{"id":509280,"date":"2026-10-27T07:48:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T07:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/509280\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T07:48:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T07:48:31","slug":"san-francisco-man-convicted-of-conspiracy-to-commit-armed-carjacking-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/509280\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco man convicted of conspiracy to commit armed carjacking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Brief<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A man arrested in 2023 for conspiring to rob a cannabis courier was convicted on Thursday, Oct. 22, by a federal grand jury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Cankun He, 32, was one of several men who conspired to hijack the vehicle, which was transporting $370,000 in cash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He had previously been arrested for conspiring to rob a Portland, Ore. store of 200 iPhones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">SAN FRANCISCO &#8211; A federal jury on Thursday convicted a San Francisco man of conspiracy to commit an armed carjacking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Evidence presented at trial showed Cankun He, 32, conspired with two other individuals to target a cannabis courier transporting approximately $370,000 of cash in proceeds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He reportedly, on May 18, 2023, surveilled the area in Daly City where the courier was expected to arrive, and alerted his partners when the vehicle appeared.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">His collaborator, John Cantie, brandished a gun at a neighbor walking her children, then blocked the courier&#8217;s van with a black SUV. Cantie held the courier at gunpoint while his partner Robert Maynard handcuffed him, then the two drove away with the cash and the van.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Cantie and Maynard in July pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit robbery affecting interstate commerce. Both are awaiting sentencing. He is being held in federal custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He and two additional co-defendants are awaiting a second trial on an additional count of conspiracy to commit robbery affecting interstate commerce. That trial is scheduled to begin on Nov. 30.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He faces a maximum statutory penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.<\/p>\n<p>Prior arrests<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The backstory<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Cantie, Maynard and He were indicted, along with two others, in August 2025. The five were charged with <a data-ylk=\"slk:conspiring to rob a business;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-ndca\/pr\/five-bay-area-men-charged-their-roles-armed-robbery-200-iphones-and-five-cameras\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">conspiring to rob a business<\/a> in Portland, Ore. of iPhones that were being shipped by the company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He and two of his partners allegedly planned the robbery while Cantie and Maynard conducted the crime, posing as FBI agents to access the business before zip-tying employees, threatening them, and stealing the iPhones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Following that theft, He was arrested <a data-ylk=\"slk:during an FBI raid;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/news\/sfpd-underground-nightclub-raid\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">during an FBI raid<\/a> on an illegal nightclub at a shuttered Chinese restaurant in San Francisco&#8217;s Sunset District.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Source<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Information for this story was gathered from press releases issued by the United States Department of Justice, as well as previous KTVU reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief A man arrested in 2023 for conspiring to rob a cannabis courier was convicted on Thursday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-509280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","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\/509280","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=509280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}