SF News Saturday Links: ‘No ICE at 2026 Super Bowl’ Banner to Fly Over Levi’s Stadium Sunday A Gilroy teen found a razor blade in her Halloween candy; a federal judge in Oregon has permanently blocked Trump from deploying the National Guard in Portland; and the group MoveOn is flying an anti-ICE banner over Levi’s Stadium for two hours prior to Sunday’s 49ers game.
Business & Tech Alleged SoCal Tech Burglar Crew Charged With Stealing $22 Million Worth of Gear From Bay Area Companies A crew of six Southern California men has been charged with heists targeting Nvidia and Apple shipments, where they allegedly broke into warehouses or robbed delivery trucks of their high-priced contents.
SF News SFPD Arrests Three Men for Alleged SF Citywide Construction Tool Theft Ring This haul of power tools was allegedly stolen from a construction site in the Outer Sunset, by a crew police say was hitting houses under construction in overnight heists in the Mission, Bayview, and beyond.
SF News San Pablo Police Report Strange Pattern of Elderly People Being Targeted for Thefts by Seemingly Good Samaritans A new pattern of theft popping up in San Pablo is hardly the smash-and-grab variety, but one where some apparently nice youngsters roll up in a car offering free jewelry, only to steal elderly peoples’ real jewelry.
SF News Woman Charged With Stealing $56,000 Worth of Merch From SF Sephora and Luxury Eyewear Stores A 22-year-old woman stands accused for her alleged role in an organized theft ring that plucked a total of $56,000 in merchandise from local Sephora and high-end sunglasses shops, and was on supervised release at the time of the thefts.
SF News Alleged Serial Bar Tab-Skipper ‘Jared’ Arrested and Detained at a Red Lobster In San Bruno The infamous dine-and-dasher known around SF as “Jared” was arrested and detained for once again skipping on a bill, though he has since been released, and bartenders be warned that he is currently a free man.
SF News Vehicle Rams Into Union Square Louis Vuitton In Attempted Smash-and-Grab, Thieves Fail to Steal Anything Just two blocks from where smash-and-grab burglars rammed a car into the Union Square Dior store two weeks ago, another set of would-be thieves smashed their car into the Louis Vuitton, but were foiled from actually stealing anything in their attempted heist.
SF News Man Charged With Burglarizing FBI Truck In SF, Trading the Stolen Gear for $20 Bag of Meth A man who allegedly stole thousands of dollars of gear from an FBI truck may not have realized the value of the equipment, as his charging documents say he sold a $1,500 ballistics vest from that haul for a $20 bag of meth.
SF News Some Jokers Posted Signs In Union Square Saying ‘Stolen Goods Must Remain Under $950’ These unauthorized signs were apparently real and placed in Union Square, creating a viral uproar among people who believed the signs’ official-looking claim that "stolen goods must remain under $950."
SF News SF Worker Who Bought VR Headsets With City Money Now Accused of Stealing $627K In Workers' Comp It’s now two arrests in two months for a since-fired city HR manager who allegedly used city funds to buy fancy tech gear, as he was arrested again Thursday for charges of stealing $627,000 from the city through a fraudulent workers' compensation scheme.
SF News Plea Deal Falls Through for Serial Stonestown Target Shoplifter Accused of Stealing $40K In Merchandise The $40,000 in allegedly stolen merchandise from Target is just one of the many SF shoplifting cases against Aziza Graves, who is not in jail, but instead back in court for hearings that have dragged on for nearly two and half years.
SF News Alameda Police Retail-Theft Bust Nets $75,000 In Stolen Merchandise At Oakland Home The February 9 mass robbery of an Old Navy in Alameda was tracked to a house in Oakland, which Alameda police raided, and found $75,000 in merchandise — with the tags still on all of the items.
SF News Alleged SF Sunglass Shop Thief Nabbed in Hawaii Faces Charges; Vacaville Sunglass Hut Burglar Convicted Some serious shade is coming down on two alleged sunglass shop thieves who've made headlines; as the SF woman was arrested getting off a plane in Hawaii has been extradited back, while a Solano County jury convicted a woman who pulled a $40,000 Sunglass Hut heist.
SF News The Drive-Thru ATM at Diamond Heights Plaza is Gone, Because Someone Tried to Steal It A recent attempt to rip the ATM out of the parking lot at the Diamond Heights Safeway was unsuccessful, but the thieves damaged the machine so badly it had to be removed. Yet Bank of America insists they will replace the ATM.
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 Apparent Rash of Wallet Thefts Hitting East Bay Trader Joe’s Stores The Livermore Police Department is sounding the alarm over a “crime trend” of unattended wallets being stolen from shopping carts at Trader Joe’s locations, though the obvious solution is just not leaving your wallet unattended.
SF News Thieves Ram Into Outer Richmond Bank of America, Smashing and Stealing ATM In what’s fast becoming a copycat crime across the Bay Area, another ATM theft victimized a Bank of America at Balboa Street and 38th Avenue sometime after 3:30 a.m. Wednesday morning.
SF News Thieves Make Off With ATM From K&H Liquors at Valencia and 16th Streets A late-night favorite corner store at 16th and Valencia Streets is the latest SF business to have their ATM dragged off, as K&H Liquors had their ATM stolen in an early Sunday morning heist.
SF News Multiple Data Sources Say Retail Theft Is Declining In San Francisco SFPD is hailing it as proof that their crackdown is working that both internal and external data show a decline in San Francisco retail theft, though it’s not yet a long-term trend, and the findings could just be statistical noise.
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 Two East Bay Men Get Three Years In Prison for String of SF Snatch-and-Grab Sunglass Thefts A brazen snatch-and-grab sunglasses theft operation that hit several stores in SF and the East Bay has brought three-year prison sentences for two Contra Costa County men in their early 20s.
SF News SFPD Recovers Nearly $18,000 Worth of Stolen Apparel In Mission Street Illegal Vending Bust Some surprisingly high-end items were being sold by street vendors on Mission Street, as SFPD says they busted two vendors suspected to be part of a fencing operation, selling an estimated $17,880 worth of stuff allegedly stolen from Lululemon and Victoria's Secret.
SF News Trump Tries to Win Over California Republicans by Advocating Violence in GOP Convention Speech Friday Republican presidential nominee frontrunner and alleged criminal Donald Trump attacked California for its crime, forests, homelessness, and electric vehicles, while also complaining about Nancy Pelosi and alleged election fraud.
SF News Target Will Permanently Close Its Folsom and 13th Streets Location, Plus Two East Bay Locations Big-box retailer Target announced the closures of nine stores nationwide on Tuesday, and one of them is the Target at Folsom and 13th Streets, while two of the others are in the East Bay.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Newsom Giving SF $17 Million to Fight Organized Retail Theft The Fillmore Street sinkhole may take up to six weeks to fix, someone’s throwing their hat in the ring for Aaron Peskin’s D3 seat, and Governor Gavin Newsom is rolling in the Brink’s truck to fight organized retail theft.
