SF News East Bay Man Pleads Guilty to Impersonating Mailman to Steal Identities Mail theft has been an increasingly severe problem in San Francisco and the wider Bay Area since the start of the pandemic, and in one recent case, a mail thief based in the East Bay has pleaded guilty in federal court.
SF News Right-Wing Nutjob Couple Who Painted Over BLM Mural In Martinez Arrested For Burglary, Meth Possession Well well well. A couple hailed as heroes by Tucker Carlson for their brave work expressing the fears of ignorant white people back in 2020 has just been arrested for allegedly burglarizing a dead man's home and possessing meth.
SF News Atherton and Hillsborough Mansions Hit With 'Burglary Tourism' By Chilean Gangs Out of L.A. Police say the MO of the thieves matches what's been seen in Southern California and elsewhere, where organized groups of Chileans have been methodically breaking into the homes of the wealthy.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Downtown Restaurant Boulevard Has Windows Smashed, Suspect Has Caused Trouble There Before Someone in San Francisco seems to have an issue with recently reopened Parisian-themed restaurant Boulevard, smashing its windows with a wine bottle, and on another occasion assaulting a manager.
SF News SoMa Sandwich Shop Deli Board Vandalized and Robbed, But Quickly Crowdfunds $13,000 For Repairs Popular Folsom Street sandwich shop Deli Board found itself broken into and robbed Thursday morning, but a GoFundMe campaign has raised close to $14,000, despite (or perhaps because) how donors have politicized it.
SF News Violent Crime Rose In SF In 2021, But Burglaries Declined From 2020 San Francisco Mayor London Breed and SFPD Chief Bill Scott gave a joint press conference Wednesday to discuss 2021 crime statistics in the city, and while violent crime is up from 2020, other types of crime decreased.
SF News Mission District Homicide, Stemming From Bar Fight, Is San Francisco's Third of the New Year A 40-year-old man was killed in the Mission District Friday morning, and the SFPD is investigating it as a homicide.
SF News 14-Mission Driver Badly Beaten, Eyewitnesses Say Police Let the Attacker Get Away Passengers describe the Muni driver as being dragged on the street and bloodied in the attack, and say police showed little interest in the suspect before merely moving on.
SF News License Plate Theft Victim Uncovers Elaborate Criminal Scheme After Getting Hit With Massive Parking Tickets After getting her license plates stolen, a local woman started getting mystery parking tickets, and then she unraveled a complex ring of stolen license plates being slapped on stolen cars.
SF News Latest French Bulldog Theft Adds Insult to Injury, as Suspects Return to Steal Victim’s Car A grandmother attempted to battle off armed suspects with her cane, but they stole a purse and a French bulldog anyway, and then found her daughter's house and stole her Mercedes-Benz.
SF News Shot Fired at Resident of Golden Gate Heights Who Tried to Photograph License Plate of Thieves A pair of thieves who were seen stealing tools out of the back of a construction worker's pickup truck in San Francisco's Golden Gate Heights neighborhood fired a parting gunshot as they fled the area, after a neighbor tried to get video of their license plate.
SF News Los Gatos ‘Cool Mom' Faces More Uncool Problems, Hit With Defamation Suit From Kid She Called a ‘Rapist’ An unnamed teen boy has a defamation lawsuit against the notorious mom who allegedly threw boozy teenage parties, for spreading the rumors that the teen was a “rapist” and a “predator.”
SF News Year-End Stats Show SF Property Crime Down 11.2% Below Pre-Pandemic Levels, Despite ‘Moral Panic’ A detailed analysis of property crime in Bay Area cities shows that San Jose and Berkeley have seen property crime decrease over the last two years, and while many Bay Area cities saw an increase in 2021, thefts are still down double-digit percentages compared to 2019.
SF News 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.
SF News 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.
SF News 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.
SF News 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.
SF News 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.
SF News 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.
SF News 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.
SF Politics 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.”
SF News 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.”
SF News 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.
SF News 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.
SF News '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.
