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52-Year-Old Asian Man Robbed and Beaten Next to Fillmore Area Restaurant

A 52-year-old man was pistol-whipped and robbed of his wallet, watch, and cellphone on New Year's Eve in the Fillmore District.

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French Bulldog Stolen on New Year's Day in the Marina Has Been Returned

A nine-month-old Frenchie named Rosie has reportedly been returned to her family, though it's not yet clear whether someone collected the $10,000 reward being offered.

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Milpitas Police Drawn Into High-Speed Chase With Man Who Had Ex-Girlfriend’s Dead Body in Car

A police pursuit yielded a grisly discovery Sunday afternoon, after a high-speed chase between Milpitas and Fremont ended with a murder victim’s body being found in the back of her own stolen car.

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City Investigating SFPD for Lax Response to Dispensary Robberies, Pot Shop Owners Unsatisfied

Tensions are high between cannabis dispensaries and the SF police department, after cops seemingly watched a dispensary get robbed without taking action, but the Department of Police Accountability says it's launching a probe.

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Tenderloin Camera Shop Was Front For Retail Theft Fencing Operation, According to DA's Office

San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin announced Monday that two indictments have been filed and five arrest warrants written in a two-year sting operation targeting organized retail theft in the city.

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Jailed Los Gatos 'Cool Mom' Still Has Not Entered Plea, Will Spend Xmas In the Clink

Accused, possibly pervy corrupter of teenagers/sexual assault enabler Shannon O'Connor has gotten a new attorney, and she has yet to enter a plea in the Santa Clara County case involving multiple alleged teen victims.

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Tesla Employee Allegedly Shot Coworker In Parking Lot Following Argument

A 29-year-old employee at Tesla's Fremont plant is in police custody after he allegedly shot and killed a coworker on Monday, in the factory parking lot.

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Breed Announces Another Tenderloin Crime Crackdown; This Time She Must Be Serious Because She Said ‘Bulls**t’

The mayor of SF announced Tuesday her intention to stack the Tenderloin with more cops, with “more aggressive with law enforcement” to end “all the bullshit that has destroyed our city.”

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Catalytic Converter Theft Ring Busted, And — Surprise! — Auto Repair Shops Allegedly In On the Game

San Jose police arrested 15 suspects for stealing and selling catalytic converters, but more interestingly, they say three auto shops were “knowingly purchasing stolen catalytic converters from street criminals.”

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Purse Snatching at Cow Hollow Parklet Leads Directly to Victim's Car Being Stolen

A woman sitting in a parklet outside Balboa Cafe with two friends last week had her purse snatched by a thief in a vehicle that pulled up beside the parklet — and the crime didn't end there.

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Two New SF Proposals Target Resale Markets Where Shoplifting Rings Sell Their Stuff

Online marketplaces and illegal street vendors are where organized retail theft rings unload their ill-gotten goods, and two new laws before the SF Board of Supervisors would hope to squeeze those markets dry.

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'It Makes Me Sick to Be Here': Family Members of Laci Peterson Confront Scott Peterson at Resentencing

Attorneys for convicted murderer Scott Peterson succeeded in getting him off of death row, and on Wednesday, Peterson appeared in a Redwood City courtroom to be resentenced to life without parole. But the hearing was far from rote.

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North Bay Man Takes His Own Life By Guillotine, Home Taken Over as Squat By Meth Heads Who Disposed of Body

Wow. Another story of a squat where some (probably) meth-addicted squatters ignored or otherwise forgot about some human remains in order to occupy an empty house!

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Tuesday Morning Topline: Prolific Target Shoplifter Arrested Again After Being Freed By Judge

Aziza Graves, the woman arrested on 128 counts of stealing from the Stonestown Target, was arrested again for theft; Contra Costa County has a lot of complaints about restaurants not checking vaccines; the drive-thru Dickens Fair was a mess over the weekend.

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Sebastopol Woman Arrested For Trying to Snatch Toddlers In San Francisco

A 42-year-old Sebastopol woman was arrested Wednesday after a strange and crazed-sounding incident in the Richmond District that likely terrified a caregiver caring for two small children.

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Matthew Muller, Man Charged In Bizarre 2015 'Gone Girl' Kidnapping and Rape, Now In State Mental Hospital

It's been several years since we had an update on Matthew Daniel Muller, the Harvard-educated, mentally ill man who pleaded guilty in a federal case to kidnapping a Vallejo woman, Denise Huskins, in a case that received national attention in 2015.

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Thieves Throw Party In Nearly Open Downtown SF Ramen Restaurant, Leave Behind Bottles, Vomit

Some burglars decided to throw a party in a soon-to-open restaurant in downtown San Francisco, and it appears they invited friends and hung around for a few hours, drinking whatever they could find and smoking weed.

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Half of All Reported SF Shoplifting Incidents in One Month Came From the Metreon Target

Shoplifting incidents reported to SFPD doubled in September! But the increase all came from one Target store, then the spike completely disappeared the next month, and what can we even believe anymore.

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Union Square Smash-and-Grab Arrestees Range In Age From 23 to 53

SF District Attorney Chesa Boudin announced felony charges against nine individuals on Tuesday in connection with Friday's widespread robberies at Union Square retailers, and they range in age from 23 to 53.

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Oakland Police Head to Sacramento and Houston to Arrest Three Men Suspected In Gas Station Robbery/Shooting

Oakland police on Monday announced three arrests in connection with a violent armed robbery attempt at a West Oakland gas station that ended with one of the suspects shot and the victim critically wounded.

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'Caravans' of Cars With Some Armed Suspects Targeted Oakland Cannabis Businesses Amid Weekend Robberies

Mobs of organized thieves targeted retail businesses in multiple corners of the Bay Area. But some incidents in Oakland suggest a more loose affiliation between suspects, and group tactics that perhaps came together on social media.

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Newsom Says Organized Smash-and-Grab Robbers Will Be Punished, Says Mayors Must 'Step Up'

Governor Gavin Newsom said Monday he was speaking as a victimized business owner himself when he made comments about last weekend's swarm of organized smash-and-grab robberies around the Bay.

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Thieves Targeting Garages In Pacific Heights Nightly, Owners Amused By Ingenuity

Thieves with sophisticated equipment, some of it apparently custom made, have been targeting garages in Pacific Heights nearly nightly.

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Chinatown Jeweler Vandalized, Then Robbed Of $250,000 In Jewels

The same jewelry store in Chinatown was hit twice by criminals in four days — first on Saturday, when suspects smashed a front window (perhaps in a first burglary attempt), and then on Tuesday, when thieves succeeded in grabbing $250,000 in merchandise.

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Few More Details Emerge From Deposition of Hillsborough Heiress in 2016 Murder; Could Civil Case Eventually Lead to Conviction?

There is still no smoking gun or particularly revealing detail in a recent deposition given in a civil case by heiress and acquitted murder suspect Tiffany Li, but things could get interesting in the civil trial.