SF News Oakland Woman Sentenced For String Of Violent 2010 Robberies 36-year-old Althea Housley was sentenced to 15 years and 8 months in prison today for four armed robberies in Oakland that left one man dead. In a plea deal in which she testified
SF News Gun-Wielding Tough Guy Robs Chuck E. Cheese's, Escapes In A Prius Apparently in the throes of one really terrible midlife crisis, a man in his mid-40s robbed a Chuck E. Cheese's restaurant in San Bruno at gunpoint Monday afternoon. The suspect was spotted wearing
SF News Personal Trainer Attacked, Robbed Of iPhone In The Castro Here's another incident in a wave of iPhone snatchings across the city, but this one was in the otherwise less often crime-ridden Castro. Personal trainer Dalton Huckaby was both mugged and assaulted on
SF News TV Journalists Now Bringing Armed Security With Them to Cover Oakland You may recall the story from last November in which KPIX cameraman Gregg Welk was assaulted and had his camera stolen, still running, just as he and reporter Anne Makovec were covering a
SF News Teen Thugs Rob Divisadero Comic Book Store, Make Off With $75 A comic book store at Divisadero and Page fell victim to a brazen, daylight armed robbery on Friday, the first in its 23-year history. Comix Experience owner Brian Hibbs tells Haighteration that two
SF News Video: Armed Thugs Rob Two Local Pharmacies For OxyContin As you know, we're completely mesmerized by SFPD's Vimeo channel, which the department has been using to crowdsource justice lately. A local version of America's Most Wanted, if you will. The latest video
SF News Man Grazed By Bullet in Early Morning Home Invasion in Mission Terrace Two suspects, described only as men in their twenties, invaded a home on the 200 block of San Juan Avenue in Mission Terrace on Tuesday morning around 10:40 a.m. The two
Arts & Entertainment $12,000 Gold Rush Artifact Stolen From Oakland Museum In the second break-in in two months, a man stole a gold- and quartz-lined box from a display case in the Oakland Museum that is rumored to be worth $800,000. The box
SF News Septuagenarian Punched During Wig Store Robbery A couple of hair thieves are on the loose after robbing a wig store on Polk Street Sunday afternoon. The two suspects in their late twenties were trying to make their escape with
SF News Oakland, Stockton Most Violent American Cities, Says Forbes On the heels of Forbes annual Priciest ZIP Codes List comes their annual list of America's Most Dangerous Cities — and, surprise, there is no overlap between the two. As for the latter, the
SF News Likely Mugging Victims In San Francisco? 20-Something Dudes In SoMa Over at the Examiner today, the free daily paper with the blog-esque crime section has compiled some data on 100 street robberies that took place over 23 days in August and September. The
SF News IPad Thievery Leads to Car Chase, Big Crash In Hayes Valley Three suspects are in custody and one person was seriously injured after a collision in Hayes Valley that followed a high-speed chase stemming from a mugging in Pacific Heights. The three men, suspects
SF News Armed Laptop Looters Break Into Home At Haight And Divisadero An armed suspect and an accomplice broke into a home on the 900 block of Haight Street near Divisadero around 4 a.m. this morning. During the break-in, one of the home's four
SF News Bernal Heights Consignment Shop Robbed By Middle-Aged Men With Tasers Wednesday morning, a consignment shop on Mission Street in Bernal Heights got a call from a customer asking them to open early. Unfortunately for the shop, a couple of 40-something bandits with tasers
SF News Burglary Suspect Broke In, Robbed Steve Jobs' Home With House Key One Kariem McFarlin, a former San Jose State football player, is currently in jail after looting tens of thousands of dollars worth of electronics, jewelry and household items from the home of late
SF News Cell Phone Thieves Strike Again On Divisadero Around 3:30 p.m. Friday afternoon, opportunistic cell phone thieves struck again on Divisadero, where the neighborhood is quickly becoming the city's #1 spot for snatchy-grabby phone robberies. The latest event happened
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Determined Drunkard Steals $33,000 In Booze From SoMa Restaurant 40-year-old John Fradet was arrested late last week after breaking in to the same Second Street restaurant on four separate occasions to steal a grand total of $33,000 in booze. According to
SF News SFPD Tracks Down iPhone Thief Using Federal DNA Database Some high-tech police work straight out of a primetime cop drama helped bring down a thief who stole a Muni rider's iPhone over six months ago. According to SFPD's Bayview Station newsletter today,
SF News Man Robbed By Dastardly Taser Thief In Outer Sunset A 34-year-old man was shocked with a stun gun and lost consciousness Saturday night, only to awaken with a pain in his abdomen and his wallet and iPod missing. There was also a
SF News Silicon Valley Software Exec Busted For Embezzling LEGOs Thomas Langenbach, a vice president for software giant SAP's Palo Alto lab, was busted using counterfeit bar code stickers to get himself huge discounts on LEGO toys at local Target Stores. Langenbach was
SF News Woman Held At Gunpoint In Marina Garage-Invasion Robbery A 32-year-old woman was robbed at gunpoint in front of her garage in the Marina District Tuesday evening. The woman was opening the door to her garage at Divisadero and Bay Streets just
SF News Deplorable Teens Attempt To Rob S.F. High School Three teenage boys attempting to swipe computer equipment from the International Studies Academy in Potrero Hill were busted after a witness nearby spotted the boys using a chair to scramble through a window
SF News Sunset District Home Invasion Leaves Two Women In Critical Condition A 76-year-old woman was attacked in her home on 20th Avenue near Moraga in the Sunset District Thursday night. A second 56-year-old woman delivering food to the elderly woman's home around 9:20
SF News Silly Burglar Gets Himself Stuck on Cliff on Telegraph Hill [Updated] A bumbling cat burglar managed to get himself trapped, and surrounded by cops, while trying to escape down a brush-covered cliff on the eastern face of Telegraph Hill last evening. The drop is
SF News Teen Girl Pistol-Whipped, Boyfriend Shot During Mission Mugging Just after 7 p.m. on Friday a teenage girl was robbed at gunpoint and pistol-whipped by a 30-year-old thief on the 100 block of Valencia, near Market Street. When her boyfriend tried
