The Noe
Valley Voice thanks Officer Lorraine Lombardo for this
month’s log of
incidents reported to Mission Police Station during January
2013. Her tally
includes most but not all incidents occurring in the area
bordered by Grand
View, 20th, Guerrero, and Cesar Chavez streets. To contact
Officer Lombardo,
call Mission Station at 558-5400. To receive the Mission
Police District
newsletter, writeSFPD.mission.station@sfgov.org.
Jan. 5, 4:38 a.m., 3900 block of 24th,
Burglary, Store, and
Forcible Entry:Officers responded to a
late-night alarm at a
store on 24th Street and found the front door pane shattered
and a rock lying
on the floor inside the shop. Cash was taken from a drawer and
three necklaces
from a glass counter. Surveillance cameras showed the object
thrown through the
door, the door opening, and a male suspect jumping in and
walking to the
counter. There he removed cash deposit bags, opened a counter
display, took the
jewelry, and exited the store. The suspect is described as an
African American
male wearing a gray camouflage jacket, black knit cap, blue
jeans, and black
tennis shoes with white soles. #130012252
Jan. 5, 5 a.m., 3800 block of 24th, Burglary,
Store, and
Forcible Entry: A business owner found
her front door
glass smashed with a rock. Cash and a laptop computer were
taken from the
store. #130012218
Jan. 6, 2:40 a.m., 3500 block of 23rd,
Assault with Force: Officers
responded to a call about a woman screaming for help. The
woman told police
that while she was walking home, a man “zeroed” in on her and
lunged at her,
sticking his thumb in her eye, grabbing her shoulder, and
forcing her to the
sidewalk. He then “straddled” her and tried to slam her head
into the concrete.
She fought to free herself, kicked him, and screamed for help.
A neighbor heard
her, looked out his window, and seeing the struggle yelled,
“Hey, get off of
her!” The suspect looked up and then fled. The suspect is
described as a
light-skinned Asian or Hispanic male, 5’8”, skinny build, with
a buzz cut,
three-day-old beard, wearing a dark hooded sweatshirt and dark
pants.
#130014543
Jan. 7, 2 p.m., 1100 block of Sanchez, Theft
from a Store: A
merchant reported to police that a man in a wheelchair entered
her shop, took
two picture frames with $15 price tags, placed them under the
writing board on
his lap, and fled the area without paying. Later that day, a
resident asked the
merchant how her day was going and she replied, “Not too well.
I just got
robbed by a mute paraplegic in a motorized wheelchair who
stole two picture
frames.” After hearing the story, the resident said, “I think
I bought your
property from him!” The resident told the merchant that the
suspect was in line
behind her at a coffee shop on Church Street. He wrote her a
note on his board
asking her to buy him a coke, so she did. After she sat down
with her coffee,
the man joined her and pulled two picture frames with $15
price tags out of his
bag and asked her to buy them, saying he made them in his
shop. She complained
about the price, so he sold them to her at two for the price
of one. After
hearing about the scam, the resident gave the merchant her
frames at no charge.
#130018391
Jan. 15, 12:08 a.m., 4400 23rd, Warrant
Arrest: While
patrolling the area, police noticed a man on a bicycle looking
into the back of
a PT Cruiser with a flashlight. Due to a recent rash of auto
boosts, police
grew suspicious that the man was about to break into the car.
They stopped and
asked him if it was his car and what he was doing. The man
replied, “I thought
I heard a cat screaming for help.” Police heard no noise and
asked for his ID.
The man said he didn’t have it. A computer check revealed the
man had two
outstanding warrants. He was placed under arrest and booked
into Mission
Station. #130039579
Jan. 21, 11 a.m.-7 p.m., 4400 block of 23rd,
Residential
Burglary, Forcible Entry: A resident found her
home had been burglarized after a window was left open half an
inch. Stolen was
an HP desktop computer with a Haier monitor and an external
DVD drive, valued
at $1,000. Diamond and gold earrings worth $2,500 were stolen
from a bedroom
jewelry box. A sapphire cocktail ring valued at $1,500 with a
24-karat gold
band was also taken. #130058905
Jan. 25, 2 to 6:30 a.m., 700 block of
Diamond, Malicious
Mischief, and Vandalism: A worker called the
owner of a caf… to tell him that he could not get the key into
the front door
lock to open the business. The owner responded, removed the
lock, and took it
to a locksmith, who told him the lock had been filled with
glue. The owner told
police this had happened three or four times in the past. He
also said that
someone had attempted to lift his front window out of the
frame but was not
successful due to additional locks installed on the inside
base of the window.
