Just-released armed felon rammed carjacked BMW laden with drugs into SFPD patrol car – prosecutors
A felon just released from a ten-year prison sentence for drug trafficking, who prosecutors say rammed a just-carjacked BMW into an SFPD patrol car in an unsuccessful attempt to evade arrest, and then found with a gun and drugs, will appear later today at San Francisco’s Hall of Justice.
Kiet Ly is accused of driving through the city’s Bayview district on the late evening of July 19 in a BMW that had been stolen in an armed carjacking in Richmond earlier that day. A Flock license plate reader spotted the car and triggered an alert which prompted an SFPD officer to investigate.
After being tracked to Bayshore Avenue, Ly allegedly tried to flee from a traffic stop.
“The officer was standing behind the opened driver’s door of the patrol car when [the] defendant reversed and rammed the BMW into it,” wrote assistant district attorney Rebecca Warren in a motion to detain.
Ly, 46, then inadvertently crashed the car into a wall before decamping and running away.
He was caught by other officers nearby. Inside the BMW investigators found a loaded .380 Glock 42 pistol on the driver’s floorboard of the stolen car along with more than 100g of methamphetamine.
In 2017 Ly was sentenced at San Francisco federal courthouse to 10 years’ imprisonment after he was convicted of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
This followed his arrest at the city’s Hotel Zetta where he was found with 1.8kg of methamphetamine.
Prosecutors told the court that Ly had previously been convicted on nine separate occasions over a 15-year period. They had asked for a sentence 31 months longer than the one imposed.
Ly was released in November 2024 and picked up his first supervised release violation – a failed drug test – in January 2025.
Ly has pleaded not guilty to a battery of firearms, assault and theft charges.
He will appear today in Department 9 of San Francisco Superior Court for a pre-hearing conference ahead of his preliminary hearing. He remains in custody.
The case continues.
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