Posts Tagged ‘stolen’
Thursday, October 4th, 2012
Why is Mid-Market the West Coast Capitol of Stolen iPhone Sales? I know not.
And yet, this is the place where your former iPhone changes hands.
The SFPD knows about this sitch, but it’s unwilling / unable to do anything about it.
Chapter 3876:
“On September 27, 2012 San Francisco Police arrested two suspects in connection with a robbery which occurred on Duncan Street at Diamond Heights Boulevard at approximately 8:00 pm.
In this incident the victim was walking on Duncan Street when he was approached by the suspect (later Identified as Waldo Butler). Butler asked the victim for directions to a nearby grocery store. When the victim pointed towards the grocery store, he noticed another male (later Identified as Paris Brown) sitting inside a tan minivan parked in front of a driveway on Duncan Street. It was at this point when Butler grabbed the victim by his arm, pulled him closer and produced a semi-automatic handgun from his waistband and pointed it at the victim. Butler demanded the victim’s cell phone, wallet, and backpack. Butler then took the victims items and fled towards the tan minivan.
San Francisco Police Officers immediately arrived on scene and were able to use a mobile tracking application that the victim had installed on his cell phone. This tracking software was put to use as part of the Police Department’s violence prevention strategy of Interrupt, Predict and Organize (IPO) which seeks to: interrupt violent crimes, to predict where retaliation may occur and prevent additional violence from occurring. This technology led officers to 7th Street and Market Street. Once officers saturated the area, they were able to locate the tan minivan used in the robbery (with two occupants sitting inside the vehicle) on Laskie Street at 7th Street. It was later determined that the two occupants were the suspects in the robbery. Officers located the victim’s property inside the vehicle as well as a loaded semi-automatic handgun. The presence of this phone tracking technology and the quick and coordinated response of police officers from several district stations led to the identity and arrest of the two suspects who were identified as: Waldo Butler, male, 21, of Vallejo, and Paris Brown, male, 25, of San Francisco.
Butler is currently charged with felony 2nd degree robbery, felony receiving known stolen property, felony conspiracy, felony carrying a loaded firearm to commit a felony, misdemeanor carrying a loaded firearm in a public place, misdemeanor carrying a concealed weapon, and misdemeanor carrying a concealed weapon in a vehicle.
Brown is currently charged with Felony 2nd Degree robbery, felony receiving known stolen property, felony conspiracy, and misdemeanor carrying a concealed weapon in a vehicle.”
Oh well.
Is Ed Lee a bad Interim Mayor?
It’s sure looking that way…
Tags: 2012, 7th, apple store, bay area, california, cell, crime, iphone, market, phone, San Francisco, SFPD, steal, stolen, telephone
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Tuesday, September 18th, 2012
The Reddit Community is going crazy over this one.
Is this what it would look like if Anne Hathaway / Parker Posey (on the left) and Bobby Flay (on the right) conspired to steal a little violone from San Francisco’s world-famous Conservatory of Music in Civic Center / Hayes Valley?
From yesterday:
“Hey Reddit, my son’s very expensive cello was stolen from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music yesterday. Here are the surveillance pics from security that show a young couple making-off with my son’s primary instrument. FWIW, this instrument is one of the most expensive things I have ever owned. It was stolen around 4:05 PM on Sunday, September 16th, 2012. These people are nonchalantly making-off with a full-size cello that was purchased when my son graduated from a smaller cello when he was 12. We’ve owned it for 11 years. He’s in the collegiate division at the San Francisco Conservatory and it is not only the vehicle for his ability to obtain a classical music degree, but is also his sole source of income, as he uses it in performances and recordings. We’ll be doing a media blitz tomorrow with local stations and the SFPD, but I’m hoping the community can help. Any leads are incredibly appreciated.”
All the photos.
Do you have enough Clues? Who will solve this mystery?
(Is it Mrs. Peacock in the Conservatory with a Revolver?)
