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.
SF News Young Man Kidnapped, Beaten, Shot, and Robbed Near Civic Center Saturday Morning The SFPD is seeking two suspects in an SUV who allegedly kidnapped a man in his 20s near Civic Center on Saturday morning, and later dropped him on the street, badly injured and partially naked.
Business & Tech Former Santa Clara Police Captain Pleads Guilty In Bizarre eBay Cyberstalking Case 55-year-old former Santa Clara police captain Philip Cooke entered a guilty plea in federal court in Boston Tuesday, joining six other former eBay employees implicated in a wackadoo intimidation scheme aimed at a couple of Boston-based bloggers.
SF News Sacramento Sex Worker Who Kidnapped Teen In San Francisco and Trafficked Her Gets Almost Seven Years A Sacramento woman who had herself been forced into prostitution at a young age was formally sentenced on Thursday for her role in recruiting and grooming a 15-year-old girl who was forced into prostitution three years ago.
SF News Man Charged With Hate Crimes for Swastika Painted on Temple Has Sordid Berkeley Past The last thing Jewish people want to see is a swastika, ever. The Nazi symbol is especially unsettling on the front door of a synagogue, but that’s exactly what was found this week at Oakland’s Temple Sinai.
SF News Driver of Stolen U-Haul Dies Following Pursuit in SF, Jump Into Bay The driver of a stolen U-Haul truck died early Thursday morning after trying to evade police and jumping into San Francisco Bay.
SF News Daughter and Son-in-Law Who Killed and Dismembered Elderly Outer Mission Man Get Light Sentences In Plea Deal Defense attorneys successfully argued that there was no evidence of malice before the killing, and prosecutors reportedly had difficulty establishing who did what to whom first, with the defense claiming self-defense.
SF News SF Car Theft Suspects Found With Assault Weapons After Getting Flat Tire During East Bay Pursuit Two suspects in an Audi that was reported stolen in San Francisco led police on a chase after an attempted traffic stop in Contra Costa County Friday night, and the chase concluded quickly after they got a flat tire.
SF News Arrest Made In Lemur Theft A 30-year-old man is in custody Friday and is the SFPD's suspect in this week's much publicized theft of an endangered lemur from the SF Zoo.
Arts & Entertainment [Update] Ring-Tailed Lemur Abducted From SF Zoo; $2100 Reward Offered A 21-year-old ring-tailed lemur was stolen out of his enclosure at the San Francisco Zoo, the SFPD has confirmed. And now the zoo is offering a reward for information that leads to his safe return.
SF News Suspect In Milpitas Murder Found Dead In Central Valley Hotel Room Kevin Gitmed, the 35-year-old Gilroy man suspected in the Saturday night homicide of a woman in Milpitas, was found dead Wednesday night after being tracked to a hotel in Merced County.
SF News Two Men Including One Nicknamed 'Hitler' Sentenced In Louisiana-to-Oakland Racketeering Case Two men were sentenced Tuesday to a collective 66 years in federal prison for their roles in a whole slew of criminal activity stretching from Louisiana to California, including a murder-for-hire scheme that resulted in the death of an Oakland man.
SF News Overnight Shootings In SoMa and Tenderloin Leave Two Injured A young woman was shot and injured around 9:30 p.m. Tuesday near Hayes Valley in SoMa, and a 51-year-old man was shot multiple times in the Tenderloin after midnight.
SF News Armed and Dangerous Suspect Being Sought After South Bay Homicide A Gilroy man who's considered armed and dangerous was on the loose Monday, and authorities believe he was responsible for the shooting death of a woman on Sunday night in Milpitas.
SF News Vallejo Declares State of Emergency Over Pandemic Crime Wave and Police Misconduct Vallejo City Council thinks gangs are engaged in a turf war, but their emergency declaration sets off a turf war between the city’s police and its police officer’s association.
SF News Insane Brawl Breaks Out in the Middle of Upper Haight; Neighbor Group Blames Encampments A brawl broke out Saturday afternoon near the intersection of Clayton and Haight streets, and a neighborhood group that lobbied against the city establishing a sanctioned tent encampment nearby posted video to Twitter and implies homeless campers are to blame.
SF News Petaluma Man Believed To Have Killed Girlfriend Allegedly Kills Himself By Speeding the Wrong Way Onto 101 A Petaluma man who's believed to have killed his girlfriend on Friday died in a fiery motorcycle crash with another vehicle after he sped northbound onto the southbound lanes of Highway 101.
SF News Union Square Homicide Has Link to Home Invasion Robbery In East Bay A 21-year-old man who was killed near Union Square last week was wanted in connection with a May home invasion robbery in Fremont — and police had been looking for him for months.
