Newport beach man busted for selling drugs in Fountain Valley

As part of an ongoing investigation, the Fountain Valley Police Department Crime Suppression Unit (CSU) developed information regarding an individual who was involved in large scale narcotics trafficking. CSU obtained a search warrant for this individual, his vehicle and his residence.

On September 30th, 2021, Joseph Carmine Morinello, a 37-year-old resident of Newport Beach, was detained in Fountain Valley. The service of the search warrant revealed that Morinello was in possession of 861 Adderall pills, 355 Xanax pills and over $25,000.00 in US currency.

Morinello was arrested for possession of narcotics for the purposes of sales and booked into Orange County Jail.
Detectives later obtained an additional search warrant for a storage unit in the City of Anaheim. Inside the storage unit, an additional 19,072 Adderall pills were located.

The street value of these pills is estimated at over $300,000.00.

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Our Editor, Art Pedroza, worked at the O.C. Register and the OC Weekly and studied journalism at CSUF and UCI. He has lived in Santa Ana for over 30 years and has served on several city and county commissions. When he is not writing or editing Pedroza specializes in risk control and occupational safety. He also teaches part time at Cerritos College and CSUF. Pedroza has an MBA from Keller University.
Art Pedroza

Our Editor, Art Pedroza, worked at the O.C. Register and the OC Weekly and studied journalism at CSUF and UCI. He has lived in Santa Ana for over 30 years and has served on several city and county commissions. When he is not writing or editing Pedroza specializes in risk control and occupational safety. He also teaches part time at Cerritos College and CSUF. Pedroza has an MBA from Keller University.

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