{"id":409567,"date":"2026-07-23T16:07:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T16:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/409567\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T16:07:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T16:07:28","slug":"san-francisco-police-arrest-2-suspected-in-armed-robbery-of-elderly-couple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/409567\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco police arrest 2 suspected in armed robbery of elderly couple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two men have been arrested following an armed robbery of an elderly couple in San Francisco last week, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Around 5:25 p.m. on July 15, officers were called to Melra Court in the city&#8217;s Visitacion Valley. An investigation determined that a suspect approached the couple, assaulted them, demanded property and attempted to remove a necklace from one of the victims.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect then pointed a firearm at the couple before stealing their property. Police said the suspect left the scene in a black SUV driven by a second suspect.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said they received a tip from a patrol officer in Bayview and found the SUV had been stolen during a residential burglary on July 12.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/sf-elderly-armed-robbery-072326.jpg#.webp\" alt=\"sf-elderly-armed-robbery-072326.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  San Francisco police investigating after the armed robbery of an elderly couple on July 15, 2026. Two suspects were later arrested.<\/p>\n<p>                San Francisco Police Department<\/p>\n<p>About three hours after the robbery, officers located the SUV parked near 6th and Minna streets in the South of Market. Officers with the Real Time Investigations Center and a drone monitored the vehicle and reviewed surveillance footage, which found the suspects entering a hotel on the 100 block of 6th Street.<\/p>\n<p>Officers located the suspects after they exited the hotel. Police said a search of one of the suspects yielded a semiautomatic firearm, items belonging to one of the victims and what was described as a &#8220;large amount&#8221; of cash.<\/p>\n<p>The second suspect was also found to be with a large amount of cash, according to officers. More stolen items were found in the SUV, along with clothing that matched the suspects&#8217; description during the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Police arrested the suspects, identified as 54-year-old Lamont Jackson and 32-year-old Joe Saelee of Richmond. Both men were booked on charges of robbery, assault with a firearm, possession of a stolen vehicle and firearms-related offenses.<\/p>\n<p>According to jail records, both Jackson and Saelee are being held without bail.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men have been arrested following an armed robbery of an elderly couple in San Francisco last week,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[2873,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-409567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-armed-robbery","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409567","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=409567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}