Potrero Hill, San Francisco

Officers Benzinger, Alcaraz, Solares, and DeJesus were operating in a plainclothes capacity in the Potrero Hill Housing area when they saw a person that matched the description of someone who was wanted.  This person saw the police and ran into a unit.  The police ran up to the door and heard a woman yell from behind a closed door, “You can not come in here like that.” The police knocked on the door and the woman answered.  The woman, who turns out was the suspect’s mother, yelled for him to come downstairs.

The suspect came downstairs and the police asked him for his name.  When the suspect did not answer fast enough his mother told the police his name. The suspect told his mother to stop.  The mother told the suspect, “You have to tell them you are on probation.”  The suspect yelled, “Don’t tell them that,” and punched his mother in the face.

The police moved in and attempted to arrest the man.  The man fought with the officers and at one point kicked at them.  The young man was brought into custody.  A search of him revealed that he had marijuana on his person.

Thursday, July 7, 2006 – Battery of a Police Officer, Resisting Arrest, Marijuana Offense – Potrero Hill Housing - CS# 060 719 423

The mother unfazed by the fact that her son punched her, yelled at police as her son was being led away, “We can smoke weed if we want to!”

It should be noted that the man was not the person that was wanted to the police.  He would have been identified and let go at the scene.