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• Riverside man arrested for trafficking heroin and meth

  Published On: 03-07-2018 in Category: drug bust

  

  Law enforcement officers in Washington County, Utah, have seized a huge quantity of drugs — nearly 25 pounds of methamphetamine and 4 pounds of heroin worth over $2 million on the street during a traffic stop. According to media reports, authorities got suspicious when driver Arturo De Paz from California’s Riverside failed to provide any […]

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• Riverside couple arrested for using drone to deliver drugs

  Published On: 02-07-2018 in Category: drug bust

  

  The Riverside Police Department (RPD) recently arrested a couple on charges of using a drone to deliver drugs. Authorities said the couple — 39-year-old Benjamin Baldassarre and 31-year-old Ashley Carroll – used to operate the drone from the rear yard of their residence in the 8700 block of Chesapeake Lane in the Orangecrest neighborhood to […]

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• Border Patrol discovers cocaine worth $1 million in Temecula

  Published On: 11-14-2017 in Category: addiction, drug bust, trafficking

  

  Border Patrol (BP) agents have arrested two men on charges of smuggling cocaine at a checkpoint in Temecula, Riverside County. The men—both in their thirties—were driving a 1999 Chevrolet Malibu Sedan on Interstate 15 in Temecula, when the agents pulled them aside to conduct a vehicle search. During the search on Sept. 28, 2017, a […]

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• Riverside sees spurt in fentanyl trafficking, cases of drug bust rise

  Published On: 09-04-2017 in Category: addiction, drug bust, trafficking

  

  Going by the national trend, fentanyl is projected to emerge as the deadliest drug, causing the maximum overdose related deaths in the United States in 2016. And the trend continues in 2017, including in places like Riverside. Weeks after a fentanyl lab was found in a home, the Murrieta Police Department’s Special Enforcement Team arrested […]

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• Border Patrol officers seize drugs during stopover in Riverside County

  Published On: 07-28-2017 in Category: addiction, drug bust, trafficking

  

  In a significant drug bust, U.S. Border Patrol agents on June 23, 2017, seized illegal drugs worth more than $800,000 stashed in a 2014 Ford Focus, which they stopped on the Interstate 15 (I-15) near Temecula in southwestern Riverside County. While searching the vehicle, a drug-sniffing dog alerted the officers of the Border Patrol office […]

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• Man arrested for prescription drug robbery in Corona, Riverside County

  Published On: 06-02-2017 in Category: Opioid addiction, Opioids, prescription drug abuse

  

  Riverside County sheriff’s Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) officers on May 17 arrested a Corona resident on charges of robbing prescription medicines from a Norco business. According to an official release, Jeffrey Crawford demanded prescription pills at gun point from a Norco business employee. Crawford fled the scene before the authorities could arrive. But, soon […]

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• 3 arrested in Riverside drug lab raid

  Published On: 03-31-2017 in Category: addiction, drug bust, marijuana

  

  Police discovered a marijuana oil extraction laboratory on the premises of a Riverside commercial establishment, seizing more than $200,000 worth of concentrated oil and arresting three persons, authorities said. Investigating authorities in early March 2017, reached the building premises along the 1600 block of Chicago Avenue to raid the clandestine lab where highly inflammable butane […]

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• Large marijuana grow house in Riverside home upsets neighbors

  Published On: 01-31-2017 in Category: addiction, drug bust, marijuana

  Recently, there has been an unprecedented growth in the number of unlicensed marijuana growing houses across almost all the American states. Interestingly, most of these operations run clandestinely within residential neighborhoods, which is proving to be a nuisance for the neighbors. These grow houses are usually operated by unscrupulous growers who manufacture large quantities of […]

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• Riverside County police seize drugs stashed in a car battery

  Published On: 12-23-2016 in Category: addiction, drug bust, Heroin, trafficking

  Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel has long been known to transport drugs through the stash houses across Riverside County to be distributed in the markets of New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Canada. In reality, there is an intricate billion-dollar network crisscrossing the county and concealed within the same shipping and trucking lanes that carry goods from […]

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• Riverside County jails witness release of drug offenders

  Published On: 11-29-2016 in Category: addiction, Drug Abuse, Methamphetamine

  

  In the last five years, overcrowding across prisons in Riverside County has caused premature release of 35,000 inmates. “Fed kick” is the term used to describe an early release of low-level offenders due to a current capacity crisis in jails throughout the County. Abraham Zamudio, 34, of Palm Springs, was arrested on drug trafficking charges […]

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