![A man who unleashed a 13-round fusillade at a San Francisco mail carrier attempting to deliver a package to his house pleaded guilty to assault and firearms offenses today in federal court. Vo Nguyen, 38, emptied the extended magazine of a Sig Sauer 9mm semi-automatic pistol during the April 2023 incident – with the postal worker escaping unscathed only due to his attacker’s poor marksmanship. The terms of a plea agreement would see Nguyen receive an 11 year sentence. U.S. […]](https://i0.wp.com/sfpublicsafety.news/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-02-at-3.01.14)
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![A drug-dealing pimp was sentenced to 105 months imprisonment this morning at San Francisco federal courthouse – and narrowly avoided a much stiffer term when the judge decided he could not take account of prosecutors’ evidence that the defendant raped a city visitor and sold guns. Lamar Ryan stole money from a prostitute and brandished a firearm in an effort to force her to work for him. While handcuffed in a patrol car he managed to take the gun from […]](https://i0.wp.com/sfpublicsafety.news/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-22-at-3.53.55)
![A decision to grant parole to the killer of a San Francisco toddler is under review after California Governor Gavin Newsom asked the Board of Parole Hearings to look again at the case and told them that, if it were up to him, he would keep the murderer behind bars. Patrick Goodman murdered his girlfriend’s three-year-old son, Elijah Sanderson, on December 6 2000 at their Ingleside home. The autopsy report detailed injuries ranging from a broken neck and broken ribs […]](https://i0.wp.com/sfpublicsafety.news/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Capitol-2-Sacramento.png?resize=1400%2C912&ssl=1)
![A teen who wrecked a car during a 2023 police chase while armed with an assault rifle, who months later was arrested for murder, and who then wrecked another car during a police chase while armed again – all while on bail for a string of auto burglaries, appeared in San Francisco Superior Court today. Cameron Haynes appeared out-of-custody before Judge Christine Van Aken for a scheduling hearing. He had earlier secured bail for the nine new felony firearms charges […]](https://i0.wp.com/sfpublicsafety.news/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/SF-Skyline-1.png?resize=1400%2C912&ssl=1)
![A felon who opened fire in an Oakland street after being arrested with loaded firearms twice in the preceding six months was sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment in federal court today. Rosevelt Jones, 32, shot at rivals in September 2023 on the 1600 block of 8th Street. Shotspotter detected 14 rounds fired during the incident and police found nearby homes and cars hit by gunfire. He was arrested, again, by federal and state law enforcement in November 2023 with a […]](https://i0.wp.com/sfpublicsafety.news/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Jones-1.png?resize=1400%2C912&ssl=1)
![A prolific felon arrested by SFPD in a stolen car, with a stolen gun and with stolen credit cards that had been swiped in an armed robbery, was sentenced to 20 months’ imprisonment today in federal court. Marcell Gross earlier pleaded guilty to one count of ‘being a felon in possession of a firearm’ stemming from the December 20 2021 incident. He was on parole following an armed robbery conviction in 2020. Gross, 24, is perhaps best known for a […]](https://i0.wp.com/sfpublicsafety.news/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-17-at-1.29.23)
![A felon found with a loaded semi-automatic pistol 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 arising from the same incident. After Darryl Rushing’s November 2023 arrest, and a decision days later by a San Francisco judge to free him on an ankle monitor, federal prosecutors moved to indict him and pressed another judge – this […]](https://i0.wp.com/sfpublicsafety.news/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/xRushingV.png?resize=1400%2C912&ssl=1)
![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 drug-abusing schizophrenic with borderline personality disorder, arrived in the city in 2015 having fled legal trouble in Texas, Colorado and New Mexico. His criminal record includes the attempted murder of an elderly taxi driver […]](https://i0.wp.com/sfpublicsafety.news/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Paradox-Main.png?resize=1400%2C912&ssl=1)
![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 waylaid the postal service employee as he sat in his truck in the city’s Ingleside district. He held a gun to his victim’s temple before pushing him to the floor and threatening to kill him if he moved. His accomplice climbed […]](https://i0.wp.com/sfpublicsafety.news/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/USPS-Dejoy.png?resize=786%2C434&ssl=1)
![A man who brandished illegal guns on Instagram and was then arrested with a weapon that had been used in an Oakland murder two weeks previously, pleaded guilty in federal court this morning to being a felon in possession of ammunition. Ray Gilbert was being closely monitored by law enforcement at the time he was posting on social media with numerous pistols equipped with extended magazines and insulting members of rival gangs. Forensic analysis determined that a Glock 22 that […]](https://i0.wp.com/sfpublicsafety.news/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Screenshot-2024-03-07-at-12.02.43-PM.png?resize=919%2C621&ssl=1)
Interview with Manhattan Institute public safety fellow Rafael Mangual
At Berkeley Law School’s seminar on ‘the role of the elected prosecutor’ this month, we sat down with Manhattan Institute fellow and author of Criminal (In)Justice Rafael Mangual to discuss how campaigners’ efforts to secure ... More »
Governor reverses parole board decision to free killer of San Francisco girl
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 Hi... More »
SF gang member, again found with a gun, wins pretrial release appeal
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 arres... 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 »
Man who assaulted female FBI employee found not competent to stand trial
A man who violently assaulted a female FBI employee on the street near the Bureau’s San Francisco office – the latest in a string of attacks he has committed on Bay Area women – has been found not competent to stand trial by ... More »
Sentencing abandoned after SF Norteño gang leader goes on the lam
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... More »
Hawaii murder suspect denied pretrial release in San Francisco
A man accused of a 2021 murder in Hawaii had an audacious bid for pretrial release rejected today by a federal judge in San Francisco. Filimone Tavake is accused of shooting and killing Malakai Maumalanga over a dispute about... 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 »
Paid sexual encounter went awry before Crissy Field murder
Further details are emerging in the case of Leion Butler – presently in federal custody accused of murdering a 32 year old man in a parking lot at San Francisco’s Crissy Field last month. Newly-filed court documents detail wh... More »
Mugged: SFPD 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 »
