Pickpocket targets San Francisco woman in wheelchair on Muni

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- No crime is a good crime obviously, but some are worse than others. San Francisco police are looking for a guy who stoops pretty low. They say he robbed a woman in a wheelchair as they were riding a Muni bus.

The victim says she was on the No. 5 Fulton Muni bus line when the man pretended to lose his balance then went into her purse.

The minute the man got on the bus on Saturday, May 23, Karen Sellers says she noticed something was odd.

Sellers told ABC7 News, "The little antenna in my head went up and I said, 'Nobody carries their jacket over their arm anymore, that guy's trying to hide something,'"

The bus surveillance camera caught video of him on the bus with his jacket. Sellers says he stood next to her near the back exit, then pretended to stumble into her when the bus came to a stop at McAllister and Van Ness.

"I said, 'Get off of me!' and pushed. He said, 'Oh sorry,' and then he immediately went out the back door and then I looked down and noticed the purse was unzipped and the wallet was gone," Sellers recalls.

She then yelled for the bus driver and you can hear her voice on Muni's surveillance video saying, "He grabbed my wallet."

Police say he may be responsible for other similar robberies because of how fast he got away and used one of her stolen credit cards.

"One of the officers was quick enough to give her the contact number to call her credit card and have her cancel the card. As she was canceling the card, the suspect already used the card," SFPD Officer Carlos Manfredi said.

Sellers says she is still making sure everything in her purse is getting replaced, but she really wants to help catch the guy who robbed her.