Crime & Safety
Blotter: 49ers Ticket Scam
The following information was supplied by the South San Francisco Police Department. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction.
Friday, January 20
1:26pm Police made an arrest at South San Francisco High School, where a student had been detained after school employees discovered items used for graffiti in the student’s possession. Two school walls had reportedly been tagged.
11:34pm Officers arrested a DUI driver at Crown Circle and Hickey Boulevard.
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Saturday, January 21
12:11am Officers sent a unit to Tamarack Lane, where a caller reported seeing a man in the alley wearing a house arrest ankle bracelet, whom he suspected of trying to steal a van.
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10:20am A stereo was stolen out of a vehicle parked on Franklin Avenue sometime overnight.
9:37pm A resident on Alta Loma Drive called police after witnessing four men with flashlights prowling around her yard. She reportedly scared them off by flashing her lights on and off.
11:35pm Police sent a unit to Highland Avenue after getting a call that multiple subjects with bats were fighting.
Sunday, January 22
7:07am Police received a report from someone who claimed that he was scammed out of $400 while trying to buy 49er tickets online from someone in Bakersfield.
5:48pm Police received report of a cherry bomb going off in the street on Elm Court.
7:48pm Residents reported hearing fireworks going off on Tamarack Lane.
11:12pm A caller reported that a dark colored vehicle was driving on the wrong side of the road at around 60 mph on Westborough Boulevard near Junipero Serra.
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