South San Francisco police are searching for suspects wanted in connection with a robbery at a Bank of the West on Friday, a police corporal said.At around 10:25 a.m., police were called to the bank located at 2288 Westborough Blvd., police Cpl. Elena Brennan said.Police were initially told that there were possibly two or three armed suspects inside the bank, and about six employees and two customers inside as well, Brennan said.Upon arrival, officers were unable to make contact with anyone inside the bank, Brennan said.
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San Francisco police are investigating a frightening drive-by shooting in the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood Thursday evening that left a 22-year-old woman’s car riddled with bullets.Police spokesman Lt. Troy Dangerfield said the woman, a city resident, was driving north on Ingalls Street near George Court at about 6:50 p.m. when someone inside a gold sedan driving in the opposite direction opened fire.Dangerfield said the woman heard gunshots and saw a muzzle flash, and later found four bullet holes in her car. She was not struck by the gunfire.
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Carbon monoxide that sent four San Francisco Marriott Marquis guests to the hospital Thursday night may have come from a leaking water heater located near the hotel, a fire spokeswoman said Friday afternoon.Firefighters had responded at about 10:40 p.m. Thursday to reports of multiple people suffering from flu-like symptoms at the hotel, located at the intersection of Fourth and Mission streets, San Francisco fire Lt. Mindy Talmadge said.
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Reports of a gun sighting delayed BART trains by more than 15 minutes Friday morning at San Francisco’s Civic Center station, a BART spokesman said.BART police responded to reports of a gun sighting at about 8:30 a.m. at the Civic Center station, but officers were unable to find a firearm, spokesman Linton Johnson said.The police activity caused delays of between 13 and 18 minutes for trains leaving from the station in the Millbrae, East Bay and San Francisco International Airport directions, Johnson said.
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San Francisco City Administrator Ed Lee released a statement today saying he will agree to serve as interim mayor if he is selected by the Board of Supervisors.Lee, who is overseas, appears to have enough votes from the board to replace outgoing Mayor Gavin Newsom, who will be sworn in as the state's lieutenant governor sometime before Monday.
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More than three years after the 2007 Cosco Busan oil spill fouled the waters of the San Francisco Bay and beyond, local fishermen will receive a total of $6 million in damages through a class action lawsuit.The container ship spilled roughly 58,000 gallons of heavy bunker fuel into the bay on Nov. 7, 2007, after it struck a fender around one of the Bay Bridge’s towers and cut a 212-foot gash in the ship’s hull.
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A 19-year-old Palo Alto man was struck and killed early Thursday morning by a Caltrain in Palo Alto in what was the agency’s first fatality of the year and possibly “an intentional act,” a Caltrain spokeswoman said.The last southbound train of the day, Train 198, departed San Francisco station at 12:01 a.m., and spokeswoman Christine Dunn said that the man was fatally struck by that train at about 1:20 a.m.It is not yet clear how or why the man was on the tracks, but Dunn said “a preliminary investigation indicates that this was an intentional act.”
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A 16-year-old girl was pulled over after driving recklessly through downtown San Francisco this afternoon, police said.Police saw the girl speeding north in a Volvo on Kearny Street near Pine Street at 12:58 p.m., San Francisco police Lt. Lyn Tomioka said.She then turned onto Pine Street and drove against traffic, and was stopped by police at Third and Market streets, where she was taken into custody, Tomioka said.
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A federal appeals court in San Francisco today sent a key question in a challenge to Proposition 8 to the California Supreme Court.A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals asked the state high court to decide whether California law gives the sponsors of the measure the legal standing, or right, to appeal a lower federal court decision that struck down the measure.
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A San Francisco Superior Court judge Tuesday sentenced a man convicted of murdering another man outside a North Beach nightclub in 2008 to 25 years to life in prison.A jury found Charles “Cheese” Heard, 26, of San Francisco, guilty of first-degree murder and attempted robbery on July 1 in connection with the fatal shooting of 29-year-old Richard Barrett outside the Fuse bar early on the morning of Nov. 25, 2008.
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Although no one aboard a fishing vessel that ran aground off the San Mateo County coast early Tuesday morning was injured, the U.S. Coast Guard is keeping a close eye on the boat to ensure it doesn’t leak fuel and pollute the waters.A 911 call relayed from a San Mateo County emergency dispatcher at about 1 a.m. alerted the Coast Guard to the stranded boat, which ran aground near the shore of Half Moon Bay, Coast Guard Chief Scott Brazier said.
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A trio of Democratic Bay Area politicians is assuming the reins of the leadership of California.Oakland's Jerry Brown was inaugurated as governor late this morning and San Francisco's Kamala Harris assumed the post of attorney general this afternoon.Brown, 72, a former California governor from 1975 to 1983, Oakland mayor from 1999 to 2007, and who was most recently California attorney general, was sworn into office in Sacramento at 11:20 a.m.
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The California Supreme Court ruled in San Francisco on Monday that police are entitled to search text messages on the cell phones of arrestees without obtaining a warrant.The court, ruling in a Ventura County case, said by a 5-2 vote that warrantless searches of text messages are permitted under precedents set by the U.S. Supreme Court.The panel upheld the drug conviction of Gregory Diaz, who was arrested for aiding in selling Ecstasy to a police informant during an undercover sting operation.
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A man confessed to stabbing his roommate Sunday afternoon — according to San Francisco police — and the roommate has since passed away.At 2:46 p.m., the suspect called police saying he had just stabbed his roommate in the 1100 block of Market Street, Officer Albie Esparza said.Police responded and took the suspect, a man in his 40s, into custody.The victim, a 54-year-old man, was transported to San Francisco General Hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries just after 10 p.m.
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San Francisco police are on the lookout for a suspect responsible for shooting a man on the street Sunday night, according to a San Francisco police official.At about 9:12 p.m., dispatchers received multiple calls about a shooting at the corner of Larkin and O’Farrell streets, Officer Albie Esparza said.Police arrived on scene and found one man who had been shot in the torso, Esparza said.The victim was transported to San Francisco General Hospital with life-threatening injuries, Esparza said.
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