Steven Petrilli, 24, has already been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the July 26, 2006 killing of San Francisco Police Department Officer Nick-Tomasito Birco.
Petrilli had been fleeing police in a stolen van after committing four robberies in The City when he struck Birco’s patrol car. Birco was pronounced dead at the hospital a short time later. Read More
A 32-year-old man was stabbed and searched Thursday, but the assailant didn't take anything, police said. An unknown suspect approached the man at 5th and Market streets around 3:30 a.m. and stabbed him with an unknown weapon, cops said. The suspect then went through the victims pockets but didn’t take anything, police said. The suspect fled on foot. The victim was treated at the hospital for non-life-threatening injuries, cops said. Read More
One of the two Fisherman’s Wharf merchants who were shot dead in their store on Sunday in an apparent rivalry spat with another vendor was the mother of a 2-month-old child, her grieving husband said only moments after he saw the suspected killer in court on Friday. Read More
More than double the number of murders have occurred this year compared to the same time frame last year, but on Thursday, a San Francisco police captain insisted the bloodshed will level off.The uptick in killings is raising concern and prompting calls from several members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to do more to fight crime. Read More
Sometimes a robot just can’t replace a human, as was the case this morning in Potrero Hill when the San Francisco Police Department bomb squad arrived to take care of five or six grenades left over from grandpa’s war chest.The newscasters over at KTVU watched with amusement and then shocked disbelief this morning as a bag containing grenades ripped open while in the grasp of the bomb squad robot. Read More
The San Francisco Giants and 49ers both count on San Francisco police officers to patrol their ballparks during games, but with budget cuts draining the resources of the department, some are rethinking that arrangement. Read More
At an intersection near the Balboa Park BART station Friday, a man who was text messaging was punched in the mouth and robbed of his cell phone.There has been an uptick in such incident around Bay Area, particularly in denser urban areas, and residents say they have been assaulted and robbed in public while texting, e-mailing, tweeting or posting updates on Facebook. Read More
A 10-year-veteran officer of the San Francisco Police Department is facing jail time and termination on suspicion of taking a car registration sticker from someone he pulled over and putting it on his own personal car. Read More
A pot buyer was beaten up for disputing the cost of the marijuana he illegally tried to purchase in the Upper Haight on Tuesday, police said. The 33-year-old man was hospitalized after the deal went up in smoke near Alvord Lake in Golden Gate Park around 2:30 p.m. The female dealer’s “cohorts” attacked and beat up the buyer, police said.Police responded and searched the area, arresting a 49-year-old man for the assault, police said. Read More
A car struck and killed a coyote near San Francisco’s Presidio on Wednesday morning, and traffic was significantly stalled near the crash, a police spokeswoman said.Police responded to reports of a coyote body on Park Presidio Boulevard near Lake Street just before 7 a.m., San Francisco police Lt. Lyn Tomioka said.A responding officer found the body on the northbound side of the street in the fast lane, Tomioka said. Read More
