Posts From Mark MacNamara
After 6 Years, Killers of Tourist get Sentenced
This was all a long time ago. September 9, 2008: a very bad evening, beginning at an old kid club called City Nights, down on Harrison, between Lapu and Third.
Let No Good Deed Go Unpunished
Nestor San Juan was 73. He lived at 520 Taylor, with the green awning, between a public parking garage and Les Nuits de Paris massage parlor and sauna. (It’s $80
Fisherman’s Wharf killer sentenced to life
Murder can be so petty. The day after April Fools Day, 2011, a shopkeeper on Fisherman’s Wharf named Hong Ri Wu couldn’t stand it any longer. He went to the
Man Cited in Connection with City Park Tree Vandalism
SAN FRANCISCO – In a city where parks are as revered as cathedrals and trees as valued as the banana cream tarts at Tartine’s bakery, a high crime mystery may
3 Parolees Arrested in the Mission for Triple Shooting, Cause Crash
SAN FRANCISCO – Mission and 16th? Why do you ask? It’s a not –for-visitors neighborhood. You got the BART stop; you got some off-Geary play houses, including Theater Rhinoceros —
Learning Curves
For the last 20 years, and even before that, but certainly since the days of “Wild Bill” Rojas, the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) has been a crazy house.
Fraud is a terrible thing to waste
SAN FRANCISCO – San Francisco State University (SFSU) has long been a feisty, edgy, blue-collar campus. But it remains a great local university, with a solid library and several world-class
Beer and Syringes
SAN FRANCISCO – Happened on the 300 block of Ellis Street. In the Tenderloin district, in what some might call the heart of San Francisco darkness. You’ll remember the place
SFPD Shooting ends in Arrest of "Long-Gun Serial Robbers"
Three teenagers got nicked with the name “Long-Gun Serial Robbers.” The name stemmed from a couple of robberies that ensued in early March, along with a carjacking, the teens were
SFPD Shooting ends in Arrest of “Long-Gun Serial Robbers”
Three teenagers got nicked with the name “Long-Gun Serial Robbers.” The name stemmed from a couple of robberies that ensued in early March, along with a carjacking, the teens were
