A man was shot during a home invasion robbery in Mission Terrace on Tuesday, police said.
Two men armed with handguns forced their way into a residence in the 200 block of San Juan Avenue about 10:40 a.m., police said. Two other men were inside. The crooks searched the place and made off with a cellphone, jewelry and cash, police said.
One victim was injured when one of the crooks fired his gun, grazing the victim. His injury was not life-threatening, police said.
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Crafty crooks posing as construction workers locked a 56-year-old Glen Park woman out of her own home Tuesday during a coordinated burglary, according to police.
About 10:50 a.m., the woman reportedly called police saying a man toting a handheld radio had knocked on her door in the 100 block of Charles Street, a residential area just west of San Jose Avenue.
“He looked like a construction worker,” police Officer Gordon Shyy said.
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A neighbor helped cops bust gun-toting bandits who broke into a Sunset district home Friday, police said. The elderly couple in the 2100 block of Vicente Street had come home just before midnight when they heard a crash in the front of the house, police said. Two thugs entered the house through the front door. One of the thugs put a gun to the male victim’s head and demanded cash, cop said. The victim complied.
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A 21-year-old man was sentenced Thursday to 28 years in state prison for a home invasion robbery in South San Francisco last year in which a couple was tied up for several hours and the wife sexually assaulted, San Mateo County prosecutors said.
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A 69-year-old woman was choked during a terrifying home invasion robbery near Candlestick Park on Monday, police said.Two men in their 20s stormed the home in the 1000 block of Hollister Avenue around 8:30 a.m., kicking in the garage door and then the door to the woman’s bedroom, police said Tuesday.
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A neighbor helped police interrupt a home invasion robbery and arrest three men in San Francisco's Bernal Heights neighborhood on Thursday night, police said.
The home invasion occurred at about 11:45 p.m. at an apartment building in the 900 block of Tompkins Avenue.
A 30-year-old man was closing the front gate of the building when a suspect forced it open, took out a handgun and forced the man to open the door to his apartment, according to police.
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A neighbor helped cops catch three hoodlums Thursday who forced their way into a Bernal Heights apartment at gunpoint and ransacked the place, police said. A 30-year-old man and two women, aged 24 and 33, were entering the front gate of the man’s apartment building in the 900 block of Tompkins Avenue around 11:45 p.m. when three men tried to force their way in behind them, cops said.
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A 23-year-old man was tied up and held at gunpoint during a terrifying home invasion robbery in the Outer Richmond district Monday, San Francisco police said.The man had been sleeping and woke up to a handgun pointing at him in the 1000 block of 32nd Avenue, police said Tuesday.The gun-toting burglar, a man in his early-to-mid 20s, tied up the victim, selected a few items to steal, then fled in an unknown vehicle.
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Santa Rosa police on Tuesday arrested a Pacifica man suspected in an armed home invasion robbery Sunday evening.
Steven Andrew Chavez, 21, was arrested on a $120,000 warrant at 2:25 p.m. Tuesday at his home in the 400 block of Lynbrook Drive in Pacifica, Santa Rosa police Sgt. Steve Fraga said.
Inside the home, police found evidence that linked Chavez to the robbery, as well as marijuana believed to be for sale, Fraga said.
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A 40-year-old woman was woken up in her Sunset district apartment early Sunday morning by two men who fled by the time police arrived.
Police are investigating the crime and the motive behind it since nothing was stolen.
The break-in occurred around 12:30 a.m. at a home in the 1700 block of 27th Avenue, police Lt. Lyn Tomioka said.
“The victim was sleeping in her downstairs apartment and was woken up by one of the suspects,” Tomioka said.
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