SF News Man Beaten to Death In Golden Gate Park An transient man in his 50s was found dead in Golden Gate Park on Saturday morning. "It looked like he was assaulted and died from his injuries," SFPD Sgt. Troy Dangerfield explained to
SF News [Updated] SFPD Seek Help in Parental Abduction, Endangered Child Case Update: It looks like the case was solved this morning. Martinez turned himself in, and the baby is safe. SFPD are trying to locate Javier Figueroa-Martinez, 26, who took his one-year-old daughter, Melany
SF News Fremont Undercover Officer Shot In Oakland A manhunt is underway for a felon who allegedly shot and wounded a Fremont undercover police officer outside a liquor store in Oakland this afternoon. According to Oakland Tribune, "After shooting the officer,
SF News Woman Beaten On Broadway Egads. Two men beat up a woman on Broadway early this morning. SF Appeal has more details: "Two men, driving eastbound on Broadway, near Battery, reportedly hit a woman. The men then exited
SF News Case Dropped Against Mentally Ill Guy Who Falsely Confessed to Bomb Threat Our favorite crime reporter, Mike Aldax over at the Examiner, brings us news today of the case against Pacifica resident Antonio Santiago III, age 26, whom authorities accused of making a bomb threat
SF News Police Chief to Announce Arrests In German Tourist Shooting Death SFPD Chief George Gascon will announce today the identities and arrests of the suspects in the fatal Union Square shooting of German tourist Mechthild Schroeer, reports BCN (via SF Appeal). "We believe very
SF News Couple Brutally Attacked, Mugged While Visiting Coit Tower Following a German tourist's fatal shooting near Union Square, another set of tourists faced danger while visiting a local hot spot. The Ex's Mike Aldax speaks: "A couple spending their second date at
SF News Man Acquitted In Hit & Run of <em>Grey’s Anatomy</em> Fan Tamara Barak Aparton, our favorite civil servant scribe, cut another shiny gem for us today. See, after a three-day trial, 33-year-old Jose Sanchez, accused of hitting a Mission District pedestrian with his minivan
SF News San Francisco Is Third Safest City For Kids, Says <em>Men's Health</em> Men's Health magazine, a fitness/softcore gay porn publication, has announced its official list of the best and worst cities in which to raise your little blessings. Basing their results on specific statistics
SF News Church Bell Swiped from S.F. Catholic Church The God-fearing folks at San Francisco's St. Michael's Korean Catholic Church have more to fear this week: bell thievery. Over the weekend, it seems, someone stole their massive, church bell that weighs between
SF News Beware of Alleged Dog Stabber at Fort Funston, Other Local Parks As a tipster noted, a man allegedly stabbed a dog multiple times in Fort Funston in a random and unprovoked attack last Thursday. The dog, Lenny, who has since been released from the
SF News Missing Juvenile Alert SFPD have put out an alert regarding a missing fourteen-year-old girl named Tiffany Alvarez, who has been in contact through MySpace for the past three or four months with a man who goes
SF News Man Accused of Killing Cyclist Nils Linke Pleads Not Guilty Joshua Calder, the driver of the car that hit and killed 21-year-old Nils Linke, pleaded not guilty to charges of vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, Caldre is accused of hitting and killing Linke near
SF News Two Shot Dead In Separate Incidents In S.F. During the last 24 hours, two people were murdered in the city. First, at around 6:40 p.m. on Thursday, officers responded to a call of a 19-year-old man who was shot
SF News Midnight Murder in the Tenderloin Over on the 400 block of Jones Street (near Ellis), a man was shot and killed around midnight last night. According to BCN, (via CBS 5), "Arriving police found a man between 30
SF News Oakland Man Charged In S.F. Bicyclist Hit & Run Death Today, prosecutors charged Oakland resident Joshua Calder, 36, with vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated after an alleged hit-and-run crash on Friday night. He is accused of killing 21-year-old Nils Linke at Masonic and Turk.
SF News 18-Year-Old Richmond Woman Arrested for Pimping Teen Runaway Tia Trashae Powell, 18, was arrested Saturday on suspicion of pimping out a 14-year-old runaway girl. An officer, according to BCN (via KTVU), saw that "Powell and the girl had been exchanging text
SF News Three Men Shot at 17th and Mission Three men where shot several times while hanging out at 17th and Mission on Saturday night. The reportedly gang-related incident, it seems, happened a few minutes before midnight, with the suspect and victim
SF News Another German Tourist Killed Last Week Just a few days after German tourist Mechthild Schroeer was killed by stray gunfire near Union Square, 21-year-old Nils Linke, who was also a tourist from Germany, was struck and killed on his
SF News Antioch Burglary Suspect Killed, Police Dog Injured Antioch shot and killed a burglary suspect early this morning. SFGate reports, "The incident began when officers responded to reports of a burglary in progress at the home. The residents were on vacation
SF News SFPD Seek 3 San Jose Men for Kidnapping, Sexually Assaulting SF Woman Police need your help in arresting three men from San Jose who kidnapped and sexually assaulted a San Francisco woman on Saturday night. It seems, according to BCN (via CBS 5), a 25-year-old
SF News Jury Acquits Man in Snickers Theft, Air Fresher Assault, Urine Intimidation Case Tamara Barak Aparton, current Communications and Policy Assistant with the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office, writes the best crime press releases. Take, for example, the case of residential motel resident Willie Smith,
SF News Prosecutors Won't Charge S.F. Tourist Murder Suspect Philip Stewart, the 18-year-old accused of shooting German tourist Mechtild Schroeer, will not face murder charges because "prosecutors said they did not have enough evidence to charge him." Schroeer, it seems, found herself
SF News Facebook Conversation Between Union Square Shooting Eyewitnesses While we can't make out exactly what these young adults are saying, Domo Logan, friend of former murder suspect Phil Stewart and self-described eyewitness, had a public conversation on his Facebook page about
SF News One Year Later, Hasanni Campbell Still "Missing" A year after 5-year-old Hasanni Campbell went missing -- his guardian allegedly left him inside a parked car in Berkeley, which is when is reportedly disappeared -- the lead investigator in the case
