$500 REWARD- ZTE ANDROID STOLEN 411 VALENCIA ST PARKLETT

Posted on Craigslist: STRONG ARM STOLEN 6" ZTE Z970 DROID SMARTPHONE

    At about 9:45PM - MON OCT 10TH, 2016 -- My 6" ZTE ZMAX Z970 Android Phone was snatched from my hand, by a man who according to locals, hangs out at 16th St/Valencia Street, preying on locals with phones in their hands.

     He is FAST and in the past few hours, he tried to snatch phone from guy on bike near 16th St & Mission. MAY HAVE LATINO/CAUCASIAN (light skinned) person working with him to distract or block Victims.

     Then an hour later, he sees man walking from Wells Fargo ATM (16th/BART) towards Caledonia Alley next to Mission National Bank across from Pancho Villas, 3000 Blk of 16th St, told man he dropped money on ground.. man looked down, dude snatched his wallet, ran, got attacked by someone, dropped wallet, ran towards 16th St Mission Bart Station.

    Shortly thereafter, he was in front of new parklett at 411 Valencia, in front of Royan Hotel/Tea Shop, walking back and forth.... 

    I stopped using my ZTE and he disappeared.

      Ten minutes later while texting atty about a low income client case we're working on and he jumped out of shadows by surprise, I turned, he lunged towards me, pushed my shoulder back and snatched my ZTE smart phone.It has a keypad lock, it's MetroPCS and has some political sticker on the back and red piece of tape over the front facing camera.

     Here's the alert I'm sending all my peers...

Mon Oct 10, 2016 - Mission District, near 16th/Valencia- 

URGENT! MY ANDROID WAS STRONG ARM STOLEN AT 9:40 PM --- Tall (6'-3"+,  light shiny Carmel Colored Skin,  Slim Build (like he used to be a muscular athletic type, but looks like he's under weight), Young Male, 25-30 years old, clean cut, white tshirt... hangs out to steal!      HE GRINS AS HE TAKES YOUR STUFF OUT OF YOUR HANDS.   HE ENJOYS STEALING AND HARMING OTHERS. 

    SFPD has report. HAS EARRING IN RIGHT EAR.

    Laughs as he snatches your stuff... any wallet, cell phone is a target. 

  He hits up multiple victims within a couple hours.... 

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 TUESDAY MAY 16, 2017 UPDATE:

Serial Strong Arm Robber 

    Here's a first Rough Draft Sketch of the Suspect, as described above. 

  In reality, his hair is a bit shorter,  face a bit longer,  but the basic skin tone and body proportions are about right.   He also had a 'mini-hoodie' on his bright, white T-Shirt.

    He likes to put on his hoodie and 'crawl the walls' along store fronts as he stalks his targets for Strong Arm, Snatch & Grab Robberies.

     This is a First Draft Sketch that will be updated and become much more accurate as we keep adding info from witnesses, photos, videos to make the best, most accurate Sketch we can.  

  Thanks to everyone who's helped us so far.     

 May be living at local SRO Hotels or city housing units in the mission area, near 16th and Valencia Streets.

  HE IS VIOLENT.   DO NOT APPROACH HIM.

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SATURDAY  -- October 15, 2016 UPDATE:

   The ZTE Phone stolen from the community advocate above, had Low Income Client Case Information and Photo Evidence of Crimes, to this Theft, may be transformed into a more serious felony, since it has documents we need for upcoming court appearances.  

     Very sad to have so much valuable information on a personal device and have it STOLEN out of your hands by Thieves that are plaguing our city.   WE MUST FIGHT BACK !

 Be Safe.   More photos and stories of other crime victims coming this week.   

Cheers!
SFAwareness Group Moderators


 We're going to post Posters about this theft and increase awareness of locals and tourists in the Mission about how rampant the thefts are.    Many of the Thieves live at local hotels and SRO Housing Units on Mission and 16th Streets.