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.
SF News 'Bad Breath Rapist,' On the Run For 16 Years, Found and Arrested In the East Bay A fugitive who had been on trial for sexual assault almost 17 years ago in Massachusetts was recently apprehended by US Marshals in the East Bay, where he had apparently been staying for some time.
SF News Lawyers Frantically Try to Halt Chaotic Inmate Transfer at FCI Dublin Women’s Prison We don’t know how many women have been transferred out of the scandal-ravaged and soon-to-be-shuttered FCI Dublin women’s prison, but attorneys for the inmates have filed an emergency restraining order to halt the clearly haphazard and rushed transfer process.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Political Activist Faces Fresh Sexual Assault Allegations, Promptly Resigns A new giant discount store has opened on Mission Street; Tadich Grill was curiously left off the Chronicle’s “Top Classic SF Restaurants” list; and a well-known progressive community organizer has resigned amidst a report detailing sexual assault accusations from three more women.
SF News Former Windsor Mayor Won’t Face Criminal Charges (For Now) on Numerous Sex Assault Allegations Ex-Windsor mayor Dominic Foppoli was accused of sexual assault by more than a dozen women, but the state AG’s office says they don’t have the evidence to prosecute him, though several accusers’ civil cases will still proceed.
SF News SF Nonprofit Worker Charged With Sexually Assaulting Everett Middle School Student A 20-year-old San Francisco man has been charged with multiple felony sex abuse counts for an alleged sexual assault of an Everett Middle School student, and remains in custody.
Business & Tech Lyft Hit With Rape Lawsuit From Woman Who Says She Was Impregnated by Her Driver We’ve heard untold numbers of sexual assault stories from women riding Lyft and Uber over the years, but the latest stands out, because the alleged victim says she was impregnated by a driver a driver who raped her.
Arts & Entertainment Golden State Killer Movie Auditions Face Investigation After Alleged Creepiness By Actor Vincent Gallo Two actors who have faced sexual misconduct allegations, one of whom has not shied away from being labeled a fully certified creep, are attached to a film adaptation of the Golden State Killer story — and the actors' union is investigating.
SF News Criminal Justice Advocate and SF Oversight Board Member Arrested on Sexual Assault Charges Supervisor Aaron Peskin has reportedly called for William Monroe "Tariq" Palmer II resignation from the sheriff’s oversight board.
Business & Tech Lyft Rolling Out Feature Allowing Women to Request Women Drivers The rideshare company that once put pink mustaches on cars is launching a new change intended to lure women and nonbinary riders and drivers, as those riders can now specifically request a woman driver in San Francisco and San Jose.
SF News Serial Groper Bill Gene Hobbs Sentenced To Five And a Half Years In Prison At a Thursday morning sentencing hearing frequently interrupted by Bill Gene Hobbs mercilessly heckling his own victims, the convicted sexual assault suspect received a jail sentence totaling five and a half years.
SF News Accused Serial Groper Bill Gene Hobbs Found Guilty On Nine Counts After a trial where more than a dozen women described encounters of being grabbed, groped, or kissed by suspect Bill Gene Hobbs, Hobbs was found guilty Wednesday afternoon on eight misdemeanor counts and one felony.
SF News Suspect In UC Berkeley Sexual Battery Cases Arrested After Being Linked to Similar Crime In Palo Alto A suspect who had allegedly been groping and assaulting women on two sides of the Bay was arrested Tuesday in Berkeley, ending a week in which women at the UC Berkeley campus were on high alert after three separate incidents.
SF News Harvey Weinstein Sentenced to 16 Years for Sexual Assault In L.A. In a Los Angeles trial in which Governor Gavin Newsom's wife was a star witness, convicted super-predator Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 16 years for rape and sexual assault charges.
SF News Third Employee of Dublin Federal Women's Prison Pleads Guilty to Sex Abuse Crimes The third of five officers and employees of the federal women's correctional facility in Dublin to be charged with sex abuse crimes, former prison cook Enrique Chavez, pleaded guilty Thursday to two counts of groping an inmate.
SF News [Update] Well-Known Alleged Serial Sexual Predator Arrested Following Warrant Alleged SF serial predator Bill Gene Hobbs has spent plenty more time in the headlines lately than in custody, though he was arrested Friday not long after a warrant was issued for him Friday morning.
SF News Female Lyft Driver Describes Harrowing Encounter With Passenger, Fleeing Onto Freeway A Lyft driver in San Jose says she was forcibly grabbed from behind by an aggressive passenger, which led to her swerving dangerously while going 70 miles per hour and pulling off a busy freeway.
SF News Former Warden at Dublin Women’s Prison Indicted on More Sexual Abuse Charges, Victim List Continues to Grow Five officers have already been charged with lurid sexual misconduct charges for exploiting incarcerated women at the Dublin federal correctional facility, and the ex-warden was just indicted on charges involving two more victims.
SF News Woman Allegedly Groped and Punched in Face on BART Near El Cerrito Del Norte Station, Suspect in Custody A 21-year-old San Francisco man is in custody at the Martinez Detention Facility after a Wednesday incident in which he’s accused of groping a woman on an East Bay BART train — and when she told him to stop, he allegedly punched her several times in the face.
SF News Stanford University Issues Alert After Woman Raped on Campus It’s unknown whether the victim was a student, but there is a physical description of the suspect, who has been seen “on campus before.”
SF News Questions Abound at Healdsburg Bar Where Nine People in Six-Month Span Reported Their Drinks Were Drugged While there were no associated assaults reported, at least nine people have said their drinks were spiked with drugs in the last six months at the same popular bar in downtown Healdsburg.
SF News Monterey Sheriffs Question Assault Suspect, Find 80 Firearms and 50,000 Rounds of Ammo What started as questioning over the alleged sexual assault of a minor turned into a trove of guns, ammo, and prescription narcotics, and as you can imagine, this Pebble Beach suspect is now in jail.
