If you haven't been to the Golde Gate Park Panhandle in the last week or so, you have not stumbled upon these large, six-foot-high crows standing, mid-caw, across from each other on the grass.

The cast-bronze crows, named Lucinda and Tom, are the work of Cotati-based artist Jack Champion, who was given a commission by the local nonprofit Building 180 as part of their Big Art Loop initiative. As the Chronicle reports, Champion installed them himself in the last week on the lawn west of Masonic Avenue, east of the playground.

The title of the piece: An Attempted Murder.

On the Big Art Loop website, the nonprofit describes the sculpture saying, "Balancing humor with unease, Attempted Murder invites reflection on how we navigate tension: how we argue, how we listen, and how we choose to remain in relationship, even when it’s uncomfortable."

The Big Art Loop "is a public art initiative transforming San Francisco into an open-air gallery, placing bold, large-scale sculpture across 34 miles of the city." The installation last year of Marco Cochrane's 45-foot-tall nude woman sculpture, titled R-Evolution, is part of the initiative, and Building 180 is seeking private funders for more large-scale installations of existing works.

One upcoming installation is The Pushers, by Zambian artist George Mubanga, which depicts two Sysphian figures pushing large spheres, and which is apparently coming to the McLaren Park Overlook.

As Aliza Marks, the CEO of Building 180, tells the Chronicle, "The Big Art Loop is about putting public art into the neighborhoods. All of these sculptures are existing works of art. We are bringing them out of storage and into public view."

The thing with the crows is that crows actually have been proliferating in San Francisco in larger numbers than in years' past, they're loud and cocky, and they're reportedly killing off the local pigeon population. They're taking over basically, like in Hitchcock's The Birds. And to hear Champion describe it, the crows around the Panhandle might even be flattered by this oversize depiction of them now on display.

So, kind of scary, really.

After weeks of frustration among the victims of the Ponzi-like scheme allegedly perpetrated by Sonoma County real estate investor Ken Mattson that he was still living in the lap of luxury, Mattson and his wife are being evicted from their Sonoma estate.

Ken Mattson and his wife Stacy, who have been fighting an eviction proceeding that stemmed from their bankruptcy filing, are going to be evicted from their $6 million Sonoma hills preoperty on June 15. As the Press Democrat was first to report, the Sonoma home will be sold, and its proceeds will become part of a restitution fund that will be used to pay back investors who lost money with Mattson.

Mattson was arrested one year ago, outside of a Napa gym, after months of rumbling around Sonoma County about the neglect of the local businesses Mattson had ammassed, the sale of property at fire-sale prices, and a growing number of angry investors seeking to get their money back. Those investors, as the Chronicle reports, were mostly "middle-income retirees" who thought they were buying shares in Mattson's ever-growing real estate portfolio, once said to be worth $413 million.

Instead, Mattson allegedly spent their money, buying the Sonoma estate, as well as an almost $10 million home designed by Julia Morgan in Piedmont, in addition to luxury cars like a Rolls Royce he was seen driving around Sonoma in until last year.

We learned last month that Mattson is expected to take a plea deal in federal court, pleading guilty to one count of wire fraud, for which he could spend up to 20 years in prison.

The eviction proceeding is related to one of the web of civil and criminal lawsuits against Mattson, as defrauded victims seek to be made whole. A bankruptcy judge is overseeing the liquidation of all of the assets owned by Mattson and his former business partner Timothy LeFever, who has claimed that Mattson acted alone in the fraud scheme.

As the Chronicle reports, the Piedmont home was sold earlier this month for $8.4 million, after going on the market two years ago for $9.9 million.

One victim, Santa Rosa resident Maria Crane, expressed frustration last week, speaking to the Chronicle, about the slowness of the wheels of justice. "We’re trying to keep our home, and he’s still living in a mansion that he used our money to buy," Crane said.

Meanwhile, some of the hospitality businesses Mattson built or purchased, including Cornerstone Sonoma and the Sonoma Cheese Factory on the town square, have been bought by new owners and are humming along once more. Cornerstone sold in December for $10.65 million, and two other historic properties near Sonoma Square, including the General's Daughter mansion and wedding venue (pictured above) sold last month for $6 million.

Mattson is due back in federal court on June 15, at which point he is expected to enter a plea, and after which a federal judge will decide the length of his sentence.

Previously: Sonoma County Real Estate Investor Ken Mattson to Take Guilty Plea In Federal Fraud Case

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A 38-year-old Lake County man allegedly killed a woman Friday and proceeded to go on a wild road-rage shooting spree that led authorities on a chase into Napa County.

