Jonah Owen Lamb

2 weeks ago | sfstandard.com | Jonah Owen Lamb

A rookie cop has been fired from the San Francisco Police Department after being arrested on suspicion of causing a drunken car crash that critically injured at least one person. “He is no longer employed by the department,” police communications director Evan Sernoffsky told The Standard by phone Tuesday. Early Saturday, a little more than a day after graduating from the San Francisco police academy, Ryan Chung-Yan Kwong, 28, allegedly drove into another car in the Outer Sunset, the SFPD said.

2 weeks ago | sfstandard.com | Jennifer Wadsworth |Jonah Owen Lamb |Ezra Wallach

A rookie cop driving under the influence a day after graduating from the San Francisco police academy slammed into another car early Saturday in the Outer Sunset, The Standard has learned. The high-speed crash happened around 2 a.m. at Sunset Boulevard and Rivera Street and left five people injured — two of them critically, according to the San Francisco Fire Department. Jail records show the driver, Ryan Kwong, was booked early Saturday on suspicion of five felony DUI-with-injury counts.

3 weeks ago | sfstandard.com | Gabe Greschler |Jonah Owen Lamb

A Southern California lawyer who worked on the Republican-led committee investigating the 2012 Benghazi attack has been tapped as the next U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California, the Standard has learned. He will start May 27, according to a source directly familiar with the matter. The Department of Justice confirmed Missakian’s appointment. Between 2014 and 2016, Missakian worked as the deputy chief counsel for the U.S. House of Representatives.

3 weeks ago | sfstandard.com | Jonah Owen Lamb |Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez

One by one, District Attorney Brooke Jenkins has picked off San Francisco Superior Court judges. She’s challenged them all, and found success having them removed. First it was Judge Anthony Kline, then Victor Hwang. Judges Carolyn Gold and Michelle Tong followed. All were either pushed from hearing criminal proceedings, or shunted off to other courts, in a torrent of legal maneuvers alleging prejudice, levied by prosecutors.

4 weeks ago | sfstandard.com | Jonah Owen Lamb

Two Oakland police officers squeezed behind the bar of The Lodge, a saloon on Piedmont Avenue, as if looking for hidden drugs or guns. As late-afternoon customers watched — one filming the scene with a cellphone — a bearded officer shined his flashlight into liquor bottles, holding them up to the light as he kept an eye on the drinkers watching him. “We’re just curious, what are you looking for?” asked a woman sitting at the bar.