SF News Woman Dies In Holding Cell at Santa Rita Jail Following Hospital Visit An Oakland woman died in a holding cell Friday at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin while awaiting transportation to court — a day after she was found unconscious and taken to the hospital where she was cleared several hours later.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Teachers Begin Strike In Dublin Teachers have begun a strike in the East Bay city of Dublin; the mourning continues for the teacher killed in Saturday's bar shooting in Oakland; and now Anthropic is suing the Trump administration.
SF News Saturday Links: Video Shows Lurie's Bodyguard Shoved Suspect First During Incident Thursday Video footage shows Mayor Lurie's security guard becoming aggressive first; Olympic skier and gold medalist Eileen Gu will be the grand marshal of SF’s Chinese New Year parade; and only one in 10 US residents like daylight saving time.
SF News Trump Administration Insists It Won’t Turn Shuttered FCI Dublin Into an ICE Detention Facility, But Says So in Very Fishy Terms The notorious and scandal-tainted former federal women’s prison known as FCI Dublin was rumored to be in the Trump administration’s crosshairs to make it an ICE holding pen, but the administration claims it has no such plans.
SF News Highway Patrol Foiled by 100-MPH Speeding Camaro With Disappearing License Plates One Camaro driver who enjoys speeding at more than 100 miles per hour on I-580 has a novel, James Bond-style trick to evade authorities, as this particular vehicle’s license plates are able to automatically disappear when the cops show up.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Second Jury Deadlocks In Trial of Ex-Dublin Guard The jury in the second trial, like the first one, has deadlocked on the guilt or innocence of former FCI Dublin prison guard Darrell Wayne Smith; 101 California is now for sale; and another restaurant closes in the SF Centre mall.
SF News Sunday Links: Japanese American Activists Lead Protest Against Proposed ICE Facility at FCI Dublin The drivers of six sports cars were caught racing over 100 mph on SF freeways last weekend; a man was rescued from the water near SF's Ferry Building; and hundreds showed up to an ICE protest at FCI Dublin led by Japanese-American activists.
SF News Saturday Links: Tesla Driver Rescued After Car Hangs Over 200-Foot Cliff at Devil’s Slide Caltrain is increasing its rates by 25 cents starting Tuesday; East Bay Blue Bottle workers are unionizing; and a Tesla driver was rescued after the vehicle was found dangling over a 200-foot cliff at Devil's Slide — held up by a single tree.
SF News Latest FCI Dublin Prison Controversy: Officers Getting Evicted From Mobile Homes That They Own While rumors continue to swirl that the East Bay’s shuttered Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin could be turned into a migrant detention facility, numerous officers are embroiled in a messy eviction from homes they own on the property.
SF News Bay Area Joins Millions Nationwide in Record-Breaking ‘No Kings Day’ Marches Against Trump Tens of thousands gathered across the Bay Area on Saturday as part of the nationwide “No Kings Day” protests, opposing the Trump administration on his 79th birthday. The demonstrations, potentially the largest in U.S. history, coincided with Trump's military parade in DC.
SF News 'Dirty Dick' Smith, the Eighth Former FCI Dublin Prison Figure Charged With Sex Crimes, Begins His Trial The eighth man to be charged in connection with sex crimes at the now shuttered women's prison known as FCI Dublin, and the one charged with the most counts, had his first day of trial Monday at a courthouse in Oakland.
SF News CHP Pulls Over Speeding Driver on I-580, Finds 270 Pounds of Marijuana in Car Pro tip: If you have 270 pounds of illegal marijuana in your car, do not drive at speeds of more than 100 miles per hour, as you are likely to attract Highway Patrol attention. One driver learned that the hard way Wednesday night in Dublin.
SF News ICE Might Be Looking to Use Shuttered Dublin Women's Prison as Immigrant Detention Center The nightmare of undocumented immigrants being rounded up en masse into camps could be closer to reality than we think, as a rumor is now out there that ICE has been sniffing around FCI Dublin, the shuttered women's prison in the East Bay.
SF News Notorious Dublin Women's Prison Is Being Shuttered For Good, Feds Say Seven months after it abruptly closed following years of abuse allegations and convictions involving staff and a former warden, the Federal Correctional Institute in Dublin (FCI Dublin) is being shut down for good.
SF News Former Alameda County Officer Gets 50 Years to Life For Double-Murder In Dublin A ex-deputy in the Alameda County Sheriff's Department was sentenced Tuesday to 50 years to life in prison for the 2022 murders of a Dublin couple inside their home.
SF News Dublin Student's Mother Speaks Out, Says Son's Beating Was Case of Mistaken Identity The mother of the Dublin High School student who was bizarrely attacked by a group of people, including a parent, in the school locker room last week, is speaking out and calling for better security at the school.
SF News Update: Parent and Four Teens Attack Dublin High Student, Football Players Break It Up We don’t know why a parent and four other teens followed a high school student into a locker room and beat him up Friday, but the school’s principal is vowing that arrests are on the way.
SF News Judge Rips Chaotic Closure of Dublin Women’s Prison, Orders That Transferred Prisoners' Rights Be Restored Every prisoner has now been abruptly transferred out of the federal women’s prison in Dublin, but some have been hauled as far away as Florida, and a judge is ordering their belongings returned and their medical care restored.
SF News Lawyers Frantically Try to Halt Chaotic Inmate Transfer at FCI Dublin Women’s Prison We don’t know how many women have been transferred out of the scandal-ravaged and soon-to-be-shuttered FCI Dublin women’s prison, but attorneys for the inmates have filed an emergency restraining order to halt the clearly haphazard and rushed transfer process.
SF News Scandal-Plagued FCI Dublin Women’s Prison Is Abruptly Closing After Torrent of Sex Abuse Claims In a sudden and surprising Monday morning announcement, the federal Bureau of Prisons announced they’re immediately closing the FCI Dublin women’s prison, and they’re already transferring the inmates out.
SF News Family of Murdered Dublin Couple Outraged Over Attempt to Reduce Charges for Former Alameda County Deputy The family of double-murder victims Maria and Benison Tran, who were fatally shot in their Dublin home in September 2022, were protesting Wednesday over a reduced charging decision by Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price.
SF News [Update] FBI Raids Dublin Women's Prison, Warden and Three Others Ousted Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigations descended on the women's prison FCI Dublin Monday morning for unknown reasons, but it likely is connected with an ongoing cascade of abuse allegations against officer there.
SF News 90-Year-Old Man Found Dead In Overturned Truck In Dublin Creek An elderly man whom neighbors had not seen in about a week was found deceased on Sunday, having apparently crashed his pickup truck into a creek in Dublin.
SF News NXIVM Cult Figure Allison Mack Released From Federal Prison In Dublin One Year Early A year ahead of schedule, former 'Smallville' actress Allison Mack walked out of the Dublin Federal Correctional Institute — also known as FCI Dublin — on Monday, after serving two years of a three-year sentence.
SF News Vallejo Man Gets 14 Years For Death of Friend Whom He Was Helping to Confront an Ex-Boyfriend In Dublin It was characterized as a home-invasion robbery gone wrong, but the death of 28-year-old Adrianna Marie Navarro was a complicated case and a tragic one, involving a volatile relationship and a violent confrontation that followed a breakup.
