SF News Union Square Dior Once Again Rammed Into by Car in Smash-and-Grab Burglary Nearly one year to the day after thieves rammed a car into the Union Square Dior storefront, another car pulled the same scheme just before 3 am Friday morning, and the suspects are still at large.
SF News Fremont Man Convicted In SF Assault and Robbery Case Stemming From Grindr Hookup A Fremont man was convicted of falsely imprisoning, assaulting, and robbing another man he met on the Grindr app after a planned sexual encounter in a San Francisco motel that was just a ruse for robbery.
SF News Outrage Grows Over Postal Carrier Robberies After Armed Robber Sentenced to Only 30 Days in Jail As robberies of postal carriers skyrocket in the Bay Area and nationwide, the Postal Service is up in arms over one suspect who committed an armed robbery of a mail carrier and only got a 30-day sentence.
SF News Oakland Taco Truck La Parilla Loca Robbed at Gunpoint A well-established taco stand called La Parilla Loca does business six days a week in the East Oakland area, and was the latest food establishment to suffer an armed robbery this week.
SF News Three California Lawmakers Introduce New Tough-on-Retail-Crime Bill Aimed at Smash-and-Grab Thefts There’s a flurry of new proposed California legislative bills that would chip away at Prop 47, including one intended to lock up people identified as “professional retail thieves.”
SF News Vallejo Couple Finally Going to Trial for Alleged 2018 Murder-Robbery, Six Years After Crime Occurred The wheels of justice have moved stunningly slowly in the case of a man found dead in a Vallejo hotel room in 2018, but the pair accused of killing and robbing him finally has a trial date set that will begin more than six years after the killing itself.
SF News Random Hero on Bike Foils Attempt to Steal Band’s Gear Outside Bottom of the Hill “Not all heroes wear capes. Some wear bike helmets,” declared Potrero Hill live music venue Bottom of the Hill, after a good samaritan on a bike somehow prevented hammer-wielding thieves from stealing the gear from a band’s touring van.
SF News Thieves Swipe ATM From Clooney’s Pub, Then Crash Into SFPD Car A brazen Monday morning robbery at Clooney’s Pub at Valencia and 25th streets ripped off their ATM and some liquor from the establishment, then the suspects crashed into an SFPD patrol car. They’re still at large, but the SFPD has a vehicle description.
SF News Would-Be Thief Shot and Killed While Trying to Rob a Gun Store in Livermore A 28-year-old man is dead after entering a Livermore gun shop wearing a mask, wielding a hammer, and trying to steal a gun, as the shop owner fired two rounds on him in an outcome that shouldn’t have been unexpected.
SF News Union Square Dior Store Rammed With Car In Burglary Heist, at Least Two Arrested A brazen Thursday morning smash-and-grab at the Union Square Dior store was heavy on the smash, as burglars rammed a car into the store and stole a reported $270,000 in merchandise — but one of the getaway cars then crashed and the suspects in it were arrested.
SF News Four Arrested for April North Beach Shooting That Killed One, Injured Four Others The first reported North Beach shooting in years was in late April near “strip club row,” and SFPD has now arrested four suspects, one of whom was also shot during the incident.
SF News SFPD Arrests 'Prolific Burglary Suspect' Tied To At Least 18 Robberies Across Town 29-year-old Patrick Potter has been arrested and charged with a five-month spree of burglaries, including allegedly stealing a haul of Chromebooks from a second grade classroom.
SF News One Person Shot In Attempted Armed Robbery at Emeryville Bank of America The victim is in stable condition, but four male suspects are still at large after fleeing in a Hyundai sedan after an attempted robbery at the San Pablo Avenue Bank of America in Emeryville.
SF News Oakland’s 24-Hour Colonial Donuts On Lakeshore Avenue Rocked by Armed Robbery No one was injured in the early Friday morning armed robbery of the Colonial Donuts on Lakeshore Avenue in Oakland, but four employees were held at gunpoint, and the three suspects are still at large.
SF News Thieves Use a Forklift to Break Into and Rob Oakland Cannabis Business There were three attempted robberies of cannabis dispensaries and businesses in West Oakland early Tuesday morning, and in one particularly brazen pot burglary, the thieves rammed their way into the storefront with a forklift.
SF News North Beach Shooting Happened During Attempted Mugging, One Suspect Now In Custody San Francisco police now seem to know the outlines of what occurred Sunday night near the Condor Club in North Beach, when five people ended up with gunshot wounds, one of them fatal. And one suspect has been arrested.
SF News Almost $180K Worth of Camera Gear Stolen From Store Close to SF's Union Square Despite this year's uptick in police presence in Union Square, a quick group of thieves managed to raid a high-end store in downtown San Francisco Saturday afternoon, leaving the camera shop Leica with $20K in damages and without $178K worth of products.
SF News Police Appear to Just Sit and Watch as NoPa Dispensary Gets Burglarized Here’s a new wrinkle in the ongoing smash-and-grab robbery chronicles, as security video indicates SFPD sat and watched the robbery of a dispensary, not intervening until after the getaway vehicle drove off.
SF News FiDi Thieves Beat and Rob Elderly Man of Camera, as the Weekend Saw Something of a Robbery Spree Though robberies are down 28 percent compared to this time last year, the slow return of gatherings and semi-normalcy may bring back both petty and violent theft.
SF News Arrest Made In Armed Robbery of KPIX Reporter's Camera at Twin Peaks The San Francisco Police Department on Tuesday released a few more details about last week's armed robbery of a KPIX crew's camera at Twin Peaks — which, ironically, was stolen while the reporter was there to report on all the theft going on in the area.
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 Bike-Riding Hat Thieves Beat Man At Ocean Beach A man walking near Ocean Beach was violently accosted Friday, by two bike-riding robbers who apparently wanted his hat. Police say the chapeau crime went down at 12:20 a.m. Friday, near
SF News 49ers Players Escape Alleged Robbery Attempt Outside Union Square Nightclub Two ambitious — or perhaps foolish — armed robbers tried to mug two San Francisco 49ers players after this past Sunday's game against the Washington [Insert Racist Name Here]. Mission Local reports that according to
SF News Video: Footage Released Of Armed Robberies At Two Bay Area Toll Booths Two separate Bay Area bridge toll booths were held up at gunpoint Sunday (we mentioned it in brief here), and the California Highway Patrol has released surveillance video showing that the vehicle and
SF News Unable To Stem Rising Tide Of Crime, SF Might Close Twin Peaks Lookout After Dusk Photos like the one above will be a thing of the past, should a San Francisco Supervisor have his way. After years of crimes at one of the city's hottest tourist areas, city
