SF News SF Sheriff’s Office Hit With New Scandal of Officers Allegedly Taking Video of Women's Strip Searches Nearly 20 women just filed a claim against the city saying that SF Sheriff’s deputies recorded their strip searches on video while laughing, with some deputies even threatening to post the video online.
SF News Former SF Sheriff Chief of Staff Will Not Stand Trial for Hit-and-Run Where He Lied, Chronicle Obtains Video of Crash Former SF Sheriff's Office chief of staff Richard Jue got lucky with a diversion program sentence rather than having to stand trial for a March hit-and-run where he lied to investigators, and the Chronicle just obtained video of the crash.
SF News SF Sheriff’s Brother-In-Law Alleged to Have Been Growing Marijuana and Smoking It In County Jail Some more highjinks from the SF Sheriff’s Office: Sheriff Paul Yamamoto’s brother-in-law has incident reports alleging he grew marijuana plants in a locker at SF County Jail 3, and openly smoked weed while working as a plumber there.
SF News ‘Shrimp Boy’ Back In the News! SF Sheriff Rehired Deputy Who Admitted He Lied to FBI to Protect Hired Killer Another serving of “Shrimp Boy” in today’s headlines, as the SF Sheriff’s Office has rehired a deputy who admitted lying to the FBI over lending a Shrimp Boy-affiliated hired hitman his department-issued bulletproof vest.
SF News Sunday Links: SF Sheriff’s Deputy Arrested for Domestic Battery, But Not Charged The man from the viral “Blinking White Guy” meme lives in SF; the perpetrator of a Hayward murder-suicide was fighting with his parents over his hygiene; and the sheriff’s department is investigating a deputy accused of domestic battery.
SF News Saturday Links: Garbage Strike Ends With Tentative Deal, Pickup Set to Resume Saturday SF Sheriff Paul Miyamoto denied DOJ's request to hand over a list of noncitizen inmates; a driver in LA crashed into a crowd early Saturday, injuring over 30 people; and trash pickup will resume this weekend as the strike has ended with a tentative deal.
SF News More Details Emerge on SF Sheriff’s Chief of Staff’s Hit-and-Run Arrest; He Was Reportedly Driving City Vehicle We’re now learning that suspended SF Sheriff’’s Office Chief of Staff Richard Jue was driving a city-owned vehicle when he was allegedly involved with a hit-and-run and provided false information, and the vehicle he hit may have been a Tesla.
SF News Sunday Links: Top SF Law Enforcement Official Arrested, Under Investigation for Hit-and-Run Six people are dead and two missing after a 27-foot boat capsized during a storm on Lake Tahoe; a motorcyclist who taunted CHP during a high-speed chase was arrested in Berkeley; and a high-ranking SF Sheriff’s official was arrested for hit-and-run.
SF News SFPD and Sheriff's Deputies Do Another Drug Sweep, This Time at Van Ness and Market The Whac-a-Mole games continued Wednesday night with another law enforcement sweep and mass arrest on San Francisco's Mid-Market Street, resulting in 40 more drug users and/or dealers arrested.
SF News SF Sheriff’s Office Suspends Pre-Trial Ankle Monitor Program, Claims Courts Are Forcing Them To Suspects awaiting trial in SF will no longer be assigned to home confinement or an ankle monitor, and must proceed directly to jail, because the SF Sheriff’s Office is yanking the ankle monitor program over a legal rift on warrantless searches.
SF News Eviction By Sheriff Near Castro Neighborhood Leads to Shots Fired, SWAT Situation A tense police standoff was unfolding Wednesday afternoon in Corona Heights, near Buena Vista Park, where an eviction was reportedly taking place by the SF Sheriff's Department and the tenant allegedly fired a gun.
SF News COVID Outbreak at SF County Jail, More Than 40 Prisoners Infected Another COVID-19 outbreak in the correctional system, as SF County Jail is seeing a spike with 42 prisoners currently infected, though the highest numbers of infections are being reported at the County Jail No. 3 facility which is in San Bruno.