Tags: Anne Hathaway, black, Bobby Flay, Bubenreuth, Cat Burglar, Cat Woman, Cello, civic center, clotes, clue, Conservatory of Music, cops, craigslist, dress, exit, franklin, german, gough, hayes valley, images, little, oak, Parker Posey, pawn, photos, police, reddit, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, security, September 16th, shop, shops, son, stairs, steal, stolen, sunday, Surveillance, Travis Young, violone
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Monday, September 17th, 2012
You know, in addition to all the iPhones:
Seen walking away from the open-air stolen iPhone market on the north side of this very intersection:
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Next month, fences will have to start charging 10 cents for each booty bag. Cause it’ll be The Law. So that’ll be $20 for that TV plus 10 cents for the bag. And the remote? Well, you’ll have to look it up and buy one online…
Tags: 2012, 32, 7th, apple, bag, bay area, Better, california, carry, carrying, central, fence, flat, Flat-Panel, inch, iphones, lcd, led, market, mid market, Mid-Market Renaissance, plasma, Renaissance, San Francisco, screen, SFPD, steal, stolen, street, television, thief, TV
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Wednesday, August 29th, 2012
Here’s another story from the Central Market area:
SF bay area craigslist > san francisco > for sale / wanted > bicycles – by owner
“Yesterday afternoon I was assaulted by 5-6 young men on Sixth and Natoma in the Tenderloin. In broad daylight they surrounded me, tried and failed to grab my wallet, phone and backpack but made off with my 1999 green Cannondale road bike. I’ve attached a picture of a similar bike though mine had traditional silver rims and a black Terry saddle. If you see this bike for sale on craigslist or anywhere around San Francisco/Oakland please call the police immediately. They are aware of this group and, frankly, are fed up with this bullshit.
If you were involved in the violent, cowardly mugging on Monday August 20th you have not gained much. I am in good health and will pursue this until justice is served. These actions bring digrace on your families, community, and the city of San Francisco. My only regret is that I didn’t land another kick when the SIX of you had me pinned in the street.”
The lost ride looked like this – click to expand
j3rqs-3221484842@sale.craigslist.org
Reaction here.
On a related note, here’s how you get your stuff back from the corrupt Twitterloin, if you’re willing to deal with fences.
Oh, and thanks so much for moving in to the hood, Twitter. Let us know if you want anything else from the City and County, you know, like another shuttle bus service to CalTrain, you know, to supplement the two you already have. Oh, and thanks for not paying the 2004 Gavin Newsom tax – that was very clever of you. Oh and thanks for the $2,000,000 Jane Kim slush fund you’re paying for – the non-existent WiFi, you know, part of what you promised, you know, instead of paying your taxes, well, I’m sure it would have worked perfectly.
Tags: 1999, 2012, alley, August 20th, backpack, bay area, bike, california, cannondale, Chuck Prophet, dix, gear, green, guitar, males, mugged, mugging, natoma, Oakland, phone, police, road, San Francisco, SFPD, stolen, Terry, twitter, twitterloin, wallet, young
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Wednesday, August 22nd, 2012
The owner of this ride first “lost” a wheel to a professional junkie / bike thief. Then the owner left the immobilized bike parked on the mean streets of San Francisco overnight. Then the thieves came back to finish the job.
Thusly:
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Was this an especially desirable bike?
Nope. (Note carpet remnant used as saddle upholstery.)
Wouldn’t it make more sense if the thieves were able to steal the whole bike?
Yep.
You know, back in the day, about twenty years ago, bike thieves would aspire to steal your whole bike. Thieves would carry around car jacks stolen from Volvos so they could be used to pry apart U-locks.
I think I’d prefer that, losing the whole bike, over coming back and seeing something like this.
You know, back in the day, horse thieves would steal your whole horse. They wouldn’t just take the tail or a leg and then leave you with a horse carcass.
Let’s make this a rule: Bike thieves, take the whole bike or nothing at all.
End of line.
Tags: 2012, bay area, bicycle, bike, california, parts, San Francisco, steal, stolen, thief, thieves
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Friday, July 13th, 2012
Here’s your Lowell High School timeline:
- 1913 – School moved to new, larger campus on Hayes Street between Masonic Avenue and Ashbury
- 1962 – School moved to current campus to make room for future expansion and add a library, gymnasium and larger auditorium
So this is where Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer actually went to high school, on the #21 Hayes line, back in the 50′s. Now it’s the John Adams Campus of troubled City College of San Francisco.
There are fewer drug dealers hanging about these days, but they’ve been replaced by bike thieves…
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Speaking of which, I think this ride has been abandoned for months now. Oh well:
Oh, here’s what Lowell High School looked like in 1917:
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And here’s the same place today:
See if you can match up the bricks with the shot at the top.
(Not much difference excepting for the Toyotas out front and the bright white racing stripe up high. That’s an ADA-complaint elevator shaft hanging off the side these days, one would think. Probably should have been standing about ten feet to the left – that telephone pole in front of the main entrance on Hayes probably is in the same place today as 1917 so it’d be a good tool for alignment. A tilt-shift lens and/or Photoshop would produce an almost identical image as the 1917 shot.)
