SF News SFist Blotter: Mission Shooting, SoMa Drug Robbery, Drunken Panhandle Assault Mission / Shooting: Police today increased efforts to learn more about the daylight killing of 18 year-old Kevin Hall, who was shot near the intersection of Alemany Boulevard and Crescent Avenue on August 25.
SF News Bystanders Rush to Grab Free Weed Spilled From a Crashed Truck in San Jose It goes to show you: Everybody smokes weed! A truck loaded with bags of kind bud crashed near the Oakridge Mall yesterday in South San Jose, and, not wanting to get nabbed by
Arts & Entertainment City's Favorite Marijuana-infusing Chocolatier Now a Cool T-Shirt Dolores Park's Truffle Guy has delivered his special brand of magic to jonesing park denizens for quite some time. Now you can get a t-shirt featuring the noted drug dealer, making you the
SF News Media Says It's Time to Stop Doing Cocaine, Everyone You've likely seen or read a news report in recent weeks discussing the issue of "flesh-eating cocaine," and the widespread contamination of the U.S. cocaine supply with an animal de-worming agent called
SF News Naked Woman Armed with Gun and High on Drugs Threatens Super 8 Motel Staff Early Sunday morning, a nude woman armed with a gun and high on marijuana and ecstasy confronted a motel clerk at the Super 8 in Vacaville. The lunacy started around 2:40 a.
SF News Man Tries to Outrun Train In Martinez, Collapses in Custody Something we continue to find charming about old-school print media: They don't like to talk about drugs, or speculate about such matters, using terms like "acting strangely" to describe perps who are clearly
SF News Marin Authorities Destroy Nearly 13,000 Pot Plants On Thursday, Marin authorities eradicated an estimated 13,000 baby marijuana plants found on Bolinas Ridge near Kent Lake. Marin Municipal Water District, National Park Service, California Department of Justice and U.S.
SF News Inappropriate Comments Lead to Machete Attack, Biting at South S.F. Barbecue Who's excited for barbecue season? In South San Francisco, one man was apparently a little too excited for a backyard grill session in his neighborhood last Sunday. While it's unclear if Pedro Garcia
SF News Saturday: National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day Looking to swipe your stash, the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA’s) second National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day is this Saturday. In an effort to "prevent pill abuse and theft,"government, community, public
SF News Mid-Market Beauty School's Crack-Smoking Patio Mid-Market chronicler Bluoz makes a habit of showcasing local drug addicts in the area via his Crackhead of the Day feature. Today's selection was found on back door of the very new Marinello's
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 Police Officers Under Investigation For Illegal Searches, Perjury Hot off the heels of last year's big SFPD crime lab snafu and subsequent investigation revealing that 61 officers had conduct issues, Public Defender Jeff Adachi announced another case of police misconduct at
SF News Lawrence Livermore Lab Missing Drugs Lawrence Livermore Lab seems to be having trouble keeping track of their heavy supply of "dangerous drugs." Specifically, the lab is missing some uppers. According to the Energy Department, they're missing cocaine hydrochloride
misc Lady Accuses Muni Passenger Of Being Al Gore, Staring At Her Private Parts (VIDEO) Freshly relocated from Dallas to San Francisco, a friend of a friend of SFist captured video yesterday that showcases an unhinged lady on Muni, rambling about this and that. "A crazy tweaker boarded
SF News SFPD Sent Drugs To Crime Tech Madden During Her Cocaine Investigation Dan Noyes of ABC 7 uncovered another embarrassing bit of information about the city's police department. Namely, the San Francisco Police Department delivered illegal drugs to former crime lab technician Deborah Madden while
SF News Video: Man Smoking Crack On The N Judah The folks at Uptown Almanac bring our attention to a video of a gentlemen taking candid pulls from his crack (presumably it's crack, since marijuana emits a stench that, by comparison, lingers in
SF News Drug Alert: Fancy Bath Salts Might be the New Meth A new drug is hitting the streets from the Deep South to California and it's got some pretty terrifying side effects. According to the New York Daily News, some of those fancy bath
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Tickets Go On Sale Today At 10 am today, tickets for Burning Man, the popular gala in the desert, will go on sale. While ticket prices can seem, well, price - they run anywhere from $210 to $320
SF News San Mateo Teen Impersonates Cops, Sells Pot A mischievous San Mateo teen tried and failed multiple times to extort local drivers by impersonating a police officer and threatening them with speeding tickets. 19 year old Alex Grabovetsky used a siren
SF News Another Day, Another Inane Pot Club Raid In an effort to waste time, or whatever, Santa Clara County authorities on Thursday busted several medical marijuana clubs selling weed in the county. "An official with the County Special Enforcement Team said
SF News A Meth Lab Bust in S.F.! In Laurel Heights! Five people have been arrested in a meth lab bust in Laurel Heights. Neighbors interviewed by ABC 7 and other news orgs expressed suspicion about the late night "activity" and "carrying on" happening
SF News Oxycontin on the Rise in the Tenderloin From the Tenderloin, CBS5 reports on a new kind of drug traffic: Oxycontin has become the drug of choice for young suburban adults who are driving in to the city to buy it.
SF News Cow Palace Temporarily Nixes Raves As expected, Cow Palace in Daly City will no longer host "music and dance parties" after a slew of booze and drug overdoses at parties there. While the Cow Palace board "voted unanimously
misc Local Pot Store Dispensing Love for the Giants We all had a good laugh at the reporter from Texas who discovered "there's some people smokin' weed!" near McCovey Cove before the World Series, but it wouldn't be a hilarious stereotype if
SF News Mexican Officials Burn 134 Tons of Marijuana While we hesitate to post anything that might distract Timmy before tonight's game, Mexican security forces seized 134 tons of marijuana after a shootout Monday night. On Wednesday evening Mexican Officials near Tijuana
