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Contra Costa Police Commander Arrested On Drug Dealing Charges
By Joe Vazquez, CBS 5 CONCORD (CBS 5) — The high-profile commander for the Central Contra Costa County Narcotics Enforcement Team – a task force of various police agencies – was arrested Wednesday on...
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Hundreds of Drug Cases At Risk After CoCo Drug Cop’s Arrest
By Joe Vazquez, CBS 5 MARTINEZ (CBS 5) — Hundreds of drug cases could be in jeopardy following the arrest of the commander of the Central Contra Costa County Narcotic Enforcement Team on 22...
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Top CoCo Drug Cop Reportedly Admits Stealing, Dealing Drugs
By Joe Vazquez, CBS 5 MARTINEZ (CBS 5) — As narcotics task force commander Norm Wielsch and private investigator Chris Butler made their first formal appearances before a judge Friday afternoon, the...
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Oakland Police Seek To Protect Kids Walking To School
OAKLAND (KCBS) – Uniformed officers from the Oakland Police Department and other agencies were out in force Wednesday morning in one of the city’s toughest neighborhoods, in response to parents’...
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Contra Costa Cop Allegedly Counts Drug Money In Video
MARTINEZ (AP) — Investigators allege that the commander of a county anti-drug task force was caught on video counting cash after selling a pound of methamphetamine stolen from evidence. California...
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Contra Costa Cop Pleads Not Guilty To Drug Dealing
MARTINEZ (BCN) — A Contra Costa County drug task force commander and his alleged accomplice pleaded not guilty today to charges that they stole drugs from law enforcement evidence lockers and sold them...
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Oakland Rehires Several More Laid Off Police Officers
OAKLAND (KCBS) – The Oakland Police Department will soon re-hire eight more of the officers laid off last year because of budget cuts, Police Chief Anthony Batts said. The Police Department has already...
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Top CoCo Drug Cop & Friend Indicted By Feds For Drug Dealing, Prostitution
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS 5) — A federal grand jury in San Francisco on Monday indicted former Contra Costa County narcotics task force Commander Norman Wielsch and a friend, private investigator Christopher...
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Mexican Citizen Living In San Jose Gets 14-Year Prison Term For Conspiring To...
SAN JOSE (CBS SF) — A Mexican citizen has been sentenced in federal court in San Jose to 14 years in prison for conspiring to possess and sell methamphetamine. Jose Corona-Mata, 32, a native of...
View Article68-Year-Old Oakland Man Busted For Allegedly Dealing Heroin, Cocaine
OAKLAND (CBS SF) — Police in the East Bay last month arrested a 68-year-old Oakland man suspected of dealing heroin, cocaine and marijuana from near the senior citizen housing where he lived. Landry...
View ArticleNorthern California ‘Dark Web’ Drug Dealers Sentenced To Prison
FRESNO (CBS SF) — Two drug dealers who used the ‘Dark Web’ to collect orders for narcotics ranging from cocaine, fentanyl and heroin and then delivered them using the U.S. Postal Service have been...
View ArticleSanta Rosa Couple With Young Kids Arrested On Suspicion Of Selling Meth
SANTA ROSA (CBS SF) — Police arrested a married couple Thursday on suspicion of selling methamphetamine from the home they share with their three young children, a police sergeant said. Police...
View ArticleEmeryville Man Arrested On Suspicion Of Gun, Drug Possession
EMERYVILLE (CBS SF) — Officers arrested a man they said had more than 200 grams of heroin and two handguns in the parking lot of Home Depot in Emeryville Saturday night. Mohamed Ahmed was arrested and...
View ArticleSan Francisco Tenderloin Police Station At Front Line Of Civic Center Drug...
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) — For weeks now the flood of drugs running through San Francisco’s downtown BART stations has been making headlines. That phenomenon, of course, just an extension of the problems...
View ArticleSan Francisco Man Arrested 9th Time In 2018 For Alleged Drug Dealing
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — A man has been arrested the ninth time this year for dealing drugs in San Francisco, according to police. The San Francisco Police Tenderloin Station Twitter account said...
View ArticleSan Jose Police Arrest 4 Suspects In Massive Drug Operation
SAN JOSE (CBS SF) — Police in San Jose on Wednesday night announced the arrest of four suspects in what department officials called a large-scale criminal operation dealing narcotics in the Bay Area...
View ArticleOwner of Shuttered S.F. Bar Blames Rampant Neighborhood Street Crime
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) — Across the street from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and next to the San Francisco Federal Building is the now-closed Mr. Smith’s bar. The bar owner, Max Young, shuttered...
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S.F. Supe Calls on City, U.S. Government to Tackle Night Crime ‘Crisis’ at...
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — San Francisco supervisor Matt Haney on Friday called on both federal and city officials to address concerns over trash, drug dealing and drug use at the city’s Federal Plaza....
View ArticleSan Francisco DA Posts List Of Cases Possibly Impacted By Forensic Lab...
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — The San Francisco District Attorney’s office on Friday posted an extensive list of cases that could be affected the misconduct of a forensic lab analyst who is being charged...
View ArticleSan Francisco Tenderloin Drug Dealer Released After 4th Arrest In 90 Days On...
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — A drug dealer, who has continually ignored a judge’s order to stay away from San Francisco’s troubled Tenderloin neighborhood, was arrested for a fourth time in the last 90...
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