Campus Information
Built in 1911 as Lowell High School, the John Adams building consists of 64 classrooms and labs, an auditorium, a state-of-the-art child care center, and offices for counseling and administrative services. At this campus, we offer a variety of credit and noncredit courses and programs. John Adams Campus also houses the Dean’s Office of the School of Health and Physical Education. Our mission here is to assist students in accomplishing their educational goal and to ensure student success.
John Adams Campus
1860 Hayes Street
San Francisco, CA 94117 ► Google Map
- #43 Masonic to Hayes/Masonic
- #21 Hayes to Hayes/Masonic
- #5 Fulton to Fulton/Masonic
Tags: 1917, 2010, 2012, avenue, bay area, bicycle, bike, california, campus, ccsf, city college, drugs, hayes, High, hippie, hippies, intersection, johan adams, justuce, lowell, masonic, photo, Photograph, pic, police, San Francisco, school, SFPD, steal, Stephen Breye, Stephen Breyer, stolen, street, thieves, thuief
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Friday, June 29th, 2012
See?
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This (about 20 sellers all in a row) is the most I’ve seen all in one place at one time.
The SFPD knows all about this – sometimes they care, but most of the time they don’t.
And best of all, after you purchase a bunch of food, you can go across the street to buy a stolen iPhone.
Remember, “Mayor Ed Lee Get’s It Done!”
“Run Ed Run!”
Tags: 2012, bank, bay area, black, Black Market of Mid-Market, california, cell, donate, donated, donation, ed lee, ed lee gets it done, food, food bank, iphone, market, Mayor, mid market, phone, pink bag, Pink Bag Mafia, police, run ed run, San Francisco, SFPD, stolen, twitter, twitterloin
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Thursday, June 7th, 2012
Here’s the right way to lock your bike in the NIMBY-infested Alamo Square part of the Western Addition.
See? A hefty chain for the frame and front wheel plus a U-lock for the rear:
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Now here’s the sitch just 12 feet away:
See? Neglecting your wheels is a sure-fire way to total your bike.
So here, the owner comes back to the bike and sees that it’s not going anywhere anytime soon, so s/he just leaves the bike there to rust away, for days, weeks, months, and, possibly, years.
What’s it going to be like when “bikeshare” comes to San Francisco and your credit card gets charged $1000 when you “lose” the bike you rented? I know not.
Our City Family wants to encourage cycling in San Francisco, but it does nothing about this sort of thing.
Oh well.
Tags: 2012, bay area, bicycles, bike, bikes, california, chain, crime, DPT, ed lee, locks, Mayor Ed Lee, mcallister, mta, ock, San Francisco, SFMTA, SFPD, stolen, street, u-lock, Wheels
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Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012
So Prop 29 is about a $1-per-pack tax on cigarettes that we can vote on in a month? Well that’s news to me.
But look who’s against Prop 29 – it’s that famous convenience store what’s on Fulton and Masonic what can’t sell lottery tickets no mo owing to what some people, mind you, just some people, might possibly be tempted to label LOTTERY FRAUD.
See?
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Now here’s your Convenience Store Triad:
1. Alcohol sales to underage students from neighboring high schools and the University of San Francisco.
2. Cigarette sales.
3. Lottery ticket sales.
So, if you lose one leg of your triad, you’ve got to make sure not to lose the other two, that’s one conclusion you might draw…
Tags: 2012, bay area, california, camera, Chris Hansen, clement, clerk, clerks, corner, crew, dateline, dept., DEPUTER, district, dollar, film, fulton, increase, lincon park, market, masonic, msm, nbc, nocigarette, Owners, pack, prop 29, richmond, ross mirkarimi, San Francisco, sheriff, sheriff's, standup, steal, stolen, store, streets of san francisco, tax, television, To Catch a Predator, To Catch an MSM Predator, TV, western addition, yes
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Thursday, April 19th, 2012
Because the issue doesn’t affect him, that’s why.
What he cares about is raising money for elections past and future. That’s about it. Ask him and he’ll tell you – he complains about having to do it all the time.
But if people said “now what are you going to do about bicycle theft” as they handed him their $500 checks at the private parties that you can’t afford to attend, then maybe Mayor Ed Lee would start to care.
But until then, look forward to more of this:
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Oh well.
Tags: 2012, bay area, bikes, california, campaign, debt, ed lee, Mayor, San Francisco, stolen, thieves
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