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ABC7 San Francisco
1 week ago
San Francisco

Longtime Bob's Donuts baker critically hurt in SF hit-and-run, police say: Here's how you can help

The critical condition of a Bob's Donut's baker after a hit-and-run incident highlights street safety concerns in San Francisco. [ more ]
ABC7 San Francisco
4 months ago
San Francisco

SF police search for stolen van with 6-month-old Bernedoodle puppy inside

A van with a 6-month-old Bernedoodle puppy inside has been stolen in San Francisco.
The owner left the puppy in the van momentarily and returned to find an unknown suspect driving away with the puppy. [ more ]
SFGATE
1 year ago
San Francisco

One dead in Sunday SF shooting, no arrests

Tetra Images/Getty Images One person died after being shot in San Francisco on Sunday morning despite lifesaving efforts from paramedics, San Francisco police said.The person was shot on the 900 block of Folsom Street and subsequently went to 5th and Shipley streets, where they succumbed to their injuries, officials said.
sfist.com
1 year ago
San Francisco

Shooting at Market Street Walgreens Leaves One Dead, Security Guard Allegedly Detained

There was a fatal shooting Thursday evening near the busy section of Market Street outside the Westfield Mall, a few blocks from Union Square, possibly involving a store security guard armed with a gun.As NBC Bay Area reports, the shooting took place outside the Walgreens on the 800 block of Market Street just after 6:30 p.m.
sfist.com
1 year ago
San Francisco

Suspect Arrested in Connection with SF Synagogue Shooting, Police Say

A suspect has been arrested in connection to a shooting at a synagogue in San Francisco's Outer Richmond neighborhood, according to ABC7.Several agencies, including the San Francisco Police Department and the FBI, were reportedly investigating after a man allegedly fired several blank rounds at the Schneerson Jewish Center and also entered a nearby theater brandishing a handgun.
sfist.com
1 year ago
San Francisco

Suspect Arrested After Assaulting Muni Bus Driver With Fire Extinguisher

What's with all the fire-extinguisher attacks these days?San Francisco police on Wednesday arrested a suspect who apparently ran up to a Muni bus that was stopped at a red light, jumped into the driver's side window, and attacked the driver, spraying the driver with a fire extinguisher.It's a slightly confusing story and likely points to someone having a mental episode?
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Mission Local
4 months ago
Mission District

US Marshals conduct raid on Mission home

US Marshals and San Francisco police conducted a raid on a home in the Mission District, taking one man into custody.
The identity of the arrested man and the reason for the arrest are unknown. [ more ]
Mission Local
10 months ago
Mission District

SFPD identify suspect in Mission mass shooting, also wanted in Oakland homicide

San Francisco police have reportedly identified a potential suspect in the mass shooting that took place in the Mission Friday night: Javier Campos, who police said has ties to the Sureño gang, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.Evan Sernoffsky, director of communications for the San Francisco Police Department, said he could not confirm whether the police have identified a suspect.
Mission Local
10 months ago
Mission District

Multiple people injured at 24th and Treat shooting in Mission

Multiple people were shot at 24th Street and Treat Avenue in an apparent drive by shooting after 9 p.m. on Friday night, officials and witnesses said.All those taken to the hospital were alive, said Fire Battalion Chief Hoo, who was on scene, but the extent of the injuries was unknown."I just saw at least seven people on the ground bleeding," said one police officer on the scene.
Mission Local
11 months ago
Mission District

Person killed, four injured after vehicle pursued by SFPD hits bus stop

A person was killed and four others injured after a chase by San Francisco police pursuing a stolen city vehicle ended when the vehicle crashed at 16th and Potrero this morning.Around the same time, a block away, a traffic enforcement officer was allegedly assaulted near 17th and Utah this morning, with police on the scene saying the parking control officer was hit in the back of the head.
Mission Local
1 year ago
Mission District

