Recent Posts in Drug Trafficking Category
Posted on Jan 12, 2012 By Editor
A sheriff's deputy was accused of trying to get heroin into a courthouse jail inside a bean-and-cheese burrito. In recent years, three Sheriff's Department guards have been convicted and a ...
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Posted on Jan 4, 2012 By Editor
About 2,000 pounds of marijuana were seized and 10 people were arrested Wednesday in an early-morning raid off the Ventura County coast, federal officials said. Agents from the Department of Homeland ...
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Posted on Dec 8, 2011 By Editor
Federal and local authorities on Thursday arrested 14 alleged members of a Whittier-based family-run drug trafficking ring. The 14 suspects were among 44 people named in a federal indictment handed ...
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Posted on Dec 7, 2011 By Editor
Add cans of jalapeno peppers and cheese sauce to the places where smugglers have tried to hide drugs, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Federal agents Tuesday arrested a 21-year-old ...
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Posted on Oct 26, 2011 By Editor
Three alleged gang members from Ventura County were arrested Tuesday on federal drug distribution and firearms trafficking charges, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. The arrests came during ...
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Posted on Oct 26, 2011 By Editor
Three alleged gang members from Ventura County were arrested Tuesday on federal drug distribution and firearms trafficking charges, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. The arrests came during ...
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Posted on Sep 30, 2011 By Editor
A Los Angeles man, Ronaldo Hernandez, was arrested Wednesday in connection with the distribution of heroin in the Conejo Valley. Thousand Oaks police Hernandez's arrest followed a monthlong ...
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Posted on Apr 13, 2011 By Editor
Mexican heroin trafficker Jose Antonio Medina Arreguin a.inline_topic:hover { background-color: #EAEAEA; } was sentenced Wednesday to 22 years in prison after pleading guilty last month to conspiring ...
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Posted on Feb 10, 2011 By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Attorney
Twenty-two members of an Oxnard street gang were arrested Wednesday on drug-trafficking charges. Members of the Colonia Chiques, Ventura County's largest street gang, were arrested after an ...
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Posted on Feb 4, 2011 By Editor
A South L.A. gang leader, Alphonso Eugene Foster, was sentenced to life in federal prison without parole for drug trafficking. Police have been investigating Foster for years trying to bring down his ...
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Posted on Jan 26, 2011 By Editor
Eleven alleged gang members were arrested for suspicion of murder and methamphetamine trafficking Wednesday morning. It is unclear if any of those arrested Wednesday will be charged with murder, but ...
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