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Candidate for this week’s dumbest criminal in San Luis Obispo

November 8, 2024

By KAREN VELIE

Officers arrested an armed, wanted man transporting a large amount of fentanyl in a vehicle without a front license plate in San Luis Obispo on Wednesday. Both the driver and his female passenger remain in custody.

On the morning of Nov. 6, an officer on patrol spotted a vehicle without a front license plate and attempted a traffic stop as it was entering the Marsh Street parking garage. However, the driver did not stop until he reached the garage’s second floor.

The officer soon discovered the driver, 38-year-old Felipe De Jesus Ortiza of Santa Maria, had a felony warrant for his arrest out of Santa Barbara County.

During a search of the vehicle, officers found one unloaded revolver, one loaded .45 caliber semi-automatic handgun, one disassembled lower portion of a handgun, ammunition, 121 grams of methamphetamine, ¼ pound fentanyl, approximately $2100 in cash, a scale and a lock box safe.

Officers booked Ortiza into the San Luis Obispo County Jail on felony charges including, Possessing drugs while armed, transporting narcotics, carrying a loaded firearm, possession of a false compartment for drugs and violation of probation. Ortiza remains in jail with his bail set at $105,000.

Ortiza’s 30-year-old passenger initially provided a false name, but later admitted her name is Maritza Hernandez. Officers found she had a warrant for her arrest out of San Luis Obispo County. Hernandez was also in possession of narcotics.

Officers booked Hernandez in the SLO County Jail on charges she violated her probation, identity theft, possession of a controlled substance. She is being held without bail.

 


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Great Job, SLOPD! You kept these evil folks from selling and distributing methamphetamine and fentynal into our community.


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The gangs from Santa Maria and the San Joaquin Valley know SLO is a soft target, especially Cal Poly neighborhoods. I have had them walk into my house twice pretending to “look for someone” and casing the neighborhood as well as an auto break in. The SLOPD’s response was “tell us something we don’t know”. They declined to even take a report unless I insisted and told me it wouldn’t make any difference other than wasting their time,


We need to stop running a homeless resort attracting everyone who refuses services and demands aid. Then they s**t in the creek we sent millions to cleanup and millions more on the homeless highway to the sea, all futile efforts.


The homeless industry of hundreds of 6-figure jobs within SLO County is quite happy with the status quo.


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One has to question why gang bangers are walking into your house. So much was revealed, Little Homie.


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Bail? They offered someone with a 1/4LB of fentanyl, 121grams of Meth, AND guns BAIL?? He’s a drug dealer, I am sure he can afford the bail!


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The LEA is going to release and trail the knuckleheads back to their drug source.


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LOL! The headline is perfect! Good on ya CCN.


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…Hold my beer…


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The woman is not allowed bail. Good. But the guy, who had several lethal weapons AND the fentanyl (a lethal weapon in itself) is allowed bail? Do we want him at large under any circumstances? I would vote NO.


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