SF News Sunset Dunes Park Vandalized Again, Hammocks Stolen For the fourth or fifth time in recent weeks, the new public park on the former Great Highway was hit by vandals over the weekend.
SF News Suspect Accused In Marina District Antisemitic Attack Charged With Hate Crime A suspect in an antisemitic attack on two people last weekend in SF's Marina District has been charged with a hate crime and is being arraigned today.
SF News Saturday Links: At Tahoe Trial, Former Lover Says Ex-MLB Player Admitted to Shooting Wife’s Mom A Florida man nabbed at SFO was convicted of wire fraud after posing as a flight attendant to score free flights; the CA Farm Bureau is condemning ICE raids targeting farmworkers; and the Tahoe murder trial of ex-MLB player Daniel Serafini has brought new details to light.
SF News Suspect Arrested for Allegedly Assaulting Two Women on San Jose’s Los Gatos Creek Trail San Jose police arrested 21-year-old Pablo Chan of Campbell on Thursday in connection with two violent sexual assaults that occurred on Wednesday morning within hours of each other on the Los Gatos Creek Trail.
SF News Arrest Made Following Foot Chase of Suspect In Unprovoked Attacks at Fort Mason Park A man who was out on bail for a different crime was arrested Monday afternoon following a pair of unprovoked attacks and an alleged robbery in San Francisco's Fort Mason Park.
Arts & Entertainment Last Week, This Week: Kabuki Meets Broadway in 'Pacific Overtures' Revival This weekend: Time lapse of the aurora borealis. Last Week: K-Pop fans, Musk on drugs, and a family of owls. This week: Kicking off Pride month with Drag Me Downtown and Bootie Mashup; plus Odd Salon, 'Pacific Overtures', and drink and draw.
SF News Suspect In Assault at Beanie Babies Billionaire's Mansion Was In Court In SF a Decade Ago The man accused of breaking into the Montecito mansion owned by Beanie Babies billionaire Ty Warner last week and assaulting a woman, putting her in a coma, was living in San Francisco a decade ago after reportedly threatening his wife.
SF News Honduran National Sentenced to Four Years For Gun Incident Outside Mission District Bar A 37-year-old man has been sentenced to federal prison in connection with an April 2023 incident in which he fired a gun into the air outside of a San Francisco bar, and appeared to point a gun at arriving police officers.
SF News SFPD Arrests Alleged Arsonist Who May Be Linked to Playground Arson Cases A 29-year-old man who was allegedly in possession of methamphetamine and was seen lighting things on fire in a park Monday morning was arrested, and he may be linked to multiple fires in the Outer Richmond, two of which destroyed playgrounds.
SF News Four Arrested in Sextortion Scheme Linked to San Jose Teen’s 2022 Suicide Two years after 17-year-old Ryan Last of San Jose took his own life, authorities have arrested four men in Côte d’Ivoire for their alleged roles in an international sextortion scheme that targeted thousands, including minors.
SF News Man Shot by Berkeley Police During Domestic Violence Standoff Berkeley police shot a domestic violence suspect after responding to reports of a woman screaming for help on Sunday morning. The man allegedly threatened officers with a gun and is now in critical condition.
SF News Saturday Links: Oakland Reverses Decision To End Kids' Free Summer Lunch Program After announcing the closure of its free summer lunch program, the City of Oakland said it would continue at limited sites; Mayor Lurie is holding a competition to help revitalize downtown; and nearly 70 people were arrested during a joint operation in the Tenderloin and the Mission.
SF News SF City Attorney Sues More Tenderloin Stores for Being Gambling Dens, One Allegedly Selling Meth Over the Counter There’s another batch of Tenderloin corner stores in the city’s crosshairs for running illegal gambling dens, and some are also accused of selling meth and weed right over the counter.
SF News One Injured In Afternoon Shooting on SF's Fillmore Street A rare bit of violence occurred Monday afternoon on Fillmore Street, not far from the shuttered Fillmore District Safeway.
SF News Suspect In San Mateo Stalking Case Arrested On Weapons Charges At LAX 28-year-old Leqiang Wang of San Mateo was arrested at LAX on Thursday after police found an arsenal of automatic rifles, silencers, and other firearms at Wang’s home while investigating Wang as a potential suspect in a stalking case.
SF News Lafayette Man Convicted In 2022 Home Invasion Case With Potential Life Sentence A Contra Costa County jury found Kenneth McIsaac guilty in the September 2022 home invasion of a Lafayette family who were held hostage for several hours before they escaped.
SF News Saturday Links: 30,000 Attend AOC and Bernie Sanders’s 'Fight the Oligarchy' Visit In Denver Over 30,000 people attended Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders’s joint tour stop in Denver; two unions representing 60,000 University of California employees are poised to begin striking on April 1; and Bach on BART is in full swing.
SF News SFPD and Sheriff's Deputies Do Another Drug Sweep, This Time at Van Ness and Market The Whac-a-Mole games continued Wednesday night with another law enforcement sweep and mass arrest on San Francisco's Mid-Market Street, resulting in 40 more drug users and/or dealers arrested.
SF News Mendocino Woman Claims Her Father Is A Serial Killer, FBI Won’t Pursue Case [Update] A series of Facebook posts have been circulating this weekend written by a Mendocino County woman urging the FBI to take on the case she says she's compiled against her elderly father, a prominent local doctor, asserting that he's a confessed serial killer spanning decades.
SF News SFPD Shoots Outer Sunset Man Who Fired Gun And Aimed At Officers, Police Drone An Outer Sunset man wielding a gun and threatening neighbors near Golden Gate Park yesterday afternoon was shot by police after he reportedly fired at least one shot and aimed the gun at an SFPD drone and then later police officers.
SF News California’s Effort to Reduce, Overturn Unjust Prison Sentences From 2021 through 2024, the state of California ran a pilot program that aimed to correct excessive sentences from '90s-era “tough on crime” policies.
SF News Thirty Probation Officers Accused of Facilitating Gladiator Fights At LA County Juvenile Detention Facility In a sickening case out of Southern California, 30 officers at a juvenile detention facility have been accused of facilitating gladiator-style fights involving over 140 youth in their care.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Elvira Donates Tesla With 'Elon Sux' Painted On It To NPR Trump issued an executive order calling for swathes of US national forests to be used for timber; Elvira donated her Tesla to NPR while wearing a "Make America Goth Again" hat; and a San Mateo substitute teacher was arrested for possession of child pornography.
SF News Sunday Links: US Cyber Command Ordered to Remove Russia From Cyber Threat List Russia has been de-prioritized at the US Cyber Command; the new park along Great Highway is opening up on April 12 — help name it; and some background info on the guy who wears the light-up dinosaur costume in Dolores Park.
SF News San Mateo Police Seize U-Haul Van Full of Stolen Mail From Across the Bay Area San Mateo police arrested two suspects yesterday who were in possession of a U-Haul van containing stolen mail from over 100 residents from across the Bay Area, including social security and ID cards, as well as a stolen apartment complex mailbox.
