{"id":398527,"date":"2026-07-14T23:00:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T23:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/398527\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T23:00:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T23:00:43","slug":"san-francisco-rideshare-passenger-arrested-after-leaving-behind-meth-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/398527\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco rideshare passenger arrested after leaving behind meth, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police in San Francisco arrested a man on multiple drug charges over the weekend after he allegedly left behind a bag containing methamphetamine in the back of a rideshare vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after 2 p.m. Sunday, officers from the Tenderloin Station were flagged down by a rideshare driver on Turk Street. The driver told officers that a passenger left a backpack containing suspected narcotics.<\/p>\n<p>A search of the backpack yielded what police described as a &#8220;large amount&#8221; of suspected meth.<\/p>\n<p>Following the search, officers worked with the driver to arrange for the backpack to be returned to the passenger, who was staying at a local motel. Officers were able to place the suspect, identified as 41-year-old Jessie Ottman-Combs of Sacramento, under arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they searched Ottman-Combs&#8217; room and found two cellphones, two tablets and drug paraphernalia. According to officers, a total of 355.7 grams of methamphetamine was seized.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/sf-meth-rideshare-071426.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"sf-meth-rideshare-071426.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Methamphetamine that police said was seized after a backpack containing meth was found in a rideshare in San Francisco on July 12, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>                San Francisco Police Department<\/p>\n<p>Ottman-Combs was booked into San Francisco Jail on suspicion of possession of methamphetamine, possession of drug paraphernalia and transportation or sale of methamphetamine.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with additional information about the case is asked to contact San Francisco Police at 415-575-4444 or to text TIP411, beginning \u00a0the message with &#8220;SFPD&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police in San Francisco arrested a man on multiple drug charges over the weekend after he allegedly left&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[14513,17370,101,103,102,3805,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-398527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-drug-bust","tag-methamphetamine","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-san-francisco-police-department","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}