57 people arrested in one-day drug raid in San Francisco’s Tenderloin

San Francisco police arrested 57 people in a one-day operation in the Tenderloin District last week.

Arrest warrants were issued against 43 of the 57 defendants. During the arrests on June 12, officers seized various narcotics, including fentanyl, methamphetamine and cocaine, police said in a press release on Monday.

The operation was led by the city Coordination Centre of the Medicines Market Agencya multi-agency initiative to combat the growing fentanyl crisis and deteriorating road conditions launched last year by Mayor London Breed. The initiative combines city, state and federal resources.

According to a press release from the mayor’s office, the center has led to the arrest of 3,000 people and the seizure of about 200 kilograms of drugs in its one year of operation.

“We have implemented unprecedented coordination to combat drug trafficking on our streets, and we will not let up,” Breed said last month.

The June 12 operation involved San Francisco Police Department officers from the Fugitive Recovery Enforcement Team, Narcotics Unit, Narcotics Drug Recognition Expert Team, Tenderloin Station Patrol, Tenderloin Station Violence Reduction Team and Tenderloin Plainclothes Team.

The San Francisco Police Department’s press release states that although arrests have been made, the investigation is still ongoing and active.