Posted on 10/09/2018 4:59:10 PM PDT by BenLurkin
he investigation began last September, when members of a task force began looking into a Los Angeles County resident who was suspected of dealing bulk amount of drugs to people in Ventura County. Omar Rangel, 29, was eventually identified as the leader of an L.A.-based drug trafficking organization suspected of moving "substantial quantities of narcotics" for the Sinaloa cartel and distributing it in the two counties.
Detectives ended up seizing 161 pounds of methamphetamine, 121 pounds of cocaine, 13 pounds of heroin, nearly 7 pounds of fentanyl, 600 fentanyl pills, 12 firearms and more than $353,000 in drug sales proceeds, officials said. The combined street value of the drugs totaled more than $10,800,000.
Pentis said this is a "huge" case for Ventura County because fentanyl is often mixed with heroin and is contributing to overdose deaths in his area. He noted that those deaths between 2016 and 2017 have increased by 42 percent in Ventura County, and 22 of the 32 fatal overdoses this year involved fentanyl.
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13 fewer democrat voters.
The tentacles reach up and down the Califoria coast.
breaks my heart! Used to live there. Damn,
All hard stuff, and no pot. Yuck.
Probably centered in Oxnard. It’s huge gang territory now.
All those deaths and call he faces is 16 years if convicted.
Maybe this is why hispanics are being pulled over for traffic stops more then others.
A lawsuit was recently filed against the police for doing so.
That and a million illegals given a driver license by the democrats just so they can vote. So 2 cartels at work here.
I have been convinced for a long time that there is no organized crime without organized political corruption. It is notorious in Mexico and now it is spreading all over our country.
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