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May 14, 2012
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 >>
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May 4, 2012
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 >>
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May 3, 2012
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 >>
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May 2, 2012
Jesse Nesbitt, Accused Occupy Brick-Tosser, Previously Arrested for Bottle-Tossing
Sticks and stones may break my bones. So do bricks. And, so do bottles. Jesse Nesbitt has been accused by San Francisco police of hurling the latter two at city employees; yesterday his alleged brick tossed off the roof of 888 Turk Street missed a police officer but did strike a bystander. Nesbitt, ... More >>
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February 17, 2012
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 >>
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January 10, 2012
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 >>
News
November 30, 2011
Hate Expectations: Police and Prosecutors Are Quick to Claim the Presence of Racism — but Juries Are Not So Sure
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 >>
Blogs
November 30, 2011
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 >>
Blogs
November 4, 2011
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 >>
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October 26, 2011
Catching Up
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 >>
Blogs
October 25, 2011
Ungrateful Son Tries to Strangle His Mother
Norman Bates: Taking the "norm" out of normalThere'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 >>
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October 20, 2011
Kevin Guerin, Man Accused of Trying to Drill Brother's Head, Beat Neighbor for Being a "Fag"
Wonder what Thanksgiving was like at the Guerin's house?The not-so-handy man who allegedly tried to use a power drill on his older brother's head earlier this week apparently has a track record of aggression. Authorities say 57-year-old Kevin Guerin had been recently released from jail for allege ... More >>
Blogs
April 1, 2011
DA's Office Can Prosecute Wheelchair-Bound Man Shot by Police, Judge Rules
A San Francisco Superior Court judge ruled today that District Attorney George Gascón does not have to recuse himself from prosecuting Randal Dunklin, the man shot by police in January while he was sitting in a wheelchair.Dunklin, whose case attracted heavy media attention after the shooting was ... More >>
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January 14, 2011
Man in Wheelchair Shot By Cops Now Faces Assault Charges
Assault ChargesThe 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 >>
Blogs
January 11, 2011
KRON 4 Cameraman Assaulted While Filming People With Bad Behavior
Warning SignCall it a self-fulfilling prophecy -- a 25-year-old man assaulted a local reporter because he didn't want to be in the news.On Jan. 7, Israel Marron Castro, 25, allegedly walked up to Stanley Roberts, a KRON 4 cameraman, shoved his two ski poles in his face and then hit the video came ... More >>
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December 17, 2010
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 >>
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November 16, 2010
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 >>
Blogs
November 2, 2010
Chris Brymer, Former USC Lineman, Acquitted of Hate Crime Charges
Joseph SchellChris Brymer, in an August jailhouse interview with SF WeeklyThe 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 >>
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September 24, 2010
David Mark Clark, Accused of Mowing Down Bikes With SUV, In Court Today
David Mark Clark, crystal therapist, tennis teacher, and accused multiple felonDavid 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 >>
Blogs
September 14, 2010
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 >>
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June 8, 2010
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 rampageDavid 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 >>
Blogs
June 7, 2010
Felony Charges Reduced to Misdemeanors for Alleged Attackers of White Separatists
Not deadly weapons, apparentlyA 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 >>
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May 27, 2010
Sunnydale Men Get Into Epic Fight Over Cell Phone Charger
Why wasn't this one of the Clue weapons?If your neighbor asks to borrow your cell phone charger in the Sunnydale Housing Projects, you better let him, or else you might get stabbed. That very thing happened Tuesday night, according to Captain Louis Cassanego, commanding officer of the Ingleside S ... More >>
Blogs
May 5, 2010
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 >>
Blogs
May 3, 2010
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 >>
Blogs
March 18, 2010
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 >>
Blogs
January 27, 2010
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 >>
Blogs
January 15, 2010
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 >>
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January 1, 2010
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 >>
Blogs
December 31, 2009
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 >>
Blogs
December 29, 2009
Newsom and Gascon Annouce Drop in Violent Crime A Week After Gascon Admits Record-Keeping Flaws
A week ago, the San Francisco Examiner broke this story about how the San Francisco Police Department statistics are botched, and have been for some time, particularly in the area of aggravated assaults. Somehow, the department failed to include domestic violence incidents in ... More >>
Blogs
December 11, 2009
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 >>
Blogs
December 1, 2009
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 >>
Blogs
November 10, 2009
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 >>
Blogs
November 2, 2009
Alleged Violent Cheapskate Chokes Taxi Driver, Leaves 10 Bucks on the Seat
Not far from it...A wee-hours drunk taxi fare got the sequence wrong late last week. You're supposed to pay the cabbie before you attempt to strangle him -- not after. The nightmare fare was picked up at Polk and Vallejo well past the bewitching hour and driven to his residence on the 100 block o ... More >>
Blogs
October 14, 2009
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 >>
Blogs
September 9, 2009
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 >>
Blogs
June 1, 2009
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 >>
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May 13, 2009
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 >>
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May 4, 2009
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 >>
Blogs
February 11, 2009
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 >>
Music
January 14, 2009
Meat Puppets
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 >>
Music
June 11, 2008
Boys, Noise
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 >>
Blogs
February 25, 2008
2007: Year of the Shooting, Stabbing
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 >>
Blogs
February 18, 2008
Slim’s Bouncer Beatdown Update: Security Guard’s Lengthy Criminal Record
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 >>
Blogs
February 13, 2008
Slim's Bouncer Busted for Beatdown, Customers Sue
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 >>
Blogs
January 8, 2008
Alleged S.F. Road Warrior Omeed Popal to Face 35 Felony Counts
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 >>
News
July 14, 2004
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.
News
March 26, 2003
Help From Their Friends
Did SFPD brass order a cover-up in Fajitagate? They didn't really need to.
News
August 23, 1995
The Third Man
A bar brawl; a stabbing; a missing suspect; a surprise ending
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