Detectives made eight arrests and seized greater than 5 kilos of cocaine, 5 firearms and “a major quantity of suspected drug proceeds,” sheriff’s officers introduced in a information launch Friday. The bust adopted a five-month investigation into the drug trafficking operation.
The supply service used drivers to provide cocaine to a whole lot of individuals in Ventura and Los Angeles counties each day, authorities stated.
The investigation launched earlier this summer time revealed that 40-year-old Joel Cruz Ayala and 28-year-old Elmer Ayala-Ayala, each of Bakersfield, “have been working for the group as full-time dispatchers,” based on the information launch.
The pair, detectives stated, have been tasked with taking incoming orders and dispatching drivers to clients.
Luis Cruz, 33, was recognized because the dispatch home supervisor, “who was in direct communication with high-ranking members of the group in El Salvador,” based on the sheriff’s information launch.
The group additionally employed a number of supply drivers, together with Wilfredo Castillo, 24, Lisandro Moreno, 22, Kevin Bonilla, 20, Jose Ayala Hernandez, 40, and Noel Cruz, 31.
All 5 have been arrested at their residences in Panorama Metropolis and North Hills “in possession of a considerable amount of pre-packaged cocaine able to be delivered, in addition to giant sums of suspected drug proceeds.”
Cruz Ayala, Ayala-Ayala and Cruz have been positioned and arrested at their residences and the dispatch home in Bakersfield.
“A major quantity of proof was positioned, exposing their large-scale transnational drug trafficking group, together with cash transfers to increased rating members of the group in El Salvador,” the discharge states.
Detectives from the Ventura County Sheriff’s Narcotics Unit consider the arrests will tremendously disrupt the bigger group. “Nevertheless, detectives proceed to research quite a few different leads which is able to help them of their pursuit of dismantling it fully,” based on the discharge.
