SF News

Four Arrested In Oakland for Robberies Including That of Canadian Film Crew at Twin Peaks

Four suspects have been arrested and charged for crimes relating to a late March robbery of a Canadian film crew working at SF's Twin Peaks, and a second robbery three days later in Oakland.

SF News

Jailhouse Phone Calls By Los Gatos 'Cool Mom' Find Her Trying to Hide Assets, Telling Son Not to Cooperate With Cops

The latest update in the case of accused sexual-predator/corrupter of teens Shannon O'Connor, a.k.a. the Los Gatos Party Mom who we've referred to as the Los Gatos "Cool Mom," comes via her latest appearance in court.

SF News

Man Dies In Stabbing Near SF General

A homicide occurred early this morning a block away from Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital.

SF News

Walgreens Shoplifter From Viral Video Pleads Guilty, Gets 16 Months In Prison

The ride is over for the fellow who rode his bike into a Walgreens and gained viral video infamy for purloining a trash bag full of cosmetics, but his guilty plea and 16-month prison sentence are unlikely to satisfy DA Boudin’s critics.

SF Politics

Sup. Stefani Has Launched a Nextdoor-Type Site for the Marina, So Sure, We Tried It Out

Supervisor Catherine Stefani’s new website the “Anti-Burglary Neighborhood Network” just launched, purporting to give her district “a way to connect with their neighbors,” and likely an attempt to burnish her tough-on-crime credentials.

SF News

Pair of Oakland Teens, Ages 14 and 16, Arrested for SF Carjackings Targeting Asian Victims

San Francisco police chased and then arrested a pair of juveniles who were allegedly part of a quartet of carjackers who targeted two Asian male victims in San Francisco on Monday afternoon.

SF News

Three Arrested For Burglary of Castro Theatre

Three men were arrested on suspicion of breaking into and burglarizing the historic Castro Theatre early Tuesday morning.

SF News

Third Man Convicted In Infamous NorCal Kidnapping of 26 Schoolchildren Gets Parole

A 70-year-old man who's been imprisoned for 45 years for an infamous 1976 kidnapping inspired by the movie 'Dirty Harry' has just been granted parole after 18 tries.

SF News

Video: Nude Man at Bloomingdale's Violently Assaulted By Vigilante

A video that just surfaced, filmed at Bloomingdale's at SF's Westfield Mall, depicts a horrifying scene that brings up issues about SF's problem of untreated mental illness, and inexcusable violence committed in a misguided vigilante mindset.

Business & Tech

Daly City Man Pleads Guilty In Rideshare Fraud Scheme Involving Identity Theft, Brazilian Nationals

Two men, one of them residing in Daly City, pleaded guilty this week in a scheme caught by the feds that involved the creation and sale of fake driver accounts on rideshare and delivery apps that enabled foreign nationals to drive for these services in the U.S.

SF News

East Oakland Gas Station Shooting Leaves Innocent Bystander Dead, Another Woman Injured

A 64-year-old Army veteran from San Joaquin County was caught in the crossfire and killed in a Saturday night double-shooting near San Leandro, and while another woman was shot too, police are detaining her because they say “She is a person who is involved in this crime.”

SF News

SF's Sunset District Terrorized Monday by Two Home Invasions, and an Armed Robbery/Carjacking

At least one group of people with guns spent all day Monday committing several crimes across the Sunset District.

SF News

Reckless 19-Year-Old Driver Who Targeted Three Pedestrians In Oakland Hills Road Rage Incident Gets Probation

A teen driver who used his vehicle as a weapon and repeatedly threatened to run over three people in a frightening incident in the Oakland hills last summer, has taken a plea deal and an attempted murder charge has been dropped.

SF News

Video: Vigilante In Alameda Takes Down Walgreens Shoplifter, Claims 'Citizen's Arrest'

A dude who witnessed some brazen shoplifting at a Walgreens store in Alameda on Saturday decided to take matters into his own hands and tackle the guy, claiming citizen's arrest. This probably isn't the answer, dude!

SF News

Italian Appeals Court Reduces Sentences for Bay Area Men Convicted In Cop Killing

An appeals court in Rome has reduced the sentences of two young men from the Bay Area who were convicted last year in the July 2019 killing of a Roman Carabinieri (policeman), but both will still serve over 20 years in prison.

SF News

Fatal Shooting In Fremont Sounds Like Yet Another Failure for Mental Health System

A fatal shooting in a residential neighborhood in Fremont, which is being characterized as an act of self-defense, sounds like a tragic end to a psychotic episode that was left untreated.

SF Politics

New Poll By Recall Boudin Campaign Suggests Dems In Favor; Pro-Boudin Camp Fires Back With More Police Data

There were a couple more salvos in both directions this week from the campaign to recall San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin and those who support him, with each side trying to use arguably shaky numbers to bolster their cases.

SF News

Woman Who Swiped $4K Bottle of Cognac From San Jose Restaurant ID'd as Mother of 6, Owner Not Pressing Charges

The suspect has been identified in that brazen and ill-conceived theft of an expensive bottle of Remy Martin Louis XIII Cognac from a steakhouse on Mt. Hamilton last week, and she's very, very sorry.

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Classy Crew Swipes $4,000 Bottle of Cognac on the Way Out of San Jose Steakhouse, Sheriff Investigating

A group of 10 people who were dining last week at at an upscale steakhouse in San Jose appears to have wanted to take a special souvenir with them — and it was a very expensive bottle of booze.

SF News

Authorities On the Hunt For Mother's Boyfriend As Suspect in Possible Murder 8-Year-Old Hayward Girl

The remains of an eight-year-old girl who may have gone missing as long as three months ago were discovered in a Merced home Friday that belongs to the boyfriend of the girl's mother, and he has since gone on the run.

SF News

Sherri Papini, the NorCal Woman at Center of Bizarre 2016 'Gone Girl' Kidnapping, Arrested By Feds For Making It All Up

It's been over five years since a 34-year-old mother of two suddenly disappeared while on a morning jog near her Redding-area home and then turned up, bruised and "branded," by the side of a road 22 days later. The story always seemed fishy, and it was, the feds say!

SF News

[Update] Man Dies In Stabbing Near Mission and 14th Streets; Another Dies In SoMa Stabbing

San Francisco police are investigating a homicide that occurred Wednesday night in the Mission District.

SF News

Four People Injured In Shooting at Dave & Busters In Concord

At least four individuals were involved in a fight that broke out late Sunday at an East Bay Dave & Busters — the corporate sports bar-meets-adult-arcade concept — and they all ended up shot.

SF News

Toddler Found Safe, Woman Arrested Following Bay Area-Wide Amber Alert

You may have seen the Amber Alert that went out Sunday for a missing toddler in an SUV. And the little boy was found safe Sunday evening in the same vehicle, still in his car seat, a few miles from where he was abducted.

SF News

Burglar Uses Power Saw to Break Into San Francisco Newsstand, Takes $20,000 In Cash and Merchandise

Sunday morning, surveillance video captured a man slicing through the iron gates of one of the city's last remaining newsstands with a circular saw.