SF News Man Accused of Delivering Weed Vape to 12-Year-Old’s Sonoma County Home via Snapchat Rohnert Park police arrested a 21-year-old man after a woman caught him at her home allegedly selling a cannabis vape pen to her 12-year-old following a deal arranged on Snapchat.
SF News Tenderloin Corner Store Was Allegedly Selling Meth, City Seeks to Shut It Down The San Francisco City Attorney's Office filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to shut down a problematic store called The Corner Store, which in addition to selling weed and illegal flavored tobacco products, was also apparently selling meth.
SF News Sup. Dorsey’s Latest Crusade Is to Hold Hearings Into Whether SF Drug Court Is Getting Too Lenient SF’s 30-year-old Drug Court was intended for non-violent drug offenders to avoid jail for low-level drug crimes. But now people with pretty violent charges are sneaking in, and Supervisor Matt Dorsey ain’t happy about it.
SF News Residents In Hayes Valley and Near 16th and Mission Complain About Approach to Shuffling Drug Trade Around Gatherings of habitual drug users and dealers that used to occur primarily on Sixth Street and in the Tenderloin have shifted to other neighborhoods thanks to the mayor and SFPD's "cleanup" efforts, and neighbors on one Mission alley are protesting.
SF News Another Spot Where the Drug Scene Moved, Jefferson Square Park, Gets Raided By SFPD Overnight In addition to shuffling the drug users to parts of the Mission District, the city's efforts to "clean up" Sixth Street and parts of the Tenderloin also just shuffled a crowd of users over to Jefferson Square Park on Cathedral Hill. And the park was just the subject of a large-scale raid by police.
SF News Sixth Street Crackdown Seems To Be Just Merely Pushing Blight to Mission District The recent crackdown on vending and drug use along SoMa’s Sixth Street may be getting some results, but those results appear to be just moving the unsavoriness to major plazas in the Mission District.
SF News Two Alleged Drug Dealers Accused of Using a Kid to Sell Their Product in the Tenderloin Two men were charged by the SF DA’s office for dealing drugs in the Tenderloin, but the unusual twist in this case is that they were reportedly using a child to perform some of their drug deals for them.
SF News Feds Extradite Honduran Man Back to US to Face Tenderloin Fentanyl-Dealing Charges A 25-year-old Honduran national who moved to Oakland and allegedly dealt some pretty large volumes of fentanyl fled back to Honduras when a federal grand jury indicted him last year, but he was arrested and extradited back this week to face trial.
SF News SFPD Arrests High-Volume Drug Dealer In Tenderloin Following Four-Month Investigation San Francisco police announced the Tuesday arrest of a "high-volume" dealer of fentanyl, meth, cocaine, and prescription pills, and they say they uncovered much evidence of his drug dealing at his Oakland home.
SF News Two Tenderloin Drug Dealers, Convicted In 2021, Fled to Honduras and Have Now Been Caught and Sentenced A drug kingpin who pleaded guilty to supplying street-level dealers in SF's Tenderloin with about two tons (1775 kilograms) of meth and cocaine between June 2018 and his arrest in 2019, fled the country while out on bond three years ago. But he was found, extradited, and has now been sentenced.
SF News Oakland Man Sentenced to 18 Months For Helping Launder Drug Money, Wire It to Mexico and Honduras An Oakland man who owns a money-wiring service has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison in a plea deal, after pleading guilty to money-laundering charges.
SF News Two Tenderloin Hotels and Four Residents File Lawsuit Against City Over Street Conditions Two hotels in the Tenderloin, the Phoenix and Best Western, as well as a group of residents, have filed a lawsuit against the city that's similar to one filed four years ago by UC Hastings.
SF News SF City Leaders Hold Rally, Reiterate Plan to Prosecute Fentanyl Dealers For Homicide A plan that was announced last fall to begin prosecuting fentanyl dealers for homicide in cases of fatal overdoses is moving forward, and a law enforcement task force dedicated to the project is set to launch soon.
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 Prolific Honduran Fentanyl Dealer Based In Oakland Being Kept Behind Bars Now After Multiple Arrests, Releases A Honduran national who had been arrested multiple times by law enforcement in recent years, and was on pretrial release for drug charges from 2022, has now been ordered to stay in federal custody pending his trial on new charges.
SF News SFPD Says It Has Made Over 900 Arrests for Narcotics Sales Since May The mayor's office and the SFPD put out new numbers this week documenting the success, they say, of efforts to crack down on open-air drug sales in and around the Tenderloin and SoMa.
SF News Gonzo Journalist Interviews Serial Car Burglar In SF, Draws Direct Line Between Fentanyl and 24th Street Vendors You may be familiar with gonzo YouTube journalist Andrew Callaghan and his "Channel 5" interviews with everyone from the Q Shaman, to anti-vaxxers, and Phish fans. Well, he just spent some time in San Francisco, and his footage is both sensational and enlightening.
SF News Tenderloin Check Cashing Employee Arrested for Laundering Money for Drug Dealer A now-fired teller at a Tenderloin check cashing joint has been charged by the feds for laundering money under the table to Mexico for at least one known drug dealer.
SF News Has the Law Enforcement Crackdown Impacted the Drug Scene In the Tenderloin? One Dealer Says Yes It's too soon to say whether the law enforcement crackdown on open-air drug dealing in the Tenderloin and SoMa, ongoing since this summer, has been a success or failure. But some impacts have been apparent, and anecdotally, there may be fewer dealers on the streets.
SF News DA and Others Like to Blame SF Judges For Setting Drug Dealers Free, But Have You Served on a Jury? Finger pointing about who's most to blame for the open-air drug market that has existed in San Francisco's Tenderloin and SoMa neighborhoods for decades is de rigeur, and every politician here feels the need to shift blame away from themselves.
SF Politics SF Mayor, Police Tout 300 Drug Dealer Arrests In Three Months, 160 Kilos Seized The crackdown on Tenderloin and SoMa drug dealing and drug use is having an impact, at least according to some numbers released by Mayor London Breed on Friday — though the effectiveness of the strategy to throw users in jail for public intoxication or possession remains to be proven.
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 News 23-Year-Old San Jose Man Gets 12 Years For Selling Fentanyl-Laced Pills to Los Gatos High Schoolers One lengthy drug sentence is likely to come down in Santa Clara County in a case involving a dealer who was providing dangerous, fentanyl-laced pills to students at Los Gatos High School last year, leading to at least one overdose.
SF News SFPD Seizes 9.5 Kilos of Fentanyl In Two-Week Span of Drug Arrests In the span of 14 days, the San Francisco Police Department has seized more than one-third of the amount of fentanyl it seized in all of 2022, which is an indication of both the vast quantities being peddled and of stepped-up enforcement efforts.
SF News Report: Many Tenderloin Drug Dealers Hail From the Same Area In Honduras, Which Is Dotted With SF Swag Drug money made in the open-air markets of the Tenderloin and South of Market has fueled a "housing boom" in one impoverished area of Honduras. The Chronicle traveled there and conducted an 18-month investigation into this source of one of the dominant groups running SF's drug trade.