#130085102
Jan. 26, 1 p.m., 200 block of Jersey,
Municipal Police Code
Violation: While on patrol on his bicycle, a police
officer
encountered a man underneath the stairs leading to a
second-floor residence. He
approached the man and saw him taking bottles out of a
recycling bin. The
officer admonished the man about stealing recyclables. The man
responded, “You
are a woman that is now a cop. Go back to Europe.” The
uncooperative man
refused to provide identification and walked away. He also
continued his verbal
tirade at officers responding to assist and would not provide
his name. He was
cited and released at Mission Station. #130073351
Jan. 26, 10:45 p.m., 24th and Guerrero,
Street Robbery with a
Weapon: Police responded to a call of a robbery and
found a woman
holding a cloth on the back of her bleeding head. She said she
was walking down
the sidewalk when she was suddenly hit from behind in the back
of the head. She
fell to the ground while the suspect hit her repeatedly in the
head with a
metal pipe. She began screaming and the suspect told her,
“Stop, someone’s
going to hear.... Give me your phone.” He grabbed her Android
cell phone from
her right hand and fled. The suspect is described as an
Hispanic male in his
mid-20s, 5’4” to 5’8”, with a thin build and a slight
mustache. He was wearing
a black beanie hat with a Raiders logo and a black hooded
sweatshirt with the
hood up. Paramedics took the victim to San Francisco General Hospital,
where she was treated for the large laceration on her head and
a puncture wound
behind her ear. #130074666
Note: Nine vehicles were stolen in
Noe Valley (north
of Cesar Chavez Street) during the month of January. All but
one were
recovered.
REPORT FROM INGLESIDE STATION
The Ingleside police
blotter covers incidents reported Jan. 1-31, 2013, in Upper
Noe Valley—the area
roughly bounded by Cesar Chavez, Guerrero, 30th, and Diamond
streets. Incidents
were culled from newsletters produced by Ingleside Police
Station. The log may
not include all events reported during the period. To
contact Ingleside Station
or receive its newsletter, call 404-4000 or email SFPDInglesideStation@sfgov.org.
Jan. 3, 9 a.m., 1500 block of Dolores,
Burglary
Jan. 3, 12:30 p.m., 1700 block of Dolores,
Burglary
Jan. 5, 11:53 p.m., Dolores St. at 30th,
Traffic Collision
Jan. 10, 10 p.m., 1600 block of Church,
Burglary
Jan. 10, 10 p.m., 1600 block of Church,
Stolen Vehicle
Jan. 10, 11:53 p.m., 29th and Diamond,
Warrant
Jan. 11, 9 a.m., 400 block of Day, Recovered
Vehicle
Jan. 11, 12:16 p.m., 100 block of Valley,
Recovered Vehicle
Jan. 11, 8 p.m., 300 block of 27th, Stolen
Vehicle
Jan. 13, 7 p.m., 1700 block of Church,
Burglary
Jan 22, 9:20 a.m., 500 block of Valley,
Recovered Vehicle
Jan. 23, 10:15 a.m., 28th at Castro,
Recovered Auto
Jan. 23, 3 p.m., 29th at San Jose Ave.,
Traffic Collision
Jan. 24, 8:30 p.m., 800 block of San Jose
Ave., Stolen Vehicle
Jan. 25, 5:02 p.m., first block of 28th,
Restraining Order
Violation
Jan. 25, 6:30 p.m., 400 block of 30th, Theft
from Building
Jan. 26, 6:20 p.m., 29th at Noe, Robbery: Officer
Lockett was on patrol when he was dispatched to investigate a
robbery. When the
officer arrived, he interviewed the victim, who told him that
she was sitting
at the bus stop alone at 29th and Noe streets when she was
approached by two
suspects. One of the suspects held a handgun and pointed at
the victim. The
victim was in fear for her life. The suspects demanded she
give them everything
she had or else they would harm her. The victim gave her purse
to the suspects
and she was told by the suspects to walk away southbound on
Noe Street. The
suspects then fled on foot eastbound on 29th. Officers
searched the area and
detained a suspect with a similar description. He turned out
not to be one of
the suspects and was later released. Officers checked the area
for video
surveillance with negative results. #130074086
Jan. 29, 5:26 p.m., 1600 block of Guerrero,
Recovered Vehicle
Jan. 31, 12:08 p.m., 500 block of 28th,
Recovered Vehicle
Police Borders
Noe Valley falls under
the jurisdiction of two police districts—Mission and
Ingleside. The Mission
Police District covers the northern half of the neighborhood,
while Ingleside
covers the area south of Cesar Chavez Street. Both districts
publish digital newsletters
and hold monthly community meetings. Mission Police District
holds its meetings
on the last Tuesday of the month, 6 p.m., at Mission Station,
630 Valencia St.
Ingleside’s community meetings are on the third Tuesday of the
month, 7 p.m.,
at Ingleside Station, 1 Sgt. John V. Young Lane.
To report a crime in progress, call
911. Cell
phone users can call Police Dispatch directly: 415-553-8090.
To file a
police report, go to any local station or file
online at www.sfgov.org.
