SF News San Francisco Woman Assaulted at Gunpoint in Russian Hill As Thieves Steal Her French Bulldog Puppy A 30-year-old San Francisco woman says this may be the last straw for her giving up on the city after she was assaulted at gunpoint Tuesday evening and had her five-month-old puppy taken from her.
SF News Suspect In Lemur-napping At SF Zoo Released From Jail, Told to Stay Away From Zoo 31-year-old lemur-theft suspect Cory McGilloway made his first appearance in San Francisco court after being put on probation late last year for auto theft and other crimes in Marin County.
SF News DA Files Manslaughter and DUI Charges In Fatal New Year's Eve Hit-and-Run District Attorney Chesa Boudin formally filed multiple felony charges on Monday against the 45-year-old man accused in a hit-and-run collision last week in SoMa that killed two women.
SF News Parolee Accused in Fatal Hit-and-Run Allegedly Stole Car In Daly City From Woman He Was on a Date With The suspect in the New Year's Eve hit-and-run collision in SF's SoMa neighborhood that left two women dead had allegedly stolen the car used in the incident two days earlier from a woman he met on a dating app.
SF News Despite Violent Year Around the Bay and the Nation, SF Is Set to Record Similar Homicide Rate to 2018 San Francisco's homicide count stands at 48 as we enter the waning hours of 2020, marking a slight uptick from the record-low number of killings in the city in 2019, but nearly on par with the count from two years ago.
SF News Man in Trump Mask and Santa Beard Allegedly Shoots Brother-in-Law in Sonoma County A Las Vegas man is accused of showing up in Sonoma County a little late for Christmas on Saturday, dressed in a Santa beard, Santa hat, and a Donald Trump mask, and creating a ruse to lure his former brother-in-law out of his house so that he could shoot him.
SF News Convicted Killer Charged In 32-Year-Old Cold-Case Kidnapping and Murder of 9-Year-Old in the East Bay The disappearance of nine-year-old Michaela Garecht, who was grabbed in a supermarket parking lot in Hayward a few days before Thanksgiving in 1988, made national headlines. And only now have investigators charged a man who was already in prison for another murder.
SF News Oakland and San Francisco Police Arrest Pair of Rape Suspects Two men were arrested this week on sexual assault and other charges in unrelated cases, with witnesses on a San Francisco Muni helping to identify one of the suspects.
SF News Burglaries, Arsons, and Car Thefts Are All Up Significantly in SF Over Last Year Crime was expected to go down with shelter-in-place orders back at the beginning of the pandemic, and for a short time, it did. But in San Francisco, the nature of the crimes being committed most often may have shifted, but there's still plenty of bad stuff going on all over town.
SF News Third Suspect Arrested in Killing of Two Teens at Union City Elementary School Both an 11-year-old and a 14-year-old were shot and killed at Searles Elementary School a year ago, but Alameda County authorities now think they’ve apprehended all the suspects.
SF News Suspect Arrested In February Homicide Following Muni Bus Altercation A 38-year-old Piedmont man has been arrested and charged in the homicide of a San Francisco man, following a fight between the two men that began on a Muni bus.
SF News Two Suspects At Large After Noe Valley Robbery and Shooting A 42-year-old man was left with life-threatening injuries after being shot twice while fleeing from two suspects during a Sunday night mugging in Noe Valley.
SF News Gunman On Loose Following Friday Morning Shooting in SoMa The SPFD is hunting for a suspect following a shooting this morning in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood.
SF News Former YouTube Engineer Enters No-Contest Plea In Acid-Fueled Bodega Bay Rampage A 33-year-old man who had done too much acid while vacationing with friends in Bodega Bay last year, and who subsequently went on a violent rampage that injured several people before getting shot by police, has pleaded no contest.
SF News Tenderloin Suspect Racks Up 13th Vehicle Theft Arrest in Just 18 Months In what must be a record run, the SFPD Tenderloin unit this week arrested a suspect for their 13th vehicle theft in a mere year and a half.
SF News 25-Year-Old San Francisco Woman Killed In East Oakland Saturday Night A woman was fatally shot and a man was wounded in Saturday night shootings in East Oakland that took place within minutes of each other.
SF News Video Emerges of Police Shooting Outside Westfield Mall; Suspect Remains In Critical Condition An eyewitness video appeared on Instagram Wednesday showing, at least from one angle, how an incident unfolded on the Market Street sidewalk outside the Westfield shopping center Tuesday evening in which a man was shot by SFPD officers.
SF News SFPD Officers Shoot Man Wielding Large Knife Outside Westfield Mall A man who was reportedly acting erratically and refusing to comply with police commands while waving around a large knife on Tuesday evening was shot and wounded by police.
SF News Grab-and-Run Thieves Wearing Ankle-Monitors Swipe $54K Worth of YSL Purses in Union Square Grab-and-run thievery is nothing new at the high-end shops around Union Square, but despite the best efforts of security guards and a network of cameras, the thieves keep coming back during the pandemic.
SF News SFPD Makes Arrest In Violent Tenderloin Kidnapping and Robbery; Suspect Freed Pending Charges An arrest has been made in a case that made headlines from Halloween weekend, in which a 26-year-old man was kidnapped, beaten, shot, robbed, and dumped naked and bleeding by a roadside in San Francisco.
SF News South Bay Woman Confesses to Embezzlement Scheme, and the Faked Assault and Fire She Set to Cover It Up It's a crime story straight out of a Coen Brothers' script. Authorities in Saratoga this week arrested a 74-year-old San Jose woman in a bizarre cover-up designed to throw them off the trail of an embezzlement scheme in which her employer was the victim.
SF News SFPD Seeks Motorcyclist Who Struck 90-Year-Old Woman in Diamond Heights Hit-and-Run San Francisco police are seeking the public's help in locating a motorcyclist suspected in a hit-and-run Wednesday afternoon that badly injured a 90-year-old woman.
SF News Two Wednesday Shootings In Bernal Heights and Bayview Now Under Investigation There were a pair of shootings in San Francisco on Wednesday, one of them fatal, in two different neighborhoods, about eight hours apart.
SF News Marauding Groups of Looters Target Multiple Retail Stores Across the East Bay A memo seems to have gone out to would-be looters that this week was going to be a good time to hit some stores in the East Bay, with a CVS, a Big 5, and a sneaker shop all targeted.
SF News Oakland Sees Night Of Chaos With Multiple Shootings, Pot Burglaries Rumors and fears of potential unrest gave way to at least two burglaries at marijuana businesses in Oakland, one of which led to an officer-involved shooting. Other shootings elsewhere in Oakland resulted in six people being injured.
