Tag: crime
Man killed, girl seriously injured over the weekend
June 6, 2016
Traffic alert in San Francisco mission district. Mission from 16th St to 15th St is blocked w/police activity. pic.twitter.com/IMhGSrRVXw — Frances Dinglasan (@francesabc7) June 5, 2016 A man was killed and a 9-year-old girl critically injured in separate incidents in the Mission over the weekend. Authorities are investigating the death of a 54-year-old man who was found […]
Capp Street assault leads to man’s arrest
May 14, 2015
A San Francisco man is facing attempted murder charges after allegedly punching another man and beating him unconscious. According to authorities, Darren L. Cubie, 38, got into an argument with the victim at around 7:30 a.m. Monday on the 100 block of Capp Street. The fight turned physical and Cubie punched the victim, stomping […]
Weird crime: Thief threatens woman, takes off with oxygen tank
April 27, 2015
A man was arrested Sunday night after he threatened a woman with a lighter and stole her portable oxygen tank, police said. According to authorities, the 49-year-old suspect knocked on the woman’s door, on the 500 block of South Van Ness Ave. near 16th Street, around 10 p.m. When the woman opened the door, he pulled her […]
Cars torched in the Mission following rash of vehicle arson fires
December 17, 2014
Someone set four vehicles ablaze in the Mission early Wednesday morning, adding to a recent spate of suspicious car fires around the city. Since early September, there have been reports of more than two dozen arson fires involving cars in different parts of San Francisco, according to the police and the city’s DataSF site. The […]
Brutally beaten in a Mission District park, a woman recounts her ordeal
December 16, 2014
A man rests beneath a tree in Franklin Square park near where Jessica said she was camping and the attack occurred. With its beaches, beautiful people and “practically legal marijuana,” California was Jessica’s dream. What she found in San Francisco was a nightmare. From a small town in Arkansas, Jessica had wanted to visit the […]
Trio of robberies along Capp Street Thanksgiving week
December 1, 2014
While you were shopping for and recuperating from Thanksgiving last week, robbers were keeping themselves busy around Capp Street. According to police, there were two robberies near the intersection of 24th and Capp streets — one of which involved a kidnapping — and another at 18th Street. The first of the 24th and Capp street […]
Cops on Capp
October 24, 2014
Sure, Capp Street is known for drinkers, hookers and all around weird shit but have you ever wondered what really happens on the street in any given month? I put in a records request to the San Francisco Department of Emergency Management for all the police calls* to Capp Street their dispatchers handled in September […]
Violent man baby on the loose in the Mission?
September 24, 2014
Hand selected from the logs of the Mission Police Station. Talcum powdered thug: Just after noon on Sept. 23, a man in his 30s walked into a store in the 4000 block of Mission Street and put two bottles of baby powder in his backpack. When the clerk confronted him, the thief punched him several […]