SF News More Petty Theft in the Excelsior As Elderly Woman Is Robbed, Injured We're getting word of the second semi-violent petty theft in a couple of days in the Excelsior District -- and the third or fourth in the city in recent weeks involving a gold
SF News Harvey Milk Plaque, Bolted In Cement, Stolen Over Weekend Sometime between Friday night and Saturday morning, someone stole the Harvey Milk plaque just outside the Castro Street Muni station. SFist talked to District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener who told us, "All of
SF News I-580 Shut Down in Oakland as Police Search for Shooting Suspect Details are few, but the westbound portion of I-580 was completely shut down by the CHP at 2:45 this afternoon as police are searching for a suspect in an attempted robbery and
SF News Teens Robbed Riding Muni Bus Wednesday Night At around 8:45 p.m. Wednesday near the intersection of Brookdale Avenue and Santos Street, near the Cow Palace, two young folks, ages 15 and 19, were robbed on a Muni bus.
SF News Community Theater Actor-Turned-Bank Robber in Half Moon Bay Sentenced to Life for Third Strike A "star" of the local theater scene in Half Moon Bay who had supposedly given up a life of crime after a previous string of bank robberies in the 80s, suddenly returned to
SF News Woman Carjacked By Friend She Met at Sex Club We've heard of dom/sub relationships, but this is taking the dynamic a bit too far. A woman had her vehicle stolen at gunpoint this morning by a man she met at the
SF News Two Ladies Bring 4-Month-Old Along During East Bay Crime Spree Raven Stewart, 26, and Lache Rodriguez, 24, were arrested on Friday in connection with a series of car burglaries in Emeryville and Berkeley. They are suspected in at least five smash and grabs,
SF News Union Square Store Robbed at Gunpoint At around 3pm on Monday, a clothing store on the 200 block of Grant was robbed at gunpoint. A woman and two men entered the store and forced the female employees into a
SF News Man Attacked with Hammer After Home Invasion Robbery A robbery on the 3400 block of Geary Boulevard turned exceptionally grim this morning after a man was brutally beaten with a hammer during the home invasion. "Two suspects broke down the front
SF News Early Tuesday Morning Muggings Hit Tenderloin Two robberies were reported near each other and within five minutes of each other Tuesday morning in the Tenderloin. First, at about 4:25 a.m. at Golden Gate Avenue and Polk Street,
SF News Woman Beaten, Robbed In Broad Daylight At Bush & Kearny A woman was violently robbed Wednesday afternoon at Bush and Kearny. "The victim was standing at the corner of Bush and Kearney [sic] streets and listening to music when she was struck in
SF News Anti-Capitalist Dude Charged In Corte Madera Bank Takeover The mentally unstable guy who stormed a Corte Madera Bank of America on Monday, waving around a pellet gun, raving about unfair bank practices, and holding nine people hostage for six hours, has
SF News SFist Blotter: A Lower Haight Rape, a Nob Hill Murder Hayes Valley / Rape: Police are in search of a man suspected of raping a woman near Octavia and Market at around 3:30 a.m. on Sunday morning. The alleged rapist was about
SF News Muni Phone Robberies Continue While en route downtown via a Muni train bus last night, a man was robbed of his smartphone after two men brandished a gun. According to SF Weekly, "The two men got onto
SF News Two Women Zapped With Stun Guns, Robbed Two women who were sitting in a car last night in the Balboa Terrace neighborhood were approached by two robbers with a stun gun at around 7:30 p.m. One of the
SF News SFist Blotter: Attempted Robbery Victim Holds On to Wallet, With Gun to Head Excelsior / Attempted Robbery: Always the bearer of the best crime stories, the Examiner's Mike Aldax today tells us about the victim of an attempted robbery on Friday who despite a beating, a ripped
SF News Home Invasion Robbery Near USF On Saturday night, a home invasion robbery occurred at a home in the 2500 block of Golden Gate Avenue at 9:30 p.m.-ish. "A 21-year-old man told police he was letting
SF News Berkeley McDonald's Robbed At Gunpoint Talk about your unhappy meals: An armed gunman sporting a ski mask "walked into a Berkeley MacDonald’s prior to its opening early Wednesday, locking employees in a freezer before dropping a trail
SF News Jury Exonerates Dude Who Was Just Trying to Sell Another Dude a Cigarette We find this story odd and disturbing: 28-year-old Matthew Martinez, a local chef, was walking near 8th and Mission when a staggering man holding a beer can came up to him and asked
SF News Two Men Rob, Assault Woman and Her Two Roommates in Oakland News is just coming out of the Oakland PD today about a robbery and triple rape on Saturday night, near the West Oakland BART station. Two men sexually assaulted a young woman just
SF News Arrests Made In Pepper Spray Robbery Spree Five arrests were made in connection with a series of recent pepper spray robberies in San Francisco. Jalil Leon Jones, 27, of Hayward, and Troyetta Carpenter, 18, of San Francisco, as well as
SF News Beware of Pepper Spray Muggings In S.F. Police are investigating a series of robberies involving pepper spray throughout San Francisco. The first attack happened on the 200 block of Florida Street in the Mission District around 9 p.m. on
SF News Noe Valley Wells Fargo Robbed? Although SFPD has yet to confirm the story -- we called them and they're still "busy with last night's World Series chaos" -- word is that the Wells Fargo Bank in Noe Valley
SF News SFist Blotter: A Shooting in the Mission, a Shooting in Berkeley Mission / Shooting: Just after midnight last night, a man was shot three times at the corner of South Van Ness and 26th. Two suspects were seen fleeing the scene in a two-door Pontiac,
SF News Church Bell Swiped from S.F. Catholic Church The God-fearing folks at San Francisco's St. Michael's Korean Catholic Church have more to fear this week: bell thievery. Over the weekend, it seems, someone stole their massive, church bell that weighs between
