Police Agencies Receive Millions Seized in Bust
The district attorney’s office in Los Angeles Thursday announced that it returned about $2.6 million in drug profits to local law enforcement agencies involved in the second-largest seizure of cocaine and cash in state history.
Under the California Drug Asset Forfeiture Law, the El Monte Police Department and the State Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement each will receive $1.3 million. Another $1.1 million seized in the drug bust will be distributed among the Fontana Police Department, the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Department, the California Office of Criminal Justice Planning and the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office.
Authorities seized 71 kilograms of cocaine and $3,750,000 in cash in a raid on a cocaine trafficker’s “counting house” in La Puente Jan. 3. It was the second-largest seizure of cocaine and cash in California history.
Three suspects arrested in the raid face a Feb. 27 preliminary hearing.
Under the drug asset forfeiture law, drug proceeds are distributed to law enforcement agencies involved in the seizures.
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