SF News SF Man Arrested for Kidnapping, Sexual Assault in Twin Peaks Alex Thomas Owen, 41, was arrested on Saturday for allegedly kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 21-year-old foreign exchange student. According to Appeal/BCN, "the woman was sightseeing on Treasure Island early that morning
SF News Hasanni Campbell's Foster Father Will Not Be Charged According to the red, scary box on CBS 5, "The foster father of missing Fremont boy Hasanni Campbell will not be charged in his disappearance because of insufficient evidence, according to the district
SF News Phillip Garrido's Brother Speaks Out Oh wow. This story just gets better and better. Jaycee Lee Dugard's alleged kidnapper's brother, Ron Garrido, just spoke to The Chronicle about his deviant brother, Phillip. "It just seems so bizarre, but
SF News Hillsdale High School Bomb Suspect Identified Alex Youshock, 17, has been identified as the former Hillsdale High School student who tried it set off pipe bombs at the San Mateo school yesterday. If you recall, ex-student Youshock, armed with
SF News Photos: Heavy Police Activity on Post Street It's been an exciting day in the Bay Area. We were walking up Post at around 5 p.m. and encountered chaos at Larkin Street, in which the whole block was taped off
SF News UPDATED: TL Standoff According to ActionNewsSF, "Tendernob standoff now has Hyde closed Sutter-Geary & Post closed Polk-Leavenworth." Please adjust your route home as you see fit. KGO Radio reports that a man barricaded himself inside a
SF News SFist Blotter TODAY/HAYWARD: Someone was shot in Hayward. (Hi, Hayward!) No arrests have been made. There's a $1,000 reward waiting for anyone with info leading to an arrest. Please call Crime Stoppers at
SF News Abusive Naked Man Prompts Southwest Flight Return to Oakland On a Southwest flight bound for St. Louis yesterday, a mentally-estranged gentleman whipped out his penis, punched a female passenger sitting next to him, and then disrobed. Egads. According to Mercury News, it
misc Introducing San Francisco Crimespotting Stamen Design, the folks behind Oakland Crimespotting, have just launched a companion site, San Francisco Crimespotting, which is a sleek, user-friendly interface that blows SFPD's clunky Crime Maps out of the water. Users
SF News Report Released Re: New Year's Shooting By BART Cop Most of you should recall the name of Oscar Grant, who was shot late on New Year's Eve at the Fruitvale BART station by a certain BART cop named Johannes Mehserle. Said shooting
SF News Help Stop Crime Via Text-a-Tip Today, San Francisco Police Chief George Gascon will announce a newfangled way to help stop crime. It's called Text-A-Tip, and it will allow you to do just that, text a tip anonymously to
SF News Four Wounded In Oakland Shooting An unwelcome gift for the new Oakland police chief Anthony Batts? Last night's shooting on the 17500 block of 85th Street, which saw four people get shot a little after 9 p.m.
SF News Suspect in Toll Bridge Shooting Arrested The man suspected of shooting and killing a toll collector and transit worker at the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge toll plaza last night has been arrested. Richmond resident Nathaniel Burris, 46, "was spotted by
SF News Search for Missing Oakland Boy Intensifies FBI agents armed with search dogs have joined the effort to help find Hasanni Campbell, the five-year-old boy who went missing in Rockridge on Monday afternoon. According to the Oakland Tribune, "Louis Ross,
SF News Police Chief Gascón's Goals During a VIP tour of San Francisco's Historic Tenderloin District, new San Francisco Police Chief George Gascón was rendered flummoxed -- especially after a drug deal went down right before his very eyes.
SF News Cops Shut Down 8-Year-Old Girl's Lemonade Stand In an effort to raise money to haul her family to Disneyland, 8-year-old Daniela Earnest and her stepmother decided to build a lemonade stand at an intersection in Tulare, where they would sell
SF News The Dhaliwal Bros, aka The Three Stooges, Introducing Tarlok Are Kulbir Dhaliwal, 25, and Amritpal "Paul" Dhaliwal, 21, the two brothers involved in the 2007 tiger mauling for which they recently received a $900K settlement, crying out for attention, are they just
SF News Possible San Jose Workplace Massacre Averted A man recently fire from his job at a San Jose recycling plant was arrested yesterday "while on his way to the plant with a loaded handgun hidden in his boot." According to
SF News SF and Oakland A.M. Shootings Early Saturday morning, a 16-year-old girl was shot on the 3400 block of International Boulevard in Oakland. According to reports, after OPD officers saw a car driving "erratically" a little before 1:30
SF News Oakland Salon Beating Case: Misdemeanor Charges?! Cavenia Bryant and Jamillya Edgerton, the two waste-of-space human beings who videotaped themselves brutally attacking an Oakland hair salon owner, then bragged about it on-air to radio station KMEL -- were in court
SF News MC Hammer's Cousin Arrested for Rape Marvin Grant (Bigg Marv), MC Hammer's cousin, was arrested late afternoon on Thursday after a manhunt. The reality TV supporting player is accused of raping a woman he met via Twitter in Livermore.
SF News Arson Suspect in Custody According to yesterday's Richmond Police newsletter (via RichmondSF), an arsonist was arrested yesterday. On July 30, 2009 at about 3:00 AM, alert Richmond Station plain clothes officers spotted a wanted arson suspect
SF News UPDATED: Dead Body Found in Castro Apartment The body of an unidentified man was found inside a Castro Street apartment on Tuesday, reports the . SFPD found the week-old corpse after receiving an anonymous phone call. Creepy. Authorities are still trying
SF News <s>Auto Arsonist</s> Carsonist Takes the Night Off First, it's no longer the Auto Arsonist, it's "Carsonist" (TM: Eve Batey) which is way radder sounding. Second, he or she took the night off. The person(s) responsible for at least 12
SF News Have You Seen This West Portal Car Jacking Suspect? If so, you might want to call the fuzz immediately. According to SFAppeal / BCN, police are asking the public for help in finding this "27-year-old man wanted in connection with a Tuesday carjacking