Two arrested in Balmy Alley SF murder

Two men have been arrested and charged in the May 14 killing of a man near 24th and Balmy streets, officials say.Sergio Omar Carreño Rojas, 32, was arrested in South San Francisco Thursday.The second suspect in the case, San Francisco resident Julio Noguez, 29, was arrested by San Francisco police on Oak Grove Street in SoMa on September 30.
SFGATE
1 year ago
San Francisco

SFPD did nothing to stop Quickly car burglary ring, report claims

A new report from Mission Local's Joe Eskenazi adds another twist to the already-strange saga of the alleged car burglary kingpin who set up shop at a San Francisco Quickly boba joint.
sfist.com
1 year ago
San Francisco

Grisly Weekend In SF With Homicide on Balmy Alley, Three Stabbings Saturday, Human Remains Found Near Vis Valley

SF police are seeking information on a number of violent crimes from over the weekend, including an early Saturday morning homicide on Balmy Alley, and a set of human remains found on rail tracks near Visitacion Valley.
Los Angeles Times
1 year ago
California

Doctors tried frantically for 4 hours to save Cash App founder Bob Lee, autopsy report reveals

(Gabrielle Lurie / Associated Press)

Cash App founder Bob Lee died on the operating table in San Francisco last month after being stabbed three times, including through the heart, according to an autopsy report from the San Francisco chief medical examiner's office.Nima Momeni, a 38-year-old tech consultant and entrepreneur, is accused of killing Lee, 43.
www.berkeleyside.org
1 year ago
San Francisco

Body found at Berkeley Marina ID'd as Florida man

Police found a dead man floating a few hundred yards offshore near the Hs Lordships Restaurant on May 1, 2023.Credit: Chris Benton Rescue workers have recovered the body of a second victim near where they found the remains of a first several weeks ago near the Berkeley Marina.Police said the two incidents have no connection.
sfist.com
1 year ago
San Francisco

SFPD Searching for Missing One-Year-Old And Mother Who Allegedly Abducted Him Friday Evening

San Francisco police have reportedly launched a search for Chelsea Tamulevich, a 38-year-old woman suspected of abducting her 1-year-old son, Caspian, from a residential facility on Friday evening.CHILD ABDUCTION (1/2) Caspian Tamulevich was taken from a residential facility by his mother, Chelsea Tamulevich, who has no custody rights over Caspian and was not permitted to leave the facility with the child.
www.eastbaytimes.com
1 year ago
San Francisco

Man shot and killed at San Francisco BART station; suspects sought

SAN FRANCISCO  Two suspects were being sought in the fatal shooting Sunday afternoon of a man at the 24th Street/Mission BART Station, authorities said.The victim was a 27-year-old San Francisco man whose name has not yet been released, authorities said The shooting was reported about 4:07 p.m. Sunday in the plaza above the station.
Los Angeles Times
1 year ago
Los Angeles

Police found Paul Pelosi, suspect struggling over hammer. What we know about the attack

Details are beginning to emerge about what happened at the home of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi early Friday morning, in which an intruder broke in and attacked her husband.San Francisco police and other sources have offered basic details, but many questions remain unanswered.How did the attack occur?
Berkeleyside
1 year ago
San Francisco

Berkeley man charged with dealing fentanyl, meth, cocaine in San Francisco Tenderloin

Police say they seized substantial amounts of suspected narcotics and more than $18,000 during a search of Cruz's Oregon Street home on Aug. 17, when Cruz and the other man were arrested.
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A Berkeleyside reader who saw the search underway at about 6 p.m. Aug. 17 described it as a "major police action in the apartment building" on the corner of Oregon and California streets: "It looked like an undercover sting operation.
SFBay
1 year ago
San Francisco

Police make arrest in fatal Muni train shooting - SFBay

The San Francisco Police Department Friday announced the arrest of a suspect in the fatal Muni train shooting earlier this week.
SFGATE
1 year ago
San Francisco

