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.
SF News Two Teens Give Shocking, Detailed Testimony in ‘Cool Mom’ Bail Hearing, Lawyer Requests Delay to Rebut The Tuesday testimony from two alleged assault victims was so damning that the attorney for ‘Cool Mom’ Shannon O’Connor asked for a 16-day delay to rebut the charges.
SF News Elizabeth Holmes Details Rape, Assault Accusations Against Co-Defendant ‘Sunny’ Balwani It was expected that Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes would heap blame on her ex and business partner Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani. But the rape and sexual assualt accusations were stark, and actually explain her “deep voice” bit.
SF News San Jose Man Posing as ‘Spiritual Healer’ Allegedly Raped 15-Year-Old Girl Police say there could be more victims of this 42-year-old suspect accused of 10 felony counts of sex crimes against a juvenile, after telling the girl he was a “spiritual healer.”
SF Politics SF Building Inspection Commissioner and Latino Task Force Co-Founder Steps Down Following Assault Allegation Prominent SF political figure Jon Jacobo, the co-founder of the Latino Task Force and a member of the Building Inspection Commission, was asked to step down from his role on the commission late last week following the revelation of a serious sexual assault allegation against him.
SF News San Francisco Man Arrested for Assaulting Asian Woman At San Jose Caltrain Station A San Francisco man was arrested Wednesday for a hate crime and sexual assault, following an incident in which he allegedly hurled racial slurs at a young Asian woman and assaulted her in a pedestrian tunnel at San Jose's Diridon Station.
SF News SF Woman Horrified That Man Who Assaulted Her In September Was Back on Street and Allegedly Raped a Woman In November A local news station in San Francisco has uncovered a story that will add fuel to the anger about lawlessness in the city and the DA's office's policies when it comes to freeing suspects from custody.
SF News Oakland and San Francisco Police Arrest Pair of Rape Suspects Two men were arrested this week on sexual assault and other charges in unrelated cases, with witnesses on a San Francisco Muni helping to identify one of the suspects.
Arts & Entertainment SF Musician Mark Kozelek (Sun Kil Moon) Accused Of Sexual Misconduct Three women have come forward with allegations that Bay Area-based singer-songwriter Mark Kozelek either acted inappropriately, assaulted them, or engaged in non-consensual sex with them in the last six years.
SF News Borderlands Books Rocked By Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence Allegations Against Owner After a horror and sci-fi podcast aired shocking accusations against Borderlands owner Alan Beatts, the local press has confirmed these charges from his daughter and ex-girlfriend.
SF News Hard-to-Recognize Sex Offender Named ‘Pirate’ Riles NorCal Town After Returning There A face-tattooed man with a history of rape and sexual assault charges has returned to Redding after being run out of Alaska, and the community is understandably a little freaked out.
SF News SF Man Charged With Sexual Assault of 99-Year-Old Woman Found Guilty of Misdemeanor A mentally ill San Francisco man accused of attempting to rape a 99-year-old woman in a Chinatown apartment building on New Year's Eve last year was acquitted of the most serious charges he faced this week, and found guilty of two misdemeanors.
Business & Tech Lyft Is Being Sued By 20 Victims In Second Sexual-Assault Suit A second lawsuit was filed Wednesday against Lyft in a case involving 20 cases of sexual assault involving drivers. And this suit joins a separate one filed in September by the same law firm that covers 14 other cases of assault.
Business & Tech Lyft Hit With Sexual Assault Lawsuit From 14 Different Women Lyft has allegedly received more than 100 rape and assault claims in California alone, and the victims say the company "chooses to stonewall" on prosecuting drivers. Now 14 women are suing.
SF News Brock Turner Assault Victim 'Emily Doe' Reveals Herself, and She's Written a Book Her name is Chanel Miller, and many of us have known her story, and her prose style, without knowing her real name or anything much about her. That is about to change.
