Agents seize 1,300 pounds of marijuana at Ontario home

San Bernardino County narcotics agents seized 1,300 pounds of marijuana with a street value of $1 million and arrested four men during a raid at an Ontario home used by a Mexican drug cartel, authorities said.

Agents from the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department arrested four men Wednesday morning at the home in the 1600 block of G Street. Police identified them as Eduardo Flores, 46, of Bell Gardens; Carlos Rodriguez, 29, of Los Angeles; Aurelio Lizarraga, 34, of Rialto; and Saul Ochoa, 35, of Corona.

They were booked at the West Valley Detention Center and face drug charges, authorities said.

During the raid, agents discovered about 1,200 pounds of marijuana inside two vehicles that were parked at the home. Another 100 pounds were found inside the home, along with scales, packaging materials and documentation that indicated narcotic sales, authorities said.

Investigators said they seized a total of 1,300 pounds of marijuana in 211 packages. Investigators said that the marijuana was grown in Mexico and was to be distributed across the U.S.

“Mexican drug cartels are clearly transporting drugs across our southern border and we are working diligently to keep them out of our county,” Sheriff Rod Hoops said in a press statement.

-- Ruben Vives

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Comments

[Warren]

Legalize it!

[kooo]

What's to stop these cartels from opening up a Medical Marijuana shop and try to go legit? Legalizing it is supposed to get rid of these cartels... regulate and tax it properly, including shops to gain business "permits" to ensure that it is taxed at the source and retail levels, and to ensure quality and maintenance of a certain standard level of operation. If our city is successful in this, we will lead as an example for the rest of the nation in reverting valuable $ resources used to fight to war on drugs to exclude marijuana and concentrate their anti drug efforts at the other real drugs such as meth, cocaine, acid, etc...

[CACHIMBON]

JUST LEGALIZE IT... ELMINATE THE CARTELS, TAX IT LIKE TOBACCO, HIRE MORE BODER PATROL. REVENUE JUGARNAUT.

[Justin Hale]

In future history it will be clear: All drug prohibition and anti-drug enforcement is barbarism. Stop the madness now. We could stop the madness, if not for the massive vested interests on both sides of the law. The cartels want to keep prohibition at least as badly as law enforcement. They all owe their livelihoods to Prohibition. The cartels can be forgiven -- they are simply exercising the natural human tendency to engage in commerce. The Law cannot be forgiven -- they are manifesting corruption that is forbidden under basic principles of democracy.

[Fred]

We are fed up with this insanity - legalize it now! (p.s. I dont smoke pot but I am shocked at how much we spend uselessly trying to combat this drug that is minor - we cant afford this!

[dogrob1]

It was all mines