SF News NYE Ruined After Richmond Police Seize Pounds Of Cocaine Dreams of a white Christmas and a cracky new year shattered for a smattering of East Bay addicts after a police raid in the city of Richmond pinched an estimated nine pounds of
SF News Carjacker Rams SFPD Squad Car, Is Promptly Shot Officers responding to a Hunters Point carjacking quickly found their suspect driving the stolen vehicle on Jerrold Avenue last Friday night. But the officers ran in to some problems — or some problems ran
SF News Pathetic Woman Steals Gold From Children As Mercury News reports, shameful San Jose resident Sandra Lizbeth Contreras-Velazquez was arrested last week for allegedly befriending about half a dozen elementary school-aged girls in order to sneak away with their gold
SF News Attention East Bay Commuters: BART Wants To Walk You Home After taking a lot of crap this year for shutting off cellphones and shooting a guy, the BART Police force is looking to make good this holiday season. In a press release, by
SF News What's Your Slavery Footprint Number? You may not think that slavery is still a major problem worldwide, and you'd be wrong. As Oakland-based Slavery Footprint can show you via their handy web-based survey, you might have as many
SF News Teen Girl Lies About Abduction By Sex Traffickers A teen from Suisun City admitted to authorities that she lied about being abducted to get attention from her family. Christina Almanza, who was reported missing Thursday afternoon, claimed "she was being held
SF News Woman Charged With Faking Rape For Better Zip Code In a storyline ripped from a rejected Desperate Housewives spec, Laurie Ann Martinez, a psychologist at Folsom Prison, was charged with faking her own rape in order to get her stubborn husband to
SF News Buy Your Pepper Spray Now: Rapist At Large In The Mission Have you seen this man? Because SFPD say that he's wanted in two sexual assault cases in the Mission along 24th Street. One attack occurred on November 18th and a rape happened yesterday,
SF News 'Overwhelming' Majority Of All Calif. Homicides Used Firearms The "Homicide in California 2010" (pdf) report showed a significant decrease in the number of murders. Numbers say that homicides declined from 1,970 in 2009 to 1,809 in 2010. Oakland Tribune
SF News Sobbing Victim Gets Wallet Back From Mugger Tis the season for muggers to return crucial pieces of identification to their victims. Take, for example, a Telegraph Hill mugging victim who has his wallet returned to him after sobbing during a
SF News Albert Bartal Remains In Critical Condition After Richmond District Hit-Run The Bartal family released this photo of their son, Albert, who was critically injured after an intentional hit-run in the Richmond on Thanksgiving. It began when the suspect, Eduardo Esquivel, and Albert got
SF News Arrest Made In Ghoulish Richmond District Hit-Run The man who allegedly and intentionally mowed down a former Marine and Cal Fire firefighter was arrested on Wednesday morning. The suspect's name is Eduardo Shaparo Esquivel, 22, and he hails from South
SF News San Leandro Walmart Shooting Suspect ID'd Police have identified the man accused of shooting a man in the neck outside a San Leandro Walmat on Black Friday. Detwone Watson, 29, stands accused of shooting Christopher Murillo, 21, during a
SF News 8 Shot In Oakland, Including 1-Year-Old Baby [Video] A little after 6 p.m. on Monday night, eight people were shot in West Oakland, including a one-year-old baby. The shooting occurred on the 700 block of Willow Street when a group
SF News Suspect(s) Sought In Intentional Richmond District Hit-Run Attack A former Marine and current Cal Fire firefighter who was intentionally hit by a car at the Shell gas station parking lot at Geary Boulevard on Thanksgiving morning remains in the hospital with
SF News Stolen Picasso Turns Tourist Attraction As Thief Turns Inmate Mark Lugo, the sommelier-turned-art thief who casually walked out of a Union Square Art Gallery with Picasso's Tête de Femme sketch back in July, was sentenced to 16 months in jail yesterday. And
SF News Suspect Sought In Mission District Sexual Assault, Beating Police are on the hunt after an early Friday morning sexual assault and beating in San Francisco's Mission District. Sometime between 3 a.m, and 4 a.m., a man followed a woman
SF News SFPD Seeks Two Suspects In Lombard Street Motel Rape SFPD are searching for two men suspected of robbing and raping a woman at gunpoint in a Lombard Street motel last month. According to police reports, one of the two suspects made contact
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fourth Wave Coffee Roaster Foils Thugs' Valencia Street Getaway A brawl outside of a Valencia street liquor store Saturday afternoon ended inside of Four Barrel Coffee after one employee — coffee roaster working in the back room — denied two thugs an easy exit
SF News Man Molests Woman Near Pleasant Hill BART Station A 25-year-old woman walking on Oak Road near Treat Boulevard was grabbed by a man on Wednesday afternoon. The man, it seems, had been following her. As soon as she turned around, he
SF News Zynga Temp Employee Arrested for Swiping $100K in Company Equipment Keith Brown, 21, was arrested on Tuesday at gaming company Zynga's after allegedly stealing an estimated $100,000 worth of equipment. Brown stands accused of taking company laptops, desktop computers and software. His
SF News 14-Year-Old Stabbed at 24th and Mission We stuck this in Blotter, but it deserves your undivided attention. A 14-year-old boy sits in the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries after being stabbed this morning in the Mission District. The incident occurred
SF News Goy Sues UC Davis Over Sexually Abusive Jewish Fraternity A UC Davis graduate filed a lawsuit against UC Davis for not taking action on his numerous complaints about a Jewish fraternity's sexually-charged and abusive hazing rituals. Ryan Clifford claims that he was
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Theft, Human Feces, Sponge Baths: Ferry Building Furious Over Occupy SF Crimes Ferry Building property manager Jane Connors wrote two letters to City Hall detailing supposed crimes perpetrated by some thoughtless Occupy SF members. An increase in shoplifting, break-ins and, ugh, reports of abandoned human
SF News Man Shot, Killed Near Occupy Oakland Camp [UPDATED] An unidentified man was shot in the leg at around 4:45 p.m. tonight on the edge of Frank Ogawa Plaza, right near the Occupy Oakland encampment. It was not immediately known