A man police say followed customers from local banks into Berkeley, and then robbed them, is now facing felony charges in three separate cases.
In one of the incidents, authorities say 19-year-old Elijah Simpson and another man chased down a UC Berkeley swim coach and wrested two backpacks containing thousands of dollars in property from her.
That morning, on June 30, the swim coach had arrived in the garage for Cal’s Recreational Sports Facility (at Bancroft Way and Ellsworth Street) and seen two masked men “following her closely,” the University of California Police Department (UCPD) wrote in court papers…