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DEPLETED NARCOTICS UNIT MAKES TIDY COCAINE BUST.


Byline: Jason Kandel Staff Writer

In a raid early Friday, 25 LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel.
2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department.
 narcotics narcotics n. 1) techinically, drugs which dull the senses. 2) a popular generic term for drugs which cannot be legally possessed, sold, or transported except for medicinal uses for which a physician or dentist's prescription is required.  officers arrested a suspected cocaine dealer and seized $20,000 cash and several wafers of the drug from a rental home in Granada Hills.

Narcotics officers, whose ranks were depleted de·plete  
tr.v. de·plet·ed, de·plet·ing, de·pletes
To decrease the fullness of; use up or empty out.



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 by reassignments in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, celebrated the operation, which culminated several weeks of work using a confidential informant and surveillance.

``This is a good money and narcotics seizure for a street-level narcotics unit,'' said Detective Rob Holcomb, who supervises the unit. ``(The suspect's) a mid-level dealer. He supplies street dealers.''

Alberto Almaraz Rodriguez, 30, was being held in lieu of $30,000 bail following his arrest on suspicion of possession of narcotics for sale.

During a search of his rental home in the 17000 block of San Fernando San Fernando, city, Argentina
San Fernando (săn fərnăn`dō), city (1991 pop. 144,761), Buenos Aires prov., E Argentina. It is a district administrative center in the Greater Buenos Aires area.
 Mission Boulevard The following roads are named Mission Boulevard:
  • Mission Boulevard (East Bay, California) in the San Francisco Bay Area
  • Mission Boulevard (Southern California)
, police found wads of cash stashed in a drawers, closets, pillow cases and clothes hampers, Holcomb said.

A drug-sniffing dog detected wafers of cocaine in a hollowed-out car stereo in the bedroom, he said. Police also found a device used to process and pack kilograms of cocaine.

Police also found a half-ounce of cocaine powder at the Lankershim Boulevard auto glass store Rodriguez managed.
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Publication:Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Date:Oct 5, 2002
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