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The U.S. is offering a $10 million reward for Mexico’s latest cartel boss

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Nemesio Ruben Oseguera-Cervantes

BUREAU OF INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT AFFAIRS

WANTED: NEMESIO RUBEN OSEGUERA-CERVANTES

Nemesio Ruben Oseguera-Cervantes is the alleged founder and current leader of the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG), a major drug trafficking organization (DTO) based in Jalisco, Mexico. CJNG and Oseguera-Cervantes rose to power around 2009 as the leader of the Valencia/Milenio Cartel began to lose power. Oseguera-Cervantes took advantage of this lull in leadership, and joined the Los Cuinis DTO to fight off competition for the control of the Jalisco, Nayarit, and Colima drug distribution networks. Continue reading→

Local meth traffickers allegedly shipped drugs to Hawaii disguised as Aztec calendars and statues

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Department of Justice, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Central District of California

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Methamphetamine Trafficking Ring Allegedly Shipped Drugs to Hawaii Disguised as Aztec Calendars and Statues

SANTA ANA, California – Federal authorities this morning arrested eight defendants named in a grand jury indictment that alleges a scheme to send methamphetamine to Hawaii, including nearly 12 kilograms of narcotics made to look like decorative Aztec calendars and statues.

Today’s arrests follow the filing of a seven-count indictment on October 10. A ninth defendant charged in the indictment was already in federal custody on an unrelated case. Continue reading→

Why did the City of Santa Ana allow our parks to become unsafe for kids?

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One of our readers reported that her 2-year old toddler found a Xanax pill while playing in the sand at El Salvador Park in Santa Ana. As it turns out it is possible that pill contained Fentanyl, which could be fatal to a toddler.

For years now Santa Ana’s parks have steadily gone downhill. Their bathrooms are disgusting. They often have burned out lights. And they are rampant with vagrants and worse. Continue reading→

A Mexican police officer was arrested on the 5 Fwy. with a lot of meth in his car

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NEWS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Self-identified police officer from Mexico arrested for transporting more than 50 lbs. of meth

SANTA ANA, Ca. (October 10, 2018)- On October 9, 2018, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department Highway Interdiction Team initiated a traffic stop for vehicle code violations on the northbound I-5 freeway between Orange and San Diego counties. The driver, Miguel Patron, 41, Ensenada, identified himself, stated he was a police officer in Mexico and handed the deputy his police identification. Patron was extremely nervous and several criminal indicators were identified by the deputy conducting the traffic stop. Continue reading→

Man pleads guilty to helping a Santa Ana psychiatrist to illegally sell prescription drugs

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William Jason Plumley, 41, a Huntington Beach man accused of conspiring with a Santa Ana psychiatrist to sell prescription opioids, pleaded guilty Tuesday to federal drug-distribution charges according to the O.C. Register.

Plumley accepted a plea deal that required him to admit to federal charges of distributing methamphetamine and conspiring to distribute controlled substances. Continue reading→

Santa Ana man on probation indicted for possession of large quantities of illegal drugs and a gun

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Santa Ana Man Indicted on Federal Drug Trafficking Charges that Allege Possession of Methamphetamine, Heroin, and Fentanyl

SANTA ANA, California – A federal grand jury today returned an indictment that charges a Santa Ana man with possessing significant quantities of narcotics – including the extremely potent synthetic opioid fentanyl – that he intended to distribute.

Guillermo Ernesto Sanchez Hermosillo, 41, of Santa Ana, who is currently in custody in an Orange County jail on state charges, was named in a five-count indictment. Continue reading→

11 O.C. defendants charged in a multi-million dollar, large scale fraudulent drug treatment scheme

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Thuy “Tina” Rucks

Case # 18CF2703, 18CF2704, 18CF2706-18CF2710, 18CF2712, 18CF2713, 18CF2717

Date: September 26, 2018

FIVE DOCTORS, TWO ADMINISTRATORS, AND FOUR BODY BROKERS CHARGED WITH INSURANCE FRAUD FOR EXPLOITING DRUG ADDICTS TO BILL INSURANCE FOR NON-FDA APPROVED AND DANGEROUS SURGERIES

SANTA ANA, Calif. – Orange County District Attorney (OCDA) Tony Rackauckas recently formed the Sober Living-home Investigation and Prosecution (SLIP) task force to stop large scale insurance fraud and to address citizen and community complaints and concerns about criminal activities occurring within the addiction treatment industry. SLIP netted 11 defendants in a multi-million dollar, large scale insurance fraud scheme. Five doctors, two administrators, and four body brokers were charged with participating in this scheme.

The OCDA set out to find and stop unscrupulous addiction treatment operators and medical professionals who are reaping financial gains off the backs of this vulnerable population seeking recovery (Public Hearing on Rehabilitation Exploitation and Health Care Trafficking in Costa Mesa). Continue reading→

Santa Ana City Council Ward 2 candidate Paul Gonzales wants to restore drug needle giveaways in our city

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Paul Gonzales is one of several candidates running this year for the Santa Ana City Council’s Ward 2. But he is the only one who is openly advocating to restore needle exchanges in our downtown – a program which distributed thousands of hypodermic needles to the homeless last year. Over 4,000 of these needles were later found in the Santa Ana River Trail when it was cleaned up after the homeless camps were removed.

