Overview

• Police say three banks in the city’s Central District were robbed on Sept. 10 with a similar note-passing method linking the cases.
• Officers responded around noon to a bank on the 1100 block of Grant Avenue where an employee handed over a bag of cash after receiving a demand note.
• Investigators identified Valentino Luchin, 62, as the suspect, apprehended him without incident, and booked him into San Francisco County Jail.
• SFPD said tips from the community helped identify the suspect, who lives in the area.
• Luchin faces multiple robbery and attempted robbery charges, and records show a prior 2018 arrest in an alleged $18,000 Citibank robbery in Orinda.