A woman who was robbed escaped with only the loss of her rings after a man held a knife to her throat.
The 27-year-old woman was approached from behind in the 500 block of Treat Street by an unknown man around 8:30 p.m., according to the San Francisco Police Department.
The brazen thief placed a knife to her throat and demanded her money, police said.
A 35-year-old man was robbed, duped, robbed again and then beaten on Thursday by two merciless hooligans, cops said.
The man was approached at 16th and Mission streets around 6 p.m. by a 30-year-old man who grabbed the victim’s wallet from his pocket and fled, according to the San Francisco Police Department.
There are drive-bys often in the crime news, but less heard of are walk-by crimes.On Sunday at 5 a.m., however, a crook decided to rob a business by strolling up to the drive-through window of a business in the 200 block of Bayshore Boulevard, according to the San Francisco Police Department.The suspect, described only as a black man in his 40s, reportedly drew a gun and pointed it at the victim, described as a Hispanic man in his 20s.
Two men were stabbed Monday evening outside a Popeye’s Chicken fast food restaurant in the Mission neighborhood, according to police, but it is unclear what the fight was over.
San Francisco Police Officer Albie Esparza said a fight broke out between five males around 5:45 p.m. Two of the men were stabbed and transported to San Francisco General Hospital with injuries that were not considered life-threatening.
The man accused of shooting a person in the face during a brutal mugging in the Bayview District pleaded not guilty on Friday to a host of charges, including attempted murder.
Police said Charles Sullivan, 57, was identified in a photo lineup by the mugging victim – even though the victim had been shot in the face.
A woman walked up to an ATM machine at Sixth and Market streets, withdrew $200, then slapped a man who demanded the cash last week.Was she battling a crook? Not quite. Police said the woman, not the man, was the thief — she withdrew the cash after the man’s wife had mistakenly left her bank card in the ATM machine at around 4:30 p.m. on Feb. 13.
A police sergeant responding to a brawl involving 20 juveniles Wednesday was hospitalized after a boy allegedly beat him on a Muni bus, police said.
The massive fight near Geary Boulevard and 25th Avenue had broken up by the time cops responded to the area around 4 p.m. But cops heard some of the bruisers had hopped on a 38-Geary Muni bus, which police tracked down and stopped at 17th Avenue, police said.
Two young adults lost a computer and their cell phones after a gunpoint robbery in the South of Market district Thursday night, according to police.
In the area of Fourth and Shipley streets around 11:50 p.m., the 19-year-old woman and 20-year-old man were robbed of an Apple MacBook Pro computer, as well as an iPhone and a Blackberry phone, police said.
A 17-year-old girl was struck on the forehead with the butt of a gun Thursday during a robbery in the Crocker Amazon neighborhood.
The suspect, also a teenager, grabbed cash from the girl’s hands in the 1500 block of Geneva Avenue around 10:30 p.m., police said. The woman was hit after she tried to wrestle the money back, they said.
The girl’s injury was not life threatening, according to police.
The suspect fled on foot and there has been no arrest.
Three people were the victims of armed robbers Wednesday night, cops said. One robbery occurred in the 900 block of Filbert Street around 7 p.m. A 29-year-old man and 26-year-old woman were approached from behind by a suspect in his 20s who pushed a gun into the male victim’s back and demanded money, police said. The victims complied and turned over their wallet and purse with contents, police said. The bandit fled.
