SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — Police are looking for a man who stole a cellphone at knife point in the Tenderloin while pretending to be an SFPD officer on Tuesday.
The victim, a 23-year-old male, was sitting in his car when a man approached the car and flashed his wallet with an oval badge on it. The man told the victim to get out of the car and began searching it.
The victim complied and the man, described as being in his 20s or 30s, then picked the victim’s cellphone up from the car’s center console and asked for the phone’s passcode, saying he needed to search it, according to police.
The victim complied and gave him his pass code. The man posing as the officer then told the victim he was confiscating the phone as evidence and began walking away. The victim followed the man, which is when he turned around and pointed a knife at the victim.
The suspect fled on foot down Ellis Street. No arrests have been made at this time.