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Just days remain before the state parole board will decide whether to go through with its plan to free the killer of San Francisco toddler Elijah Sanderson. As they wait, family members of the victim have voiced dismay that they neither knew about the parole hearing nor their…
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A woman re­ceiv­ing high doses of testos­terone in a bid to switch gen­ders – treat­ment that had “noth­ing short of med­ically dis­as­trous” li­bido-boost­ing ef­fects – was sen­tenced to 25 years’ im­pris­on­ment to­day for a cat­a­log of child abuse con­ducted at the San Fran…
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The man who strangled to death a 17-year old San Francisco girl in 2004 is heading for release after state authorities granted his application for parole. Royce Miller murdered Lincoln High School senior Maxina Danner and disposed of her body on a roadside near McLaren Park. On…
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A man who put a gun to the head of a postal worker during an Ingleside district robbery, causing the USPS employee to believe he was about to die, was sentenced to 30 days imprisonment at San Francisco federal courthouse this morning. Leroy Wise waylaid the mail carrier as he…
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A man attempting to steal a Tesla parked in a residential driveway became enraged when he couldn’t make it work and violently assaulted and robbed the owner instead, a San Francisco court heard today at a preliminary hearing. The suggestion was made in court that Antonio Jones,…
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An 18 year old charged with 11 felonies and three misdemeanors stemming from a New Year’s Eve auto break-in spree in San Francisco, failed to appear in court this week because he had been arrested by Oakland PD on suspicion of murder. Cameron Haynes had been ordered to appear…
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The man who killed a San Francisco preschooler, in what the city’s medical examiner described as the worst case of child abuse he had ever seen, has won parole despite assurances given at the time of his sentencing that he would spend the rest of his life behind bars. Patrick…
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A San Francisco man was sentenced to 31 months’ imprisonment in federal court today for possession of firearms, including automatic weapons. Josef Atchan – a felon forbidden to own guns – broadcast himself on Instagram Live brandishing a gun, was arrested with three guns, then,…
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"In 2020 SFPD Chief William Scott or­dered his of­fi­cers never to re­lease mugshots of sus­pected mur­der­ers, rapists, armed rob­bers and nar­cotics traf­fick­ers even when they had substantial track records of vi­o­lence, sex­ual as­sault, gun crime and drug deal­ing."…
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A man who robbed six women in three gunpoint holdups in the Mission and SOMA districts had his crime spree brought to an abrupt end thanks to a quick-thinking victim’s use of the ‘find my iPhone’ feature on her stolen device to guide police to the perpetrator’s location, a court…
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An SFPD traf­fic stop – ex­e­cuted af­ter of­fi­cers ob­served a dri­ver speed through a stop sign – re­sulted in the ar­rest of a parolee gang mem­ber in pos­ses­sion of an au­to­matic firearm. He was granted pre­trial re­lease yesterday.
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Efforts to bring staff back to the office of a major San Francisco financial district corporation “were shot” after an employee was violently assaulted on a nearby street by a man suffering “a psychotic break”, a court heard today. Melvin Bulauan, 42, skipped towards the…
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A twice-deported drug dealer who returned to peddle fentanyl and methamphetamine in San Francisco “so that he could finish building his house in Honduras” was sentenced to 48 months’ imprisonment today in federal court. Bayron Flores was ensnared in a Drug Enforcement…
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A Honduran drug dealer who commuted from Oakland to the Tenderloin each day to sell fentanyl, and who made so much money plying his trade that he required a cash counting machine, appeared in federal court today facing drug charges that could carry a ten year mandatory minimum…
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A Norteño gang member who killed a boy on a Mission district street whom he wrongly believed was a gang rival, and who days later hugged the victim’s unwitting mother at an anti-violence rally on the steps of City Hall, will be sentenced tomorrow in federal court to a minimum of…
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"In 2020 San Francisco Police Chief William Scott ordered his officers never to release booking photos of suspected murderers, rapists, armed robbers and narcotics traffickers even when they have substantial track records of violence, sexual assault, gun crime and drug dealing.…
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A “prolific” Honduran drug dealer, whose narcotics authorities say killed a user who took them in San Francisco’s SOMA district, was ordered to be held in custody at a hearing in federal court today. Hanti Gamez, 35, was arrested on August 8 in possession of a loaded firearm and…
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A Honduran drug dealer – who a judge had a “strong suspicion” fired a gun twice at a man’s head and who was arrested with a pistol, brass knuckles and fentanyl but nevertheless bailed – is now facing federal charges after a further SOMA drugs arrest.
