Criminal Assault

Marcus "Wolfie" Herrera, Skateboarder Accused of Murder on Hippie Hill, Acquitted

A San Francisco jury has determined that 24-year-old Marcus "Wolfie" Herrera is not guilty of murdering and robbing 55-year-old Robert Musial during an argument over marijuana. According to the Public Defender's Office, the jury took about three days before acquitting Herrera of causing Musial's f ... More >>

S.F. Man Allegedly Tries to Kill Mother With Cake Cutter

A 21-year-old man is in jail today after he allegedly slashed his own mother with a cake cutter, police said. Police were were called to the 100 block of Valdez yesterday at about 5:17 pm. in reports of an assault with an "other" weapon. When police arrived, they found a 51-year-old woman with la ... More >>

Kwame Harris, Former 49er, Accused of Assaulting "Ex-Boyfriend"

Kwame Harris, a former offensive lineman for the 49ers and Raiders, made headlines today because he was in San Mateo Superior Court for an assault charge. It was a hackneyed narrative, the kind we gawk at for some minutes before moving on and forgetting about it: "retired pro athlete accused of beat ... More >>

Marin "Fairy" Busted for Halloween Heist of Accused Marijuana Dealer

A Marin County woman donning a fairy costume was booked into jail after she allegedly attacked and robbed an accused Novato marijuana dealer on Halloween. According to news reports, 21-year-old Molly Ann Blumberg was with two other women on Oct. 31 when they went to 46-year-old David Murray Randolph ... More >>

Jesse W. Nesbitt, Accused Brick Tosser, Is Missing Occupy's Birthday Due to Court Date

While the rest of his casserole-eating cohorts march through the streets of San Francisco today to observe Occupy's first birthday, 34-year-old Jesse W. Nesbitt, the perpetual object-tosser at Occupy protests, has been forced to decline that party invite. Instead, the barbaric protester will spend t ... More >>

Vincent Calvarese, Sheriff's Deputy, Arrested on Domestic Violence Charges

An alleged domestic violence incident at the Gold's Gym on Market Street concluded with police arresting a sworn Sheriff's Deputy, who was charged with assault and false imprisonment. Lieutenant Vincent Calvarese was arrested Thursday evening at the 2301 Market Street gym. District Attorney spokeswo ... More >>

Man Convicted of Attacking Woman at Muni Stop Released From Jail

San Francisco jurors decided that 35-year-old Samuel Valentine deserved a more lenient sentence for attacking a young woman at a local bus stop two years ago. The jury acquitted Valentine yesterday of felony assault charges, and instead convicted him of misdemeanor assault, a lesser charge that got ... More >>

Derryck A. King, Suspected Purse-Snatcher, Shot at by Police

San Francisco police shot at a man who was attempting to rob a 30-year-old woman as she walked through the city's Financial District late last night. According to Sgt. Michael Andraychak, officers were coming from another call about about 10:40 p.m. when they heard a woman scream. The cops saw ... More >>

DA to Charge Brick-Tossing Protesters in Occupation of Church Building

District Attorney George Gascón is wasting no time building his case against the protesters who were arrested during Tuesday evening's occupation of the San Francisco Archdiocese building during the May Day strikes. Gascón fired off a statement last night, detailing his intention to charge five of ... More >>

Pakwai Woo, Local Fisherman, Off the Hook for Stabbing Man Who Pissed in His Bait Bucket

A San Francisco jury acquitted 65-year-old Pakawai Woo of assault charges after determining the San Francisco fisherman was merely acting in self-defense when he stabbed a man who had beat him and peed all over his fishing bait. The Public Defender's Office tells us that the jury deliberated for no ... More >>

Officer Richard Soares Charged with Assaulting Woman he Dated

​Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi isn't the only local law enforcer being charged with domestic violence. District Attorney George Gascón announced today that he is bringing charges against Richard Soares, a San Francisco police officer, for allegedly assaulting a woman at a party while he was off-duty.On ... More >>

Ross Mirkarimi Shocks Legal Scholars With Claim That Abuse Allegations Are "a Family Matter"

​Ross Mirkarimi is innocent. Of course he is -- he is innocent until proven guilty. It remains to be seen if District Attorney George Gascón will even  charge the sheriff with domestic abuse following a police report filed by Mirkarimi's neighbor. Regardless, the language Mirkarimi has used ... More >>

Hate Expectations: Police and Prosecutors Are Quick to Claim the Presence of Racism — but Juries Are Not So Sure

Eduardo Shaparo Esquivel Accused of Running Over Albert Bartal on Thanksgiving Day

Police have arrested the man who they believe ran over a Cal firefighter in a fit of rage on Thanksgiving Day. San Francisco officers arrested 22-year-old Eduardo Shaparo Esquivel just before midnight on Tuesday on suspicion of attempted murder and assault. Esquivel, a South San Francisco resident, ... More >>

The FBI Classifies Juggalos as a Gang (of Idiots?)

