![A San Francisco child killer and a once-condemned Oakland triple-murderer will leave prison within days after the state parole board, told by Governor Gavin Newsom to review decisions to release the pair, affirmed the rulings at a meeting today. Leonard Boone murdered his infant son, Hezekiah, at his Potrero Hill home in 2002. Months of abuse culminated in his punching the 16-month-old to death so he could take drugs in peace. He was sentenced to 56 years to life in […]](https://i0.wp.com/sfpublicsafety.news/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-23-at-4.58.20-PM.png?resize=1400%2C912&ssl=1)
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![A geriatric felon accused of drawing a gun on a city “community first responder ambassador” after being asked to stop smoking drugs on a Tenderloin sidewalk will appear in court today for a preliminary hearing. Prosecutors say Clarence Hannibal, 68, had been invited to move by the ambassador shortly before 3:00pm on Friday December 5 out of concern for children who would shortly be leaving a nearby school. Hannibal decamped to a nearby Burger King on Van Ness Avenue before […]](https://i0.wp.com/sfpublicsafety.news/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-21-at-11.15.48-AM.png?resize=1400%2C912&ssl=1)
![The Department of Justice today accused San Francisco Sheriff Paul Miyamoto of violating the constitution in the aftermath of the revelation that concealed carry weapons permits issued by his office expired after officials failed to process timely-filed renewal requests. The DOJ warned city authorities that, if they don’t get their house in order, they could face a lawsuit along the lines of the one they filed against Los Angeles in September, which accused the city of infringing residents’ second amendment […]](https://i0.wp.com/sfpublicsafety.news/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-09-at-2.50.46-PM.png?resize=1400%2C912&ssl=1)
![The man found guilty of murdering a 15-year-old girl visiting San Francisco in 1978 dodged sentencing, set for today, after ditching his trial attorney, hiring a new legal team and asking for more time. Mark Personette raped and strangled to death Marissa Harvey, whose body was found in Sutro Heights Park. He was arrested in 2021 after cold case investigators used forensic geneaology and commercial DNA databases to hone in on him as a suspect, triggering a six-month FBI surveillance […]](https://i0.wp.com/sfpublicsafety.news/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Screenshot-2025-11-12-at-3.10.35-PM.png?resize=1344%2C872&ssl=1)
![More details are emerging on the lengthy rap sheets of those accused of robberies that led to the murder of Oakland police officer Tuan Le in the small hours of December 29 2023. Following the unsealing last week of an indictment against seven men federal prosecutors say were involved in the raid on a cannabis farm, and two women alleged to have helped accused triggerman Mark Sanders avoid capture, Government attorneys presented further details in an effort to deny bail […]](https://i0.wp.com/sfpublicsafety.news/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-15-at-3.59.31-PM.png?resize=1400%2C912&ssl=1)
![A Honduran drug trafficker who fled to his home country after winning bail, despite being found with 15 pounds of fentanyl in his backpack, only to be extradited back to the U.S., was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment today at San Francisco federal courthouse. Gustavo Erazo was originally arrested in November 2022 after an investigation by SFPD and the Drug Enforcement Administration into his accomplice, Melvin Diaz, who they suspected of commuting from Oakland to San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood to […]](https://i0.wp.com/sfpublicsafety.news/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Erazo-2.png?resize=1400%2C912&ssl=1)
![A Honduran fentanyl trafficker who spent a year on the lam after a trusting judge allowed him to self-report to prison to start a one-year sentence, only to see him run away instead, was given an additional 12 months today by the same judge at San Francisco federal courthouse. Illegal alien Kevin Mejia earlier pleaded guilty to failure to surrender. “I don’t see any indication that this defendant takes any personal responsibility for his conduct,” said U.S. District Judge James […]](https://i0.wp.com/sfpublicsafety.news/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Screenshot-2025-06-04-at-1.31.00%E2%80%AFPM.png?resize=1304%2C747&ssl=1)
![A violent thug on probation for a string of brutal street attacks in San Francisco’s Mission district, now accused of joining a Halloween beating and stabbing over a $100 debt, in the same spot as his earlier assaults, will appear in court today for a preliminary hearing. Prosecutors say John Michael Mendoza, 28, was a key player in the three-man attack which saw his defenseless victim knifed multiple times and repeatedly stomped, punched and kicked while unconscious on the ground. […]](https://i0.wp.com/sfpublicsafety.news/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/IMG_7620-2.jpg?resize=1400%2C912&ssl=1)