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A man was sentenced to 34 months’ imprisonment today for robbing a bank in San Francisco only weeks after being released from prison for robbing six other city banks, three of which he robbed while on bail for robbing two of the others, and those two being robbed while he was on…
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A man on supervised release following his sixth gun possession conviction was back in court today having been found with another firearm, this time in his car, which was used as the getaway vehicle in a ‘smash and grab’ from an SF tourist’s rental car.
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Federal prosecutors recommend 27 months’ imprisonment for Jacobi Sanford (dob 4/12/96) ahead of sentencing 7/14. Wanted for multiple SF burglaries, he was detained driving a stolen car in which there was a loaded rifle w/ a 60-round high capacity magazine. 1/9
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Details of the horrifying execution at San Francisco's Crissy Field earlier this month are laid out in a criminal complaint released this morning:
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An on-duty Urban Alchemy employee who fired eight shots down a Tenderloin street “filled with pedestrians and passing cars” dodged a prison setence this afternoon when a federal judge placed him on probation for 3 years.
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Repeat felon Brandon Paillet – whose litany of violent crimes have been covered extensively here – is in jail again after a late-night home invasion of a Castro family. This latest crime was entirely predictable, and was predicted, and it is only a matter of time before he kills.
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The man who strangled to death a 17-year-old San Francisco girl will remain in prison after Governor Gavin Newsom reversed a parole board decision to free him. Royce Miller was jailed for the brutal 2004 killing of Lincoln High School senior Maxina Danner, whose body was later…
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The man accused of a broad-daylight murder on a busy Tenderloin street last month has a three decade track record of violence and mayhem, court records show, and had appeared in court on an unrelated firearms charge – after the murder, but before being arrested – accompanied by a…
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A felon twice accused of attempted murder in San Francisco, and who has perpetrated a litany of other serious violence, has been unexpectedly released after a date calculation blunder this month led a judge to dismiss arson and assault charges. Mara Paradox, born Chance Davis, a…
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IN BRIEF: A felon observed drug dealing by FBI agents, one block from the FBI’s San Francisco HQ, was found to have a ‘ghost gun’ equipped with an extended magazine containing 29 9mm rounds. Lazarus Thomas, 31, appeared in federal court today and persuaded U.S. Magistrate Judge…
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A man who “threatened staff with violence and death” during a spate of San Francisco bank robberies, then given bail, which he skipped, and then, given bail again, went on to commit a further robbery on Market St, was sentenced to 60 months this morning.
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A young Honduran drug dealer was sentenced today in San Francisco federal court under a fast track scheme designed rapidly to arrest, convict and deport lower-level drug offenders who are foreign nationals. Candy Celeste Cardona-Zuniga, 18, was arrested by DEA agents on August 8…
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Franklin Her­nan­dez-Cruz vi­o­lently re­sisted at­tempts by po­lice to ar­rest him for sell­ing fen­tanyl in the Ten­der­loin on Au­gust 24. It took nearly 30 of­fi­cers to sub­due him and to quell a rau­cous crowd who, in the com­mo­tion, stole nar­cotics and cash thrown to the…
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New de­tails are com­ing to light in the case of Akal Allen – the man with the “hun­dred page rap sheet” who has at­tacked San Fran­cis­cans for years, and who last month vi­o­lently as­saulted a fe­male FBI em­ployee as she walked home from work. An ex­am­i­na­tion of court…
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An armed felon who made a living breaking into tourists’ cars and stealing their possessions – while causing violent havoc across the Hunters Point neighborhood – pleaded guilty to a firearms possession charge this afternoon at San Francisco federal courthouse. Tizeyah Obryant,…
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A San Francisco gang member with a long record of violence and firearms possession, and facing another gun charge, secured pretrial release today after winning an appeal against a detention order.   Maurice Powell Jr. was arrested in possession of a 9mm handgun in June 2023 in…
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Federal prosecutors recommend an 80-month prison term for Brandon Paillet ahead of sentencing on Friday. Paillet was arrested in SF for carjacking + kidnapping in 2021, allowed to plead to petty theft, released, then was arrested with a gun outside an elementary school. (1/8)
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One of the duo ac­cused of an armed rob­bery spree in San Fran­cisco would still have been in cus­tody for firearms of­fenses had a fed­eral judge not ig­nored the pleas of pros­e­cu­tors and pro­ba­tion of­fi­cials who ar­gued for a sub­stan­tially longer sen­tence than was…
