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Wednesday, March 23, 2022

Riverside, California: Major Drug Trafficking Organization Busted Up, RivCo Man Arrested

"Sol Prendido" for Borderland Beat

Drugs that were seized during the bust in Camarillo, according to the DEA. 

A Riverside man was among several arrested as part of a takedown of "a major narcotic trafficking organization" by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and members of the Ventura County Combined Agency Team, the federal agency reported Tuesday.

Antonio DeJesus Santana, 31, of Riverside was taken into custody March 16 in Camarillo following multiple month-long investigations into the criminal organization, according to the DEA.

Santana was nabbed after DEA special agents and VCAT investigators began looking into 24-year-old Homero Diaz of Bakersfield. Diaz was trafficking drugs into Venture County, including methamphetamine and fraudulent prescription pills containing deadly fentanyl; the pills were pressed to look like prescription oxycodone pills, the DEA said.

On the same day as Santana's arrest, Diaz and five other defendants were also taken into federal custody in Camarillo, where Diaz was coordinating a delivery of fentanyl and methamphetamine, according to the DEA.

In addition to Santana and Diaz, the five other arrestees were Manuel Martinez, 24, of Ventura; Apolinar Mena, 30 of Compton; Francisco Placencia, 28, of Compton; Jesus Varela, 28, of Torrance; and Jaime Gomez Lopez, 27, of Compton.

As part of the law enforcement operation, approximately 50,000 fentanyl pills and 45 pounds of methamphetamine were seized from three cars the suspects had arrived in, according to the DEA.

Both drugs are inexpensive and the DEA said the street value was estimated at $230,000.

Fentanyl is mainly manufactured in foreign labs and primarily smuggled across the U.S.-Mexico border, according to the DEA. The drug is known to be 80-100 times more potent than morphine and is a popular additive, mixed into any number of narcotics and pharmaceuticals, according to public safety officials.

In 2021, there were 391 fentanyl poisoning deaths in Riverside County, according to sheriff's Sgt. Edward Soto.

As of the first week of March, Riverside County District Attorney's Office spokesperson John Hall said murder charges had been filed against 13 defendants in 12 fentanyl poisoning cases.

All seven suspects were booked into the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles and they made their initial court appearances on March 17.

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25 comments:

  1. Animo toda la plebada de Riverside!

    "Pa' empezar
    Tengo una cosas que quiero aclarar, ah-ah
    Lo soñé
    Y el objetivo, hacerlo realidad, ah-ah
    Soy la 69
    Soy la chingona que salió de Riverside
    La que siempre quiso más
    A lo que me dediqué
    Fue cumplir cosas que desde niña soñé, eh-eh
    Lo que tengo me lo gané
    No por ser mujer fue que
    Me le rajé y le chingué pa' tener lo que soñé
    Gracias a Dios que me cuido y por el talento que me dio, oh-oh-oh
    Jenny 69 up in this, bitch
    Shout out to everyone in the IE
    Buchona shit
    From a pobrecita to a bad bitch
    This ain't no flex, it's a lifestyle hoe
    Soy la 69
    Soy la chingona que salió de Riverside
    La que siempre quiso más
    A lo que me dediqué
    Fue cumplir cosas que desde niña soñé, eh-eh
    Todo cambió, me va mejor
    Ahora me ven quemando
    En mi huracán me ven pasar, lo que tengo me costó
    Pero llegué y todo fue por mi hijo Manny que empecé, eh-eh-eh
    From a pobrecita to a bad bitch
    That's a wrap"

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    1. Otro homosexual cantando como vieja loca.

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    2. 10:54 You sound like sicario .oo6, what are the chances?

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    3. PAISA @ 2:00PM se ve que es un morro que le gusta la masacuata

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  2. More Mexican filth killing americans and destroying communities! Build that freaking wall! Hopefully, 100 million chinese or muslims will border jump into Mexico!

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    1. It all begins in CHINA, thank good ole Americans for the demand. Even if a wall was built nothing changes. Plus there's tunnels.

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  3. No one is forcing Americans to risk killing themselves with drugs and destroy everything around themselves in the process.

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    1. Yes no one is forcing them so what's your point?

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    2. 12:46 he's absolutely 💯 right

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    3. 11:16 sharing drugs "for free" creates a dependency for life on the recipients of the freebies,
      It gets helped at US Junior High levels all over the US and parties of the rich and the beautiful, and there is absolutely NO US GOVERNMENT PEVENTION PROGRAMS at that level

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  4. Mexicans Mafia runs the US! Good job Mexico 🇲🇽

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  5. BLM are a bunch of street level clowns like all black gangs

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    1. Liquor store hold-ups were there specialty. Now it's follow home robberies, home invasions of the wealthy. They put on face masks, you could still tell they are BLM. Juan Rambo is on vacation.

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    2. Still not nearly as bad as the things your ppl do.

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    3. Wait until they start doing kidnapping.

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  6. The comments here are as Crazzier then my ex wife BS

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    1. Welcome to the jungle, where Sol never stops churning articles for us to read, Hearst still in Cancun enjoying the beach in a Bikini.

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    2. Sol your the greatest, well see if Miss's H can make a pie for you. Send pictures of Hearst in bikini from her vacation.

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    3. 3:42 do like Johnny Deep, he accused his ex in divorce court, said she crapped on his bed and she accused the dog to make Johnny's case for him, blaming the dog shot her case down

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  7. Great I am Humble today because another dent on drugs, good job 👍 law enforcement.

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