30 Arrested in 5-Hour Drug Sting Operation
Customers out to buy cocaine at a Palmdale house were arrested Friday and Saturday by Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies posing as drug dealers during a sting operation.
Sheriff’s Department undercover officers, aided by patrol deputies, served a search warrant at 715 E. Ave. Q and arrested one resident for narcotics violations, said Deputy Khris Wahla. The man was not immediately identified.
The deputies then set up a five-hour sting operation that ended at 1 a.m. Saturday, he said.
Thirty adults--including 25 men and five women--were arrested for violations ranging from possession of cocaine for sale, possession of cocaine, possessing narcotics paraphernalia and being under the influence of cocaine, Wahla said.
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