SF News Arrest Leads to Seizure of Meth at Vallejo Home, as Well as Endangered Monkey, Live Rattlesnakes A traffic stop in Solano County led to the arrest of a Vallejo man and subsequent search of his home, which led to the discovery a lot of meth, an endangered baby spider monkey, and two live rattlesnakes.
SF News SFPD Makes Huge Deal Out of 16th & Mission Bust That Only Produced Four Arrests, Tiny Smattering of Drugs The Mayor, Sheriff, and Chief of Police thought it was worthy of a press conference that SFPD did a “saturation” bust at 16th and Mission Wednesday night, yet this operation resulted in just four arrests and the seizure of one measly ounce of drugs.
SF News SFPD Busts Suspects With Two Pounds of Drugs In an RV In the Tenderloin An RV happened to have nearly 1,000 grams worth of fentanyl, meth, and cocaine inside when the SF Police Department entered it with a search warrant Thursday, and two suspects have been detained for narcotics trafficking.
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 SFPD Boasts 42 Arrests Made in Wednesday’s One-Day Tenderloin Sweep A one-day operation targeting Tenderloin drug dealers resulted in 42 arrests on Wednesday, and 30 of those suspects had outstanding warrants.
SF News City Report Finds Some People Arrested For Drugs In SF Live In Other Cities, But Still Receive SF Welfare A new city report that is conveniently timed before Tuesday’s 'drug screening for welfare recipients' vote finds that some drug users get SF welfare even though they don’t live here, though the report only details 41 people doing this.
SF News SFPD Touts Drug Bust That Seized Eight Pounds of Fentanyl, 32 Pounds of Meth A very heavy drug bust, as SFPD says they arrested four people for having 44 pounds of illegal drugs, and all were East Bay residents who allegedly supplied “street-level dealers who frequent the Tenderloin.”
SF News Sup. Dorsey Demands Report on ‘Drug Tourism,’ Seems to Be Itching For Crackdown District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey has a hunch that people are coming from out of town to buy or sell illegal drugs in SF, and is asking the City Controller for an analysis of the home addresses of those arrested to see how many are from other countries.
SF News Oakland Woman Arrested for Dealing Drugs in Tenderloin Had Two-Year-Old With Her When Arrested A 21-year-old Oakland woman was arrested in a Tenderloin drug bust that turned up more than three pounds of illegal narcotics, and, more shockingly, she had her two-year-old child with her when arrested.
SF Politics DA Jenkins’s Drug Treatment Effort Not Really Working, Because No One’s Showing Up For Court It’s hardly encouraging that DA Brooke Jenkins's ten-month-old push to get low-level drug arrestees into treatment has only yielded three attempts to get people into treatment. It’s even less encouraging that none of them have shown up for their court dates.
SF News Three Men, One Teenager Arrested After Drug Bust Recovers Over 20 Pounds of Fentanyl in Oakland and SF The bust was the result of SFPD's joint investigation with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency on drugs into the Tenderloin, DA Brooke Jenkins said.
SF News DA Jenkins Rolls Out New Policy To Clamp Down on Repeat Misdemeanor Drug Offenders Call it a “five strikes” law if you will — SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins’s new drug misdemeanor policy hopes to tighten the screws on repeat offenders once they’ve racked up five drug possession and/or paraphernalia charges.
SF News SFPD Seizes 29 Firearms, Meth and Other Narcotics In Outer Sunset Raid The San Francisco Police Department's Taraval Neighborhood Unit just announced the arrests of four SF residents and the seizure of over two dozen firearms, ammunition, and "various narcotics" following a raid on a residence last week.
SF News Cops Bust Huge Civic Center Drug Ring, Arrest 48 The open-air drug market that is UN Plaza just got a bit less druggy after a joint task force consisting of the SFPD, Alameda County Narcotics Task Force, and the DEA made 48
SF News Feds Bust Pot Smuggling Ring Involving Oakland Airport Baggage Handlers A trio of baggage handlers at Oakland Airport have been charged with conspiracy to distribute, and possession with intent to distribute, 100 kilograms or more of marijuana. As the AP reports, the three
SF News Big Cache Of Cocaine Found On SF Cruise Ship Do you understand how much 26 pounds of cocaine is? It's a lot. Like, enough to make the entire city of San Francisco pretty high for at least an evening. Not that we'd
SF News Five Busloads Of Bay Area Teens Busted With Enormous Drug Cache Five busloads of Bay Area high school students bound for a ski trip in Utah were busted by cops in Elko, Nevada for a truly impressive drug stash that looks to amount to
SF News SFist Blotter: More Richmond Shooting, More Oakland Shooting, Suspect In Burning Body Case Richmond / Shootings: A turf/gang war appears to have reignited in Richmond with two more consecutive shootings Sunday night that left two dead and two injured. [CBS] Richmond / Drug Bust: After a traffic
SF News Major Meth Bust in the South Bay... in a PT Cruiser Cops seized almost 40 pounds of crystal methamphetamine on Friday, hidden in concealed compartments of a PT Cruiser they pulled over in Gilroy. The stash was worth $430,000, fresh from Mexico, and
SF News George Gascon Declares Futile War on Drugs and Hookers in the 'Loin Has anyone heard of this thing called the War on Drugs started by President Nixon, in which drug dealers and users get thrown in jail in order to clean up our streets and
SF News Commuter Train Heroin Trafficking Ring Intercepted A heroin smuggling ring that involved transporting hundreds of kilos at a time hidden in train engines and compartments has been busted up by federal authorities, as announced yesterday by Acting U.S.
SF News Cocaine Production Down in Colombia, Up in Bolivia and Peru The U.N. Office of Drugs and Crime is reporting a sharp drop in cocaine production in Colombia -- down 28% in 2008 over the previous year. Apparently the value of the coca
SF News Scenes from a Mission District Dope Bust SFist contributor Travis Jensen came across an exciting scene in the Mission district the other day. While "bullshitting about skateboarding, photography and other stuff," Jensen and his journo pals, Isaac Mckay Randozzi and
