2nd man says he was drugged, robbed by women in SF

A second man has come forward to the Bay Area Reporter claiming two women gave him a powder they said was cocaine after luring him from a San Francisco bar before allegedly stealing several thousand dollars of his. The first case involved a gay man who said he was drugged and taken from a Castro bar and driven to an East Bay casino, where he discovered he lost thousands of dollars.

In the second case, a 30-year-old straight man who wishes to remain anonymous had read the B.A.R.’s July 22 report about the two women, who in a June Castro neighborhood incident allegedly took a gay man to a San Pablo casino. Before Nick, who requested his last name not be used, became fully conscious again, he said that he had lost $6,000-$7,000.

The San Francisco Police Department had told the B.A.R. for that report that there weren’t statistics about other similar incidents recently. The anonymous second alleged victim bitterly said in a phone interview, “They’re either incompetent or lying.”

The man – who is temporarily residing in San Francisco for work – said that the incident involving him occurred early in the morning May 30. He said he was “out with some friends in North Beach” at a bar he did not name - he said he is friends with the owner - when “two women approached us. They seemed friendly. We were just chatting, and at the end of the night, past 1:30 [a.m.], my friends started to head home, and these two women said, ‘Do you want to keep hanging out?’ I said, ‘Sure.’ I went with them, got in their car – a dark SUV – and they drove around.”

It was at that point they “offered me what they said was cocaine, which I took a key bump worth of. It was not cocaine.” (He did not take a drug test afterward to ascertain what drugs were in his system.)

Nick, 38, had told the B.A.R. that he was also brought by two women to their car after meeting them at The Mix bar in the Castro on June 6. Asked if he remembers anything about the vehicle, Nick stated to the B.A.R. that, “It was a large SUV, I want to say white, but not positive.”

The anonymous man continued, “The next three or so hours were a blur.” His phone location shows he was driven around San Francisco for several hours in the early morning. 

“Around 4:10 [a.m.] or so they dropped me off at my hotel I was staying at,” he said. “When I checked my wallet, all the cash was gone. The credit cards were gone as well, but my ID was still there. One of them texted me something to the effect of ‘Good doing business with you. Enjoy your day in SF.’”

He remembers they gave their names as “Cassie Prevail” and “Mia,” he told the B.A.R.

In his incident, Nick said that the women stopped to pick up another man, who they said was gay, implying they could have sexual relations. The four of them then went to the San Pablo Lytton Casino in the East Bay. Nick said he was visibly intoxicated and kicked out. From his wallet, he saw his bank cards were not present, and so he checked his bank account via his phone, which showed that he’d lost between $6,000-$7,000. His ID was still in the wallet. Nick said after he was booted from the casino, he took BART home from the Richmond station. 

The anonymous man said the women had taken a total of $3,500 in various ways, including the Venmo app in his phone, and stopping at several ATMs in the city during the early morning ride. He said that he was able to get the charges reversed and refunded. He stated he doesn’t recall if he withdrew the cash, or if the women did, because he was not conscious. 

Nick, too, said that he was able to get most of his money back from his bank.

The anonymous man said he “didn’t have time” to file a police report immediately, as he had a flight back, first to Toronto and then to New York, three hours after returning to the hotel, where he was staying at the time.

He called the SFPD. The person who answered the phone said that he needed to make a full report in person, but that the New York Police Department could take it as a courtesy and send it to the SFPD. When he tried to report the matter to the NYPD, “They said that was nonsense.”

He did eventually fully report the matter to the SFPD – including with photos captured from security footage from the bar in question where he had met the two women.

The B.A.R. viewed the photos, which show two women, one of whom was wearing a yellow track suit, with long hair wrapped in a ponytail and white shoes. The other woman had her hair down, with an orange and white striped dress that goes down to her mid-thigh, and sandals. 

Reached for comment July 29, SFPD Public Information Officer Robert Rueca stated that on June 2, “We received a report of a theft/pocket picking incident that occurred on 5/30/25. The victim met females at a bar and joined them in their vehicle as they drove around. The victim was dropped off at his hotel. The victim reported that he was missing U.S. currency from his wallet and fraudulent charges and withdrawals were made on the victim's cards. No arrest has been made at this time for this open investigation.” 

The SFPD also confirmed Nick’s account for the B.A.R.’s earlier report. 

Nick had first reported the incident to the San Pablo Police Department. Peggy Chou, police support services manager for the San Pablo police, stated that, “It appears the evening of June 6 or early morning of June 7, we had a victim report that he was at a bar in San Francisco, outside of our jurisdiction, where he had an interaction with two female, and one male, adults. He believes they drugged him during the night on which he knowingly injected narcotics. At some point, the two adult female suspects, along with the one adult male suspect, accessed the victim’s financial information and the victim reported being driven to the San Pablo casino from San Francisco, and then, based on the report, the suspects left the victim behind at the casino.”

Chou related that SFPD was now the lead investigative agency, as the alleged crime started in San Francisco.

The anonymous man said that he still has to update the SFPD with a video he took after returning to the city; he was out in North Beach, he said, and saw the same SUV driving around the historic Italian neighborhood with a bustling nightlife district. 

He shared the video with the B.A.R., which shows the car driving around the area of Grant and Columbus avenues.

He agreed with the assessment of Sister Shalita Corndog, who is helping lead a safety campaign on behalf of the drag nun group the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, that the drug in question may have been phenylcyclohexyl piperidine, also known as angel dust. The man said he’d taken recreational drugs in the past, such as cocaine and ketamine, and this was not either of those to the best of his understanding.

“Nothing I’ve experienced put me in a state like that,” he said.

It’s unclear what alleged drug Nick was given.

The anonymous man also had some choice words for the SFPD’s response to his report. 

“I got pulled over riding my bike the other night, last week, and was stopped for that, and I’m kind of pissed off at them. I asked them, in anger, ‘Did you hear about people being drugged and robbed?’ and they hadn’t. It’s something they don’t give a shit about,” he said.

Corndog stressed that, “victims of these crimes can’t be shamed, and often are blamed.”

“The purpose of our campaign is to try to minimize that,” Corndog continued. “There should be that one person who knows what they’re up to.”

The Sisters’ campaign, “Safety First, Sexy Second,” is a three-step plan. First, buddy up: Choose a trusted friend to be your safety check-in; send screenshots of who you’re meeting and share your location. Second, hookup: Be your sexy self and have fun. Finally, follow-up: Set a time to check in and let your buddy know that you’re safe or if you need help.

SCOPE, a project of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, offers free, anonymous, point-of-care drug testing, with no appointments needed. Analysis takes 10-15 minutes per sample, according to the foundation’s website. There are sites in South of Market, the Bayview, and the Haight. More information is available online . 

Anyone with information is asked to contact the SFPD at 415-575-4444 or text a tip to TIP411 and begin the message with SFPD.

Updated, 9/5/25: This article has been updated to remove the first victim's last name, at his request.