SF News High School Student Hides In Locker To Bust Thieving Gym Teacher In Linden, California one plucky teen masterminded a locker room sting operation only to find out her much-loved, 30-year-veteran gym teacher had been stealing money from students. Linden High School sophomore Justine Betti
SF News Best Mugshot Ever? Shirtless Desmond Bryant Shows Us His Tongue We had no idea who Desmond Bryant was until this morning. Here are a few facts we found out about the recently arrested Oakland Raiders: 1) He's a defensive tackle for the Oakland
SF News U Can't Touch This: MC Hammer Charged With Resisting Arrest, Goes On Twitter Rant Oakland native, would-be dotcom entrepreneur and aging former rap star MC Hammer (né Stanley Burrell) was arrested in Dublin, California last Thursday night after a police officer approached his car and asked if
SF News Finger-In-Chili Lady In Trouble Again Anna Ayala, 47, made headlines back in 2005 after feigning finding a finger inside her Wendy's chili. Well, she's back in trouble again, and this time her son is involved. Ayala and her
SF News Teen-On-Tween Crime Strikes The Bayview Two boys, ages 12 and 13, were robbed by a gang of older teen dudes in the Bayview during after school time yesterday afternoon. The two youngsters were walking on Keith Street near
SF News Face-Punching Teen Girl Gang Terrorizes Berkeley Women Three teenage girls are wanted by UC police in Berkeley after they assaulted two women on Dwight Way and Prospect Streets near a residential part of the UC Berkeley campus. The Oakland Tribune
SF News Awesome Santa Cruz Parents Fight Back Home-Invasion 'Banditos' He's no homeless hatchet-wielding hitchhiker, but he'll do. Yarry Gonzalez and his wife, parents of two, woke up to two drunk "completely incompetent" would-be robbers (or worse) hovering above their bed. The creeps
SF News Police Discover Pot Grow House On Stillman We here at SFist are flummoxed -- flummoxed! -- by the idea that anything drug-related goes down on Stillman Street. See, after a suspected robbery call and a subsequent investigation on February 12,
Arts & Entertainment Police Release Sketch UC Santa Cruz Rapist Santa Cruz police released a sketch of a man who beat and raped a visiting 21-year-old woman visiting the UCSC campus on Sunday afternoon. According to the Santa Cruz Sentinel, the suspect is
SF News Woman Raped, Beaten On UC Santa Cruz Campus A 21-year-old woman survived being raped and beaten while visiting the UCSC campus Sunday afternoon. The suspect, described as "a white man in his 30s with pale skin and a round-shaped face," attacked
SF News Have You Seen This Guy? Wanted For Attacking Women In The Mission San Francisco police are on the lookout for this mustached suspect, wanted in connection for two seemingly random attacks on women walking alone near 23rd Street in the Mission. The most recent incident
SF News Bridge-And-Tunnel Loser Fight Ends With Injured Police Officers [Update] Two officers were seriously injured trying to break up a fight that erupted near the Powell Street cable car turnaround on Sunday afternoon last Sunday. (Yes, we are late to the story. Sorry,
SF News Peninsula Gun Lover Arrested for Making Threats on Senator Leland Yee's Life Everett Basham, 45, a noted Silicon Valley engineer who just got a personal endorsement from Steve Wozniak, was arrested Tuesday for making assassination threats on the life of Senator Leland Yee. Yee, meanwhile,
SF News Hatchet Crime Strikes Noe Valley Thursday night around 11:15 p.m. a 58-year-old man returned to his home on 27th Street near Church Street in Noe Valley to find the 69-year-old man he shared the place with
SF News Delightful Police Blotter Items From Atherton, California: America's Fourth Richest Zip Code Just a short Prius drive away from the Silicon Valley campuses of Facebook and Google lies Atherton, California: America's fourth richest zip code, where the median home price last year was a startling
SF News Convicted Redwood City Poodle Killer Claims Neighbor's Dog Was Boning His Chihuahua 32-Year-old Marcos Montano-Topete, who claimed he was acting in self-defense when he beat a 12-pound toy poodle to death with a brick in Redwood City last year, was convicted last week animal cruelty
SF News Black Mercedes Sought In Potrero Hill Shooting On Monday morning at around 8:30 a.m., a man was shot in Portrero Hill near Dakota and 23rd streets. The victim was whisked away to a nearby hospital with serious injuries.
SF News Berkeley Law Student Pleads Not Guilty To Bird Beheading As we've reported earlier, two guys who attend Boalt Hall law school at Berkeley were caught on security cameras at the Flamingo in Las Vegas, likely during a bender, chasing a bird that
SF News Young Man Shot, Killed In East Oakland Police are trying to determine the name and age (believed to be somewhere around 19) of a man who was shot and killed in East Oakland's Laurel neighborhood on Saturday night. The unidentified
SF News Aspiring Castro Nudist Acquitted On Indecent Exposure Charges Earlier today, jurors acquitted 48-year-old Richard Sierra on charges of indecent exposure being leveled after the man exposed himself on Castro Street in November. According to a press release from the Public Defender's
SF News Oakland Terrorist Bank Bombing Thwarted By FBI A terrorist bombing didn't go according to plans over in Oakland on Thursday night. Matthew Aaron Llaneza, 28, of San Jose was taken into custody near a Bank of America building at 303
SF News 3 Shot in Vallejo Home Invasion Three people were shot during a Vallejo break-in early this morning. The victims, a mother and her adult son and daughter, are all expected to survive after suffering gunshot wounds during an attempted
SF News SFPD Releases Photos Of Kevin Collins Abduction Suspect Yesterday SFPD released photos and more information about a person of interest in the Feb 10, 1984 disappearance of 10-year-old Kevin Collins. Police are now seeking more information about Dan Leonard Therrien, deceased
SF News Mercedes Driver Punches Woman In Face Near the intersection of Sycamore and San Pablo avenues in Hercules, a Mercedes driver punched a woman in the face. The female victim said she was stopped at the intersection when a Mercedes
SF News Two Good Samaritans Stabbed Trying To Save Woman Two men attempting to save a woman from being attacked both received stab wounds for their brave behavior. On Sunday night on Polk near Civic Center, two guys, ages 33 and 22, were
