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Air Force Officer Named In Killing of Santa Cruz Sheriff's Deputy May Be Linked to Killing of Federal Officer in Oakland

An ambush-style attack that took the life of a sheriff's deputy in the Santa Cruz Mountains on Saturday afternoon may be linked to a similar ambush attack on a pair of federal security guards in Oakland during protests on May 29.

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Couple Shot By CHP Officers In Oakland Were Driving Vehicle Allegedly Looted From San Leandro Dealership

A man and a woman who were shot by CHP officers in Oakland Saturday night were reportedly driving a vehicle identified as one of the 70+ cars stolen off a dealer's lot during widespread looting in San Leandro a week ago Sunday.

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Pot Dispensaries Broken Into and Looted Across SF and California

Cannabis shop owners suspect organized crime has a hand in the ransacking of dispensaries sweeping the state under the George Floyd demonstrations.

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Three Dead, Two Wounded In Multiple Shootings in East Oakland

Three people including a 15-year-old boy were killed Monday night in a string of shootings in different parts of East Oakland.

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80 Arrested In San Francisco Sunday; Molotov Cocktails, Handgun Seized

As San Francisco began imposing its first night of an 8 p.m. citywide curfew, SFPD officers made around 80 arrests, many of them for violating that curfew, but some for more destructive acts.

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Suspect Arrested After Allegedly Trying to Kidnap Two Young Children in the Castro

A 44-year-old man was arrested Wednesday evening after he allegedly tried to pull two young boys out of a car in the Castro neighborhood.

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East Bay Law Enforcement Promotes '#ZeroBailFail' On Twitter; Federal Courts May Step In to Hold Suspects In Jail

The Alameda County Sheriff's Office released four side-by-side booking photos of one suspect they've had to arrest four times since late March on suspicion of a variety of charges, promoting the hashtag #ZeroBailFail.

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Four Young Men Identified As Suspects Charged In Santa Cruz Kidnapping and Murder

The Santa Cruz Sheriff's Office on Thursday held a press conference identifying a a trio of young twentysomething men from Lancaster, in LA County, as well as a fourth man as suspects in the October 1 kidnapping and murder of Tushar Atre.

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Suspect Arrested In Portola Murder Was Previously Charged In 2009 Muni Assault and Robbery of Actor

A 26-year-old man who was just arrested in connection with a homicide that occurred in the Portola neighborhood last week was previously arrested and charged as a juvenile in a Muni robbery that made headlines a decade ago.

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Transient Suspect Just Let Out of Jail Allegedly Attacks Three People at East Bay Safeway

A suspect is in custody for the second time in 24 hours after three apparently unprovoked assaults at a Safeway store in Fremont on Monday afternoon.

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Woman Fatally Shot By Police In Half Moon Bay After Apparent Drunken Shootout

According to the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office, a woman walking down the street in Half Moon Bay with a shotgun and a drink in her hand was fatally shot by sheriff's deputies on Tuesday evening after exchanging fire.

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Accessory In 2016 Murder of Keith Green Cries In Court As He's Sentenced In Passport Fraud Case

The MMA fighter and former bodyguard of suspects Tiffany Li and Kaveh Bayat known as Olivier Adella was just sentenced to serve only two more months in jail for passport fraud, unrelated to the killing.

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22-Year-Old Mission Resident Fatally Shot In Crossfire Near 14th and Guerrero

A 22-year-old Twitter employee walking home from Dolores Park on Friday evening was struck by a bullet, possibly in crossfire during a drive-by shooting, and is now hospitalized on life support.

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Another Coughing Thief Arrested In Vallejo

Much like two women allegedly tried to do in order to brazenly rob a Walgreens in San Francisco earlier this month, a woman is suspected of coughing in security guards' faces in order to evade capture and rob a Target store in Vallejo.

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Sunset Homicide Victim's Severed Head Reportedly Found In Refrigerator; Case Might Be Linked to Daly City Shooting

More details have emerged about a homicide case we heard about Monday, at an apartment on the Great Highway in San Francisco. And now it seems there is a link between this homicide and the crazed carjacking suspect who was fatally shot by police in Daly City on Easter Sunday.

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Alleged Drug Dealer Arrested in the Tenderloin For Violating Shelter-in-Place Orders, Selling Drugs

A 20-year-old Oakland man was arrested by SFPD officers on Saturday night both for violating local sheltering orders and for being in possession of a bunch of drugs for sale.

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Four Men Arrested for a Pair of Sunday Robberies in San Francisco

The SFPD says it has arrested and charged four suspects in connection with two robberies — one armed, and one involving an assault — in different neighborhoods in San Francisco on Sunday.

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Bay Area Law Enforcement Pushes Back on Jail Release Orders Citing Re-Arrests and Repeat Offenders

Officials at several Bay Area law enforcement agencies are bristling at the statewide emergency orders to lower jail populations during the COVID-19 pandemic, with at least one suggesting that releasing some suspects presents a greater public health threat than keeping them jailed.

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San Mateo County Authorities Arrest Suspect Believed Responsible for 53 Burglaries, Seize Cache of Guns

A 20-year-old man was arrested in Modesto over the weekend in connection with over 50 residential burglaries in San Mateo County — and in the process authorities seized eight semi-automatic rifles, three shotguns, a bulletproof vest, two handguns, and several allegedly stolen items.

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Knife-Wielding Man Reportedly Barricaded In Glide Memorial Church After Police Shoot At Him

An SFPD officer reportedly shot at a suspect wielding a knife on Ellis Street in the Tenderloin early Tuesday morning, and the suspect remained barricaded in a building — apparently Glide Memorial Church — as of Tuesday afternoon.

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Laid-Off Alioto's Restaurant Server Turned Uber Eats Driver Has Car Stolen In the Mission

Yusuf Soylemez had only been driving for Uber Eats for about 10 days, trying to make ends meet after getting laid off from his job at a popular Fisherman's Wharf restaurant. And on Friday afternoon he had left his car idling when it got stolen on Mission Street.

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Bizarre Easter Morning Murder Scene Found In Burning Mission District Home

A 29-year-old man, naked and covered in blood on his patio, was taken into custody Sunday morning after San Francisco firefighters found the body of a woman in one of the bedrooms of a home on fire.

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Carjacking Suspect Fatally Shot, Off-Duty SFPD Officer Stabbed In Crazy South SF Rampage

Early Sunday morning, a man who allegedly attempted to carjack two different vehicles was shot and killed by officers in South San Francisco after he stabbed two people, got shot once, and tried to drive himself to the hospital.

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SFPD and City Attorney Shut Down Underground Nightclub In Bayview Warehouse

San Francisco police staked out and then raided a nightclub that appeared to be operating only in the wee hours (2 a.m. to 6 a.m.) and without any kind of license during the coronavirus lockdown.

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Vandalism and Thefts Hit Lucky 13, Harvey’s, Countless Other Bars and Restaurants

A wave of vandalism and theft is smashing and grabbing what little revenue or peace of mind our favorite restaurants can cobble together while the streets are emptied for shelter-in-place.