SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Can You Trust The People Passing Your Apartment Not To Steal Your Amazon Groceries? When Amazon announced earlier this month that they would be using the U.S. Postal Service to deliver groceries in San Francisco, it seems like folks reacted with a collective shrug. Having your
SF News When SFPD Is 'Too Busy,' North Beach Bartenders Go Vigilante On Presumed Stroller Thief Of course, confronting an alleged criminal on your own is a terrible idea. But when you see your stolen stuff in the hands of others, and the cops won't help, what are you
SF News Serial Panty Pilferer Allowed To Walk Free Despite His Urge For Undergarments Anthony Robinson, the man accused of stealing ladies' underthings from the Union Square Victoria's Secret on no fewer than five separate occasions, has been allowed to walk free on the streets of San
SF News Someone Stole Hunter Pence's Scooter So iconic that the Giants used it in his bobblehead, Hunter Pence's scooter was reportedly stolen on Sunday. The scooter is customized with his name and uniform number. Hunter tweets: Ahhhh someone stole
SF News Celebrity's Kid Has Gear Stolen From Van Beatles royalties recipient Sean Lennon is singing the blues today after his bandmate's computer was stolen from a van parked on Franklin and Hayes. John and Yoko's son's band, called The Ghost of
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,
Arts & Entertainment How To: Register Your Bike, In Case It's Stolen! Each year, an estimated 4,000 bikes are stolen in San Francisco. In an effort to help put a dent in that number, Safe Bikes asks you to register with them. It takes
SF News Coffee Shop Laptop Thief Is San Francisco's Most-Filmed Criminal The woman caught on camera stealing a laptop and iPhone from a local coffee shop was busted on suspicion of theft and stolen property shortly after surveillance video of her crimes went viral
SF News Internet Busts Coffee Shop Con Artist Filmed Stealing Apple Products Beware the fate of the oblivious laptop jockey, folks: a local freelance iOS developer had her MacBook Air and iPhone lifted from Joy's Place Cafe at Post and Taylor Streets in the Tenderloin
SF News HA! Amber Alert Canceled. Guy Totally Knew Those People He 'Kidnapped' It turns out that Tuesday's regional Amber Alert was all the result of a big misunderstanding. First of all, accused shoplifter Roy McCamey, 54, was known to employees at the Safeway on Redwood
SF News SFPD Chief Greg Suhr's Car Broken Into, Jacket Stolen Cops. They're just like us. Take, for example, SFPD Chief Greg Suhr. His car was broken into outside his home in Golden Gate Heights a few weeks ago. According to KTVU, "He revealed
SF News Bouncy Castle Monger Steals $630K From Friend, Says 'Have a Nice Life' A San Jose man who was put in charge of a friend's finances while she entered a rehab program managed to spend every cent of an inheritance she had that was intended for
SF News Silicon Valley Exec Found Guilty Of Stealing LEGOs Thomas Langenbach, a VP at software giant SAP's Palo Alto lab, has been convicted of running an elaborate scam to steal LEGO toys from local Target stores. It is quite possibly the white
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week's Internet Star: Crazy Rhubarb Lady (Note: It looks like there's a battle to pull the video down, and copies of it that have spread everywhere. We'll do our best to keep up.) Sure to make millions of appearances
SF News 'Rainbow Girls' Are No 'Bling Ring,' Says SFist Editor A group of young girls, christened by the media as the "Rainbow Girls," have been robbing high-end stores at the Westfield Centre and in Union Square. Also, they're totally lame and nothing compared
SF News Meanwhile, On Mayor Jean Quan's iPhone... She has a pink plastic iPhone case! How about that. Oakland Mayor Jean Quan snaps a shot a Gold Rush-era jewelry box after a news conference announcing its recovery at the Oakland Museum
SF News Piedmont Homes Invaded By Gunmen Early Monday morning, two homes in Piedmont were invaded by gunmen in what police are calling related robberies. First, at around 6:20 a.m. in the 100 block of Estates Drive, "a
Arts & Entertainment $12,000 Gold Rush Artifact Stolen From Oakland Museum In the second break-in in two months, a man stole a gold- and quartz-lined box from a display case in the Oakland Museum that is rumored to be worth $800,000. The box
SF News Picasso Stolen During Marin Teen Party Found Remember that $30,000 Picasso lithograph we mentioned that was stolen at that big teen party at an abandoned mansion in Novato? Well, a high-schooler apparently got cold feet, and fearing getting caught,
SF News Silicon Valley Software Exec Busted For Embezzling LEGOs Thomas Langenbach, a vice president for software giant SAP's Palo Alto lab, was busted using counterfeit bar code stickers to get himself huge discounts on LEGO toys at local Target Stores. Langenbach was
SF News Pathetic Woman Steals Gold From Children As Mercury News reports, shameful San Jose resident Sandra Lizbeth Contreras-Velazquez was arrested last week for allegedly befriending about half a dozen elementary school-aged girls in order to sneak away with their gold
SF News Zynga Temp Employee Arrested for Swiping $100K in Company Equipment Keith Brown, 21, was arrested on Tuesday at gaming company Zynga's after allegedly stealing an estimated $100,000 worth of equipment. Brown stands accused of taking company laptops, desktop computers and software. His
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Theft, Human Feces, Sponge Baths: Ferry Building Furious Over Occupy SF Crimes Ferry Building property manager Jane Connors wrote two letters to City Hall detailing supposed crimes perpetrated by some thoughtless Occupy SF members. An increase in shoplifting, break-ins and, ugh, reports of abandoned human
SF News Casual Art Thief Swipes Picasso from Union Square Gallery In an act of casual midday thievery noted in yesterday's blotter, an art thief walked in to the Weinstein Gallery near Union Square yesterday and strolled out with Pablo Picasso's "Tête de Femme"
SF News Woman Carjacked by Friend Oh, this is just plain mean. A woman had her passenger and friend carjack her while driving in the Mission late last night near the intersection of Cesar Chavez and Shotwell streets. "The
