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Investigations

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2012

    Police Need Your Help in Finding Men Responsible for Brutal Beating in Civic Center

    ​San Francisco police are looking for three men who savagely beat a 23-year-old Hayward man, kicking and punching him until he fell to the pavement. The cops have released these photos of the identified suspects, who have been on the lam since the Jan. 29 assault. According to police, at about 2 a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2011

    Public Defender to Release More Videos Showing Police Misconduct

    More videos like this one are coming soon to Adachi's YouTube channel.​Ready for more Police, Lies, and Videotape? Public Defender and mayoral candidate Jeff Adachi is vowing to release more video tomorrow showing new examples of warrantless searches, perjured police reports, and theft by San Fran ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2011

    DA Launches Criminal Investigation into Mayor Ed Lee's Donors

    On the bright side, that's fewer thank you notes to write now ​District Attorney George Gascón refused to investigate previous accusations of questionable ethics tied to Mayor Ed Lee's campaign. But  just 24 hours after early voting started, the DA announced he would investigate allegations ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2011

    Anthony Quinn Hughes Charged with 1998 Murder of Lisa Valdez

    1998 murder suspect in jail​San Francisco police have arrested 52-year-old Anthony Quinn Hughes in connection with the brutal 1998 murder of a 36-year-old Diamond Heights woman, bringing some closure to the 13-year-old cold case. On Sept. 10, 2011, Hughes was detained at Leavenworth and Turk stree ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 12, 2011

    Mark McGovern Update: DA Won't Press Charges Against Patrick Power in Gaelic Football Attack

    Mark McGovern​The District Attorney's Office has decided not to press charges just yet against 26-year-old Patrick Power, the Half Moon Bay man arrested last week in connection with an off-the-ball fracas that put 22-year-old Mark McGovern in a coma. Erica Derryck, spokeswoman with the DA's Office ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 7, 2011

    SFPD Launches 'Internal Investigation' into Controversial Search for Missing iPhone 5

    ​It appears that the police officers and Apple security employees who stoked a tech-industry scandal with their controversial search for a lost device rumored to be the unreleased iPhone 5 will themselves be the object of law-enforcement scrutiny.The San Francisco Police Department has launched an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2011

    FBI Takes Over Police Misconduct Investigation from DA George Gascón

    DA George Gascon​District Attorney George Gascón said today that he is turning over his office's investigation into alleged police misconduct to FBI agents and the U.S. Attorney's office.Following a press conference, Gascón issued a statement that U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag "has agreed to take o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 4, 2011

    DA George Gascón Says Probe of Alleged SFPD Perjury Isn't Conflict of Interest

    Independent of what?​Update: KGO reports this morning that the FBI is launching its own investigation into the allegations over the police misconduct during a drug bust earlier this year. The agency will look into possible civil rights violations among other violations.Original story, Thursday, Ma ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 4, 2011

    Cops Suspended While FBI Investigates Drug Bust

    It's like an a TV episode​San Francisco's Chief of Police has decided to suspend the police department's plainclothes unit at the southern station while the city investigates accusations of perjury and police misconduct during a drug bust earlier this year. The officers involved have been reassign ... More >>

  • News

    December 15, 2010

    SFPD crime lab's DNA evidence could be tainted by concealed mistakes

    It's like an a TV episode​San Francisco's Chief of Police has decided to suspend the police department's plainclothes unit at the southern station while the city investigates accusations of perjury and police misconduct during a drug bust earlier this year. The officers involved have been reassign ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2010

    Lance Armstrong Lawyers Up; Doper Teammate Tyler Hamilton Spills to Feds

    What's in the cup, Lance? ​The criminal investigation into the U.S. Postal Service-sponsored team of cycling champion Lance Armstrong took a vast leap forward today with reports that former teammate Tyler Hamilton has agreed to speak with federal investigators. Hamilton, an Olympic gold medal ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2010

    No Murder Charges for Alleged Pink Saturday Shooter Ed Perkins

    ​The San Francisco District Attorney's office moments ago sent out a press release stridently announcing that alleged Pink Saturday shooter Ed Perkins, arrested by police for the alleged murder of Stephen Powell, will be hit with weapons charges. Left unsaid -- but easily inferred -- is that Perki ... More >>

  • News

    April 7, 2010

    Immigration: Defending juvie probation chief proves expensive

    ​The San Francisco District Attorney's office moments ago sent out a press release stridently announcing that alleged Pink Saturday shooter Ed Perkins, arrested by police for the alleged murder of Stephen Powell, will be hit with weapons charges. Left unsaid -- but easily inferred -- is that Perki ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2010

    Victims Survive the Night Following Fort Mason Double Shooting

    View Larger Map A 17-year-old boy shot in the stomach last night in what appears to be an unprovoked shooting near Fort Mason is out of surgery with his condition upgraded to "non-life-threatening." He may speak to investigators from the Natonal Park Police and FBI as soon as today. The boy and a 22 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2010

    Bleeding Man Who Died After Being Found at Bottom of S.F. Building Identified as Christopher Lamothe

    View Larger Map A bleeding man discovered at the base of a 12-story residential structure at 12:54 this morning -- who died an hour later -- was moments ago identified by the San Francisco Medical Examiner as 31-year-old Christopher Lamothe of San Bruno. Details were sparse and a police investigat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2010

    Another Swastika Scrawled on Glen Park Rec Center

    Like this, only far more offensive​Last month, an unknown person or persons painted several large swastikas, epithets, and phallic images around the Glen Park playground. The Recreation and Park department quickly painted over the anti-Semitic symbols, and police opened an investiga ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2009

    Accused Arsonist's Lawyer Peeved at Cops Repeatedly Tying His Client to S.F. Car Fires

    ​Yesterday we reported that San Francisco Police arson Inspector Jeffrey Levin still considers 62-year-old homeless woman Fafa Chan to be the prime suspect in this summer's string of car fires. "I'm convinced that she did [it]," he told SF Weekly. In the meantime, as we've pointed out before, pinn ... More >>

  • News

    September 16, 2009

    Time Bomb

    Weather Underground leaders claimed their bombings were devised to avoid bloodshed. But FBI agents suspect the radical '70s group killed an S.F. cop in the name of revolution.

