SF News Cops Bust Mission District Van Packed With Cocaine, Magic Mushrooms, $600,000 in Cash Is it a good idea to have three kilos of cocaine and 600 grand in cash sitting in your van at 17th and Shotwell streets? Probably not, and two people learned that the hard way in a recent Mission District drug bust.
SF News Owner of San Jose Yum Yum Donuts Busted for Making and Selling ‘Pink Cocaine’ Out of Shop “Pink cocaine," also known as "Tusi", "Pantera Rosa," or “Pink Panther," is a new synthetic drug cocktail containing a mix of ketamine, MDMA, methamphetamine, cocaine, and opioids.
Business & Tech Report: Elon Musk’s Alleged Drug Use Creating Problems for Tesla, SpaceX Board Members After a Wall Street Journal report this weekend said Elon Musk has been using cocaine, ecstasy, LSD, ketamine, and magic mushrooms, Musk issued non-denials, but top executives of his companies remain worried about the fallout.
SF News So-Called ‘Speedball’ Mixtures of Fentanyl and Stimulants Now Account for Most SF Overdose Deaths There’s a new version of the old ‘speedball’ that now substitutes fentanyl for heroin, and the upper/downer mix now accounts for most SF overdose deaths, though many of those victims may just not have known there was fentanyl in their product.
SF News California Now Paying Meth, Cocaine Users to Stay Clean, SF Users Eligible for the Program People struggling with meth or cocaine addiction can earn up to $599 in gift cards to stay away from the stuff under a news state program, and San Francisco is one of the participating counties.
SF News Five Hospitalized For ODs on Christmas After Reportedly Doing Contaminated Cocaine at Japantown Residence Five people were hospitalized, two of them in critical condition, after they all apparently suffered accidental overdoses inside a residence on Japantown's main drag on Christmas Day.
SF News Cocaine Laced With Fentanyl Blamed for Spike in OD Deaths, DPH Urges Use of Fentanyl Test Strips and Narcan Amidst a surge in fentanyl overdoses among people who thought they were using cocaine, the Health Department is emphasizing that it is easy to get free fentanyl testing strips and Narcan for safer drug use.
SF News Alameda Coast Guard Nabs 9,000 Pounds of Cocaine in Separate Busts The regional US Coast Guard is tooting its own horn after busting three separate smuggling vessels carrying an estimated $156 million in cocaine.
SF News Suspect In Theft Of FBI Agent's Gun Out On Bail The man accused of breaking into the car of an FBI agent parked near Alamo Square Park and stealing a gun, badge, and FBI credentials has been released on bail. KRON4 reports that
SF News SFO Security Screeners Busted For Cocaine Smuggling Ring Three security screeners at SFO have been indicted on fraud and drug smuggling charges, the Justice Department said on Friday. The three were employees of Covenant Aviation Security, a private company that's contracted
SF News Police Crack Down (Again) On Cocaine-Fueled Excelsior Gambling Clubs It seems like only yesterday that the City Attorney's office announced it would be closing down illegal gambling cafés in the Excelsior. The sweepstakes cafés, which have operated under a legal loophole in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Playland On Polk Suspended For Sale Of Cocaine, Marijuana According to the website for Playland, the Polk Street bar will be closed for a "remodel" until March 3rd. But the Chronicle is implying that's some coded language, and maybe not the first
SF News LA Public Defender Allegedly Gives Drunken Concert, Demands Cocaine While At SFO Sixty years after Bill Haley's version of "Rock Around the Clock” "became an anthem for rebellious Fifties youth," a high-profile Los Angeles attorney allegedly used it to fight for her right to party
SF News Oakland Man Convicted Of First Degree Murder For Weed- and Coke-Fueled Argument Over God 33-year-old Douglas Yim is currently looking at 126 years to life in prison for the murder of his friend 25-year-old Dzuy Duhn Phan. The two started arguing over the existence of a higher
SF News Disgraced SFPD Lab Tech Deborah Madden Avoids Jail Former SFPD crime lab technician Deborah Madden, who plead guilty in March to misdemeanor cocaine possession after two federal trials on greater charges ended with hung juries, has skirted jail time and was
SF News Thief Snags Cocaine Baby's Diaper Bag Less than three months after entering this world on a Bayview sidewalk with cocaine in his system, this baby boy still can't catch a break. Yesterday, a diaper bag belonging to the baby's
SF News Former SFPD Lab Tech Deborah Madden Pleading Guilty To Misdemeanor The sad story of 62-year-old former SFPD lab technician Deborah Madden, who resigned in 2009 while under investigation for evidence tampering, is about to come to an end. Madden is pleading guilty to
SF News Once-Bleak Outer Sunset Also Popular With Drug Dealers In the Outer Sunset, where the neighborhood has really been experiencing a renaissance since that one time the New York Times called it "bleak" and "gloomy" a couple years back, there's a new
SF News Man Found Carrying Two Pounds Of Cocaine In His Stomach Pleads Guilty To Dumb Idea 55-year-old Emmanuel Amankwa, who was busted at San Francisco International Airport back in October with over two pounds of cocaine pellets in his stomach, has pled guilty to possession of more than 500
SF News Bayview Woman Who Left Her Newborn For Dead Pleads Not Guilty Candidate for least favorite San Franciscan of 2012, Nneka Nash, 39, appeared in court today to face charges stemming from a bloody, newborn infant she left at a shelter in the Bayview around
SF News S.F. Mom Facing Charges for Abandoning Cocaine Baby A Hunter's Point woman is facing charges after reportedly giving birth to a baby boy in the pouring rain on a Bayview sidewalk, then handing the baby off to a man on the
SF News Redwood City Man Attempts To FedEx Three Kilos Of Meth, Fails 37-year-old Garbriel Uribe-Bautista pled not guilty Wednesday to three charges related to his failed attempt to ship three kilos of methamphetamine and 100 grams of cocaine through a FedEx store in Redwood City.
SF News Man Busted at SFO With 2.5 Pounds of Cocaine Inside His Body A 55-year-old man was arrested at SFO last week after passing 100 plastic-covered pellets filled with cocaine, which he was trying to smuggle to Japan in his stomach. Border control agents became suspicious
SF News Jury Selection Begins in Trial of Accused Cokey Crime Lab Worker Deborah Madden Poor Deborah Madden, the hard-working 29-year vet of the SFPD's crime lab, is in federal court this week and jury selection just began this morning in her trial for a charge of stealing
Arts & Entertainment Video: 'I Want It All Now' 1978 Doc Exposes Marin County's Hedonism "On the other side of the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco," this 1978 NBC News exposé begins, "a woman can buy the services of two nude masseurs." And with that, we think