​Well, it's official. According to the FBI's National Gang Threat Assessment for 2011, Juggalos -- those loud-mouthed, clown-faced, Insane Clown Posse-loving idiots -- are a real live gang. They're listed as a "Non-Traditional" gang on the Contents page, but they're a gang nonetheless. And if you ... More >>

Catching Up

Ungrateful Son Tries to Strangle His Mother

Norman Bates: Taking the "norm" out of normal​There's so many good reasons why a grown man should not still be living with his mother. Let's just say it doesn't bode well for his relationship with women.Here's a great example:A 23-year-old mama's boy was arrested over the weekend on suspicion of a ... More >>

Man in Wheelchair Shot By Cops Now Faces Assault Charges

Assault Charges​The 55-year-old man in a wheelchair who police shot last week after he stabbed an officer with a knife is now facing charges of assault with a deadly weapon. The SF Appeal reports this morning that the man is due in court next week to answer to the charges.On Jan. 4, at about ... More >>

Pizza Theft: A Robbery With Extra Cheese

Stop, thief!​Some San Franciscan was deprived of his or her dinner last night, when a pair of twentysomethings roughed up a pizza deliveryman and made off with his edible possession. Details are scarce on the purloined pizza. The 60-year-old Hispanic deliveryman was walking along with his steaming ... More >>

Men, Allegedly Photographed Beating Women, Arrested

The camera in question wasn't quite that clunky...​A pair of men accused of beating and robbing women are in custody -- and photographs taken by the victims during the attack have been booked into evidence. In the wee hours of Saturday on the 3400 block of 20th Street in the Mission, a trio of twe ... More >>

Chris Brymer, Former USC Lineman, Acquitted of Hate Crime Charges

Joseph SchellChris Brymer, in an August jailhouse interview with SF Weekly​The trial of a former NFL and USC lineman accused of racially motivated attacks on a homeless man has ended with a jury refusing to convict him on any charges.Chris Brymer, who was the subject of a September cover story in ... More >>

David Mark Clark, Accused of Mowing Down Bikes With SUV, In Court Today

David Mark Clark, crystal therapist, tennis teacher, and accused multiple felon​David Mark Clark, the 39-year-old "crystal therapist" and tennis pro accused of running down four bicycles with his SUV in a six-minute rampage, will be in court today in San Francisco. Clark has been charged with four ... More >>

Daughters Stab Mom After Argument About Staying Out Too Late

​A San Francisco mom scolding her daughters for coming home late Monday evening may now have to scold them for stabbing her. The San Francisco Police booked a 12-year-old and detained her 15-year-old sister after the aforementioned argument about staying out too late devolved into a physical confr ... More >>

David Mark Clark, Accused of Mowing Down Four Bikes With SUV, To Be Arraigned Today

Tennis pro and crystal master David Mark Clark, accused of SUV rampage​David Mark Clark, the "spiritualist tennis pro" accused of running down four San Francisco cyclists in a six-minute rampage, will be in court this morning for an arraignment. He will be charged with four counts of attempted mur ... More >>

Felony Charges Reduced to Misdemeanors for Alleged Attackers of White Separatists

Not deadly weapons, apparently​A Superior Court judge has reduced felony charges to misdemeanors for two protesters  accused of beating two members of the white separatist group Bay Area National Anarchists after the May Day immigration reform rally.Judge Cynthia Ming-Mei Lee dropped charges ... More >>

White Separatists' Alleged Attackers Enter Their Pleas

Know your anarchists! ​When the Average Joe thinks of an anarchist, he thinks of white folks dressed in black who break windows at World Trade Organization summits. But there's more sects of self-proclaimed anarchists than varieties of Heinz condiments -- and two diametrically opposed groups are n ... More >>

Felony Charges For Two Alleged Attackers of White Separatists

Andrew Yeoman's alleged attackers didn't use just a hose on Saturday...​Police have booked two people who allegedly attacked members of a white separatist anarchist group at Saturday's San Francisco immigration march. The pair have been hit with felony counts of assault with a deadly weapon, robbe ... More >>

It's Time for 'Murder By Clock' Defendant's Preliminary Hearing

​Kira Roueche, accused of killing her boyfriend with a timepiece, will be in court today when the clock strikes nine for her preliminary hearing. Roueche, 34, pleaded not guilty at her November arraignment to charges she murdered Cameron Miller in his SRO hotel room, using a clock and vodka bottle ... More >>

Landlord Violates Rent Control -- With 'Large Knife'

I've got your Ellis Act right here...​Virtually every San Franciscan has his or her own landlord horror story. It may involve bogus move-in evictions, rent-gouging, or even housing the landlord's mentally imbalanced son in the apartment next door, where he plays the bongos for hours on end to stav ... More >>

Suspect in Taxi Stabbing Given Away By Bloody, Ringing Phone

Is Bruce there?​Bruce Lee Griffin, the suspect charged with attempted murder in the wake of his alleged beating, stabbing, and robbery of cab driver Balvinder Singh on Jan. 11, isn't going to be confused with Moriarty anytime soon. Police claim Griffin, 26, left his cell phone behind in Singh's ca ... More >>

