Suspected Leaders of Heroin Ring Held
Authorities believe they broke up a heroin delivery service when they arrested the suspected leaders of the drug ring and several of their customers in Oxnard on Thursday morning.
Officers from four law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, had been watching two units in the Oakwood apartments on Yucca Street for three weeks, authorities said.
According to police reports, the officers followed Antonio Cabrera from one of the Oxnard apartments and watched him throw 10 small packets of what they believe to be heroin from his car. They then stopped him at Cloyne Street and Channel Islands Boulevard about 11 a.m. Officers arrested him on suspicion of transportation and possession for sale of heroin.
Cabrera, 23, rented one of the two suspected drug dens, police said. The occupants of the other unit, Yolva Sosa Gomez, 20, and Mario Alberto Diaz, 26, were also arrested.
Meanwhile, other officers followed Adan Manzo, 20, to the 2000 block of Grand Avenue where they arrested him as he began selling one-quarter ounce of heroin to four other men, all of whom were arrested, authorities said.
The arrests and search of the two apartments yielded one-half ounce of methamphetamine, one-half ounce of cocaine and an unknown amount of heroin.
The street value of the drugs seized was $4,500, police said.
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