Local News in Brief : Cocaine and Guns Seized
More than 40 pounds of cocaine with a street value of $5.7 million was seized along with 10 guns from a mobile home parked at the Frank G. Bonelli Regional County Park in San Dimas, authorities said Tuesday.
Sheriff’s investigators and officers from the Montebello and Huntington Park police departments raided the mobile home at 5:10 p.m. Monday, Sheriff’s Deputy Detta Roberts said.
Vicente Penula, 44, and Jaime Huertas, 30, both of Woodland Hills, and William Farris, 58, of Las Vegas, were booked at the Walnut sheriff’s station on suspicion of possession of cocaine with intent to sell, Roberts said. Each man was held in lieu of $1 million bail.
Agents found 41.8 pounds of cocaine and shotguns, rifles and pistols, including a sawed-off shotgun and a .22-caliber pistol with a silencer, Roberts said.
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