Authorities were first alerted to an unfolding situation around 8:30 am Friday, in the area of Highway 29 and Point Lakeview Road, in the Kelseyville Riviera area of Lake County. The Lake County Sheriff's Office says they received word of shot fired in that area, but found no suspect there when they arrived.

As the investigation began, the sheriff's office was alerted to another incident in Calistoga, and the subsequent arrest of a suspect, 38-year-old Coleman Guy Rocheleau.

Rocheleau allegedly shot a woman in the face in a road-rage incident on the 1000 block of Dunaweal Lane in Calistoga, and then took off down Highway 29 further into Napa.

A Napa County Sheriff's spokesperson tells SFGate that deputies then used license-plate reader cameras to locate a suspect vehicle driving on Highway 29 in St. Helena.

Napa County sheriff's deputies were able to perform a PIT (Precision Immobilization Technique) maneuver, disabling the suspect vehicle, and making an arrest, as the spokesperson tells SFGate.

Rocheleau, once in custody, reportedly told Napa County detectives that he committed a murder back in Lake County, and Lake County authorities were alerted to the need for a welfare check.

Lake County Sheriff’s Office detectives then proceeded to a residence on the 10000 block of Terrace Way in Kelseyville Riviera, as directed by Rocheleau, and there ehy found an adult female who was deceased.

The victim has not yet been publicly named pending next-of-kin notification, and it's not clear what the woman's relationship to Rocheleau may be.

"On the evening of May 22, 2026, Rocheleau was transported to Lake County and booked into the Hill Road Correctional Facility on charges related to murder and torture," the Lake County Sheriff's Office says in a release.

"This remains an active and ongoing investigation. Information will be shared as it becomes available and appropriate for release," they add.

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Some drama erupted this past week over a deal, seemingly backed by a broad swath of city leaders, to hand over operational control of a beloved Fillmore neighborhood community center to a nonprofit without seeking community consensus.

A lease was ready to be signed last week with a respected local nonprofit to oversee management and programing at Ella Hill Hutch Community Center in the Fillmore, with the mayor and multiple city supervisors in support. That nonprofit is Booker T. Washington Community Service Center, which is based nearby in Lower Pac Heights, and which already has multiple contracts with the city.

Ella Hill Hutch Community Center is a 30-year-old community hub that provides youth services, healthy food assistance programs, and summer and afterschool programs for neighborhood children. Last year it became a casualty of a scandal involving the former leader of the city's Dream Keeper initiative, Sheryl Davis, and her romantic partner/housemate James Spingola, who were both criminally charged in March for a raft of alleged felonies including self-dealing and the personal use of nonprofit funds — and Spingola was the head of a nonprofit, previously run by Davis, called Collective Impact, which had a contract with the city to operate Ella Hill Hutch.

The fallout from the scandal appears to have created rifts in the Fillmore neighborhood, which has historically been a center of Black cultural life for San Francisco, and has accumulated a growing set of grievances over the city's inhumane redevelopment efforts five and six decades ago, the trauma of which has been compounded in recent years by benign neglect. The most recent grievance: the closure of the neighborhood's only supermarket, a Safeway that was built with redevelopment funds over 40 years back, and which is now slated for demolition and another redevelopment as mostly market-rate housing.

The Chronicle reported last week on pushback from community leaders over the management contract for Ella Hill Hutch Community Center, which included a quote from longtime neighborhood elder statement, the Reverend Doctor Amos C. Brown. Speaking for others in the community, Brown pointed to the director of Booker T. Washington Community Service Center, former Davis ally and former Human Rights Commissioner Shakirah Simley, saying, "She aspires to this position in the community, but she is not connected with it. She has not communicated with people nor demonstrated a sense of the history of this community or any knowledge of the collective values that truly make for strong minority communities."

So, now, just days after that Chronicle report, the city has reversed course, per the Chronicle, and that no-bid lease with Booker T has been scrapped. The Recreation and Parks Department is going to be temporarily taking over Ella Hill Hutch while community stakeholders have a chance to give input on a future operator to the city.

A spokesperson for Mayor Daniel Lurie tells the paper that while Booker T remains a "valued partner to the city," they will be pursuing a more competitive process with "thoughtful community engagement" for the next lease.

"We are ensuring our kids remain safe and no family or child is left without access to services and support this summer," the spokesperson said, regarding the temporary Rec & Parks takeover.

