Category: crime
Cars torched in the Mission following rash of vehicle arson fires
December 17, 2014
Someone set four vehicles ablaze in the Mission early Wednesday morning, adding to a recent spate of suspicious car fires around the city. Since early September, there have been reports of more than two dozen arson fires involving cars in different parts of San Francisco, according to the police and the city’s DataSF site. The […]
Brutally beaten in a Mission District park, a woman recounts her ordeal
December 16, 2014
A man rests beneath a tree in Franklin Square park near where Jessica said she was camping and the attack occurred. With its beaches, beautiful people and “practically legal marijuana,” California was Jessica’s dream. What she found in San Francisco was a nightmare. From a small town in Arkansas, Jessica had wanted to visit the […]
Violin-t robbery on Mission Street
December 4, 2014
A diner was robbed of a violin near 16th and Mission streets Wednesday night by three people wielding pepper spray. According to police, the 56-year-old victim was eating in a restaurant around 10:40 p.m. when he got into a disagreement with a woman. The suspect left the restaurant and returned with two friends to resume […]
Trio of robberies along Capp Street Thanksgiving week
December 1, 2014
While you were shopping for and recuperating from Thanksgiving last week, robbers were keeping themselves busy around Capp Street. According to police, there were two robberies near the intersection of 24th and Capp streets — one of which involved a kidnapping — and another at 18th Street. The first of the 24th and Capp street […]
File this under: Horrible!
November 12, 2014
According to police, a woman was attacked just before 2 p.m. Tuesday in the 1700 block of Bryant Street Wednesday by a would-be pimp who told her she was going to start working for him. When she pulled away, he allegedly beat her with a cell phone charger wrapped around his hand. Several of the […]
Hot shit
November 5, 2014
Just before midnight Tuesday, officers responded to the 1500 block of Valencia Street where they found a port-a-potty* on fire. San Francisco firefighters extinguished the blaze. Police have no suspects. *Photo not the targeted toilet.
Cops on Capp
October 24, 2014
Sure, Capp Street is known for drinkers, hookers and all around weird shit but have you ever wondered what really happens on the street in any given month? I put in a records request to the San Francisco Department of Emergency Management for all the police calls* to Capp Street their dispatchers handled in September […]
Violent man baby on the loose in the Mission?
September 24, 2014
Hand selected from the logs of the Mission Police Station. Talcum powdered thug: Just after noon on Sept. 23, a man in his 30s walked into a store in the 4000 block of Mission Street and put two bottles of baby powder in his backpack. When the clerk confronted him, the thief punched him several […]
Remnants of a shooting
June 23, 2014
Shooting Saturday night on the corner of 18th and Capp Street. Haven’t seen any news on it.