![A man accused of shooting two victims in one week on San Francisco’s Mission Street will appear in court later today for a preliminary hearing. Prosecutors say Johnathon Ardoin, 31, opened fire on Jamil Alhalemi just after 9:30pm on September 30 a half block from 16th and Mission BART station. Alhalemi was shot in the groin, near his femoral artery, by an attacker he described as a black man, with a tattoo on his face, wearing all black clothes. Investigators […]](https://i0.wp.com/sfpublicsafety.news/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Screenshot-2025-11-03-at-3.17.21-PM.png?resize=1400%2C912&ssl=1)
New U.S. Attorneys diverge: hard-charging in LA, hard to find in SF
“The qualities of a good prosecutor are as elusive and as impossible to define as those which mark a gentleman,” U.S. Attorney General Robert Jackson told federal prosecutors in 1940, in a celebrated speech that became the by... More »
Death that shamed San Francisco – Kate Steinle's killing 10 years on
“The reason he’s sitting here with a murder allegation in his petition is because of a sanctuary city called San Francisco,” observed Chief U.S. District Judge Alia Moses, of the Western District of Texas, who did not mince h... More »
Twice-bailed fentanyl dealer handcuffed in court after astonished judge reads rap sheet
A twice-bailed woman arrested during an SFPD bust of a fentanyl stash house was handcuffed in court this morning when an astonished judge read her rap sheet, concluded she was “a very grave danger to the public” and ordered d... More »
Man arrested for 2002 gang murder and witness slayings after new probe
A gang member accused of a 2019 lying-in-wait murder had killed at least three other men in San Francisco nearly two decades previously, a court has been told. Sauntek Harris is accused of fatally shooting Perry Bradstreet in... More »
135 months for SF fentanyl kingpin who kept trading while on bail
The Honduran ringleader of a major fentanyl trafficking operation, who kept peddling narcotics despite her drug-dealer brother being shot to death on a San Francisco street, and while on bail, was sentenced to 135 months’ imp... More »
SF judge labeled RACIST for jailing 18yo accused of opening fire on city street
An 18-year-old accused of opening fire on a San Francisco street, and then found with a machine gun, and then caught making a prison ‘shank’, has labeled a judge at the city’s Hall of Justice RACIST for calling him dangerous ... More »
174-day sentence for man who fired first in 2023 Embarcadero gun battle
The man who fired first at the start of what became a rolling gun battle along San Francisco’s Embarcadero, in which he emptied the magazine of his stolen handgun, was sentenced to 174 days in jail for his role in the inciden... More »
SF's most prolific violent felon arrested AGAIN amid Bayview armed feud
San Francisco’s most prolific violent felon — treated with kid gloves by a succession of superior court judges on both sides of the Bay — has been arrested again after apparently becoming embroiled in an armed feud and leadin... More »
San Francisco’s hardest-working Honduran drug dealer pleads guilty
A Honduran drug dealer with more than a dozen arrests in San Francisco pleaded guilty to six counts of possession with intent to distribute narcotics today at the city’s federal courthouse. A federal complaint was leveled aga... More »
“Santa Rosa man” guilty of brutal attack was 2x deported Mexican rapist
A man jailed for 33 years to life in Sonoma County last year for stabbing his wife seven times in the neck was a twice-deported Mexican rapist who was captured again two months before the attempted murder but bailed by a fede... More »
MUNI rider w/ machine gun arrested after operator calls cops
A felon armed with a machine gun was arrested as he exited a MUNI light rail vehicle thanks to the work of a level-headed passenger and a quick-thinking operator, a court has been told. Johnny Johnson, 31, will appear today a... More »
Family of teacher killed by fentanyl decry lenient sentence for dealer
The heartbroken family of a San Francisco teacher who died after taking fentanyl sold in the guise of cocaine has condemned the lenient prison term prosecutors have recommended for the Honduran dealer who peddled the drug – a... More »
SFPD arrest man who, dressed as a woman, pointed gun at pastor
More details are emerging in the March 11 incident on San Francisco’s Market Street, where a man, apparently dressed as a woman, drew a gun and pointed it at the face of a street preacher after taking objection to the cleric’... More »
Alameda D.A. says she will no longer take sides at killers’ parole hearings
