A man was violently attacked and robbed of his cellphone in the Mission on Thursday, cops said. The 39-year-old victim was in the 2700 block of Mission Street around 2:30 a.m. when a thug, described by police as a man in his 30s, attacked, punching and kicking the victim until he fell to the ground, police said. The crook then reached into the victim’s pocket, took his cellphone and fled on bicycle, cops said.
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A 71-year-old woman was robbed of a pendant from her necklace in Mission Terrace, one of four separate robberies by force Monday, cops said. There have been no arrests. The woman was accosted by a 25-year-old man in the 4600 block of Mission Street around 2:15 p.m., police said. The suspect grabbed the victim’s necklace, ripped the pendant off and fled. The woman was treated at the scene for her injuries, which were not life threatening.
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A man with his face covered by a red bandana snatched a woman’s purse and pushed her against a car while she was walking with friends in South San Francisco on Sunday evening, South San Francisco police said.The female victim was walking with friends in the 200 block of Juniper Ave. around 6:15 p.m. when a man concealing his face with a red bandana took the woman’s purse from her and then pushed her against a parked car, police said.
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A woman was savagely stabbed nine times in the legs during a party brawl in Dolores Park on Saturday night, police said. The victim, 20, and her four attackers — described by police as 16-year-old girls — were attending the party in the park around 10:30 p.m. Along with nine stab wounds to the legs, the victim brutally beaten, left with a bloody nose and bruised face, police said. Responding police found her semiconscious on the ground.
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A person of interest connected to the ransacking of a San Francisco apartment that garnered national attention because the owner used an Internet vacation renting site is in custody in Santa Clara County on separate charges, according to law enforcement officials.
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A Wells Fargo bank in San Francisco's Inner Sunset neighborhood was robbed on Wednesday afternoon, police said.
The robbery was reported about 2:45 p.m. Wednesday at the bank, located at 725 Irving St.
The suspect, described as a man in his 50s, entered the bank and approached a teller while simulating that he had a handgun, although no weapon was seen, according to police.
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Answer: The famous game-show host who injured himself while chasing down a burglar at a San Francisco hotel.
Question: Who is Alex Trebek?
"Jeopardy!" game show host Alex Trebek was injured chasing a burglar out of his San Francisco hotel room early Tuesday morning.
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A credit union near San Francisco’s Stonestown Galleria Mall was robbed Monday afternoon for the second time in less than two weeks.
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Investigators are looking for a robber who stole cash from a liquor store in unincorporated Redwood City at gunpoint on Saturday night.The suspect entered Brenda’s Liquor, located at 2397 Spring St. in North Fair Oaks, at around 11 p.m. with a black ski mask pulled over his face, according to the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office.He walked behind the counter and aimed a semiautomatic pistol at the owner and two employees, sheriff’s officials said.
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Two gunpoint robberies that happened within 20 minutes of each other in the Castro and Noe Valley areas Sunday, police said. The first heist occurred at Caselli Avenue and Douglas Street around 1:40 a.m. A 43-year-old man was held up at gunpoint by a man in his 20s, police said. The thief fled with the victim’s cellphone in a white newer model 4-door sedan with chrome rims and tinted windows. A second suspect was driving the getaway car.
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