San Francisco, CA – Today, San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins announced 34 individuals were charged with multiple felonies in connection to narcotics trafficking in the Tenderloin between October 31, 2025, and November 17, 2025, 14 were kept in custody and twenty were released. One individual, who was released prior to arraignment by a duty magistrate, failed to appear for arraignment on November 6, 2025, and a bench warrant was issued for his arrest. Of the 31 defendants arraigned each pleaded not guilty to all charges and denied all allegations, including two individuals charged with possession of a hard drug with two or more prior convictions, pursuant to new laws enacted with the passage of Prop 36.

In one case, according to court documents, on November 5, 2025, at approximately 4:25 a.m., on the 600 block of Ellis Street. Mr. Christian Lopez (40) allegedly sold $15 worth of cocaine base to an undercover police officer. The officer followed Mr. Lopez, who allegedly walked over to Ms. Bridgette Maple (38), who handed him a purse. Mr. Lopez then allegedly retrieved cocaine base from the purse and gave it to the undercover officer in exchange for $15 in marked city funds. The police arrested and searched both Mr. Lopez and Ms. Maple and found the marked city funds in addition to $775.00 and 70.9 grams of fentanyl, 79.9 grams of heroin, 50 grams of cocaine base, 24.5 grams of methamphetamine, 13.2 grams of cocaine salt, two scales and empty baggies. At the time of this arrest, Mr. Lopez was on felony probation.

The court set no bail for Mr. Lopez and he is currently in custody. Ms. Maple was released on her own recognizance with electronic monitoring and a stay-away order from the area where she was arrested. Their next court date is November21, 2025 for the preliminary hearing.

As of November 15, 2025, we have 1,172 defendants with pending felony narcotics case, of which almost 60% (697) have bench warrants issued for failure to appear in court. Of that group of 697 defendants with open bench warrants, 179 individuals have more than one case in bench warrant status, 11 individuals each have four open cases and two individuals each have five cases in bench warrant status.

As of November 17, 2025, 121 individuals are in custody for pending felony narcotics sales related charges, 82 have more than one pending case. 46 individuals have more than two pending cases and one person has seven pending felony narcotics cases.

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