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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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A heartless thug punched a 69-year-old man in the face, knocked him to the ground and then robbed cash from his pockets in Daly City on Saturday.The robbery occurred around 5:20 a.m. in the 6000 block of Mission Street, police said.Daly City robbery detectives are hunting the predator.maldax@sfexaminer.com
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San Bruno police are searching for a man who jumped out of a car and opened fire on a group of people Friday night not far from the Caltrain station.Officers responded to the 500 block of Mastick Avenue at about 10 p.m. on a report of gunshots. One of the intended victims located by the officers told police that while he was walking on the sidewalk with friends they noticed a vehicle approach.
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A guitar was the weapon used during a street brawl in the Haight on Friday night, police said.Two men “fought in the street over their relationship” at Waller and Cole Streets around 7:50 p.m., police said.One of the men knocked his victim to the ground, beat him with the guitar, and kicked him, police said.Cops knew the aggressor, a 30-year-old San Francisco man, and found him later at Haight and Belvedere streets.
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An unwelcome visitor struck a San Francisco man with a lamp after the resident refused to let him into his apartment Sunday, police said.The assault occurred around 3:30 p.m. in the 200 block of Eddy Street.The 33-year-old resident came home to his apartment and found an unpleasant and unwanted visitor — a 44-year-old man waiting by his door, police said.
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A shopkeeper punched and pepper-sprayed a robber who claimed to have a gun, thwarting the theft in the Tenderloin Sunday morning, police said.The attempted robbery occurred around 1:40 a.m. in the 1000 block of Larkin Street. The suspect, described as a 32-year-old black man, said he had a gun and then demanded the store’s cash, police said.
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A gun-toting thug robbed a restaurant in the 1700 block of Powell Street of cash and parking validation tickets Saturday night, police said. The suspect, described as a black man in his late 30s or early 40s, walked into the restaurant around 8:30 p.m. and grabbed one of the women working there, cops said. He brandished a gun and then demanded money from the register, they said. Another woman working at the store complied and the thief fled, cops said.
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