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by Mike Aldax
02/22/12 4:37 PM

Craigslist sting nets bevy of bikes

San Francisco police said they arrested two youths and recovered 21 stolen bicycles from an Ingleside district home Tuesday after responding to a Craigslist advertisement.Police at the Mission Station announced the recovery via Twitter on Wednesday, offering a link with pictures of the stolen bicycles in the hope that their owners will reclaim them.

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by Rob Nagle
02/22/12 3:57 PM

Arrest made in Bayview homicide

A suspect was arrested Monday in connection with last week’s stabbing death of Luther Robinson in the Bayview, police said Wednesday. Robinson, 54, was reportedly involved in an altercation with the suspect near Mendell Plaza at Third Street and Palou Avenue when the suspect pulled out a knife and stabbed Robinson to death.A candlelight vigil was held for Robinson on Wednesday night, the victim’s nephew Dwayne Robinson said.

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by Rob Nagle
02/22/12 3:33 PM

That is no way to treat your momma’s car

A bad son beat on his mom’s car in Bayview crimes last weekend. Unit block of Westbrook12:50 a.m. FridayHe did it cause he was mad. A belligerent son vandalized his mother’s car after an argumenet, police said. When cops arrived he was still trashing the car, screaming “I did it! I knew you were coming. I did it cause I was mad!”100 block of Paul Avenue8:45 p.m. Sunday

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by Rob Nagle
02/22/12 10:05 AM

Man assaulted, robbed in Mission district

A man was assaulted and robbed in the Mission on Tuesday, police said. The 28-year-old victim was walking near 17th and Mission streets around 11:25 p.m. when he was attacked by two men in their late 20s, police said. The hoodlums knocked the victim to the ground and took his cellphone and cash before fleeing on foot. No arrests have been made.rnagle@sfexaminer.com

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by Mike Aldax
02/22/12 8:17 AM

Man seriously injured in Tenderloin stabbing over drugs, cellphone

A man was stabbed during an apparent spat over drugs and an allegedly missing cellphone in the Tenderloin on Monday night, police said.The victim, 19, who suffered life-threatening stab wounds to the torso and arm, told cops he was attacked after leaving a knife-toting druggie’s apartment building in the 600 block of Ellis Street about 9:40 p.m.

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by Rob Nagle
02/21/12 1:45 PM

Two men shot, one fired upon before holiday weekend

Two men were shot and another was fired upon during a robbery in The City at the start of President’s Day Weekend, police said. The first shooting happened Friday around 3:10 p.m. in the Lower Haight, police said. A 21-year-old man was sitting in a car in the unit block of Potomac Street when he was shot several times by a suspect described as a man in his 20s. The shooter fled on foot to a black, four-door car waiting around the corner.

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by Rob Nagle
02/21/12 1:11 PM

Woman robbed of $10,000 in broad daylight in South City

A woman was robbed of more than $10,000 after cashing a check at a bank in South San Francisco on Saturday, police said. The woman was robbed as she walked on  El Camino Real toward Southwood Drive about 4:15 p.m. The crook leaped out of a van, pushed her to the ground and then grabbed her backpack with the cash. He then pointed a gun at her and told her not to call the police or he would kill her, police said. He fled in the van south on El Camino Real.

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by Mike Aldax
02/21/12 9:04 AM

Man's cries for help ignored as he lay dying on Mission district sidewalk

A man’s agonizing cries for help went unanswered as he lay dying on a Mission district sidewalk early Sunday. Neighbors didn't call police until about five hours after Richard Sprague, 47, of San Francisco, was heard hollering "Help! 911! Help!" in the 100 block of Julian Avenue, near 15th Street. His pleas were heard between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. Police were called to the scene at 7:42 a.m., Officer Albie Esparza said.

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by Mike Aldax
02/20/12 7:15 PM

Saving $5 costs man a stabbing

San Francisco police are hunting for a thug who stabbed a man in the thigh in the South of Market neighborhood last week after he refused to give him $5.“You should have gave me what I asked for,” the suspect told the man before the attack in the unit block of Sixth Street about 1:30 a.m. Wednesday, police said Monday.

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by Mike Aldax
02/20/12 7:10 PM

Fast car burglar might spend 5 years idling

A career crook who has been connected to hundreds of auto burglaries on the Peninsula — and believed to have committed as many as 100 in a night in the Belmont area — faces no more than five years in prison despite three arrests in an 18-month period, prosecutors said.

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