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Noe Valley, a San Francisco neighborhood, is known as “stroller valley” because many young families are settling there. Sadly, some weeks back, 11 phones were stolen, and it is thought that the same gang targets moms picking up their kids from school.Apparently, it had been reported that one of the culprits hit a woman with a baseball bat and punched another one in the face before getting away. In another case, a pregnant mother was approached by masked minors who subsequently escaped in a stolen getaway car.Nevertheless, police arrested one adolescent in June 2023 connected to the 11-phone crime and...

San Francisco police identified children ages 11, 13, and 14 as suspects in the brutal beating and robbery of an elderly woman caught on video late last month. The fourth suspect — an 18-year-old male — also was identified, but the 11-year-old suspect is too young to be charged, police said in a press release. What's the background? Surveillance video of the horrifying July 31 attack on the 70-year-old woman showed that at one point she was actually kicked squarely in the face while she was already on the lobby floor of her residential building. What's more, when she tried...