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[Update] Suspect Arrested Following Manhunt In Minnesota, Lawmakers Shot

Minnesota is reeling after a politically motivated shooting on Saturday left State Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband dead, and State Sen. John Hoffman and his wife critically wounded. The suspect, 57-year-old Vance Boelter, was the subject of a two-day manhant before being arrested Sunday.

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Vallejo Is Whack: Guns and 11,000 Fentanyl Pills Seized at Daycare Center

A series of raids across Solano County coordinated by the feds and the Vallejo Police Department seized dozens of illegal guns and a huge haul of drugs, and one of the sites raided was an in-home daycare center where feds found 11,000 fentanyl pills.

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Former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao Is, Indeed, Getting Indicted

Less than 24 hours after the FBI raided the home of another East Bay politician in connection with an apparently broad-ranging corruption scandal, we learn that former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao is getting federally indicted.

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Thursday Morning What's Up: East Bay FBI Probe Lands at San Leandro Councilmember's Home

The FBI served a search warrant Wednesday at the home of a San Leandro city councilmember; Santa Cruz will decide about rebuilding that collapsed section of wharf by April; and Nancy Pelosi says she will not be attending Trump's inauguration.

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Berkeley-Born Animal Rights Extremist Captured For Bay Area Bombings Two Decades Ago

A radical animal-rights activist who was linked to three Bay Area bombings in 2003 has recently been captured after two decades on the run, in the United Kingdom.

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FBI Probe That Brought Raid of Sheng Thao’s Home Has Witnesses Giving Closed-Door Testimony

The FBI appears to be making progress in whatever investigation resulted in the June raid of Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao’s home, as witnesses are being subpoenaed, but we still don’t know why the raid happened or who the FBI’s suspects are.

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Feds Extradite Honduran Man Back to US to Face Tenderloin Fentanyl-Dealing Charges

A 25-year-old Honduran national who moved to Oakland and allegedly dealt some pretty large volumes of fentanyl fled back to Honduras when a federal grand jury indicted him last year, but he was arrested and extradited back this week to face trial.

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AG Rob Bonta Finds Himself Possibly Dragged Into Whatever the Sheng Thao Raid Is All About

New reporting on one possible suspect in the Sheng Thao FBI raid shows that state Attorney General Rob Bonta once steered $680,000 in state money to a failed energy startup run by that particular suspect who had an extremely checkered past.

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Scandal-Plagued SF Towing Company Hit With Federal Indictment for Faking Car Accidents, Collecting Insurance Money

New federal indictments lay out a slew of insurance fraud charges against the co-owner of the Bayview’s notorious Specialty Towing, among them a charge that he loaded a tow truck full of four clunkers, faked an accident, and tried to collect full insurance.

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Man Charged With Burglarizing FBI Truck In SF, Trading the Stolen Gear for $20 Bag of Meth

A man who allegedly stole thousands of dollars of gear from an FBI truck may not have realized the value of the equipment, as his charging documents say he sold a $1,500 ballistics vest from that haul for a $20 bag of meth.

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FBI Raids Notorious Bayview Towing Company, the One That Tried to Tow a Moving Car

Specialty Towing had already been in the news over a viral video where they tried to tow a moving car, and an SF City Attorney suspension, but now they’ve got bigger problems as the FBI raided their Oakdale Avenue location Thursday morning.

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Accused ‘Straw Donor’ In Sheng Thao Raid Under Investigation for Allegedly Bilking $4 Million From Investors

One of the many characters in whatever scandal prompted the FBI raid on Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao’s home is businessman Mario Juarez, who’s under a separate Alameda County investigation into allegations that he conned $4.25 million from investors.

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FBI’s Sheng Thao Raid Investigation Has Now Expanded to the Oakland Police Department

It may just be a legal technicality, or it may be a sign that the FBI smells something fishy with the Oakland PD, as the latest federal subpoena in “Sheng Thao raid-gate” asks for a slew of records from the Oakland Police Department.

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Sheng Thao’s Romantic Partner Now Appears Ensnared In FBI Investigation, Too

The Oakland City Attorney may have some insights into what’s being investigated after the FBI raid on the mayor’s home, and Sheng Thao’s partner has been named. Oh, and a karaoke club with alleged drug sales and human trafficking just entered the scandal.

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Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao Gives Fiery Press Conference, Demands to Know Why the FBI Needed to Raid Her House

Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao made her first public statements since last week's FBI raid on her home, offering some stern words for the agency and the proponents of the recall effort, though she did not take questions from the press.

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We’re Getting Clues On Why the FBI Raided Sheng Thao’s Home, and Other Oakland Politicians Might Be Worried Too

Thursday’s FBI raid on Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao’s house appears to be part of a larger investigation of Oakland’s trash pick-up contractor, and this thing might be a Mohammed Nuru-caliber scandal that ensnares many more politicians in Oakland — and beyond.

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FBI Agents Raid Home of Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao

Not sure what's going on here, but hours after a shooting at Lake Merritt, and less than a day after signatures were verified in a recall campaign against her, the FBI raided the home of Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao.

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San Jose Man Who Lived In Meth Lab House Charged By Feds For Intentionally Bombing Two PG&E Transformers

Thousands of San Jose residents lost power when PG&E transformers blew up this past December and January, and the feds are charging a 36-year-old man for doing the deed. Oh, and he was also allegedly running a meth lab.

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DePape Spoke of 'Fighting Tyranny' As He Held Paul Pelosi Hostage, and More Details From FBI Investigation

A clearer picture has emerged of what transpired inside the Pelosi home in Pacific Heights Friday morning, and according to what David DePape himself told investigators, he sure sounds like one of the right-wing rioters at the Capitol on January 6th.

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Brace Yourselves For Vaccine Card Fakes, Which the FBI Considers a Federal Crime

Next up in our Great American Pandemic Story we are likely to see a wave of stories about vaccination card forgeries — given how easy they are to fake, how many dumb Americans are still avoiding getting vaccinated, and you'll seen need one to go to a concert.

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FBI Probing Whether City Hall Power Couple Directed Contracts to the Person Who Sold Them Their House

The widening Mohammed Nuru DPW investigation is now looking into why the City Administrator and SFPUC General Manager directed $8 million in contracts to the woman who sold them their house.

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Ongoing FBI Corruption Probe Hits Three More SF City Departments With Subpoenas

The Planning Department, Department of Public Health, and the City Administrator's Office have all been hit with subpoenas stemming from the sprawling federal investigation into corruption in San Francisco government.

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Nuru Doled Out More Than $10 Million in City Contracts With Zero Oversight, Says City Controller

The disgraced former DPW head tossed millions of taxpayer dollars around like candy, and benefited from loopholes with names like “BFF Gift Exemption” and “Donation Shakedown.”

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[Update] SF's Public Works Director and Local Bar Owner Charged In FBI Corruption Probe

Department of Public Works Director and longtime Willie Brown pal Mohammed Nuru was arrested by the FBI on Monday in a federal corruption probe that apparently also involves local bar owner Nick Bovis.

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FBI Report Suggests SFPD Was Lying About Possible Civil Rights Violations

In its cooperation with the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF), the SFPD has potentially been misleading the public for years about its own violations of local law with regard to the investigation of "First Amendment activities," including those relating to religion and political affiliation.