SF News Supervisors Vote to Crack Down On Stolen-Item Street Vending With Permit Legislation As sidewalk bazaars of items that “fell off a truck” crowd Mission Street and Civic Center, the Board of Supervisors just passed a bill to regulate and permit vendors to keep the stolen stuff out.
SF News Two New SF Proposals Target Resale Markets Where Shoplifting Rings Sell Their Stuff Online marketplaces and illegal street vendors are where organized retail theft rings unload their ill-gotten goods, and two new laws before the SF Board of Supervisors would hope to squeeze those markets dry.
SF News SF Sheriff's Deputies Can Now Work Security at Retail Stores, in Latest Retail Theft Crackdown Tactic You may soon see legitimate, gun-toting, badge-wearing sheriff's deputies working private security at your local Walgreens, as the supervisors approved a plan to let them moonlight as private retail security.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Prolific Target Shoplifter Arrested Again After Being Freed By Judge Aziza Graves, the woman arrested on 128 counts of stealing from the Stonestown Target, was arrested again for theft; Contra Costa County has a lot of complaints about restaurants not checking vaccines; the drive-thru Dickens Fair was a mess over the weekend.
SF News State AG Rob Bonta Announces Five Guilty Pleas in $8 Million Walgreens-CVS-Target Theft Ring Standing in front of a CVS in Burlingame, the attorney general announced guilty pleas in what is supposedly one of the largest theft-ring arrests in California history.
SF News Half of All Reported SF Shoplifting Incidents in One Month Came From the Metreon Target Shoplifting incidents reported to SFPD doubled in September! But the increase all came from one Target store, then the spike completely disappeared the next month, and what can we even believe anymore.
SF News Handbag Heist Crew Strikes Again In Palo Alto What is likely the same crew of brazen shoplifters who have recently struck twice at Stanford Shopping Center and once in San Francisco's Union Square has struck again, this time in downtown Palo Alto.
SF News Thief In Viral Video at SF Walgreens Arrested After Attempting to Steal Again The bike-pedaling shoplifter filmed in a viral video that showed him clearing shelves at a San Francisco Walgreens was detained by police Saturday, when the suspect allegedly tried to steal from yet another store just a few blocks away.
SF News Two Arrested After Brawl At Ocean Beach Safeway An allegedly violent shoplifting team was taken into custody Sunday, after a showdown at one of San Francisco's most troubled Safeway grocery stores. According to the San Francisco Police Department, officers were called
SF News SF Perfume Thieves Overpower Security Guards During Noontime Raid Thieves at a popular San Francisco shopping center might be smelling a little better than usual today, after they successfully purloined some perfume Wednesday. Police say that the heist occurred at 12:03
SF News Shoplifting Girl Gang Easily Slips Past Union Square Security Guard A store's security guard was no match for a group of young women, all of whom appeared set on shoplifting from a Union Square store. Police say that the heist went down at
SF News Nest Video Nabs Shamed Shoplifter, Who Promptly Returns Stolen Goods and Cash So much for my conspiracy theory that Google’s Nest devices are just creepy IoT surveillance technologies with marginal consumer upside. One marginal consumer got symbolically smacked upside by the video-sharing social media
SF News Video: Stanley Roberts Takes On Safeway Shoplifters KRON 4's Stanley Roberts brings us another of his People Behaving Badly segments, this time focusing on a "flash mob" of shoplifters who were caught on surveillance video robbing a SoMa Safeway en
SF News Union Street Shopkeeper Throws Herself Atop Suspected Jewelry Thieves' Getaway Vehicle The alleged victim of a San Francsico retail robbery wasn't ready to take the crime lying down Thursday, taking a ride on the suspects' car in an effort to thwart their escape. According
SF News Nob Hill Champagne Thief Drives Into Security Guard A champagne heist at a Nob Hill store turned violent Tuesday, when the thief drove into a security guard who was attempting to thwart the crime. According to the San Francisco Police Department,
SF News Taser-Wielding Tent Thief Raids San Francisco Sporting Goods Store A man who allegedly shoplifted scads of tents from a Mission District sporting goods store is on the loose today, after escaping the grasp of the staffer who attempted to stop him. According
SF News Fisherman's Wharf Shoplifter Pepper Sprays Man Over Salami A Fisherman's Wharf shopkeeper was left beaten and pepper sprayed Saturday, after he tried to stop a salami thief from absconding with the sausage. According to the San Francisco Police Department, the crime
SF News Video: Marc Jacobs Raiders Swipe $1700 Worth Of Purses The San Francisco Police Department is seeking a shoplifting trio that brazenly swiped a number of pricey handbags from a Pacific Heights store. In an email sent late Tuesday, SFPD spokesperson Officer Carlos
SF News Bike-Riding Cosmetics Thief Menaces Marina Walgreens The San Francisco Police Department is asking city residents to be on the lookout for a "habitual shoplifter" whose heists recently turned violent, a spokesperson said Wednesday. According to SFPD spokesperson Officer Carlos
SF News Local Mom On The Run After Dumping Kid At Serramonte Target Police are seeking an Oakland mother after they allege that she used her child to help her shoplift from a Daly City Target, then left the child behind when she was caught. Daly
Arts & Entertainment Farewell, Powell And Market Forever 21 Union Square shoppers will soon have to walk a few steps further to partake in that special kind of fast fashion you can only get at Forever 21, as the company's massive Powell
SF News Surveillance Video Shows Women Brazenly Swiping $7000 Of Stonestown Sunglass Hut Shades The San Francisco Police Department is seeking two women who shoplifted over $7000 worth of designer sunglasses from the Sunglass Hut store in the Stonestown Galleria. On May 19, the two women you
SF News Video Released Of East Bay State Senate Candidate Shoplifting At Neiman-Marcus San Francisco has seen its fair share of political scandals — Ed Lee, for example, was never really elected to office, ran a fabricated grassroots campaign, and now, among other ostensibly benign wonk atrocities,
SF News Girl Gang Terrorizes Union Square Store An APB is going out about a gang of seven young women who stormed a boutique on Maiden Lane last Friday and brazenly began shoving big-ticket items into empty shopping bags. This all
misc Scene from a Holiday Shoplifter in Handcuffs While shooting in Union Square the other day, local photographer Henry Navarro came across this arresting scene. He describes it: I was taking photos on this corner and these three come barreling out