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On Jan 5 2023 repeat violent felon Charles Edwards Jr. fired an ‘AR-15 style’ rifle on a crowded street at Valencia & 16th in San Francisco. On March 20 2023, over prosecutors’ objections, U.S. Magistrate Judge Lisa Cisneros ordered him released, provoking an emergency appeal. 1/
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A San Francisco gang member who sent a video of himself via Instagram driving through a rival gang’s “territory” in Hunters Point while brandishing a firearm, is appearing in federal court today in a bid to have the evidence uncovered in the case – multiple guns with extended…
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A man who violently assaulted a female FBI employee walking home after work – just three blocks from the agency’s San Francisco office in the heart of the Tenderloin – faces a detention hearing in federal court tomorrow morning.🧵
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A felon jailed on 9 previous occasions for violence and drugs offenses, and facing another firearms charge, was granted pre-trial release in court today. Kevin Eliseo Chavez threatened a witness with a gun as he fled a Mission district car crash he caused
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A man accused of being a major fentanyl dealer in the Tenderloin, who used a wheelchair-bound senior to hold his drugs, was granted pretrial release today in court, over the objections of prosecutors who labelled him a danger to the community.
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Ordinarily an illegal alien fentanyl dealer caught by police plying his trade on the streets of San Francisco’s Tenderloin district won’t find themselves facing deportation. After a brief stay in county jail they will be released by a superior court judge and able to return to…
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An eight-time felon ar­rested by SFPD of­fi­cers with a stolen as­sault weapon – and la­belled “an un­mit­i­ga­ble dan­ger” by pros­e­cu­tors – will re­main in prison af­ter a fed­eral judge re­voked a pre­trial re­lease or­der at the con­clu­sion of an ap­peal hear­ing to­day.…
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The San Francisco District Attorney’s office supported the man who strangled to death a 17-year-old girl in his successful parole bid – squarely opposing the wishes of the victim’s family who said her murderer had not been rehabilitated and was likely still a danger to others.…
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Jury deliberation began this morning in the murder trial of Fantasy Decuir and Lamonte Mims at San Francisco Superior Court. The pair are accused of killing photographer and film location scout Ed French, 71, during a Twin Peaks robbery in July 2017. 1/7
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A federal judge’s dogged refusal to impose sentences he views as “too lenient” on illegal aliens caught dealing fentanyl in San Francisco’s Tenderloin has earned him a rebuke from a public defender – and a demand that he recuse himself from the forthcoming sentencing of a host of…
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A gang mem­ber who threw a gun from a car dur­ing a 2018 high-speed po­lice pur­suit, and who two days ear­lier had served as the get­away dri­ver in a San Fran­cisco shoot­ing that left one man dead and a woman griev­ously in­jured, was sen­tenced for a firearms of­fense in fed…
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A drive by federal prosecutors to rapidly convict, sentence and deport foreign national drug dealers hit a road block today when a district judge balked at the lenient sentence he was being asked to impose in the case of a Salvadorean dealer and told attorneys he wasn’t prepared…
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A federal judge’s bid to release a thrice-deported Mexican national – arrested again this month on suspicion of trafficking large quantities of drugs to the Tenderloin – was stymied this evening after a last ditch appeal by prosecutors.
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“He needs to spend time in prison and recognize that there are consequences for his incredibly dangerous conduct. It’s not just people killed by fentanyl, but it’s also the neighborhood it kills, the businesses it kills, the business owners…now no one wants to be [in the…
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A 26-year-old gang member with six previous felony convictions was sentenced to 42-months imprisonment today having been found with a loaded gun after a high-speed SFPD car pursuit. Ramell Jenkins was arrested on May 22 2023 at the 3rd Street Texaco gas station in the Bayview.…
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An aspiring rapper from San Francisco, on probation after a lengthy prison term for his role in a drug distribution conspiracy, attacked an 80-year-old senior at a BART station, a court heard today. Kevin Kelley, 42, launched the alcohol-fueled attack just before 11:00am on…
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Breaking. San Francisco D.A. Brooke Jenkins has ordered an immediate review of the circumstances in which her office supported the parole of murderer Royce Miller – days before the Governor must decide whether to overturn a parole board decision to free him. “The parole review…
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A gang member convicted in the infamous 2006 kidnap and rape of a sixteen year old girl is repeatedly being found with firearms in San Francisco and repeatedly being released by federal judges.
