Welcome back brothers and sisters to another chapter of KMA 438.
I thank all of you who donated to Inspector Joe Carroll’s sick-time bank. On behalf of the entire Carroll family, his friends, and yours truly, thank you for your generosity. An incredible amount of stress was lifted from the Carroll family knowing his brothers and sisters are taking care of him.
I know I’m early, however, I want to wish all my brothers and sisters in the SFPD, Dispatch and the SFFD a happy and safe Thanksgiving.
Now without further adieu (that’s French for Foie Gras) here is what been happening.
Southern Station – Aaahhhh yes, another coward aboard a Muni bus, working with another brave-heart, steals a smart phone from a young female victim. Our victim was not having it and chases after one of the crooks. Like I have said in the past, don’t chase these guys, it can end badly. You can always replace a phone, not your life! Plus people might think your playing tag and you know we can’t do that in California anymore, too brutish. At any rate, Officers Mike Mellone and John O’Brien are driving in the area and see this strange game of tag transpiring. Mike and John are fairly confident that they might have a robbery in progress and decide to go after the chassee, the large male, and attempt to detain him. Yep, Bad Guy Manual, first chapter, he stops, cops approach, he runs, repeat, cops bag him, and hook him up. Bad Guy had smart phone in pocket, but no victim. Mike and John take the entire show back to the station, find the victim, who identifies her phone and the bad guy. Patient and solid police work. Oh no, Bad Guy is on probation (OOC out of county), yep, not good for him.
Richmond Station – A robbery goes down with the victim telling Dispatch that he was robbed at gunpoint and his smart phone taken. In less then three minutes, Officers Al Schor and Desmond Dunn are in the area. With information in hand, intuitive police work, and a strong desire to stop another sociopath from robbing another citizen, Al and Desmond stop a suspect vehicle matching the description given. A felony traffic stop is made, and four heroes are found in the car. Also found in the car is the victim’s phone and a replica gun. No doubt the aforementioned four were playing Pedro, discussing the resurgence of the commercial real estate market, or maybe looking to rob another citizen. Al and Desmond used fast work, teamwork, bravery and experience to capture four lads who have some explaining to do.
Bayview Station – So it’s a nice quiet night in the Bank of America Security office. The guys are enjoying a Yoohoo and a cold Ring Ding when they see Dum-Dum of the year on an interior security camera. Yes, ooooo yes! There is our hero on camera, having broken into the bank and now attempting to “Lloyd” the ATM open with a crowbar. Really, I am stupefied! Naw! There would be no alarms, no cameras, and no off-site security in a MAJOR INTERNATIONAL BANK! Wrong! The cops are called, and everyone responds: Sergeants Chris Shaffer and Wilfred Williams, Officers Ed Zeltser, Fernando Barranco, Jon Piford, Craig Perry, Leo Bernstein, Alex Lentz, Rob Wheeler, Tom Fong, Eric Borghesani, Patrick Faye, Eric Eastlund and Matt Maciel (Dog Unit) respond and set up a perimeter. Chris and Wilfred executed a textbook example of setting the perimeter, making sure the location of all the officers was known to each other and to dispatch. Additionally, Chris made sure the district was taken care of while this incident was transpiring. As you might imagine, the bad guy had NO PLACE TO GO and was taken into custody with no injury to anyone. OOOoo Double-Dutch snizzle! It’s a bank, a Federal crime, FBI… no Yoohoo for you, pal. Play like you train, great job!
Ingelside Station - A good citizen sees a gent roaming a residential area looking into cars. No doubt he was looking to purchase a new car and was just street shopping, exploring the world of automobile interiors, rich crushed velour and fine Corinthian leather! Officers Ken Gallo, Jude Rand, and Rommel Baldovino don’t buy it and respond. Rommel stops and detains our hero, and then gives him to the good care of Jude and Ken. As I always say, lets take this show to the station and figure it out. At the station, Ken and Jude talk to this nice fellow, who at this point did not break into a car, nor did he have any items on him that might have been taken out of a car. He did, however, have a backpack full of burglary tools, which required further investigation. After a nice chat (under Miranda) our hero tells all. Yes, I was looking to break into a car; yes, those are burglary tools; yes, I am a thief; yes, I was going to ruin someone’s car and their day; and yes, I am probably guilty of dozens of the said type of thefts. Smooth work gents. Always talk to the bad guy. You never know what you might get. In this case, a felony booking!
