SF News Notorious Tenderloin Twitter Provocateur Accused of Tire-Slashing, Harassment, Making Online Threats The Twitter personality "jj smith" is suddenly hiding his tweets after making a series of pretty violent threats, and there is at least one tire-slashing incident in which he was allegedly somehow involved.
SF News Rally In Front of Compton's Cafeteria Site on Saturday Empowers Trans Community, Honors Victims During a weekend full of protests, the trans community came out in full force to the historic Compton’s Tenderloin Cultural District in a show of resistance and unity against ongoing attacks by the current administration.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Two Attacked With Baseball Bat In Tenderloin Two people were attacked with a baseball bat Thursday in the Tenderloin; a Cal Fire captain was murdered by her wife; and a law professor explains what, if any impacts Trump's executive order will have in the Tenderloin.
Arts & Entertainment Tripling in Size, The Tenderloin Museum Doubles Down on Its Legacy The Tenderloin Museum is tripling in size, adding a neon gallery, and relaunching 'Compton’s Cafeteria Riot' to honor the neighborhood’s rich history of activism, nightlife, and LGBTQ+ resistance.
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 SFPD Busts Yet Another Underground Tenderloin Gambling Den and ‘Drug House,’ Four Arrested Three Tenderloin businesses on Ellis and Jones streets were raided Tuesday as suspected gambling dens, as SFPD seized several gambling machines, $30,000 in cash, and a fair amount of meth and illegal sedatives.
SF News Supervisor Matt Dorsey Calls for 100 ‘Mass Arrests’ Every Night In Mid-Market Area The crowds of drug dealers and users along Sixth Street have SF Supervisor Matt Dorsey proposing 100 arrests every night for “drug-related lawlessness,” though we clearly do not have the police officers and jail capacity to follow through with this.
SF News SF City Attorney Files Lawsuit to Shut Down Tenderloin Corner Stores Raided for Being Gambling Dens Those two Tenderloin convenience stores SFPD raided last month for being underground gambling dens were allegedly also dabbling in guns, ammo, and illegal weed, and City Attorney David Chiu just filed suit to shut them both down.
SF News Suspect Arrested In Monday Fatal Stabbing In the Tenderloin The SFPD today announced the arrest of a suspect in a stabbing Monday that turned fatal in the Tenderloin District.
SF News [Updated] Man Shot and Killed In SF's Tenderloin A man was shot Wednesday night outside of a corner store in the Tenderloin, and the aftermath was captured on video by a local social media chronicler of the neighborhood.
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.
Arts & Entertainment Popular SF Artist and Oasis Muralist Diego Gomez Brutally Attacked, Placed in Intensive Care SF muralist Diego Gomez, who painted much of The Oasis and is also known as drag personality Trangela Lansbury, is in intensive care after a Monday attack in the Tenderloin left him with multiple facial fractures.
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 SF Man Identified as Dead Three Years Ago Turns Up Alive, Family Is Flabbergasted The SF Medical Examiner's Office declared a 50-year-old Tenderloin resident dead of an overdose in May 2021, sending his daughter the man’s ashes. But it turns out those were someone else’s ashes, the man was still alive, and the family is going through quite an ordeal.
SF News One Person, Two Cats Rescued In Tenderloin Apartment Fire One person and two cats had to be rescued from a fire escape Sunday evening after an accidental kitchen fire spread inside a top floor apartment in SF's Little Saigon neighborhood.
SF News SFPD Raids Underground Casino Operating Inside Tenderloin Market San Francisco police raided what appeared to be an illegal casino operation inside of one or more Tenderloin storefronts Tuesday evening, seizing 16 gambling machines.
SF News Mysterious Fatal Tenderloin Shooting by Hotel Security Guard Draws Lawsuit from Victim’s Family A 37-year-old insurance executive was shot and killed by a security guard last August. But a year later, no charges have been filed, the guard has skipped town, and the family is now suing the security company for damages.
SF News Man Fatally Stabbed in Tenderloin Apartment on Labor Day, Suspect in Custody An unnamed man was stabbed and killed in a Leavenworth Street apartment on Monday afternoon, and a 37-year-old suspect was arrested for the killing shortly afterward.
SF News SFPD Officers Shoot and Kill Armed Robbery Suspect Near the Tenderloin In an incident that occurred just before midnight last night, San Francisco police officers shot and killed a man who was a suspect in an armed robbery on McAllister Street.
SF News Fatal Shooting, Stabbing In SF's SoMa Neighborhood An adult man was fatally shot and a woman was stabbed in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood Friday.
SF News SF Supervisors Approve Mayor Breed’s Plan to Shut Down Tenderloin Corner Stores at Midnight Convenience stores in a 20-block area of the Tenderloin will not be allowed to stay open between midnight and 5 am for the next two years, as City Hall says those corner stores “attract significant nighttime drug activity."
SF News Juvenile Arrested In Civic Center Convenience Store Shooting; Store Part of Proposed Corner Store Curfew Legislation San Francisco police say they arrested a juvenile in connection with a Tuesday night shooting near Civic Center that occurred inside a corner store that is at the center of a potential Tenderloin crackdown.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Feds Expand Crackdown In SF's Tenderloin Federal law enforcement is expanding its 'All Hands on Deck' initiative in SF's Tenderloin; there was a vigil Thursday for a hit-and-run victim in Bernal Heights; and two female Apple employees are suing over gender-based wage gaps.
SF News Code Tenderloin ‘Night Navigation’ Teams Out There Doling Out 300 Addiction Medications Per Month While Mayor Breed’s ballyhooed Tenderloin drug crackdown is pretty much failing to get anyone into treatment, a Code Tenderloin night program is getting drug addiction treatment to hundreds every month.
SF News Suspect In Two Hit-and-Run Collisions, Including One Involving a Child, Arrested After Chase In San Francisco Police in San Francisco were led on a chase Tuesday morning through the Tenderloin and to the Embarcadero after a hit-and-run involving a pedestrian.
