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Police Arrest Patricia Hearst In San Francisco Apartment

Patricia Hearst and William and Emily Harris were arrested Thursday afternoon in San Francisco.

FBI agents discovered the two Harrises by chance, jogging on San Francisco streets at 1:15 p.m. The agents apprehended them without a struggle in the Mission Hill area of the city.

Hearst Arrest

Agents arrested Hearst and Wendy Yoshimura in an apartment in Mission Hill an hour later.

U.S. Magistrate Owen Woodruff arraigned Hearst in federal court on charges of bank robbery and federal weapons violations.

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Assistant District Attorney John Howard said that Hearst and the Harrises will be brought to Los Angeles for arraignment on state charges, including kidnapping and robbery.

The court set bail for the three and Yoshimura will be turned over to Alameda Country authorities where she faces charges of illegal possession of explosives.

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