SF News Disgraced SFPD Lab Tech Deborah Madden Avoids Jail Former SFPD crime lab technician Deborah Madden, who plead guilty in March to misdemeanor cocaine possession after two federal trials on greater charges ended with hung juries, has skirted jail time and was
Arts & Entertainment Do This Tonight: Zodiac Redux At The Old Mint By now 'Zodiac', the 2007 movie based on the events surrounding the Zodiac Killer's reign of terror in 1970's San Francisco, is a bit of a classic. From scenes depicting a Chronicle newsroom
SF News Breaking: Two Dead, Shelter-In-Place Reported After Brannan Street Shooting [Updated] Around 2:20 p.m. Friday afternoon, San Francisco Police and Fire Department units responded to reports of a shooting on Brannan Street between Seventh and Eighth Streets in SoMa. The units responded
SF News Highlights From This Week's SFPD Park Station Newsletter Here, once again, are some creatively phrased highlights from Captain Greg Corrales' weekly newsletter of the happenings at Park Station, and around the Upper Haight. Surprisingly, there are no amusing incidents to relay
SF News Police Confirm Asiana Flight 214 Victim Was Hit By Emergency Vehicle Although none of the emergency workers or first responders to the Asiana Airlines flight 214 crash last Saturday recalled such an incident, San Francisco Police confirmed Friday morning that 16-year-old Ye Meng Yuan
SF News The Annotated SFPD Pride Weekend Public Safety Notice From time to time, SFist will, as a public service, lend these pages to copying and pasting from a press release. This is one of those times. Here's the SFPD's official Pride Weekend
SF News SFPD Make Arrest In Bayview Muni Shelter Homicide On Monday, June 24th two suspects exited a vehicle at the intersection of West Point and Middle Point Roads in the Bayview and shot 19-year-old Jaquan Rice and a 17-year-old female victim while
SF News SFPD, BART Police Respond Appropriately To Crime In 16th Street Station Around 7 p.m. Friday evening, BART trains were stopped for about 10 to 15 minutes while San Francisco Police and BART PD officers responded to reports that a male suspect fled the
SF News Violent Naked BART Man ID'd As Acrobat Yeiner Perez After video emerged yesterday of a man terrorizing 16th Street BART Station with his naked and bizarre antics last month -- who also sexually assaulted a woman in the process -- questions still
SF News Exciting SFPD Car Chase Ends Underwater in Berkeley [Updated] The SFPD went speeding after a suspect vehicle on 101 last night which took them across the bridge to Berkeley Aquatic Park, where the suspect tried to ditch his car in the water
SF News Highlights From the SFPD Park Station Newsletter It's time once again to hear a few highlights from the land known as the Upper Haight. Each week, Park Station Captain Greg Corrales rounds up the neighborhood's recent incidents and arrests, and
Arts & Entertainment Gloriously-Named SFPD Horses Retire There's something about police horses, that just, well, it gets to us. Maybe it's their plodding dedication and kind eyes. Perhaps it's for the humanizing effect they give the law enforcement officers in
SF News 18-Year-Old Dies At S.F. General After Visitacion Valley Shooting 18-year-old Karl Mitchell of Pittsburg, CA died Thursday afternoon after arriving at San Francisco General suffering from a gunshot wound. Mitchell was driven to the hospital by friends and there was no 911
SF News Triple Shooting In Mission Near 16th Street BART At around 3:50 this morning near 16th Street and Rondel Place, three people were shot. One victim was shot in the torso, the other two plugged in the legs. All three were
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Guy Fieri's Flavortown Camaro Ticketed! While filming at SoMa StrEat Food Park this afternoon, Guy Fieri, controversial host of Triple D, had his bitchin' Camaro ticketed by the fuzz. Pft. In lighter DDD production news, Mr. Fieri spent
SF News Highlights From This Week's SFPD Park Station Newsletter It's time once again to check in on Captain Greg Corrales and his cheeky roundup of the week's arrests and citations in and around the Upper Haight. First off, he picks out his
SF News Highlights From This Week's SFPD Park Station Newsletter We now realize, after posting a couple highlights last week, that it's Park Station Captain Greg Corrales whom we have to thank for the colorful, sometimes midcentury-archaic language he uses to round up
SF News Sheriff's Deputy's Body Found Near Marina Docks The body of Michael Roberts, 56, was found floating near the Vallejo Municipal Marina on Monday afternoon, near his boat and in an area where he loved to fish. He was also a
SF News Highly Intoxicated 'Nincompoop' Faces Off With Fire Truck in the Upper Haight If you don't subscribe to the SFPD Park Station newsletter, you probably should. Phrases like "loathsome louse" and terms like "flower child" and "nincompoop" are de rigeur, and what officers have to deal
SF News Knife Crime 2013: Stabbing Suspect Shot To Death By SFPD In Potrero Hill Last night just before 10 p.m. San Francisco Police officers responded to an emergency call from a man in Potrero Hill who claimed to have just stabbed his brother-in-law. According to SFPD
SF News SFPD On Heightened Alert After Boston Marathon Explosions In the wake of today's explosions at the Boston Marathon, San Francisco Police Department is on heightened alert. SFist talked to SFPD spokesperson Albie Esparza, who told us that SFPD will be more
SF News SFPD Officers Shoot Two In Air Gun Altercation Two people were left in critical condition after an altercation sprung up early Sunday morning between two groups across the street from SFPD's Mission Station at 17th and Valencia Streets. A bystander alerted
SF News SFPD Sued By ACLU And Homeless Advocate Over Cell Phone Search The ACLU filed suit today against the City of San Francisco and its police chief over what they say was an illegal search of a man's cell phone in the Castro's Jane Warner