![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/sf-animal-cruelty.png\")
article <\/p>\n article <\/p>\n
33-year-old William Ohlson of Reno, Nevada was arrested after fleeing onto the rooftop of a San Francisco hotel from police who were trying to arrest him for allegedly killing a kitten. <\/p>\n
SAN FRANCISCO – A Nevada man was arrested on Tuesday after fleeing onto the rooftop of a San Francisco hotel from police who were trying to arrest him for allegedly torturing and killing a kitten two weeks prior.<\/p>\n
What we know:<\/p>\n
The San Francisco Police Department was alerted on July 2 by San Francisco Animal Care and Control (SFACC) that, the day before at about 2 a.m., a man entered the ATM area of a bank in the 1800 block of Market Street with a small kitten and “proceeded to violently torture the animal to death” before leaving the area with the animal\u2019s body, according to the SFPD<\/a>.<\/p>\n The police department assisted the SFACC with an investigation, and authorities identified the suspect as 33-year-old William Ohlson of Reno, Nevada and discovered he was staying at a hotel in the 100 block of Fell Street in San Francisco.<\/p>\n The arrest:<\/p>\n Police served a search warrant at the hotel on Tuesday, and were told by a drone operator assisting in the operations that Ohlson had fled onto the roof of the building, the SFPD said.<\/p>\n “SFPD officers requested the assistance of the San Francisco Fire Department due to the suspect\u2019s location, and members of the SFFD responded with a truck and ladder to assist SFPD in safely apprehending Ohlson on the roof,” the SFPD said.<\/p>\n The police and fire departments worked together to bring Ohlson into custody, and he was booked into jail on suspicion of animal abuse and resisting arrest.<\/p>\n The Source: San Francisco Police Department<\/p>\n News<\/a>San Francisco<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article 33-year-old William Ohlson of Reno, Nevada was arrested after fleeing onto the rooftop of a San Francisco…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[1184,2042,100,101,103,102,104,106,105,1181],"class_list":["post-400957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-ca","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-news","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}