![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 three decades imprisonment. Fernando Madrigal’s reign of terror saw him rob and murder another man and perpetrate a drumbeat of drive-by shootings, street attacks, robberies and carjackings, all while […]](https://i0.wp.com/sfpublicsafety.news/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Screenshot-2023-12-06-at-6.26.50-PM.png?resize=1200%2C912&ssl=1)
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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 after nearly two decades in prison. A jury found Royce Miller guilty of the murder of Lincoln High School senior Maxina Danner. After the killing he wrapped his victim’s body in a blanket and discarded it on a roadside near a city park. He was sentenced to the legally-mandated punishment for second degree murder: incarceration […]](https://i0.wp.com/sfpublicsafety.news/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/MAXINA-5.png?resize=1400%2C912&ssl=1)
![A man born in Liberia, raised in Nigeria and given asylum in America, whose pivotal role in a ‘romance scam’ that cheated a San Francisco retiree out of $400,000 was exposed by the U.S. Secret Service, received a ‘year and a day’ prison sentence this afternoon in federal court. Kinston Osagie, 56, worked with his Nigeria-based brother to swindle millions of dollars from victims. The pair had a history of creating fake profiles on dating websites and impersonating a range […]](https://i0.wp.com/sfpublicsafety.news/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Screen-Shot-2023-06-29-at-12.17.05-PM.png?resize=1400%2C912&ssl=1)
![One man has died and another suffered non-life threatening injuries after a shooting this morning at the junction of Golden Gate Avenue and Hyde Street. SFPD crime scene investigators and homicide detectives began their work as daylight broke – which also revealed gunshot damage to the rear of the new UC Law San Francisco building. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in San Francisco named the deceased as Jose Valle Rodriguez, 40, of Alameda County. His next of kin […]](https://i0.wp.com/sfpublicsafety.news/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/GG-Five.jpg?resize=1400%2C912&ssl=1)
![An individual accused of shooting a man in the head at a San Francisco beauty spot, just as the APEC conference began in the city, appeared in federal court today charged with murder. Prosecutors say Leion Butler, whom they describe as “identified alternatively as a black male or female,” shot dead a 32-year old man at Crissy Field in the Presidio in the early morning of November 12. They allege she then worked with a relative to sanitize a car […]](https://i0.wp.com/sfpublicsafety.news/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/DSC_0521.jpg?resize=1400%2C912&ssl=1)
![A felon who smashed his BMW into the car of gang rivals, initiating a shoot-out which left him with eleven gunshot wounds and them able to escape unscathed, was brought into federal court in a wheelchair this morning for arraignment on a firearm possession charge. Dominic Batiste pleaded ‘not guilty’ to one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition before U.S. Magistrate Judge Sallie Kim. He was on federal supervised release for an earlier firearms […]](https://i0.wp.com/sfpublicsafety.news/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-20-at-4.01.06-PM.png?resize=1400%2C912&ssl=1)
![An armed drug trafficker found with more than a kilo of fentanyl and a machete, who secured bail from a San Francisco judge, was ordered detained without bail today by a federal judge after being arrested again with massive quantities of the deadly narcotic. Joshua Lopez appeared in court 14 of San Francisco federal courthouse this afternoon facing four counts of possession with intent to supply. Government attorneys say that Lopez is an illegal alien from Honduras who has been […]](https://i0.wp.com/sfpublicsafety.news/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/CHP.png?resize=716%2C472&ssl=1)
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 »
Deportation scheme for city drug dealers picks up pace amid leniency fears
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 from local, state and federal agencies to subdue him and to quell a r... More »
‘A deadly accident waiting to happen’ – inside Milton Thomas’ murder arrest
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 jud... More »
SF murder accused was in court in a gun case between killing and arrest
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 t... More »
Akal Allen: inside the cases of the man with the hundred page rap sheet
New details are coming to light in the disturbing case of Akal Allen – the man with the “hundred page rap sheet” who has attacked and abused San Franciscans for years, and who last month violently assaulted a female FBI emplo... More »
