SF News Shrimp Boy Described As 'Buddha-Like' As His Attorneys Vow To Appeal Verdict Following the guilty verdict two Fridays ago in the federal case against Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow, former SF Appeal and SF Mag reporter Max Cherney sat down for a new jailhouse interview with
SF News Fearsome Hat Thief Menaces The Castro A man is learning out how to live a bare-headed lifestyle this week, after a Castro-area altercation ended with the theft of his hat. According to the San Francisco Police Department, the 49-year-old
SF News Video: Marc Jacobs Raiders Swipe $1700 Worth Of Purses The San Francisco Police Department is seeking a shoplifting trio that brazenly swiped a number of pricey handbags from a Pacific Heights store. In an email sent late Tuesday, SFPD spokesperson Officer Carlos
SF News SF's Most Criminal Block Is [Drumroll] Market Between 4th And 5th Powell Street BART. The Westfield Mall. The cable car turnaround. Market between 4th and 5th Streets is a hotbed for transportation, shopping, tourism, and yes, criminal activity. This one stretch of SF's central
SF News BART Shooting Victim And Suspect Had Prior Altercation After just over a week of investigation, BART police have determined that the January 9 shooting aboard a crowded BART train was not, after all, a random act of violence. Instead, police have
SF News Body Found During MLK Day Cleanup Along Oakland Shoreline A "moderately decomposed" corpse was discovered Monday by a cleanup volunteer who was taking part in the eight annual Day of Service on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The discovery occurred along the
SF News 'Involuntary Manslaughter' Charges For Suspect In Beating Death Of Local Artist A month after a beloved North Beach sketch artist suffered a fatal random attack at a Market Street bus stop, the San Francisco Police Department says that they have made an arrest in
SF News Man Who Thought He Was Getting Into Lyft Robbed At Gunpoint This report has been updated following its publication. A user of the transportation network company Lyft had an unexpectedly scary ride this week, after a fellow passenger robbed him at gunpoint. According to
SF News BART Shooting Victim ID'd As Police Release More Suspect Photos BART Police this afternoon released the name of the previously unidentified victim in Saturday's shooting aboard a train car as it approached the West Oakland BART station. At the same time, BART officials
SF News International Meth Ring Lands SF Man In Court It seems that one San Francisco man aimed a little too high when he attempted to distribute 500 (or more) grams of methamphetamine as part of an international drug ring. The man pleaded
SF News Monterey Gynecologist Will Do Time For Unleashing Python On Her Cheating, Snake-Fearing Husband Dr. Mary Kay Brewster bought the three- to four-foot-long python in Salinas, all cash. According to the Contra Costa Times, the 58-year-old Monterey woman with what KSBW reports was a well-regarded gynecology practice
SF News No One Wants To Say Who'll Be Investigating What Might Be SF's First Homicide Of 2016 There was apparently a homicide in San Francisco last night — our first, it appears, of 2016. But even after multiple phone calls to the law enforcement agencies that might be involved in the
SF News Police Release Photos Of BART Shooting Suspect, Say It Could Have Been Random After All BART police yesterday released photos of the man they believe shot and killed another passenger aboard a crowded BART train this past Saturday. The SFO-bound train was pulling up to the West Oakland
SF News Life-Size Bronze Statue Of UC Berkeley Crew Coach Stolen From Boathouse A collegiate caper took place this week sometime between the hours of 11 p.m. Tuesday night and 7 a.m. Wednesday morning, during which a 300-pound life-size statue of onetime UC Berkeley
SF News Motorist Narrowly Misses Cyclist, Then Maces Her After Confrontation Police are investigating a case in which a confrontation between a cyclist and an errant driver turned violent near Potrero Hill. A woman leaving work Tuesday was maced by the driver of passing
SF News Does The Super Bowl Actually Bring With It Legions Of Prostitutes? A popular notion that's been sensationalized in the media each Super Bowl season over the last half decade is that every Game Week brings with it a huge influx of sex workers and
SF News Video: Thief Steals Child's Birthday Present, Gleefully Dances Away Let's face it, some people are just straight up a**holes. And while we frequently apply that label to thieves in general, one particular San Jose thief caught on tape really seems to
SF News Portland Python Thief Shoves Snake Down His Pants As the northwesternmost -ist site, it falls upon us to report on news coming from our friends in Oregon — for example, the armed ranchers who took over a federal building, or the firearms
SF News Shooting Aboard BART In West Oakland Was Not Random, Suspect Still At Large According to witnesses aboard a BART train headed to San Francisco on Saturday night just before 8 p.m., right before the doors would open at the West Oakland Station, a "disheveled looking
SF News Woman Found In Stolen Vehicle Poses For Mona Lisa Mugshot Mugshots are a dime a dozen. At best, they're tabloid fare. But not since the booking photo of the elaborately mustachioed cyclist accused of smashing a car with a U-lock has an image
SF News Police Seek Pig-Tailed San Franciscan After She Allegedly Drove Into Cop When Daly City police went to the San Francisco home of Denise Davis to investigate an assault case, they expected to simply arrest the suspect. What they didn't expect, I'd wager, is that
SF News Shrimp Boy Guilty On 162 Criminal Counts, Including Racketeering And Murder The verdict came in this morning in the case of Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow, after a nine-week trial that captured local headlines for months prior to its start, and the jury has found
SF News $35K Violin Used To Record 'Star Wars' Soundtrack Stolen In SF A rare violin stolen last week out of a parked car is the latest in a string of high-priced instrument thefts to hit San Francisco. The instrument, as is often the case, caries
SF News Video: Sheriff's Deputy Who Attacked Homeless SF General Patient Will Serve No Jail Time The Sheriff's deputy whose unprovoked attack of a homeless man sleeping in an SF General waiting room was caught on video was sentenced yesterday in what the victim's lawyer characterizes as a slap
SF News Fancy Soda Shop Turned Gambling Den FINALLY Shut Down Former Fizzary spot turned nightclub vandalized this weekend https://t.co/hQKKxnZZIC pic.twitter.com/ZMlElsgYQl— Capp Street Crap (@cappstreetcrap) December 7, 2015 After months of neighborhood complaints, at least one shooting, and
