Charges have now been filed by the SF District Attorney's Office against one of the occupants of the abandoned Sea Cliff mansion that was raided by police late last week, and, yes, there was alleged meth involved.
Methamphetamine is certainly one explanation for why two people would think they could forge documents, file multiple deeds, and make themselves owners of an empty house in order to sell it for millions of dollars. And that is allegedly at least one of the drugs of choice for the first person being criminally charged in connection with the luxurious squat on 32nd Avenue that the SFPD raided last week, following years of neighbor complaints.
The SF District Attorney's Office announced charges Tuesday against 42-year-old Diana Peng, who along with Brandon Aadee has already been sued by the SF City Attorney for filing fraudulent deeds for the home at 250 32nd Avenue in SF's Sea Cliff neighborhood.
Peng now faces multiple felony counts, including unlawful possession of a controlled substance with a firearm, possession of a firearm by a felon, possession of ammunition by a felon, as well as misdemeanor counts of meth possession, drug paraphernalia, and animal neglect.
Prosecutors say that when the police raided the home last week, they found a .38 caliber revolver in Peng's possession, which she is banned from possessing due to prior felony convictions — the details of which the DA's office did not share.
Investigators found meth and drug paraphernalia, and they say the occupants "kept several dogs in the house without proper care and attention."
Those dogs can be seen in footage shot by ABC 7 in September, in which a reporter tried to confront Peng as she pulled out of the driveway with several dogs in the car, asking her about the dueling deeds in both her and Aadee's names.
An arraignment for Peng was scheduled for today, Tuesday, at 1:30 pm. It's unclear what, if any, charges Aadee may face, assuming he was the person arrested last week along with Peng.
Neighbors have complained for over a year about sketchy late-night activity, people moving in and out of the four-bedroom home with suitcases, stolen property, and just a general feeling of lack of safety on the block after squatters took over the home — possibly in early summer 2025. One neighbor suggested to ABC 7 that the owners had left the country and left the home empty back in 2020.
Last month, the SF Board of Supervisors voted to auction off the abandoned home, after failing to get in touch with the owners, Wei Wang and her husband, in order to cover an outstanding property tax bill of around $340,000.
But first, it had to be emptied of its occupants, who had allegedly falsified notary public stamps and signatures to file at least seven deeds with the city in the last eighteen months, perhaps trying to create a confusing paper trail to obscure the true ownership? The deeds allegedly showed Peng and Aadee passing the house back and forth between each other.
Although charges have been filed, anyone with information is asked to call the SFPD tip line at 415-575-4444, or text a tip to TIP411 and begin the message with “SFPD.” Tipsters can remain anonymous.
Related: SFPD Raids Squatter House in Sea Cliff, Removes Group of People
