SF News L.A. Man Arrested In Kidnapping of Fort Bragg Teen Released From Jail as DA's Office Delays Charges A 22-year-old Los Angeles man arrested earlier this week in connection with the weekend disappearance of a 13-year-old Mendocino County girl visiting San Francisco with her family has been released from jail pending charges.
SF News Bay Area Criminals Are Reportedly Driving to SoCal to Break Into More Cars In what is perhaps a sign that local law enforcement is doing an OK job at deterring and catching auto burglars for a change, police in Southern California have noted a trend in Bay Area gangs traveling down there to target tourist vehicles.
SF News First SF Homicide Victim of 2020 Is Woman in the Tenderloin The first homicide of the new year happened in the Tenderloin, just blocks from two other homicides in December.
SF News Murder Charges Possible After Death of 89-Year-Old Woman Beaten in Visitacion Valley An 89-year-old great-grandmother succumbed to her injuries Friday after a year in the hospital following a January 2019 beating in a park near her home in Visitacion Valley.
SF News Two Convicted Felons To Face Murder and Manslaughter Charges In Death of Laptop Theft Victim Two previously convicted robbers have been arrested and are facing charges in the New Year's Eve death of a 34-year-old Oakland man whose laptop computer they were allegedly trying to steal.
SF News SFPD Arrests Man In SoMa For Chasing Someone With a Needle A man was arrested Monday evening after reports that he was chasing another person around the area of 7th and Mission Street with a hypodermic needle.
SF News Three People Shot, Three People Stabbed On New Year's Eve in SF Three people were shot and injured on Tuesday evening around the city, and after the clock struck midnight, three more people were stabbed in separate incidents in SoMa and the Excelsior district.
SF News Car Break-Ins Still Frequent In SF, But Down 3 Percent Over Last Year As we await final crime stats from the SFPD for 2019, the department is touting the fact that burglaries from vehicles in the city — while still high — were down slightly year over year through November.
SF News San Francisco Marks 56-Year Low In Homicides There was plenty of bad news in 2019, but in the good news column the homicide count in San Francisco hit its lowest number since 1963: 41.
SF News Woman Catches Guy Breaking Into Her Car In Hayes Valley, SFPD Makes Arrest It's a rare story when somebody actually catches a car burglar in the act, but that's what happened Saturday night near Civic Center.
SF News Another DoorDash Driver Is Caught Stealing a Package A second DoorDash driver, this time in Santa Clara, was caught on surveillance video being a porch pirate just moments after handing off a bag of food to a customer.
SF News East Bay Convenience Store Robbery, Pistol-Whipping Caught On Video An armed robbery Sunday night at a convenience store in Bay Point ended with one of the alleged thieves fatally shot, and the initial unfolding of the robbery — which left a cashier injured — was caught on surveillance video.
SF News [Updated] Potrero Hill Stabbing Leaves 35-Year-Old Mother of 7 Dead A woman was fatally stabbed Saturday night in Potrero Hill, and a 25-year-old woman is now in custody in connection with the stabbing.
SF News SF Man Charged With Sexual Assault of 99-Year-Old Woman Found Guilty of Misdemeanor A mentally ill San Francisco man accused of attempting to rape a 99-year-old woman in a Chinatown apartment building on New Year's Eve last year was acquitted of the most serious charges he faced this week, and found guilty of two misdemeanors.
SF News SF Authorities Want To Reunite Burglary Victims With $2.5 Million In Recovered Property If you recently lost a laptop, camera, purse, cellphone, or other item to a thief in the Bay Area, you might be able to get it back following the bust of a major fencing operation.
SF News Olivier Adella, Man Accused of Dumping Body in 2016 Murder, To Get Out of Jail Olivier Adella, the "bodyguard" accused of disposing of the body in the 2016 murder of Keith Green will face no further charges and will be released from jail in four weeks. This potentially sets the stage for the retrial of Kaveh Bayat for the murder.
SF News One Puppy Found, One Still Missing After Stolen Van Incident in the East Bay Of the 28 puppies and full-grown dogs that went missing in a pet transport van that was stolen on Sunday night, 27 have now been recovered. But one cute brown bulldog puppy remains missing, having apparently been sold in Oakland by a suspect who is now in custody.
SF News Man With Bad Dreadlocks Arrested For 'Prolific' String of Burglaries in SF The SFPD announced Tuesday that it had arrested a 43-year-old man last week who is suspected in a series of commercial burglaries in and around Chinatown and Nob Hill.
SF News Stolen Van Full of 30 Dogs Recovered In Oakland, 3 Dogs Missing A cargo van full of dogs who were being transported cross-country was stolen out of a hotel parking lot in Fremont Sunday, and while the van has been found with most of the dogs still inside, owners of the dogs are naturally freaking out.
SF News 50-Year-Old Man Fatally Shot In Bayview A shooting on Saturday evening took the life of a 50-year-old man in the Bayview district.
SF News East Bay Woman Mad About Son's Haircut Wanted For Ramming Barber With Her Car A 28-year-old Brentwood woman is suspected of violently ramming a barber in Antioch with her car after arguing with him over a bad haircut that he gave her son.
SF News Petaluma Man Mistaken For Car Thief Gets Killed In Choke-Hold By Police An apparently disabled Petaluma man who had reported his car stolen and then not informed Sonoma County authorities that it had been found was forcibly removed from his vehicle last week, placed in a carotid hold, and accidentally killed.
SF News Car Dealership Burglarized In the Richmond, Suspects Make Off With Three Luxury Cars At least three suspects broke into a Toyota dealership in the Inner Richmond on Saturday, ransacked the office, and made off with three used cars worth about $150,000. All three cars were later found abandoned in the Bayview and the Sunnydale housing projects.
SF News Stray Bullet From Shootout Following Robbery On Oakland's Grand Avenue Injures Resident A gunpoint robbery Monday morning at a coin collectors' store on Oakland's Grand Avenue led to a shootout between the thieves and the store owner, and in the exchange of gunfire a stray bullet entered a nearby residence and injured a person inside.
SF News Two Orinda Shooting Victims Were Armed Rival Gang Members; Party Promoter Held as Accessory At a Friday press conference, Contra Costa County Sheriff David Livingston described the crime scene at the Orinda Airbnb on Halloween night as "a bloodbath" and like nothing he'd ever seen in his 32 years in law enforcement.
