Jovan Jones, the man arrested last weekend for allegedly breaking into a Telegraph Hill apartment and sexually assaulting a woman, will be arraigned this afternoon, Assistant District Attorney Alex Bastian said.
The 25-year-old from Marin City reportedly forced his way into the 26-year-old woman’s apartment about 8 p.m. Saturday as she was returning home, Sgt. Michael Andraychak said. Jones threw the victim to the ground and threatened to kill her before demanding her property and assaulting her, Andraychak said.
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A man was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving in the Mission district Monday after he collided head-on with a police cruiser, police spokesman Officer Albie Esparza said.
The 22-year-old suspect was driving at a high rate of speed westbound on 19th Street about 12:48 a.m. when he struck the cruiser near Mission Street.
The officer was hospitalized but quickly released with injuries not considered life-threatening, Esparza said.
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Police arrested Ashley Dickstein, 26, of San Francisco, on Sunday after she reportedly set her hotel room on fire during a spat with her lover, spokesman Officer Albie Esparza said.
Police responded to the 2000 block of Polk Street about 10:55 p.m. after Dickstein and her boyfriend got into a brawl, during which she bit him and he called police, Esparza said. A fire was burning in the room, but it was quickly extinguished by the hotel’s sprinkler system and a hose in the hallway.
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A woman was zapped in the face with a stun gun during a “brazen” daytime attempted robbery at Haight and Divisadero streets Tuesday, police spokesman Officer Albie Esparza said Thursday.
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A suspected phony parking lot attendant is now parked in a real jail cell, police said Wednesday.
George Gerald Anderson, 50, of San Francisco, was arrested last weekend after reportedly claiming to be a parking lot attendant and charging a tourist to park in a lot at Bay and Kearny streets. It was not Anderson’s first run-in with the law, police said, or his first time impersonating a parking lot attendant.
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A man was shot in the leg in the Western Addition on Monday, police said.
The 19-year-old victim was in the 1300 block of Ellis Street when the shooting happened about 6:25 p.m. No suspects have been identified.
The victim’s injuries were not life-threatening.
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A 66-year-old man was punched in the face and robbed of his food-stamp card in the Mission district Monday, police said.
The victim was sitting on a bench around 16th and Mission streets about 10:30 p.m. when a woman in her 30s tried to take his card from him, cops said. A struggle ensued and a man in his 30s jumped in and punched the victim in the face.
The heartless crooks fled with the victim’s food-stamp card. No arrests have been made.
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A man was arrested on suspicion of copper theft in South of Market on Saturday, police said Tuesday.
Michael David O’Keefe, 55, was apprehended about 5:30 a.m. after he was seen running from an open PG&E manhole in the 1600 block of Folsom Street, police said. He was reportedly found with high-voltage copper wires estimated to be worth about $90. Police also detained a second suspect.
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The man suspected of dousing his girlfriend with gasoline over a laundry dispute was arrested late Monday.
Officers from the San Francisco Police Department’s Special Investigations Division and the U.S. Marshal’s Service took Dexter Oliver into custody at an Oakland hotel after receiving information as to his whereabouts.
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The woman doused with gasoline and set on fire by her angry boyfriend in the Bayview district Sunday afternoon remains in critical condition but is expected to survive, police said Monday. Police are still on the hunt for her boyfriend, Dexter Oliver, 22, who reportedly attacked 25-year-old mother of three Starr Lamare over a dispute about laundry.
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A 32-year-old mother was carrying her baby in the area of Mission Street and Richland Avenue near Glen Park about 5:30 a.m. Tuesday when a man approached and asked her for the time, police said.
Before the woman could answer, the goon punched her in the face, snatched her cellphone and fled in a black SUV, police said.
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No fare at all.
A 28-year-old cabdriver was flagged down by a man in his 20s at Second and King streets about 5 a.m., police said.
The man got into the cab and ordered the driver at gunpoint to get out.
The driver complied and the man fled in the cab.
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The City is throwing the book at an Occupy San Francisco protester accused of throwing bricks at fellow activists, the District Attorney’s Office said Thursday.
Jesse Nesbitt, 34, will be held to answer all felony charges he faces in connection with a protest in May in which members of Occupy took over a vacant Tenderloin building.
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A man accused of stalking his ex-girlfriend did not let a protective order — or her second-floor window — stop him from seeing her.
Mitchell Hoyt, 23, pleaded not guilty Thursday to seven charges related to stalking his ex. He was arrested inside her San Francisco apartment Tuesday, authorities said.
According to a police report, Hoyt and his girlfriend broke up in September after he punched her in the face. She then got the protective order to keep him away.
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A man accused of stalking his ex-girlfriend did not let a protective order — or her second-floor window — stop him from seeing her.
Mitchell Hoyt, 23, pleaded not guilty Thursday to seven charges related to stalking his ex. He was arrested inside her San Francisco apartment Tuesday, authorities said.
According to a police report, Hoyt and his girlfriend broke up in September after he punched her in the face. She then got the protective order to keep him away.
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