[Reprinted from The Richmond Police Station Newsletter of April 5, 2013. To be added to the station’s mailing list, email sfpd.richmond.station@sfgov.org.]
CAPTAIN SHARON FERRIGNO’S MESSAGE
This Saturday Argonne School will be hosting a community painting party for the new Argonne
School Mural from 11am to 4 pm. The mural theme is “Connecting the Richmond’s Past to Its Present.” The images were inspired by drawings by Argonne third graders, representing what is important to their neighborhood and schools, as well as San Francisco history. “A mural celebrating the Richmond’s evolution from sand dunes during the era of the Ohlone to a thriving, multicultural community. I have fond memories of my own grandparents and Mom and Dad sharing stories about how this area was all sand dunes. What a great way to join your neighbors and meet new friends, while enhancing our local schools and neighborhood. Officers from Richmond Station will be on hand with stickers and a friendly smile to welcome this terrific neighborhood effort.
City Attorney Dennis Herrera has launched at new smart phone app that offers San Francisco residents a way to report and track non-emergency code enforcement and nuisance issues. “UP2CODE” was developed to interact with SF311. Please visit http://www.UP2CODE.org.
Our next Community meeting will be held on Tuesday, April 16, 2013 at 6pm. It will be in the Community Room, here at Richmond Station, 461 6th Ave. (NOTE TIME CHANGE)
NOTEWORTHY ARRESTS
On 03/31/13 at 8:50pm, officers were called to the Japanese Tea Garden on a report of a trespasser. A Golden Gate Park Ranger was conducting a walkthrough of the garden which was closed for the day when he found a male inside who said he had climbed a fence to get in. When the Park Ranger asked him for ID, the male opened his backpack which contained a large amount of marijuana. Further investigation by the officers revealed hashish and LSD contained in the pack. The 43 year old male was charged with narcotic violations.
On 04/01/13 at 6:10pm, officers were called to a bar at 11th and Geary on a report of a physical altercation. The bartender met the officers outside and told them that there was a couple inside that were belligerent, fighting with other patrons and had refused to leave the bar, even after being asked several times. When the officers entered they could see the male yelling at another customer and when the officers asked him to leave, he refused. The customer that the male suspect was yelling at informed the officers that he had been bitten in the arm by the female suspect. The male suspect then lunged at the customer. The officers had to physically restrain the male and began to escort him to the door. The female suspect then grabbed onto the back male suspect’s shirt and tried to pull him back into the bar. She was given several orders to let go and she refused. The officers were able separate her from the male and both were taken into custody after physically resisting the officers. The bartender told the officers that she had initially asked them to leave after the male had gotten verbally abusive and “into the face” of another customer, a 70yr old woman. The two suspects, 29 and 30yrs, were charged with aggravated assault and resisting arrest.
On 04/02/13 at 9:10am, officers responded to a call of a “crazy person” who was on a lower level of a parking garage on the 3200 block of California St. When the first officer arrived, he saw the suspect in the garage, and another male was also pointing out the suspect to the officer. When the officer approached the suspect he told the officer “I feel much better down here, the cement walls make me feel safe.” The male suspect was detained and the officer spoke with the original caller who stated he observed the male near the elevator doors, when the doors opened into the garage, a female attempted to exit, but the suspect jumped in front of her. She was able to get around him, get to her car and leave. The officer searched the male and found a baggie of white powder which the suspect informed him was called “the powder of death.” The suspect, a 39yr old male was charged with narcotic violations.
NOTEWORTHY INCIDENTS
Between 03/28/13, 6pm and 03/29/13, 7am on the 4800 block of Geary, a suspect entered a construction site and took tools and did graffiti on walls and pillars within the site.
Between 03/28/13, 8pm and 03/29/13, 8am, a homeowner forgot to close his garage door. A suspect entered and opened the door to his unlocked vehicle and took a GPS. This occurred on the 2100 block of Baker St.
Between 03/29/13, 4pm and 03/31/13, 8:15pm on the 200 block of 20th Ave, a suspect entered a home by kicking in a small panel on the front door. The suspect then took two laptops and jewelry.
Between 03/29/13, 9pm and 03/30/13, 8:30am on the 1700 block of Pierce, a suspect entered a flat via a rear door which may have not been properly locked. The suspect took a 50” flat screen TV, 42” flat screen TV, a game system and two laptops.
On 03/30/13 at 8:35am, the victims were unloading their car and left a backpack containing two laptops at their front door. They came back outside 5 minutes later and someone had taken the backpack, laptops, and two packages left by Fed-Ex.
On 03/30/13 at 4:40pm, the victim was standing on the corner of California and Pierce St with her phone in her hand. She heard voices behind her and suddenly the phone was ripped from her hand. The victim described the suspect as a Filipino male, 15-17years, wearing dark jeans and a zip-up jacket with a red baseball cap. When he fled, 3 other males went with him; all described as Filipino male juveniles. A witness told the officers that he saw the suspects whom he described as black male juveniles, one wearing a red hooded sweatshirt. An additional party said there were two black males and two white males.
Between 03/30/13, 11:30pm and 03/31/13, 12pm on the 100 block of 3rd Ave, a suspect entered a garage and took two bikes and two backpacks. They homeowner may have not shut the door.
On 03/31/13, between 12am and 12pm on the 3800 block of Geary, a suspect smashed out the glass on the front door of a business and took a cash register and cash.
On 03/31/13 at 3:20am, the victim was walking east on Geary at Funston. The suspect ran up on her left side and took her clutch purse she had tucked under her armpit. Her purse contained her phone, ID and cash. The suspect was described as a white male, 25yrs. The victim had no further information to provide.
On 03/31/13 at 7am, an officer responded to the 1000 block of Clement on a report of a window smash at a business. The caller had been walking by and saw this. While the officer was on scene, the owner who lives upstairs came out when he saw the patrol car. He told the officer that at 6:51am he heard a loud smash but thought nothing of it. The suspect did enter and take the cash drawer and cash.
On 03/31/13 at 5pm, the victim was walking on Fulton at Arguello. She had her cell phone in her hand when suddenly the suspect ran by and snatched it from her hand. She described him as a Hispanic male, 16-17yrs, wearing a SF Giants jacket and baseball cap. The suspect fled east on Fulton to north on Willard North.
On 03/31/13, between 6pm and 6:30pm on the 2600 block of Sutter, a woman and her child were on the lower level of the home, and the husband was out in front cleaning the car. During that time the suspect entered the upper level of the home and took a duffle bag containing clothing and toiletries from the living room floor.
On 04/01/13 at 5:45am, on the 700 block of 35th Ave, two suspects forced open a gate to an apartment building and took a bike from the garage. One of the tenants in the building had heard a noise and looked out his peeph
ole and saw two male, however he thought it was the other tenant and a friend. This person also saw the suspects leave with the victims bike and again thought it was his neighbor and it wasn’t until he spoke with the victim later did he realize the bike had been stolen. The suspects were described as two Asian males in their 20’s, one wearing a red and black nylon jacket, the other wearing a dark hoodie.
On 04/03/13, between 11:15am and 4:40pm on the 2700 block of Jackson, a suspect entered a home by breaking the glass on the front door. The suspect took jewelry. The home does have an alarm system, however it was not armed.