SF News Good Samaritan Thwarts Safeway Carjacking of 75-Year-Old Woman When three female suspects assaulted an elderly woman and tried to steal her car Thursday night, a fellow Safeway shopper literally jumped onto the car to stop the caper.
SF News Uber Assault Suspect Malaysia King Was Arrested In Vegas for Bank Fraud; Uber Driver Thankful for GoFundMe Donations One of the two women now in police custody in connection with the highly publicized March 7 assault on an Uber driver in San Francisco was actually arrested for an alleged bank fraud scheme in Nevada in the days following the Uber incident.
SF News San Francisco Man Arrested for Assaulting Asian Woman At San Jose Caltrain Station A San Francisco man was arrested Wednesday for a hate crime and sexual assault, following an incident in which he allegedly hurled racial slurs at a young Asian woman and assaulted her in a pedestrian tunnel at San Jose's Diridon Station.
SF News 26-Year-Old Oakland Man Charged With Murder After Elderly Asian Victim Dies From Injuries Sustained In Assault An assault and robbery in Oakland's Adams Point neighborhood has become a murder case, after the 75-year-old Asian man who was attacked died from his injuries on Thursday.
SF News [Update] Uber Assault Suspect Arrested in Las Vegas The woman who yelled at, insulted, coughed on, and assaulted an Uber driver on Sunday because he told her to put on a mask, as seen in widely publicized video of the incident, has been arrested in Las Vegas.
SF News Roof-Leaping Burglary Suspect Dies After Being Trapped Between Two Buildings In Russian Hill A suspect in a residential burglary in San Francisco's Russian Hill neighborhood died Tuesday night following a brief pursuit in which he was reportedly jumping from roof to roof between multiple buildings.
SF News California Murder Suspect Remains at Large After Police Let Him Go By Accident US Route 101 was shut down for an hour Tuesday near Hollywood after a murder suspect was mistakenly released, but LA sheriff's deputies still couldn’t find the guy, and he could be anywhere at this point.
SF News Early Morning Shooting on Bay Bridge Leaves One Man Critically Injured A man was shot in the chest on the right shoulder of the eastbound lanes of the Bay Bridge just past Treasure Island Wednesday morning, and he is in critical condition.
SF News Arrest Made In Armed Robbery of KPIX Reporter's Camera at Twin Peaks The San Francisco Police Department on Tuesday released a few more details about last week's armed robbery of a KPIX crew's camera at Twin Peaks — which, ironically, was stolen while the reporter was there to report on all the theft going on in the area.
SF News [Update] Awful Woman Coughs on SF Uber Driver, Tries to Steal His Phone After Being Told to Wear a Mask An Uber driver picked up a classy trio of young women during the brunch hours of Sunday in San Francisco, only to have one of them swear at him and cough on him after being told she needed to wear a mask.
SF News SF Woman Horrified That Man Who Assaulted Her In September Was Back on Street and Allegedly Raped a Woman In November A local news station in San Francisco has uncovered a story that will add fuel to the anger about lawlessness in the city and the DA's office's policies when it comes to freeing suspects from custody.
SF News Homeless Man In Critical Condition After Apparently Being Set on Fire In Oakland A man whose age and identity are still not known was hospitalized in critical condition Wednesday night after apparently being set ablaze in East Oakland.
SF News Shooting Near 16th and Mission Leaves Man Critically Wounded A 31-year-old man suffered a life-threatening bullet wound Thursday morning in a shooting not far from the 16th and Mission BART station.
SF News KPIX Reporter and Cameraman Robbed at Gunpoint at Twin Peaks A local TV news reporter was on a residential street near Twin Peaks Boulevard to report on brazen car break-ins in the area when he and his cameraman were robbed at gunpoint and their camera was stolen.
SF Politics Breed to Out-of-Town Criminals: 'Don't Come to Our City With All That Bulls**t' SF Mayor London Breed had some words of warning to criminals, particularly violent ones, on Wednesday as she announced a change in how law enforcement communicates about repeat offenders.
SF News Another Smash-and-Grab Caught On Video, This Time in Golden Gate Park, and Victim Chased Down Thief If you want a sense of the sheer volume of petty crime going on in San Francisco, you need only look at Twitter or Reddit, basically, because there's so much that some of it is getting caught on video in broad daylight.
SF News 24-Year-Old Man Fatally Stabbed at SoMa Skate Park, 19-Year-Old Suspect Arrested The SoMa West Skatepark on Duboce Avenue was the site of a homicide Monday evening, following an altercation between two young men.
SF News Castro Store Owners Say They've Paid $120,000 to Repair Windows Smashed By Vandals In the Last Year The Castro is hardly the only neighborhood dealing with rampant crime in recent months, but merchants in the neighborhood hope the city will reimburse them for what has largely been out-of-pocket expenses incurred because of petty vandalism and theft.
SF News Retired SF Police Officer Allegedly Threatened to Kill 11-Year-Old Over Ding-Dong-Ditch Pranks A retired San Francisco cop now living in Marin County is being accused of threatening to "put a bullet" in an 11-year-old boy after the boy and his friends were reportedly ringing doorbells in the neighborhood and running away — i.e. playing ding-dong ditch.
SF News Second Suspect Arrested In Carjack-Kidnapping of DoorDash Driver's Kids San Francisco police located and arrested the second suspect in the carjacking and kidnapping of a DoorDash driver's minivan with two small children inside.
SF News Liquor Store Owner In Oakland Chinatown Arrested for Vigilante Firearm Action During Street Robbery On Monday evening, one business owner in Oakland's Chinatown who tried to take matters into his own hands — by way of shooting a weapon while intervening in a robbery that was occurring outside his store — was arrested for his actions.
SF News Missing Man Found Dead Inside Guerrero Street Apartment Building A 50-year-old San Francisco man who had been reported missing in early January has been found dead inside his Guerrero Street apartment building, less than a week after family members pressed the SFPD to prioritize the case.
SF News Mission Resident Disappears After Paranoid Episode Relating to January 6 Riot in DC, SFPD Investigating There is a strange missing-persons case taking shape in San Francisco, and it remains unclear how 50-year-old Christopher Woitel left his Guerrero Street apartment without being seen on a surveillance camera.
SF News Felon With Recent Arrests, Wearing Ankle Monitor, Arrested as Suspect In DoorDash Driver Carjacking/Kidnapping In yet another case of a San Francisco felon who was roaming the streets with cases pending against him reoffending in a dangerous and high-profile manner, 25-year-old Erlin Romero was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of kidnapping DoorDash driver Jeffrey Fang's two children last Saturday.
SF News Arrest Made In Assaults on Elderly Victims In Oakland's Chinatown A week after three Asian American seniors were brutally attacked on the streets of Oakland's Chinatown, police say they have arrested a person of interest whom they identified last week.