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SAN FRANCISCO—On Tuesday, February 16 officers responded to a tent fire in San Francisco’s Bayview District around 11:55 p.m. The fire happened at the intersection of Loomis Street and Oakdale Avenue. After firefighters extinguished the fire they found a victim inside of the tent. The person’s name has not been released, and the cause of the fire has not been...

SAN FRANCISCO—On Valentine's Day Sunday, February 14, 3 men who were suffering from gunshot wounds were found on Turk and Hyde Streets at 2 a.m. According to the San Francisco Police Department, “one of the men had life-threatening injuries, while the other two are expected to live.” This past Valentine’s Holiday weekend there were over a dozen people shot throughout the...

SAN FRANCISCO—The FBI arrested Miranda Devlin, 37, of San Francisco, for fraudulently applying for Payroll Protection Program (PPP), which is a government program designed to aid small businesses during COVID-19 and impersonating two California lawyers. The FBI is actively searching for more of Devlin’s victims. The Department of Justice stated in a news release that Devlin obtained attorneys Miranda Martin...

SAN FRANCISCO—On Wednesday, February 17, the San Francisco Police Commission voted unanimously, 4-0, to reject a proposal that would cut the budget and personnel of the San Francisco Police Department. Under the proposal, 11 percent of the department’s budget would be slashed. 167 sworn officers and 43 civilian employees would also be laid off. Police Chief Bill Scott cited three shootings...

SAN FRANCISCO—Christopher Woitel, 50, was found dead in his apartment building Tuesday, February 16. Woitel had been missing for over a month. He was last seen on surveillance footage walking into his apartment on January 8, and his last contact with his family was January 9. His bank account has had no activity since then. His mother reported him missing...

SAN FRANCISCO—On Monday, February 15 a shooting was reported at 4:34 p.m. on the 1900 block of Sunnydale Avenue. The shooting happened in San Francisco’s Visitacion Valley where a suspect in a vehicle approached the victim who was a 28-year-old man and fired several shots before fleeing. The victim was taken to the hospital to be treated for non-life-threatening injuries....

OAKLAND—At 5:45 p.m. on Monday February 15, a local Oakland store owner intervened when a woman was being robbed in front of his liquor store. The 36-year-old business owner struggled with the robbers before they escaped and fired shots at their vehicle. There were no serious injuries.  The woman in her 30’s was targeted by the robbers, outside of the...

SAN FRANCISCO—On Thursday, February 11 federal prosecutors filed gun possession charges against a man who, according to a criminal complaint, is a suspect in an unprovoked downtown attack and shooting that occurred last October. The suspect was identified as 47-year-old Alvin Merrite. On Friday, October 2, 2020 Merrite was identified on surveillance footage as a man who fired a gun...

HOLLYWOOD—It is amazing how certain films appear timeless or happen to get released at a time when the world is in utter chaos. The social relevance of “Judas and the Black Messiah” with the Black Lives Matter movement, racial injustice, police brutality and so many other social issues in America seem like a premonition you’d never imagine. This movie directed...

SAN FRANCISCO—United States District Judge William Orrick sentenced Florence Kong, 63, to prison on Friday, February 12, for crimes she allegedly committed in 2019. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Northern District of California, Kong was sentenced to prison for one year and one day and ordered to pay a $95,000 fine for bribing Mohammed Nuru, former San...