SF News 19-Year-Old Shot In Bayview Is SF's 41st Homicide of 2021 As San Francisco nears the end of its crime-statistic calendar year, a Tuesday fatality in the Bayview adds to the city's homicide count.
SF News Man Who Invaded Disabled Woman's Apartment Was Arrested a Month Later With a Gun Outside an SF School A visibly mentally ill suspect, who just a month earlier had been jailed for a terrifying incident in which he entered the home of a disabled woman, was arrested again in August following another highly disturbing incident outside a school.
SF News Squatters Suspected Of Killing Las Vegas Woman Absolved As Police Say She Likely Died Earlier and They Just Buried Her A movie-of-the-week-worthy case of a woman whose dismembered body was found buried in the side yard of her home that initially had been ruled a homicide has now been deemed a death by natural causes — and squatters in her home found her already dead in a chair.
SF News Two Laptop Thieves Convicted In Oakland Killing Outside Montclair Starbucks A jury in Alameda County today returned guilty verdicts on charges of murder and manslaughter against two men accused in a New Year's Eve 2019 laptop robbery that ended in the robbery victim's death.
SF News Bay Area Ponzi Schemer Accused In Multi-Billion-Dollar Fraud Gets Sentenced to 30 Years One half of a Martinez couple who pleaded guilty last year in what's been described as the "biggest criminal fraud scheme in the history of the Eastern District of California" has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Three Charged In Contra Costa Co. Armed Robbery Spree Newsom's press secretary dispels rumor that he had a bad booster shot reaction, a man was shot while walking in Visitacion Valley, and three young men were charged in a series of 25 armed robberies across Contra Costa County.
SF News SF Theft Wave of High-End Bikes Vexes Non-Violent Crime Enforcement Reforms A theft ring targeting expensive bicycles is far more sophisticated than your standard Walgreens shoplifters, creating a new wrinkle for criminal justice advocates who prefer not to incarcerate non-violent offenders.
SF News San Francisco Police Sergeant Arrested For Robbery In San Mateo Rite Aid Incident An SFPD sergeant with 28 years on the force was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of robbery in an odd incident at a San Mateo Rite Aid that appears to have involved stealing painkillers.
SF News [Updated] Another Shooting In the Haight Kills One Person, Injures a Second There was another outburst of violence in the Upper Haight Thursday afternoon with the second shooting in two weeks, and this time at least two people were shot and injured.
SF News SFPD Arrests Five Men Across NorCal In Connection With Home-Invasion Robbery Spree In San Francisco The San Francisco Police Department today announced the arrests of five suspects who are believed to be responsible for a string of at least three home-invasion robberies in the city's Ingleside neighborhood.
SF News Oakland Oral Surgeon Gets 16 Years For Child Sex Crimes, Blames Ecstasy For One Particularly Crazy Incident Former Oakland-based oral surgeon Cassidy Lavorini-Doyle, who's been in jail for nearly two years already after being arrested on charges of attempted child sex trafficking among others, was sentenced Wednesday to 16 years in federal prison.
SF News Four Suspects In Murder of Santa Cruz Tech/Cannabis Entrepreneur Face Pre-Trial Hearing The four young men arrested and charged almost a year and a half ago in the October 2019 murder of Santa Cruz resident Tushar Atre are now in the midst of a pre-trial hearing in which a judge will decide whether all four will face trial.
SF News Los Gatos Parents Reveal How They Took Down 'Cool Mom' Shannon O'Connor The undoing of Los Gatos mom Shannon O'Connor, and the first bits of evidence that led to her arrest earlier this month on charges including felony child abuse and sexual assault, may have begun with one drunk teenage boy and his cellphone that kept pinging after he passed out.
SF News Los Gatos ‘Cool Mom’ Denied Bail, Now Accused of $120,000 Embezzlement Scheme In a story that promises to get stranger every time we check back in, teen sex party mom Shannon O’Connor (or Bruga?), has been denied bail, and additionally stands accused of bilking a Santa Clara-based wireless firm out of $120,000.
SF News One DoorDash Carjacking Kidnapper Indicted on 12 Counts, Other to be Arraigned Friday Morning The duo who in February allegedly stole a DoorDash delivery van with two toddlers in the backseat have been in County Jail ever since, and their grand jury indictments are being handed down this week.
SF News Formerly Los Gatos-Based 'Cool Mom' May Have Continued Throwing Teen Parties In Idaho The story of Shannon O'Connor, a.k.a. Shannon Bruga, that broke earlier this week, about the alleged streak of extremely boozy parties she threw over the last year for her teenage son and his friends, appears to have another chapter out of state.
SF News Woman In Her 30s Killed In Late-Night Hit-and-Run Near City Hall A woman was killed early Thursday morning when she was struck by an SUV in the Civic Center area, and the suspect vehicle fled the scene.
SF News East Bay Pedophile Says He Paid $55K For Encounter With 10-Year-Old; Authorities Have Not Charged Trafficker A two-year-old story involving an Oakland oral surgeon who pleaded guilty to child pornography and attempted child sex trafficking charges has an update, and it involves a group of Bay Area suspects with whom he allegedly negotiated the use of children for his sexual pleasure.
SF News South Bay 'Cool Mom' Accused of Throwing Very Boozy Parties For Teen Son and His Friends Faces 39 Criminal Charges A Los Gatos woman of means is accused of hosting secret parties with dozens of teenagers present throughout the last year, and pushing them to drink excessively and have sex with each other.
SF News Serial Hate-Crime Robber Who Allegedly Targeted Asian Women Charged With Seven Felony Robberies A hate-crime and robbery suspect was arrested last week after he stole a woman's backpack containing her laptop — and laptop locator software helped authorities track him down.
SF News Double Homicide Brings Oakland's Count to 102 For the Year; Prayer Vigil Marks Milestone Community members in Oakland gathered for a prayer vigil Sunday to mark the city's 100th homicide last week, and just hours earlier the count rose to 102 with the fatal shootings of two more young men.
SF News Slingshot Bandit Terrorizes Bay Area Windows Again, This Time in San Jose A substantial $20,000 reward is being offered in the case of a serial San Jose slingshot bandit, the reward likely being so large because the shooter keeps hitting windows at the Santa Clara District Attorney’s office.
SF News SFPD and City Hall Announce Initiative to Crack Down On Retail Theft Which Includes Privately Funded Police The City of San Francisco and the SF Police Department announced a new effort Wednesday to address an uptick in brazen retail theft in the city.
SF News Man On Scooter Injured By Hit-and-Run Driver In Hayes Valley; Police Seek Suspect A man was injured while riding a moped/motorbike at the busy intersection of Hayes and Gough streets Monday afternoon — and the van that struck the scooter fled the scene.
SF News Four Members of 'Boogaloo' Group That Accused Cop Killer Belonged To Have Pleaded Guilty to Destroying Evidence Four men who were part of a group WhatsApp chat with accused murderer Steven Carrillo have pleaded guilty to obstructing the federal probe against Carrillo and his alleged accomplice.
