"A Bay Area chef with a previous arrest on suspicion of bank robbery is back in custody after allegedly hitting three San Francisco banks last week. Valentino Luchin, 62, faces multiple charges of robbery and attempted robbery after a one-day spree, San Francisco police said. The news was first reported by the San Francisco Chronicle; the Chronicle and SFGATE are both owned by Hearst but have separate newsrooms."
"On Wednesday, San Francisco police received an alert for a robbery at a bank on the 1100 block of Grant Avenue. By the time they arrived, the suspect had fled, but an employee provided a description of a man she said had passed her a note "demanding money," police said in a press release. The employee gave him a bag of cash, she said."
"This is not Luchin's first brush with the law. Before his legal troubles, Luchin worked as the executive chef at Rose Pistola in San Francisco. He then opened Ottavio in Walnut Creek, serving as both the owner and the head chef. But the restaurant closed in 2016, sending Luchin into a tailspin of financial woes. In 2018, Luchin allegedly walked into a bank in Orinda and ordered a teller to give him cash. He walked away with $18,000, police said at the time."
Valentino Luchin, 62, was taken into custody after allegedly robbing three San Francisco banks during a one-day spree and now faces multiple robbery and attempted robbery charges. Police received an alert for a robbery on the 1100 block of Grant Avenue where an employee said a man passed a note "demanding money" and received a bag of cash. Two other robberies that day in the Central District involved a similarly described suspect. SFPD identified Luchin, who lives locally, and he is jailed pending charges. Luchin previously ran restaurants and allegedly robbed an Orinda bank in 2018 for $18,000.
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