Police in San Mateo County arrested 12 people Friday during a tap operation to keep alcohol out of the hands of minors.
Officers from the Consumption of Alcohol Suppression Team participated in this statewide enforcement, arresting 12 adults who provided alcohol to minors, according to police.
Insulting the bouncer is no longer the worst way to get into a party.
A 37-year-old man punched a cop while trying to return to a hopping party in Potero Hill on Thursday night, according to police.
Officers were trying to break up the rowdy fiesta near 25th and Connecticut streets when the suspect landed his punch at about 11:15 p.m., police said.
In the end, the cop wasn’t the only one who ended up at a local hospital.
A good Samaritan really stuck his leg out Wednesday -- literally -- to help a woman who was robbed of her iPhone on a Muni bus when he reportedly tripped the fleeing robber in UN Plaza, leading to his arrest.Police responded to the plaza on a battery call and found that nearby security officers had detained the accused mugger.
Do you know where your crack rock has been?
On March 4, police said, a man in the Bayview district was found with 32 individually wrapped rocks of crack cocaine that were concealed “between his buttocks.”
About noon that day, a gang task force unit told housing police in the 200 block of Westpoint Road that a man was carrying a large amount of narcotics near the basketball courts.
A dine-and-dash thief has been sentenced to 120 days of more free meals.
Parolee Patrick Higgins, 43, pleaded no contest Wednesday to one count of felony burglary in connection with a March 1 incident in which he devoured $70 worth of food at a San Carlos restaurant and left without paying, San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said.
While police investigate a recent bout of shotgun-related robberies, San Francisco remains as stabby as ever, with two slashings reported yesterday in The City, police report.
A man was robbed at gunpoint in the Excelsior neighborhood Wednesday, police said.
The 35-year-old victim was walking eastbound on Brazil Street toward Vienna about 10:40 p.m. when he was approached by two men in their 20s, police Officer Albie Esparza said. One of the suspects pointed a gun at the victim and demanded his money.
The second suspect grabbed the victim’s wallet and cellphone from his pockets and then punched him in the face.
A man was robbed of his headphones at gunpoint in the Sunset district on Tuesday, police said.The 21-year-old victim was walking in the 1300 block of 41st Avenue about 10:40 p.m. when four men in their 20s surrounded him and pointed a gun at him, police said.The crooks took his headphones and fled the scene on foot. No arrests have been made.rnagle@sfexaminer.com
And the rampant robbery of cellphones goes on.Two more people were robbed of their cellphones in San Francisco on Tuesday and early Wednesday morning, police said. The latest robberies were in the wake of District Attorney George Gascon’s call for major cellphone service providers to help stem the thefts.
Police are hunting for a vicious creep who tried to sexually assault a woman last weekend as she was showering in a City College of San Francisco locker room.
An alert was issued Monday about the 12:15 p.m. attack Saturday at the Ocean Avenue Campus’ Wellness Center, which is located at 50 Phelan Ave.
