Thieves ripped an ATM from inside Walgreens on 23rd and Mission streets early Sunday morning, taking out a sliding door and leaving its glass smashed to pieces.
A spokesperson for the San Francisco Police Department said that officers responded to a burglary at the closed store at around 4:15 a.m. “Officers arrived on scene and observed signs of forced entry and damage to the store,” the spokesperson wrote in an email.
An employee at the store said it appeared the ATM had been tied to a vehicle and dragged out.
The spokesperson said officers obtained the descriptions of two vehicles and several suspects who burglarized the store, and that these matched the descriptions of suspects in vehicles that attempted to burglarize a gas station several minutes prior to this incident.
“Officers in the area observed two vehicles matching the descriptions and attempted a traffic stop. The vehicles refused to yield and a vehicle pursuit was initiated. The vehicle pursuit ceased due to the vehicles lost in the area. The suspects remain outstanding,” said the spokesperson.
On Sunday afternoon, the ATM remained on the sidewalk, completely destroyed.
This is not the first ATM robbery to occur in the Mission in recent weeks: In late October, an ATM was taken from Clooney’s Pub at Valencia and 25th streets.
Fits the picture. It’s not like you heard it here first: This city is going down the toilet. Hey, anecdote: I am stilled miffed after dropping off a bicycle at a local shop this afternoon. Finding an owner completely spooked after burglaries and anti-antisemitism over the last few months. Didn’t used to be like this for those who care to remember.
Why are the police that work in this city so incompetent? This sort of thing seems to happen time and time again. I’ve even seen these antics in front of my home, while they were responding to a side-show. The only thing missing is “Yakety Sax” playing in the background.
Did the officers who showed up a day late and a dollar short punch their fists through their caps and shout “why, you!” ?
Sounds like it could be the same crew that hit Clooney’s
The same crew that rammed a cop car and escaped?
“Burglars rammed their vehicle into a cop car and escaped with an ATM and cash from a bar in San Francisco’s Mission District on Monday morning, police said.
Officers responded at 3:17 a.m. to a report of a possible burglary at Clooney’s Pub at Valencia and 25th streets. Witnesses told police they saw a vehicle outside the pub and a person trying to break inside.
When officers arrived, they found a vehicle parked outside the bar with a person behind the wheel. As officers approached the vehicle, two other people left the bar and got into the car.
The car then struck the patrol vehicle before speeding away, police said.”
After 9 p.m., there is not a single police officer on the streets of the Mission. This is (insanely) SFPD policy. They stay in their fortress, and respond – maybe – to calls. In the absence of ANY patrolling, why wouldn’t criminals take their shot?
“‘The vehicle pursuit ceased due to the vehicles lost in the area. The suspects remain outstanding,’ said the spokesperson.” Yes, we have outstanding thieves, and – quite frankly, cops that are a little bit *less than* outstanding! How is it that vehicles are “lost in the area”? How could it be that a cop car was rammed and the suspects fled, in a previous and almost identical robbery at Clooney’s, just a few weeks ago? Why is there zero effort on the police to find and catch this brazen organized criminal gang?
“Why is there zero effort on the police…”
that must be a rhetorical question. with the foul and unappreciative way that rank and file officers are treated by “locals” in this hood, (and the elected politicians) if i were one of them, i 100% wouldn’t go out of my way to sacrifice my health/livelihood/ life for such “citizens” either. “no way, no how”.
Anyone who has been robbed blind by the excessive service charges levied by these rando ATMs has mixed feelings about this mini atm crime wave. The property damage is a bummer though.
Robbed blind? The fees are told ahead of time and you don’t have to use them.