2020 was S.F. s deadliest year for overdoses, by far
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People work to revive an overdose victim before paramedics arrive in S.F.’s Tenderloin in July.Nick Otto / Special to The Chronicle 2020Show MoreShow Less
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Paramedics work to revive an overdose victim in San Francisco in July. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner reported 699 overdose deaths in 2020, 40% in the Tenderloin or South of Market.Nick Otto / Special to The Chronicle 2020Show MoreShow Less
San Francisco lost a total of 699 people to overdoses last year, a 59% rise from 2019, according to new data released Thursday by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
San Francisco wrestles with drug approach as death and chaos engulf Tenderloin
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San Francisco wrestles with drug approach as death and chaos engulf Tenderloin
In early 2019, Tom Wolf posted a thank-you on Twitter to the cop who had arrested him the previous spring, when he was homeless and strung out in a doorway with 103 tiny bindles of heroin and cocaine in a plastic baggie at his feet. You saved my life, wrote Wolf, who had finally gotten clean after that bust and 90 days in jail, ending six months of sleeping on scraps of cardboard on the sidewalk.
Today, he joins a growing chorus of people, including the mayor, calling for the city to crack down on an increasingly deadly drug trade. But there is little agreement on how that should be done. Those who demand more arrests and stiffer penalties for dealers face powerful opposition in a city with little appetite for locking people up for drugs, especially as the Black Lives Matter and Defund the Police movements push to drastically limit the power of law enforcement to deal with social problems.
Feds seize 10 pounds of fentanyl in Tenderloin trafficking case, ‘crime family’ accused [San Francisco Chronicle]
Dec. 17 Seven members of a “crime family” in the East Bay were arrested on suspicion of supplying a stream of illegal drugs to the Tenderloin neighborhood, a bust that involved wiretaps, undercover agents and a seizure of 10 pounds of fentanyl, U.S. Attorney David Anderson announced Wednesday.
Anderson said a ring led by Emilson “Playboy” Cruz Mayorquin, 23, and his mother, 42-year-old Leydis Cruz, allegedly commuted to the Tenderloin daily from their East Bay homes to sell fentanyl and other drugs to both dealers and users. Seven of the eight people arrested in the recent bust had family ties, officials said.
Feds seize 10 pounds of fentanyl in Tenderloin trafficking case, crime family accused
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U.S. Attorney David Anderson announced that seven members of a “crime family” in the East Bay were arrested on suspicion of supplying a stream of illegal drugs to the Tenderloin neighborhood.Paul Chinn / The Chronicle
Seven members of a “crime family” in the East Bay were arrested on suspicion of supplying a stream of illegal drugs to the Tenderloin neighborhood, a bust that involved wiretaps, undercover agents and a seizure of 10 pounds of fentanyl, U.S. Attorney David Anderson announced Wednesday.
Anderson said a ring led by Emilson “Playboy” Cruz Mayorquin, 23, and his mother, 42-year-old Leydis Cruz, allegedly commuted to the Tenderloin daily from their East Bay homes to sell fentanyl and other drugs to both dealers and users. Seven of the eight people arrested in the recent bust had family ties, officials said.
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