Tahoe area suspects arrested for armed robbery after San Francisco’s Portola Music Festival

SAN FRANCISCO – Two suspects linked to an armed theft throughout final weekend’s Portola Music Pageant in San Francisco had been arrested, police say. 

Police mentioned two victims had been robbed at gunpoint with an “AR kind rifle” whereas they had been ready for a rideshare after the live performance at third Road and Burke Avenue. 

San Francisco Police Division managed to trace and get better a sufferer’s discarded cellphone on the road. Police mentioned about an hour after the theft, a Tenderloin officer noticed the suspect car on the 700 block of Ellis. The suspects had been then detained. 

Police recovered the rifle and stolen property. The 2 suspects had been recognized as Brandon Norling, 34, and Lucas Angier, 28. Each males are from the Lake Tahoe-Tahoe Metropolis space. They had been each booked and are dealing with a number of felony theft and weapons costs, SFPD mentioned. 

This was the most recent in a string of unhealthy publicity linked to the music pageant, organized by Goldenvoice, which debuted this yr. The opposite headlines had been about how excessively loud the music was, reportedly heard throughout the Bay in Alameda, and claims of poor crowd administration. Pageant organizers by no means acquired again to KTVU in regards to the criticism. 

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