Woman paying for groceries in S.F.’s Chinatown robbed of $1,500, police say

A 22-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of robbing a woman of about $1,500 as she paid for groceries at a store in San Francisco’s Chinatown, police said Monday.

Officers responded to the 700 block of Jackson Street at about 1:30 p.m. on Oct. 29 and found the woman, who said a man had taken her cash and ran away, according to the San Francisco Police Department.

Investigators identified the suspect as Tylyce Shields and obtained an arrest warrant on Nov. 5, police said. Shields was already in custody in Alameda County on unrelated charges. He was later taken to San Francisco County Jail and booked on suspicion of robbery…

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