Crime & Safety
Altercation Over Pokemon Cards Turns Violent At Game Stop
A person was stabbed repeatedly at the Game Stop store in Colma on Saturday.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA — An altercation over Pokemon cards at a game store in Colma ended in a violent altercation and the arrest of two people this weekend, according to police.
On Saturday at about 9:22 a.m., officers were sent to the Game Stop on Junipero Serra Boulevard, where they found a person suffering from multiple stab wounds and lacerations to the head, Colma Police said. The victim was rushed to the hospital with life-threatening injuries, but as of Saturday afternoon they were in stable condition.
Officers were told two male suspects had been involved and both fled the scene in two different vehicles before police arrived, a Honda and a Toyota. The victim provided officers with photos of the suspect's cars and their plates.
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The Honda was located by Colma officers in the area of Junipero Serra Boulevard and Serramonte Boulevard. The Daly City Police Department later located the Toyota at Gellert Park in Daly City. Both men allegedly involved in the altercation were detained.
An investigation revealed that the skirmish began when a verbal fight broke out between the victim and one of the suspects after the suspect tried to cut in front of them in a line to buy Pokemon cards. The argument turned physical when one of the suspects struck the victim in the back of the head with a glass mason jar. The second suspect then grabbed the broken shards of glass from the jar and began to stab the victim multiple times.
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Arrested were San Francisco residents Isaiah Calles, 27, and Miguel Orellanas-Flores, 49.
OrellanasFlores and Calles were both booked into jail on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, assault with a deadly weapon causing great bodily injury, battery with serious bodily injury and conspiracy to commit a crime.
This investigation is still ongoing. Anyone with information or video of this incident is encouraged to contact the Colma Police Department Detective Bureau at (650) 997-8321. To remain anonymous, call the anonymous tip-line at (650) 997-8337. Videos can be sent to colmapolice@colma.ca.gov.
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