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Two “professional fentanyl dealers” – a Honduran couple commuting from Oakland to sell in San Francisco’s Tenderloin – appeared in federal court today after being caught in a DEA sting. Nicol Palma and Jordy Aguilar were found with guns, drugs and cash.
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On December 30 2022 Christian Plummer robbed a Wells Fargo bank at Geary & Arguello, fleeing with $3,200. He was released from jail 39 days earlier having been convicted of a string of bank robberies in San Francisco in 2021 where he threatened to shoot tellers in the face. 1/
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The perpetrators of a 2018 Walgreens robbery that left staff “traumatized” and “distraught” were sentenced today in federal court in San Francisco. U.S. District Judge James Donato imprisoned Jazz Svarda for 37 months and Eric Hill for 30 months. 1/
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Further details are emerging about the brazen gun attack outside The Grand nightclub in San Francisco’s SOMA district last month. One near-mortally wounded gunshot victim lost a kidney and suffered a damaged diaphragm, while two others were left unconscious after being…
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Mil­ton Thomas’ ar­rest for mur­der last week is the lat­est chap­ter in the ca­reer of a re­peat vi­o­lent felon who would not have been on San Fran­cis­co’s streets at the time of the killing but for the de­ter­mi­na­tion of a fed­eral judge not to im­prison him for a pre­vi…
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A twice-deported professional drug-dealer from Honduras will stay behind bars after Government attorneys appealed a release decision on the grounds that both proposed custodians had themselves been previously deported, and one had also been arrested for drug trafficking in the…
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The retrial of Fantasy Decuir and Lamonte Mims – accused of the robbery/murder of movie scout Ed French at Twin Peaks overlook in 2017 – was postponed for the third time this morning because of issues with defense attorney availability. The first trial ended in May last year…
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A man who used a gun with an ex­tended mag­a­zine to threaten pa­trons of a San Fran­cisco Safe­way store was told he faces 70 months’ im­pris­on­ment in court to­day. “It’s a mir­a­cle to me that you did­n’t kill some­body – it was blind luck,” US Dis­trict Judge James Donato…
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A Mis­sion dis­trict gang leader pleaded guilty in fed­eral court to­day to firearms pos­ses­sion – hav­ing been found with mul­ti­ple weapons only months af­ter be­ing re­leased from a prison term he re­ceived for shoot­ing a vic­tim in the face af­ter an argument in a parking…
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San Francisco jury DEADLOCKS in murder trial of Fantasy Decuir & Lamonte Mims. Defense argued that when Decuir shot dead movie scout Ed French at Twin Peaks in 2017 she was “unconscious” due to opioid withdrawal symptoms and not responsible for her actions
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“What you did was vicious and heartless,” – U.S. District Judge William Orrick this afternoon sentencing Fernando Madrigal to 33 years' imprisonment. Madrigal murdered 15 year old Day’von Hann in 2019 after mistaking him for a gang rival. In 2018 he robbed and murdered Luis…
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A violent felon who peddled fentanyl while on bail for punching, throttling and pointing a gun at women in San Francisco, and who subsequently went on the lam after being shot while stealing narcotics, pleaded guilty today after exasperated federal authorities intervened to…
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A San Francisco gang member who posted Instagram videos of himself brandishing firearms and threatening rivals – two weeks after being released from a 32-month sentence for brandishing a firearm – was sentenced to 45 months’ imprisonment today for the latest exhibition of…
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Jacobi Sanford (dob 4/12/96) was arrested by SFPD on July 13 for “a string of burglaries” in San Francisco. Sanford was detained in Oakland driving a stolen vehicle in which there was a loaded assault rifle with a high-capacity magazine. (1/4)
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You may have noticed this account has been quiet recently. This is because @SFPD stopped replying to our Public Records Act requests - unlawfully concealing the IDs of every suspect they arrest (and publicize on social media). We have sued them to enforce compliance with the law.
