SF News Another Smash-and-Grab Caught On Video, This Time in Golden Gate Park, and Victim Chased Down Thief If you want a sense of the sheer volume of petty crime going on in San Francisco, you need only look at Twitter or Reddit, basically, because there's so much that some of it is getting caught on video in broad daylight.
SF News Brazen Highway Robbery Caught on Camera in SoMa A thief jumped out of a moving Honda on Friday to smash the rear window of a Prius just as it was getting on the I-80 onramp on Bryant Street, and made off with a backpack containing a drone and camera equipment.
SF News Massive Jump In San Francisco Car Break-Ins, As Thousands More Reported This Year Over Last If you feel like more and more cars are being broken into on SF streets, you're not wrong: According to data from the San Francisco Police Department, there's been a 28 percent jump
SF News Driver Smashes Into Union Square Gucci Store, Reportedly Raids It For Purses Plywood covers portion of Gucci store in San Francisco after apparent smash-and-grab. https://t.co/OspWpYSMkd pic.twitter.com/9JPl2aabiS— NBC Bay Area (@nbcbayarea) July 16, 2017 The rarefied environs of Union Square's
SF News Crooked Lombard Street Thieves Turn Attraction Into Car Burglary Hotbed San Francisco tourists and locals alike have long suffered the slings, arrows, and shattered glass piles that come with car break-ins, with the thieves often smashing windows over items of negligible value. But
SF News Vile Car Burglar Steals Man's Ashes From Car Parked At Fisherman's Wharf A woman who hoped to scatter her father's ashes among Northern California's famous redwoods had that dream shattered Wednesday, when an unknown thief (or thieves) stole the dead man's remains from her car
SF News Market Street Thief Robs Car As Victim Sits Inside We've all had it drilled into our brains that to leave an item in a parked vehicle is to risk returning to a car with a shattered window, possessions gone with the wind.
SF News Will A Set Of $300 Signs Stop SF's Car Break-In Epidemic? With a jaw-dropping $9.6 billion budget, $300 feels like a fart in San Francisco's financial tornado. But one SF Supe is hoping that a couple $300 expenditures might curb one of the
SF News Local Vintage Camera Store Robbed, Confused Owner Says 'We Can't Even Get People To Buy This Stuff' Matt Osbourne, who along with Gordon Szeto owns Glass Key Photo at 442 Haight Street, admits to being confused by a robbery at his store. The methods aren't so surprising: They "smashed in
SF News [Update] Yet Another Law Enforcement Gun Theft, This Time In Alamo Square It's a refrain that we hear again and again in San Francisco: Don't leave anything of value in your car, or it will be stolen. So, yes, it's irritating when everyday civilians ignore
SF News Ed Lee Blames Judges, Not Criminals, For Spike In SF Property Crime In a conversation with the Chronicle's editorial board, Mayor Ed Lee expressed an interesting opinion on just who, exactly, is to blame for the fact that San Francisco now has the highest per
SF News SF Now Has Highest Per Capita Property Crime Rate In The US We've been talking about the smash-and-grab epidemic in San Francisco for a while now, and now the New York Times has picked up the story of this wealthy city's wave of car burglaries
SF News Enterprising SF Car Burglars Branch Out Into Ransom Scam Car break-ins are at an all-time high in San Francisco, we've all heard again and again and again. And, sure, that stinks for the victims, but won't someone think of the poor burglars,
SF News Marc Jacobs Is Latest Fashion Victim In Smash-and-Grab Trend Confirming our suspicion that the smash-and grab is the hottest crime to commit in 2015, CBS SF reports that the Marc Jacobs Boutique at 2142 Fillmore Street has been robbed. At 4:24
SF News Stuff Store On Valencia Is Latest Victim Of Smash-And-Grab Robbery The vast, high-end flea market known as Stuff was the latest victim of a smash-and-grab robbery on Wednesday morning, with a group of four to six thieves breaking through the glass front door
SF News Smash-and-Grab Is Officially The Crime To Commit Of Early 2015 Yet another smash-and-grab robbery at a high-end audio equipment store happened early this morning, this time at Music Lovers Audio and Video on Bush Street a store which was also hit by a
SF News [Update] Audiophile Thieves Commit Another Smash-and-Grab At Stereo Equipment Store At around 4 a.m. this morning, a group of audiophile bandits drove a vehicle into a high-end equipment store on the on the 1600 block of California Street. According to Officer Albie
SF News SF's Smash-And-Grab Wave Continues With West Portal Heist First the smash-and-grabbers came for our outerwear. Then it was our gold. And now, in San Francisco's latest thieves-drive-into-a-business-and-steal-their-stuff heist, it's a West Portal audio/video store that's left picking up the pieces.
SF News Take A Look At San Francisco's Gold Nugget Stealing Smash-And-Grabbers If you take a look at the above and below photos of the masked bandits who crashed a stolen SUV into the Wells Fargo History Museum, will it help officials track down the
SF News Stolen SUV Crashes Into Museum, Masked Gunmen Abscond With Gold It seems like something out of a lesser USA Network drama — a dramatic heist at a prominent bank's history museum, with masked suspects, a gunpoint confrontation, and gold nuggets at stake. But this