SF resident arrested in connection with deadly house explosion

UPDATE Feb. 10, 10:04 p.m.A 53-year-old San Francisco resident has been arrested in connection with the deadly explosion that rocked the Sunset District on Thursday morning, police announced Friday evening.The person was booked for manslaughter, manufacturing drugs and two counts of child endangerment, San Francisco police said on Twitter.
SFGATE
1 year ago
San Francisco

Pedestrian hit and killed by driver in San Francisco

screenshot via Google A person was hit and killed by a driver near San Francisco's Opera Plaza on Monday morning, marking the third pedestrian death in the city so far this month, officials said.The driver remained on scene and is cooperating with the investigation, the San Francisco Police Department said in an email.
sfist.com
1 year ago
San Francisco

San Francisco Police Arrest Eight Bay Area Gang Members, Recover Stolen Property

SFPD announced police have detained eight individuals, all of whom are connected to a gang that has conducted a slew of crimes, including "shootings, armed robberies, and car burglaries" done around the Bay Area.According to KRON4, SFPD served seven different warrants this past Wednesday as part of an ongoing investigation that began in April of 2022 regarding a string of robberies and violent crimes across the region.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
1 year ago
Privacy professionals

First Court in California Suppresses Evidence from Overbroad Geofence Warrant

A California trial court has a geofence warrant issued to the San Francisco Police Department violated the Fourth Amendment and California's landmark electronic communications privacy law, .
SFBay
1 year ago
San Francisco

One dead, one injured after shooting aboard moving Muni train - SFBay

San Francisco police are investigating a fatal shooting on a Muni train that was traveling eastbound between Forest Hill and Castro stations.
Officers at Castro station found two victims on the train.
sfist.com
1 year ago
San Francisco

SF Security Guard Shoots, Kills Man He Says Attacked Him in Mission District

A man is dead after San Francisco Police say he lunged at a SF security guard while wielding a knife.
sfist.com
1 year ago
San Francisco

SFPD Arrests 17-Year-Old In Connection With Kicking Elderly Woman on Muni Bus

A juvenile suspect is in custody in connection with a widely covered December 3 Muni bus assault involving an elderly victim near Japantown.The assault happened December 3 on a 38-Geary bus at the Laguna Street stop.The victim, a 79-year-old Indonesian American woman named Lisa, was on her way to work at Oracle Park when she was kicked in the stomach by the suspect as she boarded the bus, as she later told ABC 7. The suspect was getting off the bus and the attack was entirely unprovoked and senseless.
Mission Local
1 year ago
Mission District

Most read Mission Local stories of 2022

Subscribe to our daily newsletter and have the latest stories from Mission Local delivered directly to your inbox.Mission Local's most-read story in 2022 was Will Jarrett's article previewing the legislative debate about whether and how San Francisco police should be allowed to kill people using robots.
www.mercurynews.com
1 year ago
San Francisco

DePape indicted on federal charges in attack on Paul Pelosi

Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO  A man already in custody in last month's attack on the husband of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury on charges of assault and attempted kidnapping.The charges stemming from the Oct. 28 break-in at the Pelosis' San Francisco home are the same as but supersede those in an earlier federal complaint that was filed on October 31.
SFGATE
1 year ago
San Francisco

Salesforce has unusual safety advice for Dreamforce attendees

After a COVID-19-induced hiatus, Dreamforce, tech giant Salesforce's annual conference, is landing once again in San Francisco - and with it, an influx of out-of-towners.
www.npr.org
1 year ago
Law

A woman whose rape DNA led to her arrest sues the city of San Francisco

Attorneys Adante Pointer (left) and Patrick Buelna, who represent a woman whose DNA from a sexual assault case was used by San Francisco police to arrest her in an unrelated crime, speak during a news conference announcing their lawsuit against the city on Monday.
sfist.com
1 year ago
San Francisco

Sunday Links: SF Man Killed in Saturday Morning Stabbing, Suspect Arrested

San Francisco police released a statement about a fatal Saturday morning stabbing in Bayview.
SFGATE
1 year ago
San Francisco

