SF News Second Sheriff’s Deputy Charged This Week In Separate Sexual Assault Case at SF County Jail A former SF Sheriff’s deputy was arrested for allegedly forcing a woman to perform oral sex in the bathroom of the county jail, and trying to dissuade her from reporting it soon after — all within a month of being hired at County Jail No 2.
SF News Civil Trial Begins for Former Windsor Mayor Dominic Foppoli, Accused of Assaulting Multiple Women While criminal charges were taken off the table for winery owner and former mayor of Windsor Dominic Foppoli, he is now standing trial in a civil case in Sonoma County brought by seven women who accused him of sexual assault and domestic abuse.
SF Politics Groping Allegation Threatens to Damage Supervisor Candidacy of Manny Yekutiel A man has come forward with an allegation of sexual assault or battery against cafe owner and rising political figure Manny Yekutiel, which was reported to police but which did not result in any arrest or charges.
SF News DA Dismisses Sexual Assault Case In San Francisco Involving Four Baltimore Police Officers Four off-duty police officers from Baltimore, Maryland were accused of sexually assaulting a California woman while visiting San Francisco in late 2024, but the SF District Attorney’s office determined there wasn’t enough evidence to pursue charges.
SF Politics More Accounts Emerge of Creepy Behavior Toward Young Women By Eric Swalwell We certainly haven't heard the last of the accusations against former Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell, following at least two assault accusations that exploded his political career last month.
SF Politics Eric Swalwell Could Now Face Rape Charge In Los Angeles as New Accuser Comes Forward A fifth accuser has come forward with potential criminal charges against former Congressman Eric Swalwell, one day after he announced his resignation from the House, and two days after he suspended his bid for California governor.
SF Politics Eric Swalwell Resigns From Congress, But Says That Effort to Swiftly Expel Him Is 'Wrong' The implosion of the political career of Eric Swalwell, following 13 years in Congress, took only three days, and as of Monday afternoon he had announced his resignation from Congress.
SF News Vallejo Kidnapping Victim Denise Huskins Aims to Amend State Law Exposing Victims’ Privacy Denise Huskins, the Vallejo woman whose 2015 kidnapping and sexual assault case was featured in Netflix’s 'American Nightmare,' is pushing for changes to state law after learning her assailant was given access to explicit evidence from her case during his trial.
SF News Revelations of Abuse by Cesar Chavez Followed By Bombshell From Dolores Huerta: Chavez Assaulted Her, Too A bombshell New York Times investigation reveals details about the abuse of two girls at the hands farmworker union leader Cesar Chavez, and now Dolores Huerta, who helped found the United Farm Workers, has a bombshell of her own: Chavez assaulted her and fathered two of her children.
SF News Saturday Links: Berkeley Police Arrest Man in Texas Connected to Seven East Bay Cold Cases The SF sector of the US Coast Guard is looking for the owner of a surfboard that turned up at Ocean Beach Friday; a man was killed and a woman critically injured by a teenage driver in Gilroy; and Berkeley police cracked some cold sexual assault cases, largely due to a state grant.
SF News SFPD Arrests 19-Year-Old Suspect in Last Week’s Golden Gate Park Sexual Assault of a Child Not a moment too soon for SF parents whose kids are heading out trick-or-treating tonight, SFPD has arrested a 19-year-old in the case of a girl who was dragged into a bathroom and sexually assaulted at Golden Gate Park’s Polo Field.
SF News Serial Groper Bill Gene Hobbs Forced to Remain in Custody, Curses Out Judge in Courtroom Longtime serial SF harasser Bill Gene Hobbs will remain in SF County Jail for the foreseeable future after a Thursday morning hearing, but went off on the judge with a profane tirade that likely did him no favors for upcoming hearings.
SF News SFPD Reportedly Looking at Three Suspects In Golden Gate Park Assault on Child, DNA Being Tested The SFPD says it has identified three suspects in last week's restroom sexual assault on a young girl, and there's a report of a man who'd been lurking in the area and talking to young girls.
SF News Sexual Assault of Child Reported In Golden Gate Park Restroom San Francisco police are investigating a reported sexual battery or sexual assault of a child in a restroom near the Polo Field in Golden Gate Park on Thursday.
SF News Saturday Links: South Bay Police Chief Suspected of Commuting From Idaho An ophthalmology professor from Stanford University created a device that helps people with vision loss read again; Newsom signed a bill calling for a state commission on the inclusion of trans athletes in competitive sports; and the Millbrae police chief is suspected of commuting from Idaho.
SF News SF Sheriff’s Deputy Fired for Alleged Sexual Assault of Trans Woman in SF County Jail The SF Sheriff’s Office is calling it “sexual misconduct," while the SF Public Defender’s Office says it was a “nonconsensual” sexual assault, but something got a deputy fired for an alleged incident with a trans woman prisoner.
SF News Saturday Links: Radioactive Shrimp Recall Widens to California, Several Brands Affected An SFPD recruit died two days after suffering a medical emergency during a training session; a small sinkhole ruined some drivers’ days near Golden Gate Park; and the radioactive shrimp recall now includes California.
Business & Tech Report: Uber Has Sexual Assaults Reported on the Platform Every Eight Minutes A new exposé into the sexual assault problem on Uber shows that an assault is reported by an Uber driver or passenger every eight minutes, and that the company has intentionally been dragging its feet on letting women request women drivers.
SF News SF Man Charged After Allegedly Attacking a Pedestrian in Hayward While Yelling ‘I’m a Pimp’ A 28-year-old San Francisco man was recently arrested and charged in Hayward after allegedly grabbing and threatening a woman on Jackson Street, shouting “I’m a pimp” as he tried to force her into prostitution, according to police.
SF News Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman's Son Accused of Rape at NYU The youngest of Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman's four children, Abe, who was raised in Berkeley, has been brought up on a criminal rape charge in New York, where he is attending college.
SF News Nurse Sues El Camino Hospital In Mountain View, Says Manager Assaulted Her at Work Party A nurse is suing El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, claiming the hospital ignored her report of a sexual assault by her manager because the incident happened off-campus — during a retirement party at Morton’s Steakhouse in downtown San Jose.
SF News Saturday Links: 30,000 Attend AOC and Bernie Sanders’s 'Fight the Oligarchy' Visit In Denver Over 30,000 people attended Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders’s joint tour stop in Denver; two unions representing 60,000 University of California employees are poised to begin striking on April 1; and Bach on BART is in full swing.
SF News Tech CEO Arrested on Suspicion of Rape and Assault In South of Market The 47-year-old CEO of a Silicon Valley investment firm was arrested in a luxury condo neighborhood of SoMa on Saturday morning, after a woman said she was forcibly raped, assaulted, and had to be hospitalized.
SF News Mountain View Barber Skips Bail on Charges of Sexually Assaulting Men While They Were Unconscious A 34-year-old Mountain View man may have sexually assaulted as many as 20 men after spiking their drinks, and he’s skipped bail and currently remains at large, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office.
SF News Latest Sean ‘Diddy' Combs Sex Assault Allegations Come From an Incident in Orinda As sexual assault accusations pile up against the now-jailed Sean “Diddy” Combs, the newest of these comes from a woman who says Combs raped her in Orinda in March 2018.
