Police Arrest 2 Men During Drug Raid

A Mexican national with at least 19 aliases was one of two men arrested Friday morning in a narcotics bust at a house in the Colonia area of Oxnard.

At 8 a.m., detectives from the Oxnard, Port Hueneme and Ventura police departments served a search warrant in the 1800 block of Gaucho Way, and arrested 24-year-old Albert Torres on two counts of violating probation, according to Oxnard Police Det. Scott Whitney.

Also arrested was 48-year-old Cornelio Mejia Hernandez of Mexico. Whitney said Hernandez was in possession of two pieces of rock cocaine, narcotics paraphernalia and a loaded handgun. During the search, detectives also confiscated a narcotics scale and materials used to package narcotics, Whitney said.

Hernandez, who has been deported on three occasions and has a prior conviction for illegally importing narcotics into the United States, has used at least 19 other names to identify himself, authorities said. He will be turned over to the U.S. Border Patrol, Whitney said.