A gang member caught with a firearm in San Francisco’s India Basin district, just months after being released from a prison term imposed for a previous firearms offense, pleaded guilty today in federal court to weapons possession charges. Ramell Jenkins was a ... More »
An armed felon who made a living breaking into tourists’ cars and stealing their possessions – while also causing violent havoc across the Hunters Point neighborhood – pleaded guilty to a firearms possession charge this afternoon at San Francisco federal court... More »
An armed felon who made a living breaking into tourists’ cars and stealing their possessions – while also causing violent havoc across the Hunters Point neighborhood – pleaded guilty to a firearms possession charge this afternoon at San Francisco federal court... More »
A man who used a handgun equipped with an extended magazine to threaten patrons of a San Francisco Safeway store was told he faces 70 months’ imprisonment in federal court today. Julian Cisneros, 29, had earlier pleaded guilty to one count of ‘being a felon in... More »
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 and was warned that he faces more charges that c... More »
An accused drug dealer languished in prison for more than six weeks before seeing a judge because the U.S. Marshals Service “neglected to notice” he had arrived in their custody at Santa Rita Jail. Defendant Ivan Diaz’ unorthodox arrival in the Northern Distri... More »
A man on supervised release having been convicted of carrying a loaded firearm – his sixth firearms conviction – was back in federal court today having been found with another gun, this time in his car, which had been reported as the getaway vehicle in a June ... More »
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 head after a ballpark argument. N... More »
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... More »
A man charged with ‘being a felon in possession of a firearm’ is set to be released to a residential drug treatment program after a favorable decision at a pretrial detention hearing held today in San Francisco federal courthouse. Roger Dominguez was seen by S... More »