Police hunt hatchet-wielding transgender woman who stole handbag before escaping on bicycle

Police are looking for a transgender woman who allegedly threatened a security guard with a hatchet after stealing a handbag from a department store.

The robbery happened at around 1pm on Monday at Bloomingdales in downtown San Francisco.



Police said the woman entered the store and took the handbag, and when a security guard approached, she took out a hatchet from a bag and threatened the guard.

The security guard backed down and the woman left the store, fleeing on a bicycle. A police report describes her as a black male transgender, in her 40s, about six feet tall, weighing less than 200 pounds..