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A participant in a two-man August 2022 ‘gun to head’ robbery of a USPS mail carrier has pleaded guilty in federal court in #SanFrancisco . Leroy Wise was arrested by U.S. Postal Inspectors one day after the shocking Ingleside-district incident. #Crime
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Fed­eral pub­lic de­fend­ers have failed in a bid to dis­qual­ify a United States Dis­trict Judge from hear­ing the cases of San Fran­cisco fen­tanyl deal­ers be­cause of what they claimed was his bias against their clients. Judge William Al­sup had balked at per­mit­ting drug…
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The getaway driver in the ‘drive-by’ murder of two teenagers – who served 5 years after inking a favorable plea deal with the San Francisco D.A.'s office under Chesa Boudin – was sentenced to 22 months' imprisonment today for more firearms offenses.
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A double-murder suspect, freed after inking a plea deal with San Francisco’s District Attorney’s office under Chesa Boudain, was sentenced this morning for more firearms offenses.

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Five men appeared in San Francisco Superior Court this morning facing charges ranging from attempted murder to machine gun possession after an investigation into a drive-by shooting in the Bayview. Amid tight security, codefendants Jacobi Sanford, Shaquille Dumetz, Deonte White,…
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IN BRIEF: The challenging environment faced by law enforcement seeking to address city drug dealing is illustrated in a new criminal complaint detailing an attempt to detain a man covertly observed selling drugs at Civic Center on the evening of August 24. Franklin…
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A Honduran national with “few ties to the Bay Area” pleaded guilty in federal court this morning to possession with intent to distribute narcotics in the Tenderloin. Isaia Artiaga-Cruz, 19, was found with a firearm and nearly a pound of fentanyl.
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A Honduran national with “few ties to the Bay Area” pleaded guilty this morning in federal court to possession with intent to distribute fentanyl and cocaine. Isaia Artiaga-Cruz, 19, was originally...

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A felon who fired into a crowd on a busy Tenderloin street in September, killing one man and injuring another, is heading for trial after a judge found that prosecutors presented sufficient evidence to allow the case to proceed at the conclusion of a preliminary hearing today.…
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A court has aban­doned a sen­tenc­ing hear­ing set for to­day af­ter the de­fen­dant, a Mis­sion-dis­trict gang leader, went on the lam. Nicholas Ad­dle­man had been due before U.S. District Judge James Donato at 10:00am this morning, having earlier pleaded guilty to a firearms…
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#SFPD crime scene investigators and detectives on Golden Gate Avenue in the aftermath of a fatal shooting just after 4am this morning. Officers found two people injured, one of whom has since died. Extensive bullet damage to glass at the rear of the new @uclaw_sf building.
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A prolific felon found again with a loaded gun – this time at the Tenderloin apartment block where he worked – had his bid for pretrial release rejected by a federal judge today, months after a San Francisco judge bailed him on state charges stemming from the same incident.…
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A British felon who ran an illicit arms manufacturing and distribution business out of his apartment in San Francisco’s North Beach district pleaded guilty today to multiple firearms charges in federal court. Craig Bolland faces up to 35 years in prison.
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The family of a San Francisco schoolgirl strangled-to-death in 2004 have issued a last-ditch plea to Governor Gavin Newsom, asking that he halt the imminent release of her “cold, calculated [and] dangerous” killer. Lincoln High School senior Maxina Danner was murdered by Royce…
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San Francisco Park Police at Crissy Field this morning after they were made aware of a death at around 6:30am. SFPD also on scene. Additional support en route. (tip from @friscolive415 ).
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A felon who fired his own gun amidst a “twenty to thirty”-round gunfight next to a student housing block on the edge of San Francisco’s Tenderloin is heading to trial after a preliminary hearing concluded today. Hakim Tookes exchanged fire with two others near the intersection…
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A Richmond district carjacker who pointed a gun at a driver’s face in December 2022 was ordered released from SF jail today – only to himself request a 3 week delay before getting out to try to prevent other jurisdictions picking him up at the jail door.
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Speaking outside court after a mistrial was declared, Mr French’s partner, Brian Higginbotham, said: “They are both guilty of first degree murder. They killed Ed in cold blood and went on almost to commit another murder less than two weeks later.”
