A Norteño gang member who killed a boy on a Mission district street whom he wrongly believed was a gang rival, and who days later hugged the victim’s unwitting mother at an anti-violence rally on the steps of City Hall, will be sentenced tomorrow in federal co... More »
Norteño gang members who gunned down a young couple waiting at a city bus stop – killing one and grievously wounding the other – will be sentenced tomorrow in San Francisco federal court. Prosecutors are pressing for a 26 year sentence for gunman Alvaro Corder... More »
A Norteño gang member who killed a boy on a Mission district street whom he wrongly believed was a gang rival, and who days later hugged the victim’s unwitting mother at an anti-violence rally on the steps of City Hall, will be sentenced tomorrow in federal co... More »
The man who strangled to death a 17-year-old San Francisco girl in 2004 is heading for release after state authorities granted his application for parole after nearly two decades in prison. A jury found Royce Miller guilty of the murder of Lincoln High School ... More »
One man has died and another suffered non-life threatening injuries after a shooting this morning at the junction of Golden Gate Avenue and Hyde Street. SFPD crime scene investigators and homicide detectives began their work as daylight broke – which also reve... More »
A felon accused of kidnapping and raping a young woman walking home after a night out in the Mission district will go to trial after a judge found that “satisfactory evidence to support the belief” he committed the crimes had been presented at a preliminary he... More »
A felon who prosecutors say raped a woman in her mid-twenties making her way home on Valencia Street after a night out will appear in court tomorrow. Kevin Lindsey, 42, offered the victim a ride home but, instead, kidnapped her, took her to a dark alley, and c... More »
A felon who prosecutors say raped a woman in her mid-twenties making her way home on Valencia Street after a night out will appear in court tomorrow. Kevin Lindsey, 42, offered the victim a ride home but, instead, kidnapped her, took her to a dark alley, and c... More »
A man who used a handgun equipped with an extended magazine to threaten patrons of a San Francisco Safeway store was told he faces 70 months’ imprisonment in federal court today. Julian Cisneros, 29, had earlier pleaded guilty to one count of ‘being a felon in... More »
A man appeared in court today accused of terrorizing bank employees at knifepoint, after he barricaded himself inside a branch and instigated an hours-long standoff with police. Kenneth Jenkins, 66, pleaded ‘not guilty’ to multiple felony counts of false impri... More »