A 32-year-old man was stabbed and searched Thursday, but the assailant didn't take anything, police said. An unknown suspect approached the man at 5th and Market streets around 3:30 a.m. and stabbed him with an unknown weapon, cops said. The suspect then went through the victims pockets but didn’t take anything, police said. The suspect fled on foot. The victim was treated at the hospital for non-life-threatening injuries, cops said.
An Upper Haight resident had had enough.
Outside his home in the 1300 block of Waller St., a car alarm had been blaring for 45 minutes. It was 7:15 a.m. Wednesday. So the resident went out to the car and found an intruder sleeping inside it, cops said.
He coaxed the 27-year-old San Francisco man from the car and locked it - even though it wasn't his car. Then the intruder became angry.
A San Francisco chef-restauranter was served six months in federal prison and another six months of home confinement on Thursday for lying on his income tax returns.
Suriya Srithong, 60, pleaded not guilty on Oct. 6 to filing false federal income tax returns for his South of Market eatery, Suriya Thai Restaurant, according to United States Attorney Melinda Haag.
Sometimes a robot just can’t replace a human, as was the case this morning in Potrero Hill when the San Francisco Police Department bomb squad arrived to take care of five or six grenades left over from grandpa’s war chest.The newscasters over at KTVU watched with amusement and then shocked disbelief this morning as a bag containing grenades ripped open while in the grasp of the bomb squad robot.
A married San Carlos couple was slapped with jail time for drinking and driving with four young children in their minivan on the way home from a booze-fest at the beach last month.
A pot buyer was beaten up for disputing the cost of the marijuana he illegally tried to purchase in the Upper Haight on Tuesday, police said. The 33-year-old man was hospitalized after the deal went up in smoke near Alvord Lake in Golden Gate Park around 2:30 p.m. The female dealer’s “cohorts” attacked and beat up the buyer, police said.Police responded and searched the area, arresting a 49-year-old man for the assault, police said.
Gun-toting thugs punched and kicked a woman while she was on the ground during the robbery of a Mission district store on Tuesday, police said.The violent heist occurred at a shop near 24th Street and South Van Ness Avenue around 6:20 p.m. Two goons pushed a 34-year-old woman to the back of the store. Then a 38-year-old man walked into the store, and he also was ordered to the back of the store, police said.
A $50 heist landed three people in jail Wednesday.The suspects, two men and a woman ranging in age between 55 and 67, held a man at knife-point inside a room in the 800 block of O’Farrell Street around 12:15 a.m., police said.A 67-year-old man is accused of wielding the knife. The suspects stole a wallet from the victim, a 47-year-old man. The victim managed to leave the room and fetch police.
A 48-year-old man was jumped and robbed of his cell phone Monday night by two brutes in their 20s at 24th and Dolores streets, cops said. One of the suspects punched the victim in the face, causing him to fall to the ground, at around 10:30 p.m., police said. They then grabbed his phone and fled, cops said. The victim refused treatment for a small cut to his right cheek, police said.There were no arrests.rnagle@sfexaminer.com
A 30-year-old man was beaten, pepper-sprayed and robbed in the Mission district early Tuesday, police said.Two violent crooks, a man and a woman in their 30s, are being sought for the attack at 22nd and Capp streets around 1:30 a.m., police said.The woman pepper-sprayed the victim, and both of the crooks punched and kicked him and then robbed him of his wallet, cell phone and jacket.
