San Francisco’s most prolific armed felon arrested AGAIN while on bail and probation after police chase amid tit-for-tat Bayview shootings
San Francisco’s most prolific violent felon — treated with kid gloves by a succession of superior court judges on both sides of the Bay — has been arrested again after apparently becoming embroiled in an armed feud and leading police on a terrifying auto pursuit, a court has been told.
SFPD officers had been concerned to see Cameron Haynes and accomplice Darnel Scott in a car parked on Osceola Lane in the Hunters Point district on the evening of April 3. The area had been plagued by a recent spate of shootings including, four days earlier, a midnight ‘spray and pray’ in which 75 rounds were fired.
Prosecutors say Haynes then led police on a hair-raising chase through the city’s Bayview, Mission and SOMA neighborhoods — running red lights and stop signs, driving on sidewalks and in the wrong lane and making rapid u-turns in a bid to avoid capture.
Haynes’ passenger, Scott, decamped from the vehicle before the chase began in earnest and ran away, hampered by both his and Haynes’ guns being stuffed down his pants: a pair of .40 caliber Glocks, one fitted with an automatic fire switch and the other equipped with an extended magazine.
Both suspects were apprehended.
At the time of the incident Haynes, 20, was on bail twice over in San Francisco: the first case involving two incidents in which he had led SFPD on pursuits through the city and guns were recovered on which his DNA was found, the second involving a string of auto burglaries.
In January he was given two years’ probation by an Alameda judge following an incident in which a senior who had just used an ATM at an Oakland shopping center was robbed.
After his recent arrest, police took the opportunity to charge him with two more counts of auto burglary and two counts of grand theft relating to another 2024 incident in which an auto burglary crew fled from SFPD in a Lexus. Haynes DNA was subsequently discovered in the empty vehicle.
Haynes is perhaps best known for missing a 2023 court appearance on auto burglary charges in San Francisco because an Alameda judge had ordered his arrest on suspicion of involvement in the murder of Oakland baker Jen Angel.
Haynes, who earlier pleaded ‘not guilty’ to two counts of evading police and one count of ammunition possession, and Scott, who pleaded ‘not guilty’ to a battery of firearms charges, appeared today for a brief hearing at San Francisco Superior Court.
Judge Kenneth Wine told the pair to return to court on April 22 when a further attempt to hold their preliminary hearing will be made.
Haynes remains in custody. Scott, also a felon, appeared out-of-custody today having persuaded another judge, Gerardo Sandoval, to release him on April 8 despite allegations that he possessed a machine gun, has a penchant for auto burglary and has an ongoing dispute with other heavily-armed criminals.
In November 2024 Haynes was charged with robbing an 82-year-old woman of the money she had just withdrawn from an ATM in a shopping center in Oakland’s Piedmont district. An Alameda judge was told that a police helicopter tracked the vehicle which afforded other officers the opportunity to disable it and arrest the suspects.
In January this year Haynes was sentenced to two years’ probation by Alameda Superior Court Judge Kimberly Colwell after pleading ‘no contest’ to one count of grand theft from a person. In an remarkable plea deal with Alameda prosecutors, charges of second degree robbery and theft from a vehicle were dismissed.
At that sentencing reference was made to Haynes’ sole adult conviction — robbery from 2022. No reference could be made to any others because none of his San Francisco cases have completed.
The case continues.
Update: Haynes’ alleged accomplice, Darnel Scott, was arrested on May 15 2025 on suspicion of the January 6 murder of Tre-4 gang member Natali Cisneros in Antioch. A judge was told that police have video of Scott and an accomplice abandoning the car used in the shooting and that his DNA was found on spent cartridge casings recovered at the murder scene.
Police say the stolen white Acura MDX SUV used by the culprits was abandoned in West Oakland forty minutes after the shooting — at a spot that arrest records show is barely four blocks from Haynes’ residence.
Authorities conclude that Scott, a Double Rock gang member, then departed that location in his red Toyota Camry and drove to his home in Fairfield.
Scott is being held without bail in Contra Costa County.
This case is but another example of violence and mayhem directly facilitated by trusting judges’ willingness to grant bail and, in San Francisco especially, the glacial pace at which criminal cases progress which leaves accountability perennially over the horizon for culprits.
This miscalibrated approach places a heavy premium on keeping obvious recidivists on the streets until they inflict serious injury or commit murder, and which regards the harm caused in the interim as little more than ‘fortunes of war’.
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