Looting unfolds at SF jazz club after police respond to break-in

After San Francisco's Black Cat jazz club and bar was broken into early Tuesday morning - and police responded to the incident - two dozen looters allegedly raided the acclaimed music venue in the Tenderloin for five hours, freely taking everything from guitars to bottles of champagne worth hundreds of dollars, the club's operations manager said.
San Francisco Chronicle
1 year ago
From Twitter

Beloved S.F. bar manager dies in fall at 33

Scott Strazzante/The Chronicle 2022 Ilya Romanov, a celebrated bar manager who worked at the Russian Hill restaurant Nisei and adjacent cocktail lounge, Bar Iris, fell to his death on Polk Street on Friday.He was 33.San Francisco police arrived at the 2300 block of Polk Street at around 11:30 p.m. Friday and found Romanov on the ground, according to a department spokesperson.
www.theguardian.com
1 year ago
San Francisco

San Francisco lawmakers vote to ban killer robots in drastic U-turn

San Francisco lawmakers voted to ban police robots from using deadly force on Tuesday, reversing course one week after officials had approved the practice and sparked national outrage.The city's board of supervisors voted to explicitly prohibit the San Francisco police department (SFPD) from using the 17 robots in its arsenal to kill people.
East Bay Times
1 year ago
San Francisco

1 dead, 1 injured in shooting on SF Muni train

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco city supervisor says one person was killed and another was wounded in a shooting on a subway train Wednesday.
Theregister
1 year ago
San Francisco

'Killer robots' law approved by San Francisco supervisors

San Francisco police can deploy so-called "killer robots" following a Board of Supervisors' vote on Tuesday, clearing the cops to use robots equipped with explosives in extreme situations.The robots primarily will be used to neutralize and dispose of bombs, and provide video reconnaissance, according to San Francisco Supervisor Rafael Mandelman.
Futurism
1 year ago
San Francisco

San Francisco Cops Now Allowed to Use Robots to Kill People

San Francisco police have been granted permission by city supervisors to kill civilians using robots.Yes, that's a real thing that just happened - though it sounds like an episode of "Black Mirror," it's an actual turn of events that highlights the emergence of a deeply worrying new trend in policing.
www.aljazeera.com
1 year ago
San Francisco

San Francisco police given power to use killer robots

The decision to approve the use of the remote-controlled equipment followed a two-hour emotionally charged debate.Officials in San Francisco have voted to give the city's police the power to use potentially lethal, remote-controlled robots in emergency situations.The 8-3 vote in favour of the move followed an emotionally charged two-hour debate and came despite strong objections from civil liberties and other police oversight groups in the city on the west coast of the United States.
sfist.com
1 year ago
San Francisco

Police Officers Race After Auto Burglary Suspects on Highway 101 in San Francisco; Three Arrests Made

Those traveling on the 101 on Friday, November 11, around 3 p.m. got a front-row seat to a foot chase between San Francisco Police officers and three auto burglary suspects as they were chased down the middle of the freeway.An eye-witness video first shown by KRON4 was published yesterday and shows several San Francisco police officers weaving through stalled traffic on the 101 as they pursued three alleged auto burglaries.
www.mercurynews.com
1 year ago
San Francisco

San Francisco homicide: Man beaten in North Beach

A man in custody for an alleged assault last month in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood faces further charges now that the victim has died from his injuries.The assault was reported at 2:11 a.m.Oct. 6 in the 500 block of Broadway, near Columbus Avenue.The victim, found lying on the ground, was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries, San Francisco police said.
www.mediaite.com
1 year ago
San Francisco

I Know Enough to Smell a Rat': Megyn Kelly Casts Doubt on San Fran PD's Narrative About Paul Pelosi Attack

Megyn Kelly and Senator Tom Cotton (R-AK) broke down the details surrounding the attack on Paul Pelosi last Friday and cast doubt on the San Francisco police narrative Kelly expressed frustration with those who are connecting the alleged attacker, David DePape, with January 6th instead of pointing out that he was a lunatic.
www.berkeleyside.org
1 year ago
San Francisco