Three Bay Rider Motorcyclists Charged With Attempted Murder and Gang Allegations In Broadway Stabbing

​Three supposed members of the Bay Riders, a motorcycle club that police say is an affiliate of the Hells Angels, have been charged with assault and gang enhancements after one allegedly stabbed a victim during a brawl on Broadway Street in December. This is the first San Francisco case to br ... More >>

On Christmas Day, Man Pretends to Be Cop Then Sexually Assaults Prostitute

​Around noon on December 25, the SFPD got a call from a prosititute who said she was assaulted by a man who said he was a cop. She described the man -- a 5'7, 195-pound, balding African-American -- and the 1993 Isuzu Rodeo he was driving, which the cops soon learned was re ... More >>

Cops: Gun Pulled in Roommates' Argument Over Heater

This could get ugly...​Earlier this week, a couple of climate scientists told SF Weekly that, yes, this is cold weather -- for Northern California. People in Rochester wouldn't even be wearing a coat right now. Well, don't tell that to residents of Bernal Heights. Police on Wednesday were alerted ... More >>

Court Date For Alleged Clock Killer

​The San Francisco woman accused of using a clock as a deadly weapon will be in court today when the little hand is on the 9 and the big hand is on the 12. Kira Roueche, 34, was arrested on Nov. 9 after allegedly beating her boyfriend, Cameron Miller, to death with both the aforementioned clock ... More >>

Murder By Clock: Charges Filed Against Woman Accused of Killing Man With Timepiece

​Murder charges have been filed against 34-year-old Kira Roueche concerning the Sunday homicide of Cameron Miller in his SRO hotel room -- and they're somewhat eye-catching. Roueche is accused of killing Miller with a pair of "deadly weapons" -- a bottle and a clock. Following her Monday arrest sh ... More >>

Bicyclist Asks Motorist to Share the Road, Witness Claims Motorist Shared His Fist Instead

Please don't assault my rider.​Bicyclists and motorists frequently display a this-road's-not-big-enough-for-the-both-of-us attitude, and it's usually all bluster. But on Monday afternoon, an altercation between a bicyclist and a motorist ended with cracked skull and a fe ... More >>

S.F. Neighbors' Spat Leads to Sleeping Man Being Doused in Boiling Cooking Oil

​A San Francisco man experienced a wake-up call immeasurably more wretched than the standard bleating of an alarm clock over the weekend when his neighbor allegedly emptied a pan full of boiling cooking oil on him while he slept. Police followed a trail of splattered oil down the hall from the sce ... More >>

Old School Fiesta Turns Violent

Kiss-FMWar perfoms during their shortened set Why can't we be friends? That's the question Latin funk band War probably asked, when their Saturday night headlining slot at KISS-FM's Old School Fiesta, held at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, ended early, due to numerous fights and six r ... More >>

SFPD Homicide Inspector Has 'Fingers Crossed' That Suspect He Nabbed For Unrelated Felony Is Man Behind Fatal SOMA Mugging

Helen CanafaxHomicide Inspector Richard Martin told SF Weekly that he's hopeful a man he arrested on May 7 on an outstanding felony warrant could be the mugger police are seeking behind last month's fatal purse snatching of 63-year-old Helen Canafax -- but more witnesses could be needed to prove the ... More >>

Dallas Police Confirm Alleged Texas Impostor Cop Ryan Caskey Not Same Person As Alleged USF Rapist Ryan Caskey

Former USF student Ryan Caskey (left) is accused of rape. Texas' Ryan Caskey (right) is accused of impersonating a police officer.The Dallas Police Department confirmed to SF Weekly that Texas fugitive Ryan Caskey -- a man accused of falsifying a police and military background and arresting suspects ... More >>

Breaking: Police Identify Man Accused of Stabbing Bike-Riding, Off-Duty Cop

The man accused of stabbing a bicycle-riding, off-duty San Francisco Police officer is Nicholas Batchelor, a 27-year-old white male from the Peninsula. Batchelor is charged with attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon stemming from a still-murky incident at Haight and Steiner Streets Tuesd ... More >>

Meat Puppets

Boys, Noise

2007: Year of the Shooting, Stabbing

Slim’s Bouncer Beatdown Update: Security Guard’s Lengthy Criminal Record

Slim's Bouncer Busted for Beatdown, Customers Sue

Alleged S.F. Road Warrior Omeed Popal to Face 35 Felony Counts

Sunset on a Murder

Everyone thought the drunken fighting was just boys being boys. Until Robert Ramirez was shot 14 times in the face and Philip Sands -- one of his closest west-side friends -- was charged with murdering him.

Help From Their Friends

Did SFPD brass order a cover-up in Fajitagate? They didn't really need to.

The Third Man

A bar brawl; a stabbing; a missing suspect; a surprise ending