The board of Booker T. Washington Community Service Center also issued a statement saying, "We share a deep commitment to the Fillmore community and to ensuring that every family, senior and child in this neighborhood has access to the services and support they deserve... We believe the path forward requires a broader, more deliberate process that includes additional community input."

The neighborhood remains upset by the now seven-year vacancy at the Fillmore Heritage Center, a product of redevelopment that was completed in the mid aughts and promised to revitalize a long dormant corridor in the Fillmore — and to bring jazz music back to the neighborhood as well via a San Francisco branch of Yoshi's, the famed Oakland jazz venue and sushi restaurant. A decade later, both Yoshi's and the other restaurant in the center, 1600 on Fillmore, had closed, and the process to find new tenants for the spaces has now dragged on for nearly another decade after that.

The scandal involving Davis, who also formerly led the Human Rights Commission during the London Breed administration, cast a pall over the Dream Keeper initiative at large, which had been a racial equity effort in 2020 and 2021 to redirect city funds from law enforcement to Black-led nonprofits. It came to light in 2024 that Davis, in addition to allegedly misusing funds, had directed $1.5 million in city grants to Collective Impact in an apparentconflict of interest, given that it was run by her live-in partner, Spingola.

A city audit later found that the total amount of questionable and/or frivolous spending by Davis, via the Human Rights Commission, was around $4.6 million.

Previously: Fillmore Residents Say They Feel Ignored By City Over Deal to Keep Community Center Open

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• More than 100 activists in East Oakland held a “Die-In” protest Thursday, as nearly 2 million California residents are set to lose Medi-Cal coverage June 1, while 3 million households may lose CalFresh food assistance. The cuts are part of the bill that was known as President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” prompting almost $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid over the next ten years and leading to nearly 12 million Americans potentially losing their medical insurance. [Oaklandside]
• Two students from a middle school in the East Bay were airlifted to the UC Davis Burn Center when a chemical was accidentally spilled following a lab experiment. [KPIX]
• Darryon Harry Chun, 28, was charged with murder in the 2024 fatal shooting of a man in a wheelchair in the Mission. [NBC Bay Area]

National:

• About 34 people were injured and one was killed on Friday after an explosion on a barge at a New York City shipyard. [BBC]
• Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard resigned Friday and her last day will be June 30, so she can be with her husband, who was diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer. [The Hill]
• Authorities in Southern California evacuated over 40,000 people Friday as a tank containing 7,000 gallons of methyl methacrylate, a "highly volatile" and "highly flammable" toxic substance, at an Orange County aerospace facility is currently leaking and could potentially explode at any moment. [CBS News]

Video of the Day:

• In honor of ‘90s-era, Harlem-based, hip-hop pioneer Rob Base, who died at age 59 Friday following a cancer diagnosis, here’s his classic hit “It Takes Two,” alongside the late DJ E-Z Rock. The track was sourced from the 1972 soul hit, “Think (About It),” written by James Brown and performed by Lyn Collins.

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Drivers in California are urged to avoid filling up at Chevron gas stations over Memorial Day weekend, as Governor Newsom says its prices are much higher than unbranded stations that sell the same gas.

California Governor Gavin Newsom is urging drivers in California to get gas anywhere besides Chevron stations, accusing the oil giant of charging significantly more than unbranded gas stations selling the same fuel, as the Associated Press reports.

“Californians, if you’re hitting the road this holiday weekend, be sure to AVOID Chevron,” Newsom said on social media. “Unbranded gas comes from the same refineries, storage tanks, and pipelines, and it meets the same state standards to keep your engine running clean.”

According to NBC Bay Area, 4,779,297 Californians are expected to travel by car over the three-day weekend, and Bay Area residents are strategizing on where to find the best prices along the way to their destinations.

California gas prices remain among the highest in the country, with the statewide average sitting at $6.13 per gallon Friday, roughly $1.60 above the national average, according to AAA.  

In Foster City, one resident told NBC Bay Area it cost $160 to fill up his truck, and another resident spent $82 to fill up her car.

"The air fares are crazy, I mean everything is expensive, so we just are driving, but it's still very costly — it's just too expensive, the Bay Area’s too expensive," Laura Callagy of Foster City told NBC, who said she plans to get gas near Yosemite, where prices are lower.

Per the AP, Chevron posted signs at some California stations blaming state policies for rising fuel costs, claiming “California politicians are choosing foreign oil and fuels over local jobs and lower costs,” alongside QR codes directing customers to a campaign page advocating for “affordable, reliable energy.”

