Sergeant Sean Griffin, Officer Blake Cunningham, and Officer David Johnson recognized a person they wanted to make contact with standing near Turner Terrace. They also knew that he had a search condition for prior offenses. Seems like the search condition really didn’t mean that much to this individual seeing as how he was in possession of narcotics for sale as well as a handgun.
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The homeless woman seemed to be minding her own business while pushing a shopping cart down Polk Street until she purposely rammed it into 2 young children aged 10 and 8. The mother of the victims rescued both children from further harm and called 9-1-1. An ambulance transported both of the minors to the hospital while Sergeant Matt Sullivan and Officer Sandon Cheung managed to obtain video of the incident and issued a wanted bulletin. It was just a few days later that Officer John McNamara and Officer Michael Coss took the suspect into custody on the 800 block of Market.
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The members of the swing watch at Northern Station were just leaving their line-up when Dispatch assigned them an emergency call involving a young man who was threatening to kill himself with a knife. (The Dispatchers could hear screaming in the background with the mother begging for the police to arrive.) Sergeant Teresa Sangiacomo, Sergeant Irene Cristi, Sergeant Anthony Manfreda, and Sergeant James O’Malley raced to the scene with numerous other units. Sergeant Sangiacomo, along with Officer Megan Monahan, took charge of the incident and requested an ambulance to stage as well as initiating a call-out for hostage negotiators.
Officer Yuka Nagamine and Officer Brian Donohue set up directly outside of the distraught subject’s apartment. The officers managed to get both of his parents out of the unit at which time they could see the individual in distress armed with a large knife pacing back and forth. The officers initiated attempts to see if they could open a dialogue. They succeeded and then noticed, after a time, that his movements began to slow as a result of the depressants he had apparently ingested earlier. It was at this point that the officers rushed the subject and disarmed him. The paramedics transported the subject to the hospital where he was placed in intensive care in grave condition.
(Other members involved: Officer Brandon Martin, Officer Pernisha Battle, Officer Brian Burke, Officer Christopher Cassinelli, Officer Nicholas Zerga, Officer Rupert Geraldo, and Officer Michael O’Donnell.)
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Bayview Station has a group of outstanding officers who are dedicated professionals protecting the neighborhood they serve. Those noted include a particular group of plainclothes officers who are routinely recognized in this column - as they should be. And this month is no exception. They are:
Officer Officer Eduard Ochoa, Officer Carlos Mustafich, Officer Blake Cunningham, Officer Paul Wilgus, Officer Patrick Faye, Officer Denis O’Connor, and Officer David Johnson. And all were involved in the following incidents within days of each other:
On 10/24/17, they were searching for a wanted fugitive for numerous gun violations and they located and arrested this individual within a matter of hours. The subject in question at the time of this arrest was also in possession of, what else, a gun.
On 10/27/17, the same officers conducted a surveillance of a known drug dealer’s residence and later obtained a search warrant. The subsequent search produced over 6 lbs of narcotics and another firearm.
On 11/11/17, the officers came across an individual who was known as an active gang member who routinely carried a weapon. This time was no exception as the officers developed sufficient probable cause to detain and search this subject who was, of course, in possession of a loaded gun.
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The suspect who was in possession of a quantity of narcotics, over $6,000.00 in cash, a loaded semi-automatic weapon, and wanted for the theft of other guns while on federal probation was arrested by Officer Dominic Coyne and Officer Salar Naderi all because he had an expired registration tab on the vehicle he was operating. Nice work!
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Not to be outdone, Officer Kyle Wren and Officer Mark Margreiter were looking for a vehicle being driven by an individual wanted for attempted murder. They soon located and conducted a traffic stop on the driver. The suspect initially cooperated and then drove off at a high rate of speed. The officers gave chase but had to call the pursuit off due to the danger to others. The very next night Officer Wren and Officer Margreiter located the same car and set up on it until the driver returned. This time there was no chase, just an arrest.
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There’s no question there is a great deal of money to be made in dealing narcotics and Sergeant Michael Moody, Officer Mathew Seavey, and Officer Carlos Padilla got a little closer look as to just how much can be made after they served a search warrant on a dealer they had just arrested. The officers first located over 9 pounds of cocaine he had stored for sale, $9,000.00 dollars in cash in his car, $70,000.00 cash in his house, and another $43,000.00 cash hidden in a safety deposit box.
This individual is now living in a gated community compliments of the SF Sheriff’s Department . . .
Stay safe.
