SF News More On Nob Hill Pizzeria Murderess Maryam Achekzai Yesterday, if you recall, an employee of Bellissimo Pizza in Nob Hill was stabbed to death. Police arrested Maryam Achekzai, the woman they suspect of killing 38-year-old Lassaad Bokri. Back in 2006, however,
SF News Oakland Murder #99 According to BCN/KTVU, a fatal shooting was reported to Oakland police at 2:48 this morning. The victim, 31-year-old man, was found in the1900 block of 85th Avenue, near Birch Street. He
SF News SF Murder #44 Sutter and Leavenworth played host to San Francisco's 44th murder of 2009 this moring. "[T]he incident took place in the wee hours when witnesses watched a woman end a 'dispute' by stabbing
SF News Police Need Your Help In Solving BART Shooting Involving Teen Girl Speaking of BART, police are asking for the public's help involving the shooting of a teen girl over the weekend. The incident in question, which happened at around 10:20 p.m. on
SF News Oakland, Full of Crime CQ Press released their annual list of the hottest crime cities in the U.S. And the Bay Area scored in the top 20. Twice! Coming in behind Camden, NJ, and St. Louis,
SF News Chilling Account of a Muni Mugging Tim Schafer (@TimOfLegend) sent out two unnerving Twitter messages this morning. A crime, it seems, occurred on the J Church during the AM commute. "Holy crap! A guy just pulled a gun on
SF News Carson: San Pablo, 2 Cars More vehicles were set ablaze in the recent string of car fire hitting the Bay Area. BCN reports, "The fires were reported at around 2:15 a.m. in the 2100 block of
SF News Carsonist Sets Two Vehicles Ablaze In SOMA Two vehicles had to be extinguished by firefighters this morning in the city's South of Market District. According to Appeal/BCN, "Units responded to Jessie and Sixth streets at around 5:15 a.
SF News Carsonist Torches Three More Autos The carsonist -- or a copycat carsonist, or a copycat copycatting the copycat carsonist -- stuck three times in the Easy Bay last night. Three evening car fires hit San Pablo, and authorities
SF News Regency Ballroom Shooting Suspect Sought The rapscallion who shot eight people outside KMEL's House of Soul concert at the Regency Ballroom has yet to be apprehended by authorities. Last night, if you recall, a fight between two men
SF News Carjacking Ends In Crash KRON 4, in between a slew of easy-entry-walk-in-bath commercials, reports that an early morning carjacking at Sutter and Polk ended in a crash. No word yet as to the condition of the vehicle's
SF News Garrido Issues Mea Culpa In Letter Child rapist and noted unhinged person Philip Garrido, the man who kidnapped and held Jaycee Dugard captive in his backyard for 18 years, sent KCRA 3 a written letter of apology the week.
SF News Toilet Torcher Makes A Comeback Let's face it, the Carsonist has been a pale imitation of the infamous Toilet Torcher. Which is why we were amused to hear that the Toilet Torcher (or a copycat) made a dramatic
misc What's Going On Here, Angry 'Don't Snitch' Mural? Speaking of not snitching, check out this mural at 20th and Florida. When is it OK to snitch (i.e., inform authorities of a crime being committed, even though it won't make you
SF News Gang Rape Witness Describes Attack We brought this up briefly yesterday, but we thought it best to touch on it again. Salvador Rodriguez, 21, who was initially charged with the brutal rape and beating of the Richmond High
SF News Car Fires In Richmond, El Sobrante Continue Three more cars were torched Saturday, all of them being "less than a mile away from one another, and at about the same time." This comes on the heels of 12 vehicles getting
SF News Car Thief Steals Vehicle To Get To Auto-Theft Trial Now this? Is our kind of criminal. With no way to get to his auto-theft trial in Vallejo, tenacious Oakland resident Samuel George Botchvaroff did what comes naturally to him: he stole a
SF News 'Citywide Operation Safe Muni' Results in <s>900</s> 400 Citations, 9 Arrests SFist brought you this news yesterday, but somewhere around "100 police officers, Muni inspectors and sheriff's officials were involved in Citywide Operation Safe Muni," conducted between 1 p.m. and 8:30 p.
SF News Photos: Richmond High School Gang Rape Vigil Yesterday, somewhere around 500 students, faculty, and community members showed up at a vigil at Richmond High School, where a 15-year-old girl was beaten and gang raped over over a grueling two-and-a-half-hour ordeal
SF News Ocean Avenue Books Owner Turns Violent Over Bad Yelp Review Ryan Tate at Valleywag has a phenomenal story about the sanity-estranged owner of Ocean Avenue Books. The owner, after reading a negative review on the interwebs about her store, found the reviewer and
SF News More Arrests Made In Richmond HS Gang Rape Case A seventh arrest was made in the gang rape of a Richmond High School girl. A total of 10 men, police allege, beat and raped the girl outside her homecoming dance. Held on
SF News Carjacker First Car to Cross Bay Bridge On Friday night, a carjacker was the first civilian vehicle to cross the entire Bay Bridge since its Wednesday closure. "[A] carjacking suspect in a Dodge Nitro made it onto the bridge from
SF News Teens Charged As Adults In Richmond HS Gang Rape Three teenagers allegedly involved in the Richmond High School homecoming dance gang rape -- where a 15-year-old girl was beaten and raped on school grounds for at least two and a half hours,
SF News Strip Club Pink Diamonds Shuts Down Prompted by City Attorney Dennis Herrera, notorious Tenderloin strip club Pink Diamonds was forced to shut its doors yesterday. According to SFGate, a judge ordered the, eh, burlesque club to officially close for
SF News 3 More Arrests in Richmond HS Gang Rape; $20K Reward Offered Three more men were arrested in connection with the gang rape of a 15-year-old girl outside a Richmond High School homecoming dance. The latest arrests, according to CBS 5, include a 21-year-old man