A Chevron spokesperson said the effort has been running for three years and is intended to educate the public about how state regulations affect gas prices. The dispute escalated after Chevron moved its headquarters to Texas in 2024 following longstanding criticism of California’s climate and energy policies.

The AP reports that industry leaders and energy companies have pointed to California’s environmental regulations, taxes, fuel standards, and refining restrictions as major contributors to the higher costs, while the California Energy Commission also cites the state’s specialized gasoline blend, isolated fuel market, and various state and local fees.

Newsom’s office cited a state analysis from 2024 finding Chevron’s prices averaged 60 to 80 cents more per gallon than unbranded competitors. Chevron reportedly controls about 19% of California’s gas market through more than 1,600 stations statewide, though most are independently operated and set their own prices.

Newsom has also pushed legislation targeting oil industry profits and refinery supply practices in recent years, but some enforcement measures have since been delayed until 2030.

Previously: Chevron Lays Off 600 Employees at San Ramon Headquarters

Image: MAY 11: Gas prices over 6 dollars a gallon are seen on a sign at a Chevron station on May 11, 2026 in San Diego, CA. (Photo by Kevin Carter/Getty Images)

Zendaya and Tom Holland recently adopted their third dog from a shelter while visiting Zendaya's family in Oakland.

Just a couple months after rumors swirled that Zendaya and fellow A-lister Tom Holland got married, the couple recently adopted a pocket bully while visiting an Oakland shelter, as first reported by Elle magazine.

The Oakland-born actress told Elle she loves visiting her family in Oakland in between films while going full “auntie mode” with nieces and nephews. She said she likes to come up with projects for the family to work on together when she’s home, such as remodeling her grandmother’s kitchen.

According to the Chronicle, Zendaya and Holland also have a miniature schnauzer named Noon and a Doberman pinscher called Daphne. Regarding the third pup, Zendaya, aged 29, acknowledged the decision was a bit impulsive.

“Logistically, it wasn’t probably the smartest idea,” she said, speaking to Elle. “But emotionally, it was. He’s a wonderful addition to our family. I saw his little face and I was like, ‘I can’t leave you behind.’”

As SFist reported back in April, Zendaya said Arizmendi was her favorite place to eat in Oakland.

Related: Zendaya Gives $100K to Struggling Cal Shakes

Image: Zendaya attends the Louis Vuitton Cruise 2027 on May 20, 2026 in New York City. (Photo by XNY/Star Max/GC Images)

In honor of its 90th year in business, Cliff's Variety is planning a huge celebration with drag and live music performances on June 6.

Cliff’s Variety is marking 90 years in the Castro with a June 6 celebration featuring live music, drag performances, raffles, and other entertainment, as KTVU reports.

The longtime Castro business first opened in 1936 as a small shop selling magazines and used greeting cards — San Francisco’s “first reuse, recycle,” as co-owner Terry Asten Bennett put it. The shop later expanded into hardware and other household goods.

Over the decades, Cliff's adapted alongside the neighborhood, eventually adding wigs, heels, eyelashes, and party supplies as the Castro became a hub for LGBTQ culture in the 1970s.

According to KTVU, the family-owned business says its focus on customer service and constantly evolving inventory has helped keep the store going as online shopping reshaped the retail industry.

"It’s exciting to see a younger generation that actually wants to shop and touch and feel merchandise versus just buying it online," said Bennett. "And so that’s the thing that gives me hope for the future."

The June 6 extravaganza will also include a fundraiser benefiting the Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy and Castro Country Club, with raffle tickets starting at $5 each.

Related: The 10 Best Classic Stores In S.F.

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A new Napa restaurant is on the way from SPQR's Matt Accarrino, Casa Sofia Kitchen & Bar just debuted near the ballpark, and Che Fico's cocktail bar Golden Rule opens this weekend next to the Chase Center, all in This Week In Food.

Coming later this year in Napa will be a new restaurant from SPQR and Mattina chef Matt Accarrino, called Vetra, at the new boutique resort The Elene — on the Solano Avenue property in Napa that was formerly the Oak Knoll Hotel. The Elene was supposed to open this summer but appears delayed until fall or winter, and with it will come Vetra, an all-day restaurant with what sounds like a casual but upscale dinner menu that leans into Accarrino's Cal-Italian talents, per Eater. Dishes he mentions include a large-format lasagna, other fresh pastas, bone-in Wagyu porterhouse steaks, roast duck and lamb, and fresh breads including piadina, the northern Italian flatbread he makes at Mattina. Accarrino will also be overseeing the menu at a café on the property that does not yet have a name.

