2 Arrests In SF Business Robberies: Police

SAN FRANCISCO — Two men have been charged in connection with three violent business holdups in and around San Francisco's Mission District in an eight-day period, prosecutors said Friday.

Lloyd Gage, 33, of Fremont, and Jacquez Tucker, 32, of San Francisco, pleaded not guilty Thursday to accusations including robbery, burglary, aggravated kidnapping, false imprisonment and weapons charges, the San Francisco District Attorney's Office said in a statement.

At three businesses between Sept. 26 and Oct. 4, victims were forced to the floor or taken into back rooms at gunpoint while the thieves made off with cash and merchandise, prosecutors said. In two cases, the victims were pistol-whipped and the businesses' ATMs were stolen.

If convicted of all charges, each man faces up to life in prison.

Anyone with relevant information is asked to call the San Francisco Police Department tip line at (415) 575-4444 or text to TIP411 and begin the text message with SFPD.

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