Archive for the ‘trafficking’ Category

Want to learn more about drug addiction? Check out our blog for some of the latest information. We provide case studies, informational blogs, current event blogs and more to keep readers informed.

• Border Patrol discovers cocaine worth $1 million in Temecula

  By: Admin On: 11-14-2017 Category: addiction, drug bust, trafficking Comment: 0

  

  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 […]

  Read more

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

  By: Admin On: 09-04-2017 Category: addiction, drug bust, trafficking Comment: 0

  

  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 […]

  Read more

• Border Patrol officers seize drugs during stopover in Riverside County

  By: Admin On: 07-28-2017 Category: addiction, drug bust, trafficking Comment: 0

  

  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 […]

  Read more

• Riverside County police seize drugs stashed in a car battery

  By: Admin On: 12-23-2016 Category: addiction, drug bust, Heroin, trafficking Comment: 0

  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 […]

  Read more