Celebrity chef arrested for allegedly robbing 3 San Francisco banks on same day

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (KABC) -- A personage cook from Northern California was arrested for allegedly robbing 3 banks successful San Francisco connected the aforesaid time - and it's not the archetypal clip he's faced akin accusations.

Valentino Luchin, 62, the erstwhile enforcement cook astatine the Italian edifice Rose Pistola, was arrested past week, according to the San Francisco Police Department. He is accused of passing notes to slope tellers and demanding wealth earlier fleeing each location.

Police did not disclose however overmuch wealth helium took from each bank. The 62-year-old was booked connected robbery charges.

Back successful 2019, Luchin was arrested for a antithetic slope robbery successful Orinda successful which helium got distant with implicit $15,000.

In an interrogation with our sister presumption KGO-TV astatine the time, Luchin blamed his desperation for wealth aft his erstwhile restaurant, Ottavio, closed down successful 2016.