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Weed For Cops
posted (May 22, 2015)
The Gang Suppression Unit is reporting tonight that it made major drug seizures between yesterday and this morning.

At around the start of news yesterday, officers of the GSU visited a yard at #91 Lacroix boulevard, where they searched a house owned by 31 year-old Randy Rodriguez. He was there at the time when the officers searched a clothes barrel and found 2 bags of marijuana containing a total of 471 grams - or just over a pound - of marijuana. Rodriguez was charged with drug trafficking.

Half hour earlier, GSU officers were on Linda Vista Street conducting operations when they searched an abandoned lot in the street. There they found 115 grams - or 4 ounces - of marijuana and 7 live rounds of 9mm ammunition inside a black plastic bag. That bag was hidden under a garbage pile, and because no one was around at the time, the items were deposited as found property. The officers believe that the drugs and ammunition belong to a known gang member in that area.

And, officers conducted an operation in the Gungulung Area on Holy Emmanuel Street this morning at around 6. While there, they conducted a search in an empty lot. There, officers managed to find 18 black plastic bags filled with marijuana. The officers weighed the drugs and find out that it amounted to 17.4 pounds. No one was in the area, and so these drugs were also deposited as found property.

The GSU believes that the drugs belong to a known drug peddler who operates in that area.

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