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2009

    Vote on Ammiano's Marijuana Bill Postponed Amid Difficult Time For S.F. Pot Fans

    In what is perhaps the best news of late for aficionados of marijuana legalization, a scheduled March 31 committee hearing of Assemblyman Tom Ammiano's legalization bill was postponed likely until 2010 (drag) -- which gives marijuana advocates some time to reverse what would have almost definitely b ... More >>

  • News

    March 4, 2009

    Bonfire of the Profanities

    An investigator who exposed dishonest savings and loan regulators in the '80s re-encounters an old rival in the latest banking crisis.

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2009

    A Protest with Extra Cheese: Costumed Carpenters' Questionable Claims

    Atsa spicy protest! San Francisco is a town where you can often turn more heads wearing a three-piece suit than nothing at all. And yet, the sight of two burly union carpenters from the Local 22 handing out fliers in front of Amici's Pizza on King Street -- while dressed as Italian chefs - still ma ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2008

    Update: Police Confirm Dan Kliman Did Not Walk Into Open Elevator Shaft

    By Joe EskenaziOn Tuesday, readers of the San Francisco Chronicle were informed that Dr. Dan Kliman was a quiet, retiring sort. Today, they read that he walked into an open elevator shaft and plunged to his death. Anyone who knew Kliman would scoff at the former, and Inspector Matt Krimsky of the Sa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2008

    This Week in Government Corruption

    By Joe EskenaziOn Tuesday, readers of the San Francisco Chronicle were informed that Dr. Dan Kliman was a quiet, retiring sort. Today, they read that he walked into an open elevator shaft and plunged to his death. Anyone who knew Kliman would scoff at the former, and Inspector Matt Krimsky of the Sa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 13, 2008

    Homeless Woman Beaten to Death Outside SOMA Nightclub

    By Joe EskenaziOn Tuesday, readers of the San Francisco Chronicle were informed that Dr. Dan Kliman was a quiet, retiring sort. Today, they read that he walked into an open elevator shaft and plunged to his death. Anyone who knew Kliman would scoff at the former, and Inspector Matt Krimsky of the Sa ... More >>

  • Music

    December 12, 2007

    Tom Middleton

    Lifetracks Six Degrees

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2007

    Party Foul: Five Million Party Pizzas Recalled Over E. Coli

    Lifetracks Six Degrees

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2007

    Party Foul: Five Million Party Pizzas Recalled Over E. Coli

    Lifetracks Six Degrees

  • Film

    October 10, 2007

    Oswald's Ghost

    Lifetracks Six Degrees

  • Blogs

    September 12, 2007

    SFPD Dedicates New Resources to Cold Cases

    Lifetracks Six Degrees

  • Blogs

    August 13, 2007

    SF Crime Cameras: 0, Criminals: 54 68

    Lifetracks Six Degrees

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2007

    Is he diaphragm-worthy? It may not even matter.

    Lifetracks Six Degrees

  • News

    May 30, 2007

    Tapioca and Water

    An aide to Supervisor Ed Jew believes PUC officials released his house's water records, which cast doubt on whether he lives in SF, to get payback

  • News

    January 10, 2007

    A Union Made in Political Heaven

    A labor boss in trouble with the feds joins a high-powered Democratic lobbyist to merge Konocti Resort with Indian gaming

  • News

    September 13, 2006

    I Spy a Scandal

    Silicon Valley stalwart Hewlett-Packard is reeling, under investigation for invading the privacy of journalists and its own board members. Do you see a way out for the computing giant?

  • News

    April 19, 2006

    Should journalist Josh Wolf be afraid?

    The Assistant U.S. Attorney, the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force, and the SFPD want to get their hands on a video shot by a San Francisco blogger

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 19, 2004

    Best Chronicle Tag-Team

    Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams

  • News

    July 24, 2002

    Career Noir

    Pamela Olsen once planned parties for Pacific Heights matrons. Now she interviews prostitutes and murderers as a private eye.

  • News

    December 6, 2000

    The Great Minnow Hunt

    Why did the U.S. Attorney's Office angle for fingerlings -- and apparently ignore trophy catches -- during its corruption investigation at the San Francisco Housing Authority?

  • Calendar

    August 11, 1999

    Mecklin

    Why did the U.S. Attorney's Office angle for fingerlings -- and apparently ignore trophy catches -- during its corruption investigation at the San Francisco Housing Authority?

  • News

    July 22, 1998

    The Housing Authority's Dirty Dozen

    Twelve convicted drug dealers and other major felons have recently been employed by the San Francisco Housing Authority. But are there even more criminals on the public payroll?

  • Calendar

    January 1, 1997

    The Grid

    Twelve convicted drug dealers and other major felons have recently been employed by the San Francisco Housing Authority. But are there even more criminals on the public payroll?

  • Calendar

    June 14, 1995

    Jordan vs. Jordan: Candidate Promises, Citizen Mayor Delivers?

    Twelve convicted drug dealers and other major felons have recently been employed by the San Francisco Housing Authority. But are there even more criminals on the public payroll?

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