San Jose Police Search For Crew Of Prolific Taggers
San Jose police were searching Wednesday for a graffiti tagging crew suspected of causing more than $50,000 in damage.
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San Jose police were searching Wednesday for a graffiti tagging crew suspected of causing more than $50,000 in damage.
Police in Walnut Creek are searching for a suspect who repeatedly vandalized two banks, scrawling the word "Foreclosure" over a Bank of America branch and a Chase bank branch over the last two weeks.
A group of Oakland anti-Wall Street protesters who blame large banks for the economic downturn have decided that one of those institutions is the best place to stash their money for now.
Supporters of the Occupy Oakland movement and some of its detractors packed an emotional Oakland City Council meeting Thursday night to discuss the city's response to the protests.
Representatives of the Occupy Wall Street movement in Oakland say they regret that their daylong downtown demonstration was marred by an "autonomous" group.
Business owners in downtown Oakland were assessing damage Thursday morning after a mostly peaceful daylong protest by Occupy Oakland turned destructive overnight.
According to the university's latest annual security report, compiled by campus police, there were three times as many hate crimes reported in 2010, compared with figures from 2009.
A homeless woman was arrested in San Francisco early Wednesday after police said she vandalized police cars one block away from the department headquarters on Bryant St.
NextEra Energy Resources is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person responsible for up to $100,000 of damage to a construction site in Contra Costa County in August.
That includes the city of Berkeley, which used home video footage to arrest a suspect in a series of tire slashings.
A few hours after protests ended at one Bay Area Rapid Transit station in San Francisco on Thursday, vandals destroyed machines and sprayed graffiti at another BART station across the city, an agency spokeswoman said.
Berkeley police said as many as 74 vehicles had their tires damaged in what appears to be a slashing spree Tuesday night or Wednesday morning in South Berkeley and in parts of Oakland.
Vandals slashed the tires on about 50 vehicles on a 17-block stretch of California Street, and several other nearby streets, in Berkeley early Wednesday morning.
Officials with the San Mateo County Sheriff's Department and the City of Half Moon Bay want Half Moon Bay residents to help fight gang activity and graffiti.
Authorities have arrested a man for vandalizing a portion of San Francisco City Hall early Tuesday morning.
A large swastika that was found carved into the hood of a woman's car in Hercules on Tuesday morning is being investigated as a hate crime, Hercules police Detective Alex Abetkov said.
A woman whose home was recently vandalized by a short-term renter she found through Airbnb.com was probably violating city laws that prohibit a residence from being used as a hotel, city officials said.
A company that connects travelers with people renting out their homes will soon offer property protection after a host in San Francisco had her home vandalized.
Three Petaluma men were arrested Saturday morning on suspicion of vandalizing an elementary school after police allegedly saw one of them crash through a skylight.
One example can be found at the abandoned 19th Street street car station in the city's Dolores Park.
The quiet plaza near the San Francisco Federal Building has been filled with crime and vandalism, a problem for many neighbors and residents in the area.
Three teens were arrested early Friday morning after a witness reported seeing a group spray painting graffiti and appearing to break into the maintenance room at Sellick Park, South San Francisco police said.
San Francisco police are looking at an act of vandalism at the Harvey Milk Photo Center last week as a possible hate crime.
A new San Francisco program is leaving prosecution of low level crimes in the hands of a neighborhood prosecutor.
San Francisco officials are again looking into the possibility of closing Golden Gate Park during overnight hours after vandalism and a recent string of attacks on transients.
