April 3, 2008
We Lost Sonoma County to Meth, Drug Bust Biggest In Years
What's brilliant about Wine Country is that it's secretly a methamphatimine-making hot spot. No amount of police presence and Fume Blanc tastings will change that fact. Take, for example, Sonoma County, which played host to one of the "biggest meth busts in the Bay Area" on Tuesday night. Three people were arrested after a trucking company in Cotati was raided by the DEA. The fuzz ended up snaring "29 pounds of methamphetamine valued at $1.3 million."
The raids, which happened at Discovery Transportation, were due in part to an investigation by the DEA, the FBI, and Sonoma County narcotics agents. Two men were taken into custody, 42-year-old Miguel Murillo-Dominguez and 23-year-old Miguel Murillo Jr. (a family operation!), and Murillo-Dominguez's femme fatal, Elia, was also arrested for having a controlled substance on her.
Oh, and Oakland police wasted time and taxpayers' dollars by busting a pot growing operation last night. Over 2,100 dangerous pot plants were seized during the bust.
Photo evidence provided by CBS 5 (via the DEA), boasting a booty of 29 pounds of "ice" methamphetamine, 1 ounce cocaine, and 1 pound mary jane.
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looks like natural jojoba soap to me! of course I haven't slept a wink since the Clinton administration...so...uh...yes.
Hitler had meth injected into him everyday, so it can't be all that bad for you.
http://www.rcpe.ac.uk/publications/articles/journal_35_1/Hitler's_medical_care.pdf
Ha ha, remember the 90s? "Ice" was what grunge people lost themselves to! Like Mudhoney, you just don't hear much about ice anymore.
Uh, 1.3 million dollars seems a bit high for 29 pounds...
Meth users do not have that kind of money, if they did we wouldn't be cracking down on them.
We recently bought a place in Healdsburg (so someday I can run for Supervisor in SF and do my Alioto-Pier imitation). 8 acres behind our house is for sale. We were chatting with the people running the winery across the street, and said we figured some Bay Area richie-rich would probably build a huge house there, but we were hoping someone would plant grapes there. They said "Can't happen - too much damage to the land from the meth lab". Or as my next door neighbor says "I think they are 'Crack People' living there"
29lbs - feh! They go through that much during the weekly Friday happy hour at Merrill Lynch.
well i now i know why my dealer hasn't called back
I grew up in Sonoma County, and I can assure you, 90% of every adult I met while living there was at one point in their life addicted to meth.
So, this was the most unsurprising piece of news I have ever read in my life.
jess, when i moved here and traveled north for a kicky weekend of wine tasting, i thought it was going to be all Falcon Crest. alas. it wasn't.
but we did meet some friendly, tooth-free dealers.
There's actually a tooth count break down to know where your meth dealer hails from. Here's a simple list:
Sonoma County dealers have at least four teeth.
Mendocino County dealers have at least three teeth.
Humboldt County dealers have at least two teeth.
Lake County dealers have none.
True story: growing up in Mendocino County, a house three doors down from my family's blew up early one morning because it contained a meth lab. It was crazy-awesome, hearing the explosion, it knocking the windows out of both houses adjacent to the property, and after the fires were contained I got to watch the firemen change their clothes in the street (read: hot).