Recent Posts in Drug Trafficking Category
Posted on Dec 3, 2012 By Attorney Robert Bernstein
A major investigation began in April after investigators learned of a connection between two shootings in Moorpark and a heroin bust around the same time. All of those incidents were orchestrated by a ...
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Posted on Aug 16, 2012 By Attorney Robert M. Bernstein
Rogelio Harris of Long Beach, was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport by special agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations while preparing to ...
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Posted on May 4, 2012 By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Attorney
Four current and former Transportation Security Administration screeners have been arrested and face charges of taking bribes and looking the other way while suitcases filled with cocaine, ...
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Posted on Apr 26, 2012 By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Attorney
Lifeguards called the Malibu sheriff's station when they noticed a suspicious boat about 50 feet from the beach. Deputies reported the case to the Department of Homeland Security, which deployed ...
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Posted on Dec 6, 2011 By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Lawyer
Retroactive changes in the sentencing law for Drug Crimes involving crack cocaine are now occurring as a result of the Fair Sentencing Act which was passed by Congress in 2010. This law lessened the ...
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Posted on Feb 20, 2011 By Los Angeles Defense Lawyer
Esteban Galtes, 23, was arrested in December at LAX after federal agents searched his luggage and discovered more than 14 pounds of cocaine, much of it hidden in pastel-colored, egg-shaped candy. ...
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