Home  »  Archives

Articles Tagged With ‘Drugs’




Feds using Facebook to catch drug offenders

Written on 21 Oct, 2014 in Daily Briefs | One comment

Facebook is ordering the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to stop using fake profiles on its social media site to conduct investigations. [ABC News] The DEA is currently facing a lawsuit from a New York woman who alleges the agency used... (Continue reading)

Code enforcement check leads to drug bust

Written on 29 Aug, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 26 comments

Grover Beach police assisting a city code enforcement officer at a home on the 400 block of 3rd Street Thursday morning discovered heroin, methamphetamine, a shot gun and drug paraphernalia. Officers also found four adults in the home. Police arrested... (Continue reading)

Police break up Paso Robles drug ring

Written on 19 Aug, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 3 comments

The Atascadero and Paso Robles police departments combined efforts over the weekend to seize more than 100 grams of heroin and arrests five suspects accused of participating in drug sales. The two departments collaborated on a drug investigation that spanned... (Continue reading)

Cal Poly to investigate football player drug use

Written on 13 Aug, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 30 comments

Two days after San Luis Obispo police arrested five university football players for allegedly robbing a fraternity house near campus, Cal Poly President Jeffrey Armstrong announced plans to mount an investigate drug use within the football team. San Luis Obispo... (Continue reading)

Paso Robles teen busted with black tar heroin

Written on 5 Aug, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 6 comments

Paso Robles police detectives arrested a 17-year-old male Friday who is accused of selling black tar heroin. Police Special Enforcement Team detectives stopped a vehicle shortly before 5 p.m. for a mechanical violation. The detectives determined that the teen did... (Continue reading)

Meth seized in Cayucos and Morro Bay

Written on 31 Jul, 2014 in Daily Briefs | 3 comments

The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office arrested three suspected drug dealers and seized 7 ounces of methamphetamine  this week in Cayucos and Morro Bay. On Tuesday afternoon, a sheriff’s deputy stopped a vehicle for a traffic violation in Cayucos... (Continue reading)

Two drug dealers busted in Atascadero

Written on 8 Jul, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 5 comments

The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Unit searched two Atascadero residences last week, and arrested a man at each location for possession of heroin and other drugs for sale. Narcotics investigators first served a search warrant at a home located... (Continue reading)

Sheriff says overdose killed jail inmate

Written on 25 Jun, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 14 comments

The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Department said the third man to expire while in custody this year died from an acute heroin overdose. On May 30, Timothy Richard Janowicz, 29, was found dead on his bunk at the San... (Continue reading)

Oceano woman arrested for mailing addiction withdrawal drugs

Written on 1 Jun, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 5 comments

A 25-year-old Oceano woman was arrested earlier this month for mailing addiction withdrawal drugs to an inmate at the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Department County Jail Honor Farm. Deputies arrested Linda Vanessa Johns for sending a controlled substance to... (Continue reading)

Paso police nab four suspects with warrants

Written on 28 May, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | One comment

Paso Robles police detectives patrolling a residential area on Saturday found four suspects with outstanding warrants hanging out in a single garage. Special Enforcement Team detectives spotted 27-year-ol Shane Parker, a known warrant suspect, sitting in a garage in the... (Continue reading)