Casa Sofia Kitchen & Bar, the new spot in the former Brixton space in SoMa from chef Carlos Altamirano and his wife Shu Altamirano, opened last night, May 21. As Tablehopper reports, the menu melds influences from Peru, Mexico, and Argentina, and includes good pre- and post-ballpark food like housemade empanadas, baby BBQ pork ribs, and fried chicken. The space also boasts two private dining spaces, and you can see menus and find reservations here.

Also opening this weekend, on Saturday, is the first cocktail bar from Che Fico's restaurant group, called Golden Rule. It is opening Saturday at Thrive City (Chase Center), in the space below Che Fico Pizzeria, and as bar director Danielle Peters-Clossey tells the Chronicle, the goal was to be "nostalgic" and "festive" with the drinks, given the location at a sports and concert venue. The menu includes things like the MIP ("most improved player"), a nod to Veronica Burton of the Golden State Valkyries, which features gin, mezcal, vermouth, and musk melon, along with a spritz of Hubba Bubba bubblegum essence; and the Bi-Coastal, featuring rum, cold brew, espresso liqueur, and banana cold foam. Also, there are mini freezer martinis, and housemade pizza rolls for snacking.

Hayes Valley fine dining spot Nightbird just announced a special Pride Month menu, with a portion of the proceeds being donated to The Trevor Project. The six-course menu from chef Kim Alter features dishes representing each color of the rainbow Pride flag, including an opening dish of scallop with saffron and a nasturtium farro bread, representing the colors red, orange, and yellow. Find reservations here.

Much loved Hayes Valley bakery Loquat is prepping a second location, as the Chronicle first reported earlier this month. Owners Tal Mor and Jodi Geren and pastry chef Kristina Costa are bringing their love of Jewish diaspora baking to the Inner Richmond, with a plan to open a second Loquat at 4555 California Street, at 18th Avenue, currently a location of Beanstalk Cafe, sometime next year. The new location will allow for some expanded bread making capabilities, and there are plans to have grab-and-go challah sandwiches and more.

And a new Turkish bakery-café called Oklava Café is opening soon on the ground floor of Saluhall, the IKEA-adjacent food hall at 945 Market Street. As the Chronicle reports, owners Aziz Aslan and Elif Uzun opened the first Oklava in downtown Palo Alto three years ago, and they also own the bakery-restaurant Turquaz in SoMa, which opened last year. An opening date for the new café has not yet been set, but it is taking over the central counter space previously occupied by Cheezy's Artisan Pizza.

Top image: A dish of Wagyu beef at Nightbird. Photo by Adahlia Cole

A former financial advisor from Danville faces federal charges for allegedly defrauding 93 investors of $9.5 million over three decades following an FBI and IRS investigation.

Edwin Emmett Lickiss Jr., 78, of Danville, pleaded guilty in Oakland federal court Thursday to one count of wire fraud and one count of money laundering, according to a release from the US Attorney’s Office.

Lickiss reportedly admitted to running a Ponzi scheme that prosecutors say stretched from 1998 through September 2024 and involved 93 investors who were cheated out of at least $9.5 million following an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Internal Revenue Service.

Federal prosecutors say Lickiss falsely told investors he was placing their money into exclusive tax-free bonds that promised unusually high returns, while instead using newer investments to pay earlier clients and cover personal expenses, including home renovations, travel, vehicles, mortgages, and credit card payments.

Authorities say Lickiss also used the letterhead of his former firm, Foundation Financial Group, to issue fake promissory notes.

Lickiss is scheduled to be sentenced in August with prosecutors seeking six to 10 years in prison. As the Chronicle reports, his attorney is recommending a six-year sentence.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has also filed a civil enforcement action against Lickiss in the Northern District of California.

Related: Sonoma County Real Estate Investor Ken Mattson to Take Guilty Plea In Federal Fraud Case

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Despite a new law that went into effect last fall, the SFPD has yet to issue any citations to illegal street vendors in the Mission this year, and residents say illegal activity is spreading to side streets.

Nearly five months after a new law passed authorizing police to cite people caught selling suspected stolen merchandise without permits or proof of purchase, city officials have yet to issue a single citation or fine, as the Chronicle reports. Only 16 warnings were issued from August 2025 through April, citywide.

