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Pittsburg: 2 Arrested on Multiple Drug and Firearm Charges

by ECT

The Contra Costa County Office of the Sheriff Announced Thursday that it’s CASE Team arrested two people on multiple drug and firearm charges.

The Sheriff’s office stated following an investigation, members of the CASE (Contra Costa County Anti-Violence Support Effort) Team executed a search warrant on Wednesday on the 3600 block of Olympia Circle in the city of Pittsburg.

According to the release, they said inside the residence, CASE found nearly a pound of methamphetamine (worth approximately $10,000), four firearms, approximately 150 rounds of various calibers of ammunition, digital scales, hundreds of small plastic bags used in the sales of controlled substances, and over $5,000 in U.S. currency.
The CASE Team arrested two people, both from Pittsburg:
  • 41-year-old Leopoldo Fernandez
  • 41-year-old Jeanna Gomez

They were booked into county jail on numerous drug and firearms related violations, including felon in possession of a firearm. Fernandez is being held in lieu of $615,000 bail: Gomez’s bail is set at $165,000.

The CASE Team is a joint effort by the Office of the Sheriff, California Department of Justice, California Highway Patrol, Pittsburg Police Department, and Walnut Creek Police Department. CASE was created in November 2011 as a collaborative effort to reduce violent crimes in Contra Costa, especially those related to illegal firearms.

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1 comment

You Aug 26, 2016 - 12:45 pm

Strange how there’s even more drugs available, more peddlers, more users, more incarcerated, and a more expansive market surrounding these substances AFTER American drug policies began to come into effect only a few decades ago than there ever were before. You’d think our stern prohibition laws would curb such a scenario, but all the American drug war has to show for itself are continued stories like this nationwide, overcrowded prisons, and more illicit users than there ever were per capita. Can anyone else smell the symbiotic relationship between the drug pusher and the drug law enforcer?

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