SF News SF Sheriff's Department Training Exercise That Sickened San Bruno Schoolkids Used Old, Possibly Toxic Munitions There seems to be more to the story of some noxious tear gas that leaked out of a building where an SF Sheriff's Department training exercise was going on last week in San Bruno.
SF News SF Sheriff Paul Miyamoto Speaks Out on Recent Jail Lockdowns, Staffing Shortages After the recent SF County Jail lockdowns and complaints of severe staffing shortages, SF Sheriff Paul Miyamoto opens up about his office’s challenges, while the deputies’ union is demanding he calls in the National Guard.
SF News Inmate Escapes Custody at SF General By Climbing Into Ceiling There was a brief bit of chaos Tuesday morning at Zuckerberg SF General Hospital when an incarcerated person being held in the jail ward at the hospital escaped custody by climbing through ceiling tiles and trying to crawl away through the bowels of the hospital.
SF News Two SF County Jails on Lockdown Amidst Reported Rash of Attacks on Deputies After seven staff members were reportedly attacked by inmates at SF County Jail in just a two-week span, two of the jail’s facilities have been placed on lockdown, with the incarcerated restricted to their cells and visits canceled for the time being.
SF News SF Deputy Sheriff Arrested and Charged for Allegedly Stalking, Strangling Ex-Girlfriend A 49-year-old SF deputy sheriff is currently in custody for what’s alleged to be a seven-month pattern of violence, stalking, and use of surveillance devices on his estranged partner.
SF News SF’s Ankle Monitor System Not Working, As People Still Commit Crimes, or Just Tear Them Right Off GPS ankle monitors seem like a humane alternative to jail. But they may be too humane, as suspects are still committing crimes in San Francisco while wearing them, or simply cutting them off and throwing them in the trash.
SF News Report: SF Sheriff's Deputy from Infamous 2015 Scandal Forcing Inmates to Fight Just Got Himself Rehired The SF sheriff’s deputy behind a scandal where incarcerated people were forced to fight, and sheriff’s deputies bet on them, has been rehired after winning his arbitration case.
SF Politics Calls Mount for Resignation of SF City Commissioner Currently Jailed on Sexual Assault Charges Now that SF Sheriff’s Department Oversight Board commissioner William “Tariq” Palmer II is in Sheriff’s Department custody on sexual battery charges, some at City Hall are calling for his immediate resignation, and vowing they’ll remove him if they can.
SF News Scammers Are Spoofing SF Sheriff’s Phone Number, Demanding Bogus Fines Be Paid Don't take a call if your caller ID identifies the caller as “SAN FRANCISCO COUNTY,” and don’t pay the $5,000-$10,000 fine they’re demanding for some non-existent arrest, as it’s the latest scam hitting San Francisco.
SF News SF Police, Sheriffs Making Bank On Overtime, Some With Take-Home Pay Exceeding $500K The annual salary report on how much money each San Francisco public employee makes has just been released, and SF police and sheriff’s office employees are pulling hundreds of thousands of dollars in overtime pay.
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Has A Sheriff’s Deputy Who’s Also A Drag Queen, WooWoo Monroe Here’s a new twist on the “cops at Pride” debate — the San Francisco Sheriff's Department has a deputy who moonlights as one of San Jose’s most prominent drag queens, WooWoo Monroe.
SF News SF Has Now Arrested 58 People Under This New Public Drug Use Crackdown In the nine days since Mayor Breed and law enforcement started this much-ballyhooed drug use crackdown, the Sheriff’s Office claims that 58 people have been arrested on drug-related charges.
SF Politics SF Sheriff's Department to Employ Emergency Unit to Crack Down on Drug Users as Part of Breed Plan Just in time for tourists to descend on downtown for Pride at the end of June, San Francisco sheriff's deputies will be out in force making arrests for drug dealing and open-air drug use, as part of Mayor London Breed's previously announced plan.
