San Francisco police this week announced 10 arrests made earlier this month as part of an operation targeting retail theft in the area of the Stonestown Galleria mall.

Officers assigned to the department’s Taraval Station, including some plainclothes officers, waited to arrest criminals who shoplifted from stores in the 3200 block of 20th Avenue and the 200 block of Winston Drive. The stores were chosen due to the high number of thefts the businesses were experiencing, police said.

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Dan McMenamin is the managing editor at Bay City News, directing daily news coverage of the 12-county greater Bay Area. He has worked for BCN since 2008 and has been managing editor since 2014 after previously serving as BCN’s San Francisco bureau reporter. A UC Davis graduate, he came to BCN after working for a newspaper and nonprofit in the Davis area. He handles staffing, including coaching of our interns, day-to-day coverage decisions and management of the newswire.