SF News Johannes "Doing Okay" Behind Bars, Says Mehserle's Father During a tearful interview with KTVU at San Jose City Hall, Todd Mehserle, father of convicted BART cop Johannes, said that his son "is in the wrong place" and that "it's a very,
SF News Man Wearing Body Armor Shot 16 Times The Tenderloin acted like The Tenderloin early Sunday morning after playing host to a jarring bout of gunfire on Sunday morning. According to SF Weekly, "a 33-year-old Oakland man who was wearing body
SF News Dolores Park Plays Host to Saturday Morning Robbery, Stabbing Early Saturday morning at 1:30 a.m., an 40-year-old man was beaten, robbed and stabbed several times in the torso while walking near 19th and Church streets in Dolores Park. According to
SF News Victims of Rachael Smith Unite A couple of the victims who were defrauded by Rachael Smith, the con artist who took off with several people's deposits and first month's rent after leasing the same apartment at 5631 California
SF News SF Examiner's Colorful Crime Reporting Is hell frozen over? If we here at SFist are wondering if one of San Francisco's major dailies is going to end up sued for calling suspects "goons" and "thugs" -- and describing
SF News Woman Cons Would-be Tenants with Inner Richmond Apartment Using an Inner Richmond apartment and a Craigslist ad as bait, Rachael Marie Smith, 29, bilked potential renters out of thousands of dollars each "by accepting their deposits and then spinning a tale
SF News Gunman Storms Children's Hospital in Oakland A man is in custody today after storming the Oakland Children's Hospital's emergency room around 3 a.,m. this morning. The unidentified man brandished a gun and took a female hostage before being
SF News Today in SFPD PR: The Brazen Embezzlers SFPD PR is so cute, we're going to make this a regular thing. Today's case involves Maria Lourdes B. Dionisio, a payroll clerk from Pacifica, and Hannah Yau, a financial analyst from Fremont,
SF News Man Murdered In Buena Vista Park Buena Vista Park played host to a murder on Tuesday morning. According to SF Appeal, "a man was drinking at the top of Buena Vista Park when another man allegedly stabbed him to
SF News What's Going On Here, Face of Anthony Souza, San Quentin Murderer? New San Quentin inmate Edward John Schaefer -- who was convicted of murder after a bout of drunken driving resulted in the death of a 9-year-old Novato girl -- was stabbed to death
SF News Oakland Police Arrest Two In Connection With Virginia Man's Murder Oakland residents George Hugguins, 24, and Althea Housley, 33, were arrested on Monday and Saturday, respectively. Both are suspected of killing Jinghong Kang on July 18 after robbing the Virgina man of $17.
SF News SFPD Arrests Muni Mechanic in Illegal Transfer Sting SFPD's Twitter and Facebook feeds garner many fascinating reports, such as the previously mentioned unsolved armed robbery case. Another recent report boasts of a successful sting operation geared toward combating illegal Late Night
SF News SFPD Seek Help Identifying Female Armed Robber, Possibly Wearing Gene Simmons Wig The San Francisco Police Department is asking citizens to be on the lookout for a rather bad ass suspect of two Bank of America armed robberies, the first of which was on July
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Meet the Bees (Some of Them Now Dead) of Hayes Valley Farm Yesterday, Haighteration broke news that someone had used pesticide to kill tens of thousands of bees at the Hayes Valley Farm sometime between Monday July 19 and Tuesday July 20. The culprit(s)
SF News UPDATED: 2-Year-Old Concord Boy Killed In Dog Attack A 2-year-old Concord boy died this morning after an attack by family pit bulls. BCN reports: "Investigators determined that the boy had been home with two adult family members when he walked into
SF News Oakland Homicide Suspects Seen In Grainy Surveillance Video Yesterday, the Oakland Police Department released video footage of a man and woman "believed to be involved in the fatal shooting of a 45-year-old Virginia man on Sunday night." The suspects are accused
SF News Berkeley Sees String of 12 Arson Fires Since Friday, parts of Berkeley (especially areas near the UCB campus) have played host to a series of 12 small arson fires. According to the Daily Californian, "The fires have damaged three automobiles,
SF News Port Evicts Jelly's Nightclub After Fatal Shooting Pier 50 dance club Jelly's, who played host to a fatal shooting last week, could become a thing of the past. After the city's Entertainment Commission had yanked the club's permit last week,
SF News Stepdad Charged with 9 Counts of Child Molestation Darren Hayes, 36, will be charged with 9 felony counts of alleged sexual assaults on his underage stepdaughter, Kamala Harris announced today. Hayes faces 4 counts for aggravated sexual assault of a child,
SF News Oakland Police Offer $1K Reward for Looter IDs The Oakland Police Department is offering an reward up to $1,000 for anyone helping identify these suspects accused of looting several downtown Oakland businesses (Foot Locker, Sears, sushi restaurant, etc.) following the
SF News SFPD Releases Sketch of Sexual Assault Suspect SFPD has released a sketch of a suspect who attacked and sexually assaulted a female victim at Jones and Sutter Streets on May 29, 2010 at around 2:22 a.m.. The suspect
SF News Mother Sides With Father Who (Allegedly) Tossed Child Into Traffic The mother of the toddler who was allegedly tossed into traffic on Saturday insists that the father would never do such a thing. Although a police officer and several eyewitnesses stated otherwise, Elena
SF News Man Throws Toddler Into Traffic An off-duty police officer witnessed 21-year-old John Taylor Jr. of Oakland toss his toddler into traffic on Saturday. It's a jarring, sensational story. Depressing too. See, the officer saw Taylor yelling in the
SF News 78 Protesters Arrested After Mehserle Verdict, 25% From Oakland During last night's Mehserle verdict coverage, one sharp SF Appeal commenter suspected that many rapscallion rioters in Oakland might not be from Oakland. And? She was right. The Appeal has numbers: Sgt. JD
SF News SFist Blotter: Richmond Robbery At around 9 p.m. on Thursday on the 3000 block of Fulton, a 40-year-old man approached a woman sitting in her car, brandished a gun and demanded her property. The suspect, according
