SF Sheriff’s Brother-In-Law Alleged to Have Been Growing Marijuana and Smoking It In County Jail

The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/10/10/sf-sheriffs-brother-in-law-alleged-to-have-been-growing-marijuana-plants-and-smoking-weed-in-county-jail/Some more highjinks from the SF Sheriff’s Office: Sheriff Paul Yamamoto’s brother-in-law has incident reports alleging he grew marijuana plants in a locker at SF County Jail 3, and openly smoked weed while working as a plumber there. There’s been quite a slew of scandals coming out of San Francisco Sheriff Paul Yamamoto’s office over the last three months. In late June, we learned that ​​SF Sheriff’’s Office Chief of Staff Richard Jue had a hit-and-run accident in a city-owned vehicle and submitted a false report over the incident. (Jue was placed on administrative leave.) Then in August, Yamamoto bizarrely endorsed fa