Local News in Brief : 5 Held in Drug Case in Thousand Oaks

Three men and two women were arrested Thursday on charges of attempting to sell 2.2 pounds of cocaine to undercover officers in the parking lot of a Thousand Oaks restaurant, a spokesman for the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department said.

Sheriff’s deputies and agents of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration arrested the five at 3 p.m. outside a Dupar’s Restaurant at 33 W. Thousand Oaks Boulevard, said Ventura County Sheriff’s Sgt. Bob Larson.

Larson identified those arrested as Stella Gonzalez, 39, of Los Angeles; Roberto Reynaldo Clark, 30, of Los Angeles; Hector Colon Rodriguez, 31, of North Hollywood; Maria Lourdes Orrego, 27, of North Hollywood; and Ferney Noguera, 23, a transient.

All were held in the Ventura County Jail in lieu of $200,000 bond each on suspicion of sale of the cocaine, which had an estimated street value of $250,000, Larson said.