COUPLE ACCUSED OF TURNING HOME INTO PARTY CENTRAL

A couple turned their San Francisco home into an illegal hotel where a party held by guests last year ended in a shootout that sent partygoers fleeing from rooftop to rooftop and terrified neighbours, a city official said Wednesday. A lawsuit filed by City Attorney Dennis Herrera alleges Erik M. Rogers and his wife, Anshu Singh, unlawfully rented their Bernal Heights home through short-term rental websites for at least 319 nights between June 2016 and October 2017, sometimes charging more than $800 a night. The couple, who spends most of the time in Indonesia, also illegally converted the home into two units, Herrera said. San Francisco requires people renting their homes through online sites to live in the unit at least 275 nights a year. Police were called to the home in October 2017 after a party ended in a gunfight that left one person wounded and more than a dozen homes and cars pierced by bullets. Herrera said the lawsuit seeks a court order to bring the property into compliance with the law and hundreds of thousands of dollars in penalties.