Burlingame Man, 22, Arrested in SSF on Suspicion of Robbery, Hit-and-Run

Police arrested a Toyota Prius driver after he allegedly stole a cell phone out of a man’s hands and then was involved in two hit-and-run crashes in South San Francisco on Saturday, police said Sunday.

Officers arrested 22-year-old Burlingame resident Oscar Cabrera Jr. on suspicion of robbery, making criminal threats, fleeing the scene of two traffic crashes and driving under the influence of alcohol, according to police.

On Saturday at 5:44 a.m., officers responded to the 200 block of Kenwood Way on a report of a robbery in the Brentwood Shopping Center.

A 64-year-old Daly City man told police that the suspect, later identified as Cabrera, approached him and demanded his cell phone.

Cabrera allegedly grabbed the phone out of the man’s hand and then drove off in a silver 2015 Prius, police said.

As he was leaving, police said the Prius crashed into a vehicle.

Officers later found the car in the first block of Greenwood Drive, after it had crashed into a parked car, police said.

No one was inside the car at the time, but police said Cabrera returned to Greenwood Drive at around 8:30 a.m. that day. An alert neighbor called police and the officers detained Cabrera.

He was subsequently found to be under the influence of alcohol and was positively identified as the person who robbed the 64-year-old man earlier in the morning, police said.

Cabrera was booked in county jail.

• --City News Service, photo via Shutterstock