Gonzales clearly is advocating for something most Santa Ana residents do not want! He wrote this on Facebook: Continue reading→

A homeless woman fell through the ceiling of a Mexican restaurant in Garden Grove

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A person recorded the moment the woman fell through the ceiling tiles of Sabroso! Mexican Grill in Garden Grove Sunday. The restaurant said she asked to use the bathroom and an employee obliged. She went into the bathroom and was there for a long time, causing a line to form. A short while later, she broke through one of the red ceiling tiles and fell to the ground, according to CBS News. Continue reading→

The O.C. Needle Exchange Program is hosting a Town Hall Meeting at the Delhi Center

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Needles found at the Santa Ana River Trail

City of Santa Ana

Community: Orange County Needle Exchange Program (OCNEP) Town Hall Meeting

The City of Santa Ana was made aware that the Orange County Needle Exchange Program (OCNEP) will be hosting a town hall meeting on Tuesday, September 4, 2018 from 5:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Delhi Center, located at 505 E Central Ave., Santa Ana, CA.

The purpose of the meeting is to inform the public about the Orange County Needle Exchange Program and address any questions the public may have. The public is encouraged to attend the meeting and provide feedback. Continue reading→

A Costa Mesa man associated with gangs was arrested for burglarizing a vehicle in Santa Ana

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Bryan Colin arrested

Bryan Colin, a 19-year-old Costa Mesa man known to associate with gangs, was arrested this week on suspicion of stealing a handgun, ammunition and prescription medication from a vehicle in Santa Ana, according to the L.A. Times.

Colin was arrested by Costa Mesa police gang investigators at about 1 p.m. this Tuesday in the area of Monrovia Avenue and West 15th Street in Costa Mesa on suspicion of vehicle burglary, possession of a stolen firearm and possession of narcotics. Continue reading→

Man arrested for running an unlawful marijuana dispensary in Costa Mesa

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Omid Delkash

Orange County District Attorney

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Case # 18WM12128

MULTI-AGENCY EFFORT LEADS TO ARREST AND CHARGES OF MAN FOR UNLAWFULLY OPERATING MARIJUANA DISPENSARY IN COSTA MESA

COSTA MESA, Calif. – On Friday, Aug. 24, 2018, the Costa Mesa Police Department (CMPD) and Code Enforcement,  along with the Bureau of Cannabis Control (BCC), the Department of Consumer Affairs’ Division of Investigation-Cannabis Enforcement Unit (DOI-CEU), California Department of Taxes and Fee Administration, and the Orange County District Attorney’s Office (OCDA) arrested a man, who was unlawfully operating a marijuana dispensary in Costa Mesa.

Omid Delkash, 47, Newport Beach, was charged today with four misdemeanor counts of unlawful transportation, sale, and furnishing marijuana. He is currently in custody and is being held on $150,000 bail. He was arraigned today and is scheduled for a pre-trial hearing on Aug.31,2018, at 8:30 a.m., Department C-5, Central Justice Center, Santa Ana. Continue reading→

Needle giveaway postponed after Orange County files lawsuit

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Needle Giveaway Postponed After Orange County Files Lawsuit

Santa Ana, CA – The Orange County Needle Exchange Program (OCNEP) has postponed its planned mobile needle giveaway program until September. This comes after the County of Orange filed a lawsuit on Friday and is planning to seek a temporary restraining order in court to block the program from beginning operation on Monday, August 6th.

In an interview with the Associated Press, OCNEP officials announced “they won’t start until September to have time to collaborate with local officials.” Continue reading→

Orange County to file a lawsuit to stop the drug needle giveaway

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Orange County to File Lawsuit to Stop Drug Needle Giveaway

Santa Ana, California – Orange County has approved filing a lawsuit to stop a state-approved drug needle giveaway in Anaheim, Costa Mesa, Orange and Santa Ana.

In an emergency meeting on Friday, the Orange County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved Board of Supervisors Chairman Andrew Do’s proposal to seek a legal injunction to stop the dangerous mobile needle giveaway, which is set to begin on Monday, August 6. Continue reading→

$1.6M in illegal narcotics seized in massive LA/OC drug bust

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Multi-agency investigation leads to the seizure of $1.6 million worth of illegal narcotics

SANTA ANA, Ca. (July 26, 2018) – An investigation by a multi-agency operation to intercept narcotics and hold drug traffickers accountable has resulted in the arrest of three men and the confiscation of 184 pounds of illegal narcotics and five guns.

The investigation, which initiated in Orange County, resulted in the seizure of 68 pounds of methamphetamine, 26 pounds of fentanyl, 88 pounds of heroin and about 2 pounds of cocaine from multiple locations in Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties. Continue reading→