Tripping during the Zazzle Bay to Breakers not only kept a man from reaching the finish line, but it landed him in jail.Daniel Frank, 21, of Santa Clara is facing serious charges after allegedly taking a hard drug, possibly LSD, during the zany 12-kilometer footrace. Police said he went wacko along the racecourse, ripping out a woman’s hair, attacking other participants and tearing off a police officer’s badge while resisting arrest Sunday in Golden Gate Park. Read More
French nuns who run a Tenderloin soup kitchen have had their prayers answered, authorities said, after their alleged stalker earned a three-year state prison sentence for failing to show up to a court date. Read More
A former worker at a Pacific Heights restaurant might just be a porcelain pervert. David Talavera is accused of secretly filming nine people during an eight-day period using the bathroom inside his workplace, authorities said Monday. Read More
A heartless assault earlier this month on a 74-year-old Indian manager of a Mission district hotel is being charged as a hate crime, prosecutors said Monday.Gary Calkins, 48, of San Francisco is facing three counts of false imprisonment of an elder, battery and dissuading a witness from testifying – along with hate-crime enhancements – in connection with a March 14 attack at the Norma Hotel at 2697 Mission St. Read More
It was a case of forbidden love that nearly cost a young man life behind bars.Instead, the ill-fated plan of a man apparently so love-struck by an underage girl that he plotted to kill her mother after she tried to break them up landed him a 10-year prison sentence for attempted murder. Angel Euceda, 22, was sentenced in San Francisco Superior Court on Monday after pleading guilty to stabbing the mother on Dec. 16, 2010, in this real-life version of “Romeo and Juliet.” Read More
Investigations into officer-involved shootings in San Francisco are about to become more transparent, after District Attorney George Gascón said Thursday that he will begin publicly releasing reports on probes by his office.The reports, which will be made available upon request, will detail the rationale for the findings of the District Attorney’s Office after its investigations into police shootings, Gascón said during a media event Thursday. Read More
More victims are coming forward with accusations about a man who is alleged to have posed as a doctor in the Mission district and performed a dangerously cheap liposuction while puffing on a cigar, prosecutors said.
Carlos Guzmangarza, 49, who also is accused of flushing 6 pounds of fat in the toilet of the lipo victim’s home, allegedly ran a clinic from hell on Mission Street, prosecutors have said. Read More
The man who was tackled by an off-duty cop after walking out of a Stonestown Galleria store without paying for eyeglass frames has been banned from coming near the mall for three years.Evert Brown, 21, pleaded guilty to burglary Wednesday for the Jan. 14 shoplifting incident in which he allegedly socked the cop in an attempt to run, Assistant District Attorney Marisa Rodriguez said. Read More
The bicyclist accused of fatally striking a pedestrian after running a red light in San Francisco last summer is expected to strike a plea deal with prosecutors today that includes no jail time, but a significant amount of community service, The San Francisco Examiner has learned.Randolph Ang, 23, is charged with misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter in connection with the July 15 accident at Mission Street and The Embarcadero that killed 68-year-old Dionette Cherney. Read More
Prosecutors have filed manslaughter charges against a driver who they say was using his cellphone last week when he allegedly struck and killed a man on a street median, then fled the scene. Read More
