A man was sentenced to 34 months’ imprisonment today for robbing a bank in San Francisco only weeks after being released from prison for robbing six other city banks, three of which he robbed while on bail for robbing two of the others, and those two being rob... More »
Further details emerged today in the worrying case of Michael Shiferaw – a recidivist bank robber who a federal court heard became embroiled in an attempt to take advantage of a nonagenarian woman living in a city senior living facility. Shiferaw is best known... More »
A man who “threatened staff with violence and death” during a spate of San Francisco bank robberies, then given bail, which he skipped, and then, given bail again, went on to commit another robbery on Market Street, was sentenced to 60 months’ imprisonment thi... More »
On December 30, 2022 Christian Plummer robbed a Wells Fargo bank at Geary & Arguello in San Francisco’s Inner Richmond district. He had been released from jail just 39 days earlier having been convicted of a string of bank robberies in the city in 2021 where h... More »
Willie Thomas robbed eight San Francisco banks in early 2022 “threatening staff with violence and death” according to prosecutors. Arrested in February, he was bailed, but cut off his GPS ankle monitor and fled. When rearrested he spent a month in custody, was... More »
Despite being a felon forbidden to own guns, Josef Atchan nevertheless broadcast himself on Instagram Live brandishing a gun, was subsequently arrested with three guns, and then arrived at court in a car containing two more guns. This unorthodox approach to st... More »