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.
SF News New Sandwich Shop Owner In Upper Haight Punched In Face, Wants Justice Three months into owning a sandwich shop in the Upper Haight, business owner Peterson Harter says he was sucker-punched in the face Wednesday afternoon when he confronted a suspect who was urinating outside his store.
SF News SF Delivery Drivers Targeted In Crimes Twice In Two Days A Friday carjacking of a delivery driver in SoMa was followed by a Saturday shooting of an Amazon driver in Potrero Hill, making a rough weekend for delivery drivers in San Francisco.
SF News One Person Shot In Attempted Armed Robbery at Emeryville Bank of America The victim is in stable condition, but four male suspects are still at large after fleeing in a Hyundai sedan after an attempted robbery at the San Pablo Avenue Bank of America in Emeryville.
SF News Woman Shot and Injured In Third Freeway Shooting In a Month In San Francisco A woman was shot in the leg Friday afternoon while driving on Highway 101 southbound in San Francisco, just before the I-280 split.
SF News Teen Suspect From Oakland Arrested For July 4th Homicide In the Bayview A 16-year-old suspect is in custody in connection with the shooting death of an adult male in San Francisco's Bayview neighborhood on the night of July 4th, after the juvenile suspect turned himself in.
SF News SFPD Seizes 9.5 Kilos of Fentanyl In Two-Week Span of Drug Arrests In the span of 14 days, the San Francisco Police Department has seized more than one-third of the amount of fentanyl it seized in all of 2022, which is an indication of both the vast quantities being peddled and of stepped-up enforcement efforts.
SF News Dognapper In the South Bay Demands Ransom, Gets Arrested Upon Delivering Dog An alleged dognapping occurred in Sunnyvale Monday, and the family called the cops after someone called to tell them he had their lost dog and wanted money to return him.
SF News Hit-and-Run Collision Takes Out Utility Pole at Gough and Golden Gate A yellow SUV slammed into a utility pole/traffic signal at Gough Street and Golden Gate Avenue in the Western Addition on Tuesday, and a suspect reportedly fled the scene on foot.
SF News San Francisco Was Declared Dead, and Full of AIDS and Drugs and Homeless People, Multiple Times In the Last 50 Years The local and national news media has loved to declare San Francisco in a state of decline and/or crisis on many occasions in the last five or so decades, so this is just a primer for everyone who wasn't aware of that and bought into the "failed city" and "doom loop" narratives too hard.
SF News SFPD Releases Image of Suspect In Assault on Elderly Man in UN Plaza The San Francisco Police Department is seeking the public's help in identifying a suspect who was seen on surveillance video violently pushing an 83-year-old man to the ground on Tuesday.
SF News One Arrest Made, Group of Deplorable Teens Still Being Sought In 11 Violent Robberies In Noe Valley and NoPa San Francisco police say a group of juveniles has been implicated in nearly a dozen robberies, often targeting women on the street, in Noe Valley and NoPa.
SF News Potrero Hill Shooting Victim Drives Self to Hospital, Crashes Into Cops On the Way A male victim was shot Tuesday afternoon in the vicinity of the Potrero Terrace housing project, and as he drove himself to the hospital, he had an unfortunate encounter with police.
SF News Two Arrested In SF Crime Spree That Included Armed Robberies, Shooting Two male suspects are in SFPD custody on suspicion of a raft of charges including armed robbery, assault, attempted murder, and car theft, following a crime spree that spanned 10 days in May.