A new policy instituted by the recently installed Alameda County district attorney bans her prosecutors from making recommendations on prisoners’ release to the state parole board. The move by Ursula Dickson scraps the approa... More »
Alameda prosecutors resume opposing killers' release at parole hearings
Alameda County District Attorney’s Office has begun affirmatively opposing the release of inmates at state parole hearings, marking the end of a hiatus on parole recommendations imposed by Ursula Jones Dickson upon taking off... More »
Delay for man accused of SF killing while wanted for attempted murder
A man accused of murdering his domestic partner and grievously wounding her son in a broad daylight gun attack, just months after allegedly trying to kill another man, was back in court today to see his preliminary hearing in... More »
SF Sheriff's deputy left unconscious after jail attack by murder accused
A felon accused of shooting dead a rival in San Francisco’s Tenderloin last year is facing new charges after launching a brutal assault on a sheriff’s deputy working in county jail #3 in San Mateo earlier this month. Prosecut... More »
Man blackmailed teen to force her submission to sex abuse - prosecutors
A San Francisco man blackmailed his teenage stepdaughter in an effort to force her continued acquiescence to a campaign of sexual abuse and rape he had begun perpetrating six years earlier, say prosecutors. Authorities say th... More »
Felons “equipped to do battle” caught by traffic stop while heading to SF
Two heavily-armed felons driving to San Francisco “equipped to do battle,” had their plans thwarted when alert highway patrol officers pulled them over for a license plate infraction, a court heard today. Gabriel Jones and Ja... More »
Five head to trial after Bayview drive-by case was cracked in 24 hours
A drive-by shooting in San Francisco’s Bayview neighborhood, which saw a gang member hit and a nearby home riddled with gunfire, was cracked by police in 24 hours after it emerged that officers in Oakland had filmed the perpe... More »
SF Tre-4 arms dealer gets 51 month sentence for firearms possession
A San Francisco gang member whose criminal past includes a car-to-car shooting on the Bay Bridge, carjacking and assault, and whose criminal present includes near-constant firearms possession, was sentenced to 51 months’ impr... More »
Life without parole: SF judge throws book at pair guilty of 2017 murder
The pair convicted of first-degree murder for killing San Francisco photographer Ed French during a 2017 robbery were sentenced to life without parole today by a judge who roundly rejected their pleas for leniency. Fantasy De... More »
Alameda D.A. secures resentencing of pair guilty of home invasion rape, kidnap and murder
Last month Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price persuaded a court to resentence two men given life without parole for the 1980 home invasion rape, kidnapping and shot-to-the-head execution of a 22-year-old Oakland wo... More »
Federal judge upbraided by Postmaster General over lenient sentence
Postmaster General Louis Dejoy has scolded a federal judge for the “simply unacceptable” 30-day sentence given last month to the man who put a gun to the head of a San Francisco mail carrier during a robbery. Leroy Wise wayla... More »
Tenderloin drug dealer, deported to Honduras, arrested again in U.S.
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... More »
Bid to sideline federal judge for being too tough on SF fentanyl dealers
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 federal public defender – and a demand that... More »
Just-arrived vagrant launched vicious attack on Fi-Di resident, court hears
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 tha... More »
District Attorney orders review after parole fiasco risks killer’s release
San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins has ordered an immediate review of the circumstances in which her office supported the parole of murderer Royce Miller – days before Governor Gavin Newsom must decide whether to ... More »
SFPD at the heart of federal drive to deport San Francisco’s army of illegal alien drug dealers
This article is also available in Spanish. 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 ... More »
Mugged: SFPD Chief's ban on offender photographs harms San Franciscans
Last week cameras filmed as murder suspect Brian Dowling was led by police officers down the precinct steps and into a waiting car. Family and friends of the victim, Ryan Carson, were thus able to see the man accused of the h... More »
Wrist slap for Honduran dealer whose case was an election flashpoint
A Honduran fentanyl dealer whose lenient treatment at the hands of superior court judges became a flashpoint in San Francisco judicial elections last year was further indulged by a judge this morning as she was given a slap o... More »
