SF News Sister of Murder Suspect Nima Momeni Allegedly Seen With Whip-its In Her Car Before Crash The story of Monday's Tenderloin crash in which Khazar Momeni, the sister of Bob Lee murder suspect Nima Momeni, was arrested on suspicion of DUI and hit-and-run, has taken on some added detail.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Speeding Car Flips Over In Tenderloin A speeding car hit two parked cars and flipped over on Golden Gate Avenue Monday night; a man was shot walking to his car at West Oakland BART; and gas prices in California have fallen below $5 for the first time since July.
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 Tenderloin Drug Dealer Busted In Berkeley Takes Plea Deal In Federal Case, Could Face 20 Years to Life One of three individuals arrested in a drug bust in Berkeley last November has pleaded guilty to six federal counts of drug possession and intent to distribute, and could face a lengthy prison term.
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 Double Shooting In Tenderloin Closes Leavenworth Street There was a shooting Thursday afternoon near the intersection of Leavenworth Street and Golden Gate Avenue, and reportedly two people were shot.
SF News A Known Fencing Operation For Stolen Goods In the Tenderloin Isn't Being Shut Down For Some Reason ABC 7 stumbled on a curious story Friday involving a San Francisco man who had tracked his own stolen camera equipment to a spot on Leavenworth Street that is apparently already known to police.
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 News Social Worker Stabbed Four Times at Tenderloin SRO Wednesday, Remains Hospitalized A 29-year-old SRO resident is in custody on charges of attempted murder after allegedly stabbing a Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing employee Wednesday, and the employee is in the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
SF News SFPD Releases Bodycam Footage From Tenderloin Shooting of Knife-Wielding Man As part of its transparency protocol, San Francisco police held a town hall meeting Thursday and presented body-camera footage from an August 28 incident in which multiple officers shot and wounded a man who refused to drop a knife he was carrying.
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 Knife-Wielding Man In Tenderloin Shot and Gravely Wounded By SFPD A man with what appeared to be a machete or long knife was shot by San Francisco police Monday night on Jones Street in the Tenderloin, and the incident was widely captured on cellphone video by bystanders.
SF Politics [Update] SF ‘Doom Loop Tour’ Host Cancels at Last Minute, Unintentionally Outs Himself, Resigns From Commission The much-ballyhooed “Doom Loop Walking Tour” unsurprisingly got called off shortly before it was supposed to happen Saturday, but by canceling it, the anonymous City Hall commissioner who posted the tour accidentally made his identity public.
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 Some Joker Is Advertising an SF ‘Doom Loop Walking Tour’ For $30 a Ticket In what seems an elaborate troll job, but managed to get published and promoted on Eventbrite, someone’s offering a chance to “view the open-air drug markets” at Civic Center for $30, which I’m pretty sure you can do for free.
SF News At Contentious Tenderloin Town Hall, DA Brooke Jenkins Blames Judges for Freeing Drug Dealers San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins is looking to shift some blame for the city's ongoing fentanyl crisis to the county's judges, who she says are too lenient in allowing drug suspects back onto the streets.
SF News Man Fatally Shot in San Francisco's Tenderloin Neighborhood Friday Night The shooting happened on Friday around 6 p.m. near the University of San Francisco Law Library, the fourth fatal shooting in the Tenderloin of the year.
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.
SF Politics Ron DeSantis Shoots Campaign Video In the Tenderloin, Complains About 'So Much Riff-Raff Running Around' Ron DeSantis was in San Francisco this week trying to scare up some Republican dollars for his presidential run, and he took a few minutes to stand amongst some pigeons at Geary and Hyde to shoot a campaign video about what an irreparable shithole SF is.
SF News CHP Drug Crackdown May Involve Low-Level Stops That SF Police Commission Voted To Ban The Chronicle did a ride-along with California Highway Patrol officers on their fentanyl crackdown efforts, and found they may be pulling people over for low-level traffic stops that have been likened to racial profiling.
SF News Person Fatally Shot About a Block From Powell Street BART A person was fatally shot in the overnight hours last night, at the edge of the Tenderloin about a block away from BART's Powell Station and the cable car turnaround.
SF News Supervisor Dorsey Confirms That Yes, SF Police Are Arresting People for Being High on Drugs In Public About two weeks after Mayor Breed’s declaration about arresting people who are high, Supervisor Matt Dorsey says that a few people have been arrested, but admits there’s no visible difference in street conditions.
SF News One Block of Taylor Street In Tenderloin Shut Down Sunday Amid Standoff With Armed Woman In Hotel A suspect who was threatening neighbors in a Tenderloin/Union Square hotel with a knife caused a block of Taylor Street to be cordoned off by the SFPD for several hours on Sunday.
SF News Street Ambassador Nonprofit Urban Alchemy Seen as Force of Good, Mostly The non-profit is one of the biggest city contractors, moving people along who are committing quality-of-life offenses, reversing overdoses, managing a tiny-home village, discouraging crime, and giving advice to wayward tourists.