Suspect in Paul Pelosi attack once lived in Berkeley with partner pushing 9/11 conspiracy theories

Paul Pelosi was attacked early Friday morning outside the Pelosis' San Francisco home.Credit: Quirinale.itThe man who allegedly attacked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband in their San Francisco home early Friday morning has been identified by police as David DePape, who has a history in Berkeley.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
1 year ago
Privacy professionals

Lawsuit: SMUD and Sacramento Police Violate State Law and Utility Customers' Privacy by Sharing Data Without a Warrant

SAN FRANCISCO-San Francisco police violated the city's surveillance technology law by tapping into a private surveillance camera network to spy on demonstrators protesting the 2020 police murder of George Floyd, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California (ACLU) told a state appeals court...
sfist.com
1 year ago
San Francisco

SFPD Offers $25K Reward For Information In Case of Homeless Man Whose Sleeping Bag Was Set On Fire

San Francisco police are offering a $25,000 reward in the hopes of solving a cold case from last fall a homicide in which a homeless man's sleeping bag was set on fire in the Mission District.
SFGATE
1 year ago
San Francisco

Transgender Indian woman attacked in SF during attempted robbery

An Indian transgender activist based in the Bay Area says she was attacked in downtown San Francisco this weekend, sparking an international wave of support on social media.
SFGATE
1 year ago
San Francisco

Woman, 61, shot and injured in SF while sitting with friends

A 61-year-old woman was shot, resulting in injuries, in San Francisco's Mission District early Thursday morning, officials said.
sfist.com
1 year ago
San Francisco

Man Shot and Killed in Bayview Friday Night, Suspect Arrested; One of Three Reported Shootings in SF Within 24 Hours

San Francisco police have arrested a suspect in a Bayview shooting that left a 38-year-old man with life-threatening injuries Friday night; the victim was promptly taken to a nearby hospital, where he later succumbed to his injuries.
sfist.com
1 year ago
San Francisco

Speeding SUV Smashes Into Muni Bus, Causes Traffic Delays and Injures Six People

San Francisco police blocked off an area near Lombard and Fillmore streets Saturday after a vehicle going, per eye-witness accounts, between "60mph to 80mph" collided with a Muni bus hitting it with such force that the public transport vehicle made a 180-degree twist.
sfist.com
1 year ago
San Francisco

Three People Injured by Attacker at SFO, Male Suspect Arrested

A man who had what was described as a "sharp-edged weapon" assaulted people inside a San Francisco International Airport terminal on Friday evening around 6 p.m. leaving three individuals with cuts and scrapes before the male suspect was apprehended by police.
sfist.com
1 year ago
San Francisco

San Francisco Police Make Four Arrests in Three Different Homicide Cases This Week

In a rare Saturday press conference, SFPD Chief Bill Scott announced that the department had made four arrests in three different homicides this week "this is a big deal to arrest four individuals who took three lives," Scott emphasized during the weekend briefing.
East Bay Times
1 year ago
San Francisco

San Francisco homicides: Guard shoots attacker

San Francisco police reported two homicides Wednesday, one a fatal shooting by a security guard who was under attack.
East Bay Times
1 year ago
San Francisco

San Francisco homicide: Woman shot inside home

San Francisco police are investigating the suspicious death of a woman found fatally shot inside a home in the city's Bayview neighborhood early Monday.
SFGATE
1 year ago
San Francisco

2 dead after police fire shots in response to alleged assault

Two men died Thursday night after San Francisco police fired shots while responding to a report of an alleged aggravated assault in the Dogpatch neighborhood, officials said.
sfist.com
1 year ago
San Francisco

SFPD Seeks Help Finding Suspect Who Attacked and Strangled a Woman In Visitacion Valley Last Weekend

San Francisco police have released photos of a man who they say attacked and strangled a woman randomly on the street last Saturday, and they're seeking the public's help to identify him.
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