San Francisco’s most prolific violent gangster, Cameron Haynes, has won bail after five months in jail, it has emerged. Thrice accused of leading police on armed high speed auto pursuits through the city, twice accused of a string of auto burglaries, once convicted of robbing an… pic.twitter.com/iGLOVh4tz1
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San Francisco’s most prolific violent gangster, Cameron Haynes, has won bail after five months in jail, it has emerged. Thrice accused of leading police on armed high speed auto pursuits through the city, twice accused of a string of auto burglaries, once convicted of robbing an old lady of the money she took from an ATM – and arrested on suspicion of robbing and killing Oakland baker Jen Engel – the 20-year-old was quietly sprung by Superior Court Judge Patrick Thompson on September 30 2025.
Haynes’ attorney argued it was racist to keep him in jail and insisted he be allowed to participate in the dubiously-named “Second Chance Program” at City College of San Francisco.
His alleged accomplice in the latest case, Darnel Scott, was subsequently charged by Antioch cops with murdering a rival gang member – a killing in which a purported accomplice remains unidentified and uncharged.
None of the many San Francisco cases in which Haynes has been charged are any closer to trial. The complex web of bail conditions and probation terms in which he is enmeshed is impossible to disentangle.
His case is another instance of San Francisco judges offloading dangerous offenders back on to a community that is unprotected and defenseless in the forlorn hope the criminal will be rehabilitated.
Alameda authorities are hardly blameless. After the robbery, in which an armed Haynes and two accomplices accosted an 82-year-old woman and took her money, only to be tracked by a police helicopter which enabled officers to disable their escape vehicle, he was allowed to plead guilty to a single count of grand theft and given a time-served 18-day sentence by Judge Pelayo Llamas.
Haynes will certainly go on to be convicted of a superstrike offense.
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