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A Tenderloin drug dealer deported to Honduras in October 2023 has become the first recent deportee to be arrested again in the U.S. Franklin Hernandez-Cruz was detained in Mesa, AZ last month per court records and is awaiting sentencing for ‘reentry of a removed alien’. His…
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An on-duty Urban Alchemy employee who fired eight shots down Hyde Street in an April 2021 gunfight is asking a judge for no jail time, court records show. Darnell Houston pled guilty to one count and will be sentenced June 1 in U.S. District Court in SF.
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Tyjone Flournoy (arrested for likely fatal Jack Palladino attack on January 28, 2021) surrendered himself on November 8, 2020 to San Francisco Sheriff's Department after being wanted by SFPD in connection with a 2019 murder.
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A felon ac­cused of kid­nap­ping and rap­ing a young woman walk­ing home af­ter a night out in the Mis­sion dis­trict will go to trial af­ter a judge found that “sat­is­fac­tory ev­i­dence to sup­port the be­lief” he com­mit­ted the crimes had been pre­sented at a pre­lim­i­nary…
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A felon with a worrying track record of sex crimes is in San Francisco Superior Court again charged with another sex crime – just months after being bailed from the same court on a battery charge.
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A felon with a worrying track record of sex crimes is in San Francisco Superior Court again charged with another sex crime – just months after being bailed from the same court on a battery charge....

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An armed car thief with a penchant for leading police on high speed chases is set to be released to a residential drug treatment program after a favorable decision at a pretrial detention hearing today at San Francisco federal courthouse. Full story:
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A felon who opened fire on a car, hitting and paralyzing a passenger, will stay in jail after an audacious bail bid was rejected by a superior court judge today. Jose Berrios Lopez, 28, faces six charges, including attempted murder, aggravated mayhem and various firearms…
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A 19 year old fleeing an @SFPDIngleside pursuit discarded a backpack containing an assault rifle. Ricky Calloway dob 4/17/2004 “was known to carry concealed firearms” and was arrested in #Sunnydale where shots had been fired the night before. #SanFrancisco
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A felon forbidden to own guns was a major dealer in guns – delivering firearms to order, including automatic weapons, in the heart of the Fillmore district. Trajordon Svarda has pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in San Francisco.
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A gang mem­ber with a hor­rific record of vi­o­lence was sen­tenced to 55 months im­pris­on­ment to­day af­ter open­ing fire on two peo­ple dur­ing a Mis­sion dis­trict gun­fight in No­vem­ber 2021. James Pegueros pulled a gun from an an­kle hol­ster dur­ing a fight out­side…
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A felon arrested in 2020 with a loaded gun, drugs and a large quantity of cash while street racing through San Francisco’s Tenderloin appeared in federal court today after 10 months on the lam.
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A two-time bank rob­ber who, on re­lease from fed­eral prison, se­cured work as a guard at a city se­nior liv­ing fa­cil­ity, was found by a San Fran­cisco judge to have per­pe­trated el­der abuse on a vul­ner­a­ble res­i­dent of that fa­cil­ity at a hear­ing to­day. Michael…
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After some legal to-ing and fro-ing over the last week, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has just reversed course and allowed a federal judge’s injunction of SB2 to remain in effect. SB2 banned concealed carry license holders from taking their firearm with them on public…
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Our story on the 30-day prison term given to the man who put a gun to the head of a San Francisco mail carrier during a robbery has prompted the Postmaster General to say the "simply unacceptable" sentence "sends a concerning message of encouragement to our nation's criminals."
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A man who put a gun to the head of a postal worker during an Ingleside district robbery, causing the USPS employee to believe he was about to die, was sentenced to 30 days imprisonment at San Francisco federal courthouse this morning. Leroy Wise waylaid the mail carrier as he…
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A man pleaded guilty in San Francisco Superior Court this morning to committing a brutal assault on the streets of North Beach in 2022 which resulted in the death of a 46 year old city visitor.
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A man pleaded guilty in San Francisco Superior Court this morning to charges stemming from a brutal assault on the streets of North Beach in 2022 which resulted in the death of a 46 year old city...

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A fire-starting vagrant who viciously assaulted a San Francisco attorney returning to his Fi-Di apartment building was sent to trial today by a judge who labelled him “a danger to society.” Jarrell Williams unleashed more than a dozen “full force” punches to his victim’s face in…
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