San Francisco police say they've nabbed the woman who was seen in a video snatching a Macbook computer from a local coffee shop.
The video went viral yesterday after SF Citizen and SF Weekly posted the video, showing a blonde woman stealing the computer from a downtown coffee shop. The victim, a software developer, was able to retrieve the surveillance from the coffee shop and posted it on her tumblr page.
On Monday at about 2:30 p.m., police got a call about a suspicious woman at a Starbucks on Clay Street. "An employee at another coffee shop actually saw the video on SF Weekly regarding the laptop theft incident and noticed this person matching the description was in her coffee shop," Officer Gordon Shyy tells us.
Officers arrived at the Starbucks where the suspect -- identified as 32-year-old Paul Raynal -- allegedly tried to pass off a false identity to the cops. However, police say she was wearing the same outfit she had on in the theft video. Also, they found some stolen property on her, so they hauled her down to the station and booked her on a litany of charges, including burglary, possession of stolen property, and attempting to use someone else's identification, Shyy says. She also had a warrant for her arrest for a parole violation.
Shyy says she had not taken anything from the Starbucks yesterday, and could not say whether she was there to commit a crime. "It's a crime of opportunity," he says. "She may have just wanted a Grande Latte."
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