Overview

• Police say the first incident occurred around 12:02 p.m. on Sept. 10 at a bank on the 1100 block of Grant Avenue in Chinatown, where a note demanding money prompted a teller to hand over a bag of cash; the total taken has not been disclosed.
• Investigators linked two additional robberies in the Central District later that day based on a similar suspect description and method.
• Community tips, including from SFPD Ambassadors, helped officers identify Valentino Luchin, who was arrested without incident.
• Luchin was booked into San Francisco County Jail on two counts of robbery and one count of attempted robbery, according to police.
• Records show he pleaded no contest to second-degree robbery in a 2018 Orinda case; he previously worked as executive chef at Rose Pistola and owned Ottavio, which closed in 2016.