SF News Napa Homeowner Allegedly Stabbed By Trespasser Pulls Knife Out of His Own Back, Stabs Suspect A Napa County resident engaged in a seriously cinematic act of self-defense on Saturday morning, attacking his attacker with the same knife he was stabbed with.
SF News East Bay Man Arrested For Apparent Fencing Operation With $190K Worth of Retail Goods A 52-year-old man was arrested at his home in El Sobrante last week and was found in possession of nearly $200,000 worth of allegedly stolen goods from retailers including Lululemon, Victoria's Secret, CVS, Walgreens, and Target.
SF Politics SF Mayor, Police Tout 300 Drug Dealer Arrests In Three Months, 160 Kilos Seized The crackdown on Tenderloin and SoMa drug dealing and drug use is having an impact, at least according to some numbers released by Mayor London Breed on Friday — though the effectiveness of the strategy to throw users in jail for public intoxication or possession remains to be proven.
SF News [Update] Beloved Corner Store Clerk Reportedly Dead After Alleged Baseball-Bat Beating From Shoplifter The longtime cashier at the Outer Richmond corner store Richmond Market has reportedly died after an alleged baseball bat attack at the hands of a shoplifter who made off with a bottle of water and two beers, and is still at large.
SF News Tourists' Car Broken Into at Palace of Fine Arts Just as SFPD Holds News Conference On Break-Ins Nearby SF officials held a press conference Thursday morning to discuss a long overdue crackdown on the epidemic of car break-ins in the city. And just as they were about to kick it off, a break-in was occurring a short distance away.
SF Politics Poll: Republicans Are Much More Scared of San Francisco Crime Than Democrats, Because Fox News Thanks to the willful exaggerations of Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, Tucker Carlson, and the whole gang at Fox News and Newsmax, Republican-leaning voters are far more scared to visit San Francisco right now than Democrats.
SF News 23-Year-Old San Jose Man Gets 12 Years For Selling Fentanyl-Laced Pills to Los Gatos High Schoolers One lengthy drug sentence is likely to come down in Santa Clara County in a case involving a dealer who was providing dangerous, fentanyl-laced pills to students at Los Gatos High School last year, leading to at least one overdose.
SF News Video Captures Thieves On Bipping Spree Near Fisherman's Wharf Word apparently really hasn't spread, at this late date, about not leaving anything in a parked car in San Francisco. Just watch as a couple of suspects work their way down several blocks in Fisherman's Wharf, finding car after car with stuff to grab inside.
SF News SFPD Arrests Three Teens, Three Young Adults For Alleged Organized Retail Burglary Ring In SF Six suspects were arrested for a Thursday robbery of a Lower Pacific Heights retailer, and in the continuation of a troubling trend in teen crime, some of the suspects are 13, 14, and 15 years old.
SF News Federal Agency Tells SF Workers to Work From Home Due to Unsafe Conditions Outside Federal Building While multiple federal agencies and departments have offices in the federal building at Seventh and Mission, one has issued a directive to its staff to work remotely for the foreseeable future due to ongoing safety issues with drug dealing and use happening on the sidewalks outside.
SF News Woman's Body Found In Duffel Bag In Golden Gate Park On Sunday evening, as Outside Lands festival-goers were still enjoying themselves a few blocks west, a body was found in Golden Gate Park.
SF News In the Wake of 'Party Mom' Case, Los Gatos Is Trying Multiple Things to Curb Teen Drinking In Los Gatos, they're going to be holding workshops and conducting a survey of students, parents, and teachers about alcohol and drug use, and try to show kids that most of their peers aren't drinking or doing drugs as much as they may think.
SF News Broad Daylight Stabbing on SF's Market Street Leaves One Injured A man was stabbed Monday afternoon in downtown San Francisco, and the victim reportedly suffered life-threatening injuries.
SF News Police: Bay Area Thieves Using Bluetooth Technology to Locate Electronics In Trunks, and Unlock Cars Car burglars these days are more tech-savvy than most of us realize, and with just a smartphone or an app downloaded from the dark web, they can quickly find cars to break into where expensive electronics may be stowed in the trunk.
SF News Antioch Sideshow Injures Three, Plows Over Fire Hydrant, Leaves Car In River A very wet ending to a very wild sideshow early Sunday morning in Antioch, where a fire hydrant was knocked over and left gushing, a car flew into the San Joaquin River, and one bystander suffered major injuries.
SF News San Francisco Saw Three Homicides In 24 Hours Last Week Three men were killed in San Francisco in a span of just over 24 hours between Thursday night and Friday night, in separate incidents.
SF News At Contentious Tenderloin Town Hall, DA Brooke Jenkins Blames Judges for Freeing Drug Dealers San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins is looking to shift some blame for the city's ongoing fentanyl crisis to the county's judges, who she says are too lenient in allowing drug suspects back onto the streets.
SF News SFPD Arrests Suspect In June Shooting Outside Balboa Park Nightclub Someone is now in police custody in connection with the case of a shooting that left three people injured outside Stratos nightclub at the edge of the Balboa Park and Mission Terrace neighborhoods in early June.
SF News Another US Postal Service Mail Carrier Robbed, This Time in the Richmond District Another robbery of a mail carrier happened in the Richmond District Friday afternoon, and it’s not just a Bay Area thing, as robberies of postal workers have nearly doubled nationwide over the last year.
SF News Oakland Residents Fume Over Crime at Community Meeting With DA, Oakland Police As an East Bay crime wave continues, Alameda County DA Pamela Price and Oakland PD top brass faced the music at a Thursday night community meeting, where people largely just shouted the speakers (and each other) down.
SF News Oakland Police Arrest Trio In Connection With Carjacking Spree, Including Attempt Caught on Video While a spate of robberies and carjackings by multiple crews still may not be over, Oakland police say they've arrested three individuals who they believe were working together on a spree of carjackings, including an attempted one earlier this week that was caught on dashcam video.
SF News Accused Bob Lee Killer Nima Momeni Due Back In Court Monday, More Evidence May Emerge As the multiply delayed preliminary hearing in the Bob Lee murder case is finally set to begin Monday, we learn there may be some new evidence from the prosecution — perhaps about motive — that will be made public.
SF News SFPD Makes Two Arrests In Sanchez Steps Car-Flip, Carjacking It's been just four days, and the SFPD has made two arrests in that carjacking and subsequent spectacular, coocoo-crazy car crash over the Sanchez Street steps in the Castro.
SF News Oakland Man Who Did Time For Attack On Chinatown Leader Charged With Assault on Elderly SF Woman A mentally ill Oakland man who was previously convicted for a 2021 assault on Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce leader Carl Chan has now been charged in an attack on an elderly Asian woman that took place in SF last week.
SF News Carjackings, Robberies, Juvenile Crimes On Rise — Just Another Pandemic Hangover? Two recent, violent carjackings — one of which ended shortly thereafter in a spectacular crash in a normally quiet part of San Francisco's Castro District — are examples of what seems to be an uptick in these types of crimes, many of which appear to be committed by juveniles.
