SF News Day Around the Bay: Tenderloin Sees Uptick In Break-Ins, Vandalism During Lockdown Mayor Breed announces new tenant protections, Democrats may be nearing a deal with the White House for a stimulus package, and Kaiser Permanente has canceled plans for a huge new headquarters complex in Oakland in a blow to the local economy.
SF News DA's Office Will Not Be Charging 20-Year-Old Suspect Who Video'd Attack On Asian Man The 20-year-old San Francisco man arrested following the February 22 attack on a 68-year-old Asian man — and the one who recorded the incident on his cellphone and can apparently be heard saying "I hate Asians" — will face "restorative justice."
SF News SFPD Arrests 51-Year-Old Suspect In Unprovoked Stabbing at Seventh and Market An arrest has been made in a case involving a hunched-over shady character who was seen in surveillance video apparently randomly stabbing someone in the back of the leg on Market Street.
SF News Stockton Tunnel Camera Picks Up Daytime Assault, Dragging Of Woman There's a developing story here as the SFPD is reportedly investigating some surveillance footage picked up at the foot of the Stockton Tunnel near Union Square that shows two male suspects violently dragging a woman out of the tunnel and into a waiting vehicle.
SF News Court Records Suggest Alleged East Bay Predator Tried To Purchase Two Young Girls For $30K A voracious alleged sexual predator on what sounds like a self-destructive bender was arrested in December in Walnut Creek after reportedly attempting to "buy" two young girls from their mother. Investigators later found a home rigged with hidden cameras, and a trove of child porn.
SF News Allegedly Drunk Woman Arrested After Driving Car Across Richmond Bridge In The Bike Lane A woman was arrested by CHP officers in Marin County Tuesday evening after she allegedly drove her vehicle across the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge in the bike lane, with a child in the backseat, and then failed a field sobriety test.
SF News Bay Area Men Accused In Italian Cop Killing Go to Trial In Rome The two young American men suspected in the stabbing death of a Carabinieri paramilitary officer in Rome last July began their trial today, and one or both of them face possible life sentences in Italian prison.
SF News Disgusting Twitter Video Shows Apparent Bayview Robbery, Black-on-Asian Racism A video that went viral on Twitter appears to show an elderly Asian man after he was just robbed of a shopping cart loaded with aluminum cans he had collected in SF's Bayview neighborhood. The man can then be seen being attacked by the alleged thief, and mocked by shouting onlookers.
SF News Dozens of Cars Converge on SF for Five Separate Sunday Morning Sideshows Weekend sideshow activity — where dozens of cars come together and do donuts in intersections, much to the delight of onlookers who could also get killed if anything went wrong — is typically relegated to the East Bay and suburbs. But on Sunday it came to SF.
SF News Armed Trio Try and Fail to Carjack Three Vehicles In SoMa Thursday Morning A trio of suspects, one armed with a handgun, allegedly attempted three separate carjackings in and around SoMa, all within an hour on Thursday morning.
SF News Suspect In East Bay Armed Robberies Cuts Hair, Gets Arrested In Central Valley One of two suspects wanted in what are believed to be a pair of connected, violent daylight robberies in Oakland and Richmond on February 10, was arrested after an all-points bulletin went out — and he was likely trying to flee the state.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFPD Seeks Man In Super Bowl Sunday Burrito Attack at Gordo Taqueria An irate customer at an Outer Richmond taqueria is being sought by police in an aggravated assault that took place on Sunday, February 2 — during the Super Bowl.
Business & Tech Walgreens to Pay $7.5 Million to Two Bay Area Counties Over Phony Pharmacist The Walgreens pharmacy chain has agreed to pay $7.5 million to settle a case in which an employee succeeded in impersonating a pharmacist for 11 years and illegally wrote prescriptions for patients in Alameda and Santa Clara counties.
SF News Elderly Chinatown Residents Targeted For Red Envelopes During Lunar New Year During Lunar New Year celebrations this week, law enforcement is going on high alert in both San Francisco's and Oakland's Chinatown to deter thieves from targeting a longstanding gift tradition.
SF News Amid Spike In Fentanyl Deaths, SF Man Sentenced In Fentanyl-Selling Case After going on the lam with his wife in Mexico, getting caught, and pleading guilty in federal court last July to conspiracy to distribute fentanyl, a San Francisco man was sentenced Friday to 200 months (16 and a half years) in jail.
Business & Tech Instagram Chief Adam Mosseri's SF Home Got Swatted In just one of multiple incidents in the last year in which a high-profile tech executive saw their home descended upon by police and SWAT teams, Facebook's head of Instagram Adam Mosseri had both his homes in New York and San Francisco swatted in November.
SF News Video of an Armed Robbery On a Woman's Doorstep Has an Oakland Neighborhood on Edge A Ring doorbell video of a woman being accosted and robbed by an armed thief on her doorstep in the Eastmont Hills neighborhood of Oakland has been cause for fresh alarm for neighbors — and it's part of an apparent uptick in armed robberies around the Oakland hills.
SF News 'Purple People' Sex Commune In Lafayette Hit With Racist Graffiti A 52-year-old communal living curiosity in the East Bay is making news again for an unfortunate reason this week after vehicles and buildings on the property were hit with racist graffiti.
SF News Laptop Theft Victim Shot In Hip At Bus Stop In North Oakland Another person was violently robbed of their laptop in Oakland on Friday, and this time the victim was shot in the course of the robbery.
SF News Two Alleged Western Addition Gang Members Face Federal Charges In March 2019 Fillmore Shooting A pair of suspects in a shooting that left one man dead and five others wounded last March in the Fillmore District were indicted in federal court Wednesday on charges of being felons in possession of a firearm, and using a firearm in a violent crime that ended in death.
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.
