Ex-Housing Chief Held in Drug Case

SAN FRANCISCO — The former chief of a federally funded housing corporation in San Francisco was among those arrested during a roundup of alleged members of an Oakland-based cocaine ring, authorities said.

Joletha Head, 57, was taken into custody last week at her San Francisco home for investigation of four cocaine charges, authorities said.

Head once was in charge of a housing agency in San Francisco’s Bayview-Hunter’s Point district.

She left that job after pleading guilty in 1982 to forging an agency director’s name on a loan agreement, and later served a two-year prison sentence for violating probation on a 1979 welfare fraud conviction.

Also arrested in last week’s drug bust was Head’s former boyfriend, Lee Jenkins, 49.

On Wednesday, a search of the home Head and Jenkins shared yielded $1,900 in cash, some powdered cocaine and a half-pound of rock cocaine, agents said.

Head and Jenkins were arrested for investigation of possession of cocaine for sale, possession of rock cocaine for sale, maintaining a place to sell controlled substances, and possession of a controlled substance.