Burglaries from occupied homes, also known as hot prowls, continue to impact residents of the Inner Sunset. In this update, two hot prowls occur in quick succession, an armed robbery on Twin Peaks and a tense stairway encounter that results in a call to police.
March 17th
On St. Patrick's Day, officers from Taraval Station "responded to a report of a battery" at Funston & Lincoln just after 4:30 pm. According to their report, the call was initiated because the victim was passing the suspect in her building's stairway "when the suspect bumped into the victim with her body." Because the victim "was afraid of the suspect's hostile behavior," she contacted police. No arrests were made.
Police visited the 1800 block of Irving at 6:06 pm in response to a stay-away order violation. According to responding officers, the individual in question "kept entering and exiting a store while yelling, screaming and displaying symptoms of intoxication." Because this person was known to have "a history of similar incidents" and received "multiple" stay-away orders from different merchants, they were placed under arrest.
March 22nd
Sometime 11:15 pm and 6:30 am, a residence on the 1800 block of 8th Avenue were burgled in a hot prowl. During the break-in, the thief stole portable safes containing important documents, as well as a bicycle. The two female victims, aged 66 and 34, told police from Taraval Station that the suspect "entered the garage area and forced open two closet doors."
March 26th
Three men in their early twenties who were hanging out on Twin Peaks around 3:15am were robbed by a suspect who pulled a handgun from his waistband, taking a smartphone, currency and a belt. The suspect, who was not identified or arrested, fled the scene on foot.
Sometime between midnight and 6am, a hot prowl occurred on the 100 block of Clayton Street. The 23-year-old victim told police she thought her door was locked and secured before she went to bed, but a neighbor notified her at 6am that her front door was open. "Upon inspection of her house," the resident realized her bicycle had been stolen.
March 31st
At approximately 2pm, a 69-year-old man who lives on the 2900 block of 19th Avenue left his home and returned 10 minutes later to find a burglary suspect at work. The intruder fled on foot with "multiple items."
Approximately 30 minutes later and a half-mile away on the 2200 block of Ocean Ave., a 70-year-old woman heard noises in her home and confronted a man in her kitchen, who then fled on foot.
SFPD Park Station holds a monthly community meeting on the second Tuesday of each month. The next session will be on April 12th at 6pm, at 1899 Waller St. SFPD Taraval Station conducts its monthly meeting on the third Wednesday of each month at its station (2345 24th Ave.) at 7pm.