Tenderloin Station – Yes, there is drug dealing going on in the Tenderloin, and yes multiple daily arrests are made trying to eradicate the persons who believe selling poison is a way to make a living. However, sometimes there is always one “dealer” who is adept at eluding arrest. Officers Jeff McHale, Carlos Castro and Rob Royer are in plainclothes riding around on the midnight shift attempting to rid the city of drug dealers. Alas, there he stands, without his usual lookouts and “body guards,” a notorious Tenderloin dealer, dealing drugs. Our hero is so sophisticated he is still doing hand-to-hand deals in the district. (That’s me being snarky.) He is still a blight in our city, and the said officers know it. They catch the buyer, drugs on him; catch our hero with money on him and a confirmed drug deal is on-viewed, and a stay away order is in place. Cinnamon Oatmeal probation, who knows, but diligent police work to rid the neighborhood dealer from the street corner.
Taraval/Bayview Stations/SFDEM – Officers Eric Lau and Jeff Fortuno respond to a call regarding a robbery and kidnapping. Once at the scene, Eric and Jeff find the terrified victim and determine that she was indeed robbed at GUN POINT of all of her possessions, inclusive of her cell phone. Additionally, the victim said that “her friend” was kidnapped and taken away by a band of miscreants. A “trace” of the said cell phone is completed and the phone is located in the Bayview District. Jeff does a great job and locates the vehicle that the “friend” has registered to her. Dispatch got this information out to the Bayview as well as coordinating all the air traffic throughout this caper. Officers Ed Martinez and Matt Pashby see the vehicle rolling out of a parking lot with four aboard, including the supposed kidnap victim. Well boys and girls, I can tell you about all the facts and figures of this caper but my fingers will break. I’ll give you the good stuff. The kidnap victim “friend” was apparently a city worker who, in the course of her employ, had helped the victim. Wanting to help more, she offered the victim a ride for an appointment. Unbeknownst to our victim, this low-life actually set up the whole robbery, with text messages and all (later found on cell phones). She had set up this poor woman and exposed her to a gun, terror, and the humiliation of broken trust. By the by folks, if the suspect was indeed a city worker, wonder if she will lose HER JOB for a REAL felony! All cold shows were positive. Later back at the ranch, Sergeant Jason Jefferson was able to get a confession out of almost everyone involved. Police work at its finest, coordinated effort, great thinking out of the box, and fast action proved the demise of four more sociopaths. I tip my hat to you guys, great work!
Northern Station – Officers Christina Hayes and Andrew Lucas respond to an auto burglary call. Yep, dude is still inside of the car doing his thing when Andrew and Christina arrive. In full uniform he is told to, well, give up! Not, so! You wanna fight? It didn’t last long. In custody; glass all over him; burglary tools on him; two felony no bail warrant for him; and a nice place to sleep at least for a couple of days. Fast feet getting there, for you know it was his first car burglary! Great job!
Tenderloin Task Force – Officer Chris Tabela is quietly running someone is his car in regards to a death case. A citizen runs up to the car and states that someone was getting beat up badly down the street. Chris takes off and finds a melee with four involved, punching and kicking each other. Let see, Good Guy Manual, command everyone to knock it off and get up against the wall. Those who comply are for the most part…innocent, those who run are for the most part, scared? Naw, guilty! So as you might imagine, slick Ric makes a dash for it. I have to learn and cut and paste this part: Bad Guy runs; cop catches up orders him to the ground; the fight is on; Bad Guy losses this violent struggle. As it turned out, Bad Guy was in the midst of robbing two of the other people in the melee; they were tourists who apparently were not going down without a fight. The other participant was a good citizen who jumped into the bench-clearing brawl to give some needed foot service to running man. What a chump! A botched robbery, beat down by your victims, beat down by a citizen, resist the cops, and loose badly and then a peanut butter sando in jail. What a schmo! (Schmo. Look it up, you don’t want to be one.) Great job Chris, San Francisco should be safe for citizens AND visitors as well!