According to KTVU, residents and merchants in the Mission, Mid-Market, and Chinatown say illegal vending markets continue to block sidewalks, fuel retail theft, and contribute to ongoing violence and disorder as they wait for stronger enforcement from the city.

Residents say that when the city clears illegal vendors near the 16th and 24th Street BART plazas and in the Tenderloin, they spread the activity further onto side streets and arrests alone are not solving the problem long term.  

Neighbors near 20th and Capp streets say drug dealing and drug use have increasingly spread into residential blocks and around Alioto Mini Park, which Sergeant Brandon Rock of the Mission Corridor Task Force, acknowledged, while adding that enforcement for other offenses has increased.

"The neighborhood is far safer than it's been in a lot of time in history," Rock tells KTVU. "So the violence is not the issue that we once had, but the open drug-use and the dirtiness and the unsafe feeling sidewalks, I totally understand."  

More than two dozen residents recently signed a letter calling for surveillance cameras, increased police presence, and a coordinated response to encampments and open-air drug activity.

"In the last month, we're part of the statistic, we've had our house broken into, not the first time, my wife was assaulted on the street, not the first time, and so it's really scary, it's to the point where she won't leave the house," said Mission resident Bryant Chu, speaking to KTVU. "Now we're seeing fentanyl users just folded down where they used to not be and they're just taking up a lot of the sidewalk space."

The new state law, authored by Senator Scott Wiener and signed by Governor Gavin Newsom last fall, authorized San Francisco police officers to cite people caught selling suspected stolen merchandise without permits or proof of purchase. The legislation, which only applies to San Francisco, as Mission Local reported at the time, was meant to address limits created by a 2018 state law that decriminalized sidewalk vending.

The law took effect last December when the Board of Supervisors approved a list of more than 100 commonly stolen items that would be subject to enforcement, per the Chronicle.

Public Works and police officials said this week they are still working with the City Attorney’s Office to finalize how the law will be enforced and ensure it can withstand legal challenges.

Officials said the city has been building systems to track repeat offenders across agencies and preserve seized goods as evidence for possible criminal cases. Public Works spokesperson Rachel Gordon reportedly said the law has not yet been used but is expected to be implemented once those issues are resolved.

Enforcement powers still remain limited under the new law, as Public Works inspectors must first issue written warnings before police can intervene. Vendors accused of continuing to sell stolen goods can then face escalating fines for repeat violations within an 18-month period, while continued offenses could eventually lead to misdemeanor charges and up to six months in jail.

SFPD spokesperson Evan Sernoffsky said illegal vending remains a “top priority,” while

The Chronicle reports that starting next month, eight officers from other stations will be reassigned to the Mission to help address growing illegal vending and open-air drug activity, according to Mission Station Captain Sean Perdomo.

Previously: Scott Wiener Teams Up With Mayor Lurie on Proposed New Illegal Street Vending Law

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A woman who is suspected of breaking into gym lockers in San Francisco and across the Bay Area and stealing credit cards has been taken into custody.

The SFPD announced Thursday that, following a monthslong investigation, they have arrested 40-year-old Andrania Yancy on suspicion of burglary. Yancy is believed to have committed burglaries in gym locker rooms in San Francisco, as well as in El Cerrito, Berkeley, Santa Clara, Oakley, San Mateo County, Contra Costa County, and Orange County.

Prior to her arrest, Yancy already had multiple stay-away orders issued from "multiple fitness businesses in San Francisco," according to the SFPD.

The SFPD's Financial Crimes Unit  investigated the case, and learned that Yancy's primary modus operandi was to walk into a gym or fitness studio, buy a day pass, and then go to work breaking into lockers. She would allegedly steal credit cards from gym-goers wallets, and then use them before the victims realized they were missing.

Several fitness studios in the Marina District reportedly aided in the investigation, along with their members, helping to identify Ms. Yancy.

Yancy was located in Sacramento and arrested there on May 18, with help from a multi-agency contingent that included the US Marshals Service Pacific Southwest Regional Fugitive Task Force.

She was subsequently booked into San Francisco County Jail on nine warrants, issued out of SF and the eight other jurisdictions mentioned above, where gym-locker burglaries also occurred.

As KPIX reports, Yancy has a rap sheet of similar crimes dating back to 2008, and she has also had a pattern of failing to appear in court after posting bond.

While an arrest has been made, this is still an active investigation. Anyone with information is asked to call the SFPD tip line at 415-575-4444, or text a tip to TIP411 and begin the message with “SFPD.” Tipsters can remain anonymous.

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