No contest plea in baseball dupe that leads to wallet theft
A Redwood City resident pleaded no contest Friday to stealing a man’s wallet by telling him he’d hit a baseball into the man’s backyard. Andrew Jonke, 23, of Redwood City, admitted to knocking on the...
View ArticleCool cat, Motown wannabe dupes again
The San Francisco man who regularly pretends to be Motown cool cat so he can dupe unsuspecting fans is back in the limelight, police said. Alan Young, 59, of San Francisco was arrested on suspicion of...
View ArticleJail for jealous S.F. boyfriend finger biter
A San Francisco man will face four months of jail after he bit off a finger from his baby mama’s new boyfriend in an apparent fit of rage. Joshua Gabriel Davis, 24, was dropping his toddler daughter...
View ArticleRetired fire chief choked wife with belt, prosecutors say
A retired San Diego area fire chief tried to strangle his wife with his belt near Half Moon Bay just a day after she told him she wanted a divorce, according to San Mateo County prosecutors. John...
View ArticleMan in wheelchair gets dumped during SF pain pill theft
A 54-year-old man was thrown out of his wheelchair Thursday by two people hungry for his pain pills, San Francisco police said. The unidentified victim was sitting in his wheelchair on the corner of...
View ArticlePolice: You know these Muni bus burners?
MUNI bus vandalism. Suspect ID needed. from San Francisco Police on Vimeo. San Francisco police are asking the public to help them find two people investigators believe torched a $700,000 Muni bus...
View ArticleFrisky window watcher gets prison
A Half Moon Bay man nabbed pleasuring himself outside the steamy bedroom window of a married couple will serve two years in prison, prosecutors said Wednesday. Gilberto Mendoza Flores, 33, was caught...
View ArticleErratic former McAfee head: I didn’t do it
The eccentric founder of antivirus software company McAfee who is being hunted by police in his adopted home of Belize told Wired magazine he’s innocent. John McAfee, 67, is a “person of interest” in...
View ArticleRobbery suspect found in trash
A Redwood City teen accused of stealing a gold chain necklace in San Leandro Monday was found by police hiding in a plastic garbage can and arrested, authorities said. The 16-year-old boy, whose name...
View ArticleBicycling woman shot dead in Berkeley
A woman was found shot to death near a Berkeley school, authorities said Wednesday. The victim, whose name was not immediately released, was spotted by a citizen on the sidewalk near the corner of...
View ArticleBerkeley law student guilty in bird death
A UC Berkeley law student pleaded guilty Thursday in an incident in which an exotic bird was beheaded at a Las Vegas resort in October. Eric Cuellar, 24, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor instigating or...
View ArticleRichmond teens nabbed with walkie-talkie ploy
Four Richmond teenagers suspected of stealing a set of school walkie-talkies were arrested after officers were able to eavesdrop on conversations they were having over the devices, authorities said....
View ArticleHooker allegedly beat john, 82, with brick
A prostitute beat her 82-year-old client with a brick before stealing his new TV and car, San Mateo County prosecutors said. Lynette Derouen, 38, of San Francisco was arrested in May on suspicion of...
View ArticleSideshow stunt shuts down I-880 (video)
A group of sideshow drivers briefly shut down all northbound lanes of Interstate 880 near the Coliseum in Oakland on Saturday afternoon while they burned rubber and did doughnuts. Participants filmed...
View ArticleHooker who beat john with brick is convicted
A San Francisco prostitute who beat her 82-year-old client with a brick before stealing his new TV and car could spend a decade in prison after pleading no contest to felony charges of robbery,...
View ArticleReward offered in South City slaying of raccoon
The Peninsula Humane Society is offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the person who fatally shot a raccoon with a pellet gun over the weekend. A resident called animal...
View ArticleEx-IT director stole from college district
The former information-technology director for the San Mateo County Community College District has pleaded no contest to stealing more than $100,000 in government funds to buy high-tech equipment that...
View ArticlePetaluma teen burned making hash oil
A 15-year-old Petaluma boy suffered burns to his face and arms and scorched his mother’s apartment Tuesday night during a botched attempt to extract hash oil from marijuana, police said. Firefighters...
View ArticleMan counting cash in Tenderloin robbed
A man was knocked unconscious and robbed after two men spotted him counting his money outside a Tenderloin check-cashing business, San Francisco police said Wednesday. The 45-year-old man was standing...
View ArticleMan trapped in ‘It’s a Small World’ wins suit
A disabled man who spent more than half an hour trapped in Disneyland’s “It’s a Small World” ride in 2009 has won $8,000 in damages from the amusement park, the man’s lawyer said Tuesday. Jose...
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