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

"Now Yamamoto's latest scandal may be the most embarrassing, if not the most damaging. The Chronicle broke a bombshell late Thursday afternoon that Yamamoto's brother-in-law was removed from the department for allegedly growing marijuana plants at SF County Jail, and smoking weed on-site while on duty. The brother-in-law in question is 59-year-old Joel Perez De Leon, who worked as a plumber at SF County Jail No 3 (he was not an inmate)."

"Then in August, Yamamoto bizarrely endorsed far-right MAGA firebrand Chad Bianco in the upcoming governor's race, apparently just because the two are friends. And this week, it came out that Yamamoto intervened to get a sheriff's deputy rehired after that deputy lied to the FBI in the infamous Shrimp Boy case, as Yamamoto and that deputy are seemingly close friends."

Multiple scandals have surfaced within the San Francisco Sheriff's Office over the past three months. A department plumber, 59-year-old Joel Perez De Leon, was removed after incident reports allegedly showed he grew marijuana plants in a jail locker and smoked on-site while on duty. Because of the familial relationship, the sheriff was not involved in the investigation but terminated the employee after being presented with the findings. Earlier incidents include a hit-and-run and false report by the chief of staff, a controversial endorsement of Chad Bianco by the sheriff, and the sheriff's intervention to rehire a deputy who lied to the FBI.

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