A reader sent in an announcement from his building managers that an alleged bike thief had been caught in the act of stealing bikes at 1 a.m. today from the garage at 2125 Bryant St. And later today SFPD tweeted a photo of Sean Sixta, the suspect who was arrested on the property and charged with burglary. […]
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Police Arrest Alleged Serial Bike Thief
BART police are asking for the public’s help in identifying bicycles found in a San Francisco’s man’s home. Last month, BART police caught a 47-year-old San Francisco man at 24th Street and Mission BART station stealing a bicycle and arrested him. Brett Major was arrested for burglary, theft, possession of burglary tools, and an outstanding […]
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Thief Caught With Bait Bike
Lonnie Pierce, a career thief with a rap sheet that goes back to the 90s, was arrested in the Mission on Tuesday after stealing one of San Francisco’s bait bikes. The SFPD’s Anti Bike Theft program announced the arrest on its Twitter page, where it also encourages victims of bike theft to post images and descriptions of their […]
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Would-be Bicycle Thief Slashes Biker’s Face and 25-year-old Leaves Keys in Ignition
Attempted Bicycle Theft A 46-year-old man suffered a knife wound to his face at 1:30 a.m. on Wednesday when he fought off a would-be bicycle thief at 17th and Mission streets. The victim refused to let the suspect, described as being in his 40s, swipe his bicycle. During the scuffle the suspect took out a […]
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Neighborhood notes: development meeting tonight, Mercedes Benz, and bike baiting
Meeting tonight on a new entertainment center The developers of a new project, the “Albion on 16th,” will hold a community meeting tonight (Friday) to check in about their plans to develop the Superior Auto Body Shop into a single-tenant combination restaurant/entertainment event center. The meeting will be at the Mission District Station at 6 […]
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Mission Bicycle hopes to end bike theft with GPS
Cyclists who have had their bikes stolen might be familiar with a video of a San Francisco Police Department bike theft specialist luring a bike thief with a GPS-tracked bait bike. Well, if Mission Bicycle Company has its way, that kind of tech will be standard in bicycles of the future. The Valencia Street boutique […]
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As Bikes Boom, Competition Increases
Relatively flat, close to downtown, and sunny, the Mission is a particularly attractive corner of San Francisco for cyclists, and an increasingly rich mix of bike shops competes for the neighborhood’s ever-growing numbers of cyclists. While online shopping has increased, bike shops—it appears—remain more popular than ever. When Mission Local looked at bike shops during the […]
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Cancer Patient Leaves Note for Bicycle Thief
The following note was posted on a lone bicycle tire on Valencia Street on April 19 sometime between 8:30 and 9 p.m.: Dear Whomever Stole My Bike, If by chance you happen to see this… #1.) The red firenze that you took was my mother’s. #2.) I fixed it up with the last of my […]
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DA Prosecutes Alleged Bicycle Thief
Police officers arrested Irving Morales-Sanchez on May 17 after finding eight bicycles in his Silver Terrace home and an additional 106 bicycles in a storage locker in Oakland.
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Bike Sting Nets 51-Year-Old
It started in the Mission and had to move to Market Street to get anyone interested.
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Men use “simulated gun” to rob man of car in SF Mission
Police report two suspects of an unknown age used a “simulated gun” to rob a 37-year-old man of his car and cellphone on 23rd and Shotwell streets early Thursday morning. At around 3:45 a.m., the suspects approached the victim while he was stopped an intersection. One of the suspects pretended to have a gun and […]