About 43 percent of robberies in Ingleside this month have been for smart phones, Capt. Tim Falvey said at the community meeting Tuesday night.
“Most of these kinds of robberies are happening on the bus or near transit areas,” Falvey said. “People are on the muni with their phone in their hand and their headphones on and we’ve gotten clear shots of the person right behind them reaching out to grab it during a bus stop.”
Falvey also added that from the last six months, more than 63 percent of all robberies have occurred during the second half of the month.
“In January we had eight robberies in the first two weeks of the month, 38 in the second half of the month,” Falvey said.
On a positive note, Falvey said that the arrests for robberies have gone up compared to last year. “We made an arrest this morning, two guys on Mission and Potter beat up some guy and robbed him,” Falvey said. “Now I wouldn’t want to say they weren’t the sharpest tools in the shed but they were hiding in a bush, splitting what they robbed when the cops got there. Yay us.”
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