FERGIE SNIFFS OUT DRUGS, CASH.Byline: Donna Huffaker Staff Writer GLENDALE - With help from their drug-sniffing Labrador retriever Labrador retriever, breed of large sporting dog whose origins are obscure but whose immediate ancestors were developed in Newfoundland and brought to England in the early 1800s. It stands about 23 in. (58.4 cm) high at the shoulder and weighs between 60 and 75 lb (27. Fergie, Glendale 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 seized 10 pounds of cocaine, bundles of methamphetamine and tar heroin and nearly $30,000 cash, officials announced Tuesday. Police arrested six men they suspect had been smuggling smuggling, illegal transport across state or national boundaries of goods or persons liable to customs or to prohibition. Smuggling has been carried on in nearly all nations and has occasionally been adopted as an instrument of national policy, as by Great Britain drugs from Mexico into California and distributing them in the Midwest and on the East Coast, police investigator Oscar Rodriguez said. Working off a tip from an informant, Glendale police found the cocaine, valued at $8,000 a pound, in an apartment in Anaheim, Rodriguez said. The investigation also led them to an apartment in Santa Ana Santa Ana, city, El Salvador Santa Ana (sän'tä ä`nä), city (1993 pop. 129,873), W El Salvador. It is the second largest city in the country and the commercial and processing center for a sugarcane, coffee, and cattle region. , then back to Atwater Village, just outside Glendale. Police said they recovered 10 pounds of cocaine; two pounds of methamphetamine and tar heroin. The District Attorney's Office on Friday filed felony charges of conspiracy to transport cocaine and possession of cocaine for sale, with the special allegation that it was more than four kilos (nearly nine pounds), against Salvador Pineda, 32, of Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. ; Jonathan Marroquin, 28; Rafael Cortez Bermudez, 32, of Viejo, and Servando Penaloza Bermudez, 31, Daniel Ochoa Cardenas, 35, and Isidro Ceja, 58, all of Anaheim. All six were all being held Tuesday in the Los Angeles County Jail with bail set at $500,000. When Glendale investigators stopped a Honda Accord The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. one of the suspects had been driving July 5, officers searched the car to no avail. But with the car impounded back at the station, the department's 4-year- old K-9, Fergie, sniffed out $27,000 in cash stashed behind side panels in the car's back seat. The compartments were rigged with an elaborate electronic release system, officials said. The dog picked up the cocaine scent from the money, said Lt. Lief Nicolaisen. |
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