SF News Two Dangerous, Mentally Ill Inmates Escape Washington State Hospital Californians are being told to be on the lookout for two potentially dangerous men who escaped custody at a Washington State mental hospital where both were being treated. As KRON 4 reports via
SF News SFPD Text Scandal May Lead To State Or Federal Investigation Public Defender Jeff Adachi has sent out a release Tuesday calling on California Attorney General Kamala Harris to investigate the racist texting scandal in SFPD essentially saying that the department, in this case,
SF News Deplorable Teens Knock Man Unconscious On 15th Street A 54-year-old man was knocked to the ground and is now suffering life-threatening injuries after he was attacked Monday afternoon by a group of ne'er-do-well youths. This all happened, as KRON 4 reports,
SF News [Update] Suspects In Hunter Pence Scooter Theft Arrested, Ride Returned We were collectively aghast yesterday at the news that a scooter donated by Giants right fielder Hunter Pence had been stolen sometime Saturday night (or early Sunday morning) from the Make-a-Wish Foundation's SF
SF News Hunter Pence's Scooter Stolen For Second Time In Two Years, This Time From Make-A-Wish Foundation Giants outfielder Hunter Pence has been known to ride a motorized scooter between AT&T Park and his home SoMa home. He had parked the Goped scooter in a secluded spot by
SF News Good Samaritan Thwarts Market Street Phone Snatching A phone theft in the middle of one of San Francisco's busiest areas had a happy(ish) ending Friday, when a good Samaritan who saw the robbery tackled one of the thieves. A
SF News Early Morning Sidewalk Couch Fire Melts Cars In The Haight What a way to start the day. According to a tipster, at around 5:00 a.m this morning, he and his neighbors were awakened by the sounds of explosions and greeted by
SF News No Death Penalty Sought In Case Of Alleged Drug-Addled Drifter Murderers The Marin County DA's office announced in a statement late Wednesday that the death penalty would not be sought in the case of the suspected murderous trio of drifters apprehended in October, Morrison
SF News BART Delay This Morning Caused By Police Chase And Car Crash Near Tracks In Pleasant Hill UPDATE: A car was reported on the #BART tracks, causing major delays https://t.co/ewPpdMRKh0 pic.twitter.com/YuafM31lnq— KRON 4 News (@kron4news) March 31, 2016 Yet again BART riders faced a
SF News Police Seek Witnesses As Multiple Animals Shot In Berkeley Five animals have been shot recently in Berkeley, and police are asking for witnesses to come forward with any information that might help them find the culprit. So reports KRON 4, which notes
SF News Uber Sends Private Investigator To Question Former Employee Suspected Of Leaking 'Rape' Searches The extraordinarily broad reach of Uber across the nation (and world) and their questionable process for screening and hiring drivers has a lot of people worried about what the next shoe to drop
SF News Mission District Beating Deputy Allegedly Used Stolen Items To Bribe Witnesses Joining the two deputies depicted on video brutally beating a man in the Mission District in November of last year, a third Alameda County Sheriff’s deputy has been placed on leave. So
SF News Day Around The Bay: Suspects Nabbed In Fillmore Shooting Two suspects have been arrested in connection with that fatal shooting outside the Fillmore Street McDonald's last month. [KRON 4] Castro merchants are hoping a bike-share docking station will help discourage the loitering
SF News Will More Security Cameras In The Tenderloin Reduce Crime? You may automatically associate the Tenderloin with crime and drug use and you would not be wrong to do so. But the Tenderloin Community Benefit District hopes that its pilot program to install
SF News SFPD Holding Community Meeting On Duboce Triangle Crime Issues Tonight Between the recent violent assault of a couple, a wave of armed robberies, and at least two apparently random (and still unsolved) homicides in Duboce Triangle, residents are worried that crime in their
SF News British Man Stabbed On Cathedral Hill Last Month Dies; Police Release Video Of Attack A brutal stabbing of a 44-year-old British man near the intersection of Franklin and Post on February 18 has become a homicide, and the SFPD is now seeking the public's help in apprehending
SF News Incorrigible Tagger Recently Fined $200K Spray Paints Police Cruiser Anyway Terry Cozy does not abide by the laws of polite society and is apparently undeterred by heavy fines and strong rebuke. And yet C.W. Nevius of the Chronicle provided the latter for
SF News Vallejo Is Whack: Police Seriously Botched Huskins's Sexual Assault Investigation If you thought the allegations about the Vallejo Police Department's mishandling of the kidnapping of Denise Huskins last March couldn't get any worse, you were incorrect. As ABC 7 reports after reading the
SF News Hit-And-Run Driver Covered In Gold Paint Arrested After Wheel Falls Off His Car While in pursuit, a CHP officer received a simple but perplexing description of the suspect: "gold." Damaj Cook, a 21-year-old man mysteriously covered in head-to-toe gold spray paint, was eventually arrested on suspicion
SF News Police Find Toddlers Missing In The Tenderloin, Mother Arrested San Francisco police announced this afternoon that the two toddlers believed to be missing in the Tenderloin have been found safe. Apparently a woman, known only to the mother as "Jacquita," brought the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Peninsula Restaurant Owner Accused Of Tax Evasion Found With $600K Stashed In Home Russell Deutsch, the 57-year-old owner of Old Port Lobster Shack restaurants in Redwood City and Portola Valley and the Old Port Lobster Grill in San Jose, appears to be in some hot water
SF News FBI Hires Israeli Firm Cellebrite To Unlock San Bernardino Shooter's iPhone Though it's probably not news to the hacker world, the rest of the world is learning that the feds may not have ever really needed Apple's help to unlock and/or retrieve data
SF News Details Emerge In Lawsuit Against Vallejo Police From Woman Falsely Accused Of Faking Own Kidnapping Remember the totally bizarre and hoax-sounding March 2015 kidnapping and ransom case involving Vallejo resident Denise Huskins? After she was released from two days of captivity, Huskins and her partner Aaron Quinn were
SF News Pedestrian Safety Sting Busts Car Full Of Pot San Francisco Police Department's Park Station busted a driver with a car full of weed on Friday during a "Vision Zero" operation. In the middle of their new pedestrian safety stings — a project
SF News Violent Crime On The Decline In Oakland As Murder Rate Drops The year is off to a slow start in Oakland, and in this case that's a very good thing. The city is experiencing a drop in violent crimes the likes of which it
