Defense Argued Dealers Were Trafficked Supporters of crackdowns on open-air drug dealing in SF might be glad to know that two low- or mid-level drug dealers were recently put on trial. But the DA's office dropped the charges against them after both trials ended in hung juries.
SF News In Blow to New Alameda Co. DA, Judge Tosses Plea Deal In Murder Case Newly elected Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price appeared in a courtroom Thursday for a hearing in a plea deal that marked one of the first significant moves of her tenure. And the news was not good.
SF News Mother Killed, Twin Boys Injured In Crash Caused By High-Speed Police Chase In East Bay An East Bay mother was killed and her six-year-old twin sons were injured when the car was smashed into by a suspect fleeing police at high speed in the town of Rodeo.
SF News Suspect Arrested In Pistol-Whipping and Shooting On BART Train A suspect is in custody for the March 16 pistol-whipping incident onboard a BART train that resulted in a shot being fired in the train car.
SF News San Jose Woman Sentenced to 13 Years For 'Baby Brandon' Kidnapping; Accomplice Gets Five Years The San Jose woman responsible for last year's dramatic kidnapping of an infant, with the help of a man she was dating and in order to dupe another man she was involved with, has just been sentenced to 13 years and four months.
SF News Sunday Night Shooting On Muni Bus Leaves One Injured, Suspect Still at Large A Muni bus shooting just before 6 p.m. Sunday night, apparently on the 49-Van Ness, left one 34-year-old man injured and hospitalized, and the suspect fled the scene and is still at large.
SF News Fillmore District Drive-By Leads to Bay Bridge Police Incident, Possible Arrests Shots were reportedly fired Tuesday just after 6 p.m. on the 12oo block of Buchanan Street, near the end of the Buchanan Mall near Turk Street, in SF's Fillmore District, and this led to a police pursuit on the Bay Bridge.
SF News 23-Year-Old Man Fatally Shot In Bed at Oakland Long-Term Care Facility A man was killed early Saturday morning, possibly while sleeping, in a gang-style hit at a long-term care facility in Oakland's Adams Point neighborhood, and two gunmen are being sought by police.
SF News Fender-Bender On Mission District Alley Leads to Man Being Shot Two cars collided Sunday evening in SF's Mission District, and in an apparent act of road rage, one driver shot the other driver before fleeing the scene.
SF News Los Gatos 'Cool Mom' Shannon O'Connor Allegedly Beaten Up By Cellmates The Los Gatos "party mom"/"cool mom" who is still awaiting trial for allegedly corrupting high schoolers and encouraging sexual assault has not been having the best time in jail, and was apparently injured in a beating by cellmates.
SF News Hackers In Ransomware Attack Plan to Release City of Oakland Employee Info, and More The City of Oakland, it looks like, opted not to pay any ransom to a hacker group that succeeded in hobbling multiple city systems, and that group is now planning to make good on its threat to release an unknown amount of sensitive data.
SF News Two 17-Year-Old Girls Arrested In Attack Near Dolores Park A pair of juveniles, both female, have been arrested in connection with an unprovoked attack on Super Bowl Sunday in SF's Mission District that left one woman with eye injuries.
SF News 21-Year-Old San Leandro Man On Probation For Gun Charge Arrested For Gun Battle at Music Video Shoot One suspect is now in custody facing a murder charge for a January 23 shootout that injured four people and killed one, 18-year-old Mario Navarro, during a music video shoot at an East Oakland gas station.
SF News Fugitive In Stolen Truck Busts Through Hearst Castle Gates, Holes Up In Guest House, Causes Shelter-In-Place A chaotic — and dare we say drug-fueled? — situation in San Luis Obispo County on Sunday turned into a tense standoff in which a bunch of Hearst Castle tourists had to shelter in place until it was safe to go back to the parking lot.
