Three Los Angeles men and another from Las Vegas have been charged in at least 10 thefts or attempted thefts of Apple products from FedEx trucks in San Francisco, police said Friday.
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The theft series, which lasted at least a month starting Dec. 5, targeted FedEx trucks parked near Apple stores in the Marina District, Stonestown Galleria Mall and downtown San Francisco, police spokesman Sgt. Daryl Fong said.
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A San Francisco Superior Court jury Thursday found a San Leandro man guilty of murdering his estranged wife with a hammer inside her Marina district hair salon in 2007.
The jury deliberated for a little more than a day before finding Jeff Nguyen, 43, guilty of first-degree murder in the April 14, 2007, killing of 37-year-old Mai Banh, District Attorney’s Office spokesman Seth Steward said.
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A man who was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping a woman’s infant son in San Francisco’s Marina district early this morning likely will not face criminal charges in the case after the woman confirmed that he is the child’s father, a police spokesman said today.
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A man was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping a woman’s infant son after getting into an argument with her in San Francisco’s Marina district early this morning, police said.The kidnapping was reported at about 4 a.m. near the intersection of Lombard and Pierce streets.The 38-year-old man got into an argument with the victim, a 24-year-old woman, told her he was going to leave, then took the victim’s 10-month-old son, according to police.
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Only days after graduating from the University of San Francisco, 22-year-old Zander Urban was killed in a car accident in the Marina district on Wednesday.Urban, who earned a Bachelor’s of Arts in International Studies at USF, was struck near the intersection of Lombard and Pierce streets around 1:20 a.m., police spokesman Lt. Troy Dangerfield said.
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A woman who left her car idling on a Marina district street had it stolen Sunday, police said.The carjacker, reportedly a man in his 30s, hopped in the driver’s seat of the car, which was momentarily left with the engine running in the 2400 block of Chestnut Street around 10:15 p.m. The woman saw the man about to drive away, and tried to stop him, police said.The carjacker pushed her away and fled, police said.
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Police are warning about a burglar whose been kicking-in doors in the Marina district.Burglaries in multiunit apartment buildings in the Marina are on the rise, Capt. Ann Mannix of the San Francisco Police Department’s Northern Station recently tweeted.It appears one crook sneaks into hallways, finds out who’s not home and then kicks in the door to gain access, Mannix said.Mannix advises residents to call police when they see suspicious people.
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The latest U.S. census data confirms much of what we knew about already San Francisco. That white hipsters are displacing Hispanics in the Mission. That Asians are now as common as blacks in the Bayview. And that the population in the South of Market area has exploded.
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A 32-year-old woman was robbed at gunpoint in the Marina district Sunday afternoon, police said.A man in his early 20s approached the woman from behind in the area of Toledo Way and Pierce Street around 1:40 p.m., police said. The thug pulled out a black pistol, demanded the woman’s property and made off with her purse, cash, cell phone and other items, police said.He fled in a waiting vehicle, police said.There has been no arrest.
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The installation of PG&E Smart Meters was protested by a small group in San Francisco's Marina district Monday, a protester said.About eight people gathered at about 10 a.m. around a truck from Wellington Energy Inc., the company that Pacific Gas and Electric contracts to install the SmartMeters, organizer November Alexis said.
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