A prankster reportedly created a “huge inconvenience” for guests of the Fairmont Hotel in Nob Hill on March 31 when he began pulling multiple fire alarms at about 11:30 p.m., apparently “for fun.”
“Each time it was pulled the hotel had to be evacuated,” police said.
Police located the suspect after a brief search. The man allegedly admitted to pulling the alarms as a prank and was issued a citation.
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San Francisco police are investigating the suspicious death of a 47-year-old man whose body was found inside a residential high rise building near Pacific Heights, according to police and KGO-TV (Ch. 7).
Police were reportedly called to 2030 Vallejo St., near Buchanan St., at about 9:45 p.m. Sunday.
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A homeless man was recently arrested on charges that he poured boiling water on a customer at a Starbucks in Fisherman’s Wharf, causing third degree burns.
The Feb. 20 assault reportedly occurred after the customer confronted the transient for allegedly stealing boxes of tea from the coffee shop at 2801 Jones St.
“In response, the thief threw a cup of boiling water on the man’s chest,” police at Central Station said.
The suspect fled and reportedly remained on the loose until March 30, when the victim spotted him in front of 502 Jefferson St., police said.
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A merchant who works in San Francisco’s Design District reportedly supplied police with the necessary information to nab the Cubicle Con.
Nicholas Anthony Simat, 26, was arrested Thursday in connection with a series of brazen thefts of iPhones from Bay Area businesses.
Simat’s method of operation, according to police, was to pretend to be a customer at various businesses including dental offices, auto dealerships and home improvements stores. He would allegedly wait until employees became distracted before snatching cellphones, tablets and other items off their desk.
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A woman was arrested last weekend for attacking an 83-year-old Russian woman who was waiting in a Tenderloin food line, police said.On Sunday, police were called to a food line on Ellis Street on a report that the elderly woman had been held against a wall, hit, and threatened by another woman “who did not like Russians,” police said.Several witnesses reportedly told officers there had been previous similar incidents involving the same suspect.
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A parking ticket became the catalyst for a bizarre stalking case in San Francisco a year and a half ago that had two downtown companies and a Pacific Heights elementary school on edge.
Now the many victims of 28-year-old city resident Anatoly Smolkin can rest easier, according to prosecutors, as the attorney is expected to be locked up after he’s sentenced today on 47 stalking-related counts.
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A taxi driver was robbed by a customer at knife-point in the South of Market district Wednesday night, police said.
The hack heist was reported in the 1000 block of Folsom Street, near Sixth Street, at about 8:45 p.m.
The suspect hailed the taxi, went on a ride and then put the knife to the cab driver’s neck, police said. He then reportedly ordered the 38-year-old driver to turn off the vehicle and his cellphone.
The suspect fled with the driver’s cash on foot. There had been no arrest as of Thursday morning, police said.
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A man’s “gang” tattoos reportedly sparked a shooting inside a Muni bus that injured two people on Easter Sunday, police said Wednesday.
As many as 50 passengers were riding on the 14-Mission bus at Mission Street and Precita Avenue when gunfire erupted at about 10 p.m. A bullet that went straight through a 21-year-old man’s thigh struck a 26-year-old woman in either the chest or abdomen.
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This crook was allegedly caught sleeping on the job.
A man accused of using a blow torch to break into an ATM in the Upper Noe Valley neighborhood last weekend was found by police moments later sleeping in a nearby pickup truck -- or at least pretending to.
Just after 3 a.m. Sunday, an alert citizen called police about the fiery break-in at a cash machine near Church and 29th streets.
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Bay Area detectives say they are hot on the tail of the “Cubicle Con.”
A “smooth-talking” thief has reportedly been posing as a customer at various businesses across the region and distracting employees in order to swipe cellphones and tablets off desks.
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A cold prison cell awaits this boiling temper.
Jesusa Ursonal Tadad, 41, of Daly City was sentenced to 16 years to life in prison Wednesday after pleading no contest to charges that she poured a pot of scalding water on her ex-husband while he was sleeping. He died a week after the incident.
Tadad, who remains in custody, will be formally sentenced May 17, said Karen Guidotti, San Mateo County’s chief deputy district attorney.
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Hanging out in the Mission is no picnic in the park, as one San Francisco man learned last night.
A 48-year-old man told police he was sitting in Jose Coronado Playground at 21st and Folsom streets just before 7 p.m. when a man he did not know walked up and began punching him “for no reason.”
The suspect, described as a man in his early 20s, bolted west on 21st and then south on Shotwell Street, police said.
The victim was reportedly transported to the hospital with a facial fracture. maldax@sfexaminer.com @sflawdisorder
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Two people were wounded, one critically, in a broad-daylight shooting in the Bayview Tuesday, police said.
At about noon, police said, a 28-year-old man and 21-year-old woman were standing in the area of Westpoint and Middlepoint roads when an unknown gunman opened fire, striking the man multiple times, including in the torso.
The woman was shot in the leg and is expected to survive. The man, who was driven to the hospital by a friend, was battling life-threatening wounds, police said.
No arrests had been made as of Wednesday morning.
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This dog’s tricks might be getting old.
An assisted living facility in Daly City was the target last weekend of a brazen thief who distracted an employee long enough to make off with her smartphone.
Police have said the suspect might be the prolific cellphone thief who has been connected to numerous incidents around the Bay Area, including in several Peninsula cities and as far north as Petaluma.
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A prolific cellphone thief is apparently cashing in on the rising trend of thefts from offices.
In the past two weeks, South San Francisco police reported, a crook posing as a customer has stolen from a furniture store, two dental offices and two auto dealers. The same suspect also has struck businesses in Burlingame three times since Feb. 27.
The male suspect chats up employees and sticks around until they become distracted, then swipes iPhones and iPads from their desks, police said.
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