SF Politics San Jose Mayor Suggests Arresting Homeless Who Refuse Shelter; Legal Case In Vallejo Highlights Growing Backlash After nearly a year in which city and state leaders in California began swinging to the right on the issue of homeless encampments and the civil rights of homeless people, advocates say the tide may be turning again.
SF News Vallejo Is Whack: Guns and 11,000 Fentanyl Pills Seized at Daycare Center A series of raids across Solano County coordinated by the feds and the Vallejo Police Department seized dozens of illegal guns and a huge haul of drugs, and one of the sites raided was an in-home daycare center where feds found 11,000 fentanyl pills.
SF News Arrests of Alleged 'Zizian' Cult Members Came After Another Dispute With a Landlord The three individuals tied to a cult-like group that has been linked to two Bay Area deaths and four on the East Coast were apparently up to their old tricks in rural Maryland when they were arrested on Sunday.
SF News Felon on Parole Allegedly Carrying Meth For Sale Leads Police on Chase, Tries to Hide In East Bay Casino A man fleeing from Vallejo police last weekend led the cops on a multi-county pursuit into the East Bay, where he reportedly ran into a casino in San Pablo in an attempt to escape from arrest.
SF News Suspect In Vallejo Murder Distances Himself From 'Zizian' Cult, Suggests He Is Primarily Motivated By Veganism It may not get us any further in understanding actual motive in the case of a January murder in Vallejo, but we now have an extended statement from the suspect in the case.
SF News Possible Cult Leader 'Ziz,' Who Faked Her Own Death and Was Questioned In Pennsylvania Double Murder, Still at Large It feels like there are still shoes to drop in the strange case of the Zizians, whose troubling beliefs and alleged pattern of extreme violence came to light in just the last several days.
SF News Suspect and Possible Cult Member Makes Court Appearance In Vallejo Killing as Further Links Revealed to Other Murders We've only just begun to see the unraveling of the strange case of the Zizians, as we'll call them for now, a purported "death cult" with links to the rationalist movement, whose alleged activities the last two years have led to a total of six deaths to date.
SF News Two Linked to Alleged Vallejo Vegan Cult With Violent History Arrested For Murders In Vermont and Vallejo A creepy group that had been nicknamed "The Cult" by neighbors in Vallejo were implicated with a sword attack on their landlord two years ago. Now, two alleged associates of the group are in custody for murdering that landlord as well as a border patrol agent in Vermont.
SF News Mother’s Car Ends Up Trapped in Vallejo Gunfight, Four-Year-Old Daughter Seriously Injured A mother driving in Vallejo found her car unwittingly in the middle of a gunfight Sunday night, when her four-year-old daughter was hit by a bullet, and is now in serious condition at Children's Hospital in Oakland.
SF News British Indie Band Arrives for US Tour, Promptly Gets Van Robbed at Gunpoint In Vallejo UK alt-rock stars Sports Team arrived in NorCal Monday night to begin their US tour. Their van was robbed at gunpoint first thing Tuesday morning in Vallejo, but they’re still performing Saturday night at The Chapel.
SF News Vallejo Police Say 63-Year-Old Man Admitted to Stabbing His Mother to Death, Also Allegedly Stabbed His Wife A Vallejo couple was hospitalized Saturday with stab wounds, and now the Vallejo PD says the male in that couple admitted to stabbing and killing his mother. And sure enough, police found her dead at her home.
SF News Rampant Sideshows in Vallejo Early Sunday Morning, One Participants’ Pants Catch on Fire A swarm of sideshows in Vallejo brought multiple injuries early Sunday morning, including one participant who managed to get his pants caught on fire, and Vallejo’s mayor released an odd statement asking “Why don’t these brats do this where their momma lives.”
SF News Sideshow With Cars, Snake, and a Ring of Fire Leaves One Dead In Vallejo In Vallejo, one person is dead after a sideshow early Saturday morning that included lasers, drones, cars drifting around a ring of fire, and guns fired.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Two Women and Two Dogs Die In Vallejo House Fire Two women died in a house fire in Vallejo last night; Oakland police were in a standoff with a suspect Monday afternoon that ended peacefully; and Donald Trump is chatting with Elon Musk on a Twitter livestream.
SF News Vallejo Sideshow Ends With Man Shot, Pickup Truck Torched, 7-Eleven Looted Sunday night saw a particularly lawless sideshow, even for Vallejo, as a man was shot, a pickup truck was set on fire, and a 7-Eleven was ransacked of its beer and lottery scratchers.
SF News Vallejo Suspect Leads CHP on 50-Mile Car Chase, Doesn’t Stop Even When Tires Are Spiked A high-speed chase that originated in Vallejo Wednesday night went all the way down to Hayward, featuring wrong-way driving, and a suspect who didn’t even stop after his tires had been spiked.
SF News More Vallejo Police Department Chaos, As Interim Chief is Reportedly Resigning for Another Job The Vallejo Police Department is reeling from a series of scandals and a highly unflattering new Netflix documentary, and interim Police Chief Jason Ta is reportedly leaving the department for a permanent job in Salinas.
Arts & Entertainment Netflix Documentary 'American Nightmare' Shines New Light on Vallejo Detective Who Botched Huskins Case A central figure in the disastrously bad investigation into the 2015 kidnapping of Denise Huskins in Vallejo, Detective Mat Mustard, remains on the force, and a popular new Netflix documentary casts him as a villain.
SF News Report: Vallejo PD Considering Unbendable Badges, So Cops Can’t Bend Them to Celebrate Killing People Since the Vallejo Police Department has been dogged by scandals for the better part of a decade now, the department is reportedly considering a rebrand with new badges — badges that can’t be bent to celebrate fatal police shootings.
Arts & Entertainment Bay Area 'Gone Girl' Case Gets New Documentary Treatment on Netflix, 'American Nightmare' The almost-too-nutty-to-be-believed 2015 rape and kidnapping case involving Denise Huskins and then boyfriend Aaron Quinn, who lived on Mare Island near Vallejo, has been turned into a new docu-series from the team behind 2022's 'The Tinder Swindler.'
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 City of Vallejo Settles for $5 Million In Case of Willie McCoy, Whom Police Shot 55 Times Another huge settlement for the family of a victim shot by Vallejo police, or in this case the family of a victim shot 55 times by Vallejo police, as the city has agreed to pay $5 million to the family of Willie McCoy for his 2019 shooting.
SF News Vallejo Officer Who Killed Sean Monterrosa Won't Be Charged; California DOJ Says There's Not Enough Evidence The 2020 killing of San Francisco native Sean Monterrosa by a Vallejo police officer remains a painful memory for Bay Area residents and a tragedy for Monterrosa's family. And now, after a review by the state attorney general, the criminal case against the officer is not moving forward.
SF News Vallejo Police Publish Photos of Unmasked, 'Smiling' Assailants Sought In Theft of $12K In Levi's Jeans A case of organized retail theft in Vallejo over the holiday weekend left investigators with some pretty clear photographic evidence, but they still need the public's help in identifying the assailants.
SF News Vallejo Police Arrest 'Red Bull Thief,' Who Allegedly Stole $15K Worth of Vodka, Red Bull, and Other Goods Police in Vallejo have arrested an alleged repeat offender who targeted the same store for repeated thefts, and his favorite things to steal, police say, were cases of Red Bull and bottles of vodka.
