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Richmond
Richmond, most
of Golden Gate Park
Lesson unlearned: At 2:27 p.m.
May 7, officers were called to the
area of 19th Avenue and Lake Street
regarding a man who was following
another man who had just broken
into his car in the 100 block of 25th
Avenue. The car owner provided a
description and said the man had
just boarded a 38-Geary bus headed
downtown.
The caller was able to provide
the coach number and officers
located the bus at Sixth Avenue and
Geary Boulevard. They detained
the man, who was still wear-
ing his jail ID bracelet from a
May 2 arrest.
Tenderloin
Tenderloin, bordered by
Geary, Market and Larkin
streets
Desperate for a quarter: On May 2,
officers responded to O'Farrell and
Taylor streets regarding an assault.
A man told officers that a panhan-
dler approached him while he was
walking with his family and repeat-
edly asked for money.
The man started to walk away
when the panhandler jumped on
his back. The man's wife called 911
and officers arrived to arrest the
panhandler.
Bayview
Bayview, Hunters Point
Shot in the arm: At 12:30 p.m.
May 8, officers responded to Lane
Street and Palou Avenue regarding
shots fired in the area.
Officers located spent casings
and a vehicle riddled with bullet
holes that was driving down Palou
Avenue toward Highway 101. Offi-
cers spoke with a witness who said
he was working on Lane Street
when he heard numerous gunshots
and saw two cars driving away from
the area.
Minutes later, the Sheriff's
Department notified police that
there was a walk-in shooting victim
at San Francisco General Hospital.
Officers responded and spoke with
the man, who said he was driving on
Palou Avenue when four unknown
people shot into his car, striking him
on the shoulder.
Ingleside
Glen Park, Bernal Heights,
Excelsior, St. Francis Wood
Scent of mischief: At 3:51 a.m. May 7,
officers were patrolling in the 100
block of Russia Avenue when they
came across a person they knew
was on probation. Officers had
previously arrested the person on
suspicion of selling narcotics. A
police dog sniffed out narcotics and
the person was arrested.
THE BLOTTER
Alleged rapist faces trial
USF student accused in
4 incidents, some linked
to fellow ROTC members
A San Francisco Superior Court
judge ruled Wednesday that there's
sufficient evidence for a trial for
a University of San Francisco stu-
dent accused of raping four female
classmates.
Ryan Caskey, 21, a former ROTC
member at the university, is charged
with four counts
of rape of an
intoxicated per-
son for separate
incidents that
occurred after
parties at the
school between
April 2008 and
January of this
year.
Prosecutors had also initially
charged him with assault with force
likely to cause great bodily injury,
but that was later withdrawn.
A preliminary hearing on the
rape charges concluded Wednesday
when Judge Kay Tsenin held Caskey
to answer on the accusations "by a
hair's breadth," she said. A trial date
has not been set.
Prosecutors claim Caskey plied
the women, some of them also
ROTC members, with alcohol at
parties and later took advantage of
them after they passed out.
He was arrested in February
after one of the women reported the
alleged attack to campus police.
Caskey's attorney maintains
there was evidence the sex was
consensual.
At the hearing, which began April
29, all four women testified that after
drinking heavily during parties with
Caskey and others, they blacked
out and woke up to discover Cas-
key having sex with them. Most of
the incidents took place in Caskey's
dorm room, but all four maintained
the sex was not consensual.
Caskey's attorney, Martin Sabelli,
asserted that the prosecution had
not proven Caskey knew at the time
the women were incapable of con-
sent. He also said evidence showed
one of the women was not passed
out when the sex occurred.
Caskeyremainsoutofcustodyand
isduebackincourtMay21forarraign-
ment on the charges and a possible
setting of a trial date. --BayCityNews
EXAMINER FILE PHOTO
Charges: University of San Francisco student Ryan Caskey, a former ROTC member,
claims he had consensual sex with all four women who accused him of raping them.
Caskey

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