SF News Redwood City Liquor Store Fire Deemed to Have Been Murder-Suicide Investigators now say that a fire at a strip-mall liquor store in Redwood City last fall was deliberately set, and that the manager of the store who died in the fire was the arsonist, staging the scene to make it appear he was a victim.
SF News 20-Year-Old Texas Man Accused of Firebombing Sam Altman's House Enters Not Guilty Plea The man accused of flying to San Francisco to try to save humanity from AI by tossing a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's house made a court appearance Tuesday and entered a plea of not guilty.
SF News SF Towing Company Owner Sentenced to Federal Prison for Torching Rivals’ Trucks A 29-year-old towing company owner was sentenced to five years in federal prison for orchestrating a plan to set the trucks of four rival companies on fire, along with two years for submitting fraudulent car insurance claims, with state welfare fraud charges pending.
SF News Dozens Attend Outer Sunset Sideshow, Set U-Haul on Fire From Inside With Roman Candles Residents said more than 100 people attended an illegal early morning sideshow in SF’s Outer Sunset Saturday. SFPD, which was flooded with reports of gunshots, fireworks, and a U-Haul full of furniture being set ablaze, reportedly took more than 20 minutes to respond.
SF News 2024 SF Tesla Arsonist Found Guilty on 10 Counts, Because He Torched Six Other Cars Too The man arrested for torching two Teslas within a block of each other in SoMa on the same night in early 2024 was indeed a serial carsonist, as he was just found guilty at trial of also having torched five other cars the week before.
SF News Home of South Carolina Judge Who Blocked Feds From Accessing Voter Data Burns to the Ground The home of Diane Goodstein, a South Carolina judge who’s been receiving death threats after going up against Trump in September, burned to the ground in a suspected explosion Saturday. Her husband, former State Rep. and Senator Arnold Goodstein, reportedly leapt from the building to escape.
SF News Update: Apparent Illegal Fireworks Mishap Torches Mount Diablo High School Football Field What appears to be an illegal fireworks stunt gone wrong destroyed the football field at Mount Diablo High, just days before the team was slated to play its first home game of the season.
SF News Bombs Found in Petaluma Home of Arson Suspect (Who Happens to Be a Former Cop) A strange story out of Petaluma, where a former police officer suspected of arson had his home searched in an investigation, and sheriff’s deputies found bombs, meth, and drug paraphernalia.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Richard Tillman's Competency Questioned In Court Richard Tillman, the San Jose arson suspect and brother of the late Pat Tillman, made a court appearance today at which his competency was called in question; an Oakland man was arrested in a Sacramento jewelry heist; and Pam Bondi apparently told Trump directly that he's in the Epstein files.
SF News Brother of the Late NFL Star Pat Tillman Reportedly Arrested In San Jose After Fiery Post Office Car Crash The brother of celebrated NFL player and Afghanistan war veteran Pat Tillman was arrested on suspicion of arson in San Jose, in a bizarre car crash into a post office that authorities suspect was intentional, and apparently was livestreamed.
SF News San Jose Shop Owner Killed in Fire, Officials Say It Was Arson By Unhoused Woman With Prior Arson Charges The 51-year-old founder of a San Jose custom t-shirt and print business is dead after a Sunday morning fire ripped through his business’ building, and the arson suspect in custody is an unhoused woman with a previous arson conviction.
SF News SFPD Arrests Alleged Arsonist Who May Be Linked to Playground Arson Cases A 29-year-old man who was allegedly in possession of methamphetamine and was seen lighting things on fire in a park Monday morning was arrested, and he may be linked to multiple fires in the Outer Richmond, two of which destroyed playgrounds.
SF News Owner of Scandal-Plagued Specialty Towing Now Indicted for Setting Competitors' Tow Trucks on Fire Here's some next-level scandal for the Bayview-based tow truck firm Specialty Towing, as its owner was just indicted for committing arson on competitors' tow trucks, crimes totally unrelated to the company's previous charges of fraudulent tows and fake car accidents.
SF News East Bay 'Scholar-Activist' Pleads Guilty to Firebombing UC Berkeley Police Car An activist who appeared to be going on a spree of arson and fire-bomb attacks on the UC Berkeley campus last summer in protest of the university's treatment of pro-Palestinian activists now faces prison time for terrorism.
SF News Update: SFPD Releases Photo of Suspect In Racist Threats at Home of Alamo Square Dogwalker; He Knows Her From Neighborhood A 67-year-old woman who was recently reported missing is the suspect that the SFPD has been seeking in connection with racist threats that were left at the home of local dogwalker Terry Williams, in the weeks before his family's Alamo Square home mysteriously burned down.
SF News Retrial Begins for Man Accused of Intentionally Setting 2021 Hopkins Fire In Mendocino County You may recall Mendocino County’s 2021 Hopkins Fire, which destroyed more than 250 acres and nearly 30 homes, and now a 23-year-old man is on trial for the second time for allegedly starting it, after his first trial was declared a mistrial.
SF News East Bay 'Scholar-Activist' Arrested for UC Berkeley Arson Incidents That Were Possibly Linked to Pro-Palestinian Protest A 34-year-old man was arrested Monday in connection with multiple arson incidents and the firebombing of a campus police vehicle at UC Berkeley, and these may have been acts of protest over the university's treatment of pro-Palestinian protesters.
SF News SFPD Has ‘Possible Suspect’ In Case of Dog Walker Whose Home Burned After Racist Threats Police say they’ve executed two search warrants and have a “possible suspect” in connection to an Alamo Square dog walker who’d received racist threats prior to his house burning, though it’s unclear whether these leads are concerning the threats, the house fire, or both.
SF News House Fire Near Alamo Square Potentially Linked to Racist Threats A house fire that broke out on the same block as the famed Painted Ladies gutted a two-unit building, and it happens to be the home of a longtime neighborhood dog-walker who was recently targeted with racist threats.
SF News Another Carsonist? Four Cars Set Ablaze In San Francisco Sunday Morning We may have another carsonist on our hands, or else the same individual who set fire to two Teslas in SoMa in February is back at it.
SF News Are the Waymo and Tesla Arsonists the Same Person? The SFPD has reportedly made an arrest in connection with the arson of an autonomous Waymo taxi in Chinatown last month, and they say the suspect is linked to other vehicle arson cases.
SF News SFPD Suspects An Arsonist Is Targeting Teslas After Two Catch on Fire in SoMa Police are investigating after they discovered two Tesla Model Ys on fire within a few blocks of each other in San Francisco’s SoMa neighborhood early Saturday morning.
SF News Waymo Self-Driving Vehicle Vandalized, Set on Fire in San Francisco Chinatown Saturday Night A group of vandals surrounded and tagged an empty autonomous vehicle in Chinatown, then set of a firework inside the car that set the entire car ablaze.
SF News Someone Is ‘In Custody’ In Connection With Bernal Heights Car Fires — But They’re Not In SF There’s been a development in the case of four cars torched in Bernal Heights on New Year’s Eve, as someone, somewhere is in custody in connection with the investigation. But they’re in custody elsewhere “for an unrelated matter,” according to SFPD.
SF News Another Car Torched In Bernal Heights, Prompting Serial Arson Concerns After four cars were set ablaze on New Year’s Eve in Bernal Heights, yet another car was lit on fire some five blocks away on Tuesday night, though in this case the described arsonist had actually lit a disposed Christmas tree on the curb.
