Two men were sentenced last month to prison terms for drug possession, the result of a months-long investigation by the Santa Barbara Police Department.
Police began investigating Tony Carriedo after arresting his older brother Maurilio Carriedo for drugs in March 2012. During that investigation, detectives eventually pulled over a vehicle driven by Ventura County resident Alfonso Garcia, with Tony Carriedo riding as a passenger.
Four ounces of heroin were found in an air vent in the center console by the department’s canine, Brag, and a subsequent search of Carriedo’s girlfriend’s apartment turned up more heroin, methamphetamine, mushrooms, ecstasy, and more than $7,000 in cash, according to police at the time.
Last month, Garcia was sentenced to two years in state prison after pleading to a charge of possession for sale of heroin, according to prosecutor Mary Barron. Tony Carriedo pleaded to possession for sale of heroin and transportation of a controlled substance and was sentenced to three years in state prison.
Both men are eligible to serve their time in County Jail. Carriedo also had to forfeit the cash that was seized in the investigation, Barron said.













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Smile if you sell drugs.
AZ2SB (anonymous profile)
January 5, 2013 at 7:44 a.m. (Suggest removal)
And why are we even bothering our time and our overcrowded system with people selling drugs, doing drugs or carrying drugs? In case we haven't already noticed, the war on drugs was lost many years ago.
Muggy (anonymous profile)
January 7, 2013 at 9:40 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Heroin & Meth = Prison
Draxor (anonymous profile)
January 7, 2013 at 10:53 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Oxycontin (opiate) & Adderall (amphetamine) = Multi-billion dollar big pharma monopoly
There are a lot of reasons why (some) drugs are illegal. Like an onion, there are many layers, and they stink.
HBSC and B of A were recently discovered to have laundered billions of dollars in drug money. The money is laundered through large corporations. Then the money is used by the CIA and various connected global intelligence to fund and fight clandestine wars in South America, the Middle East, Africa, etc. These are wars that American citizens would never approve of, so they had to find a way to get alternate funding to fight them. Some of it is used to fight the competing cartels but most of it goes to controlling regimes and installing dictators to help prop up multi-national corporations who can then monopolize and ravage the country's resources.. There is so much drug money it has literally been helping to prop up Wall St. over the last few decades.
Politicians, of course, are involved in this scam big time. Bill and Hillary Clinton helped setup the drug trade in Mena, AK to bring in cocaine while Bill was Governor of AK. Hillary helped to launder money using the Rose Law Firm. Two kids who witnessed a drop or something they shouldn't have near the airport were murdered, covered with a tarp and placed on the railroad tracks to make it look like an accident. Kevin Ives, 17 years old and his friend, Don Henry, 16 years old. Several people involved in the case were subsequently murdered while trying to prove that these children were murdered, but the Clinton Mafia and the courts covered it all up. Please do a little bit of research if you doubt any of this.
Then there is cannabis. On the most artificial artificial level, cannabis was made illegal due to the media scare in the early 1900s over blacks and mexicans using the devil's weed marihuana and raping white women. Many stories were exaggerated or completely fabricated and brought into the spotlight to brainwash Americans into making cannabis illegal, as well as hemp. Unbeknownst to most people, hemp which had many industrial uses and was set to take over the paper industry from the lumber industry was related to the devil's weed, marihuana. The hemp decordicator had just been invented which made processing the plant much easier. However the owners of the paper mills, which included William Randolph Hearst who also owned a large portion of the media stood to lose a lot of their investments in paper milling.
But you know what? I think there is an even bigger reason why cannabis was not only allowed to become illegal but has remained illegal for all these years.
Because it wakes up the side of your brain that asks: What the f-- are we doing to ourselves? Not just cannabis prohibition, but the aggressive overseas wars and rescinding our basic Constitutional Rights.
Because it shifts your perspective just enough to catch a glimpse of the brainwashing in progress all around you.
loonpt (anonymous profile)
January 7, 2013 at 12:58 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Loonpt - Finally someone who sees the truth!
Muggy (anonymous profile)
January 7, 2013 at 4:53 p.m. (Suggest removal)
You don't need to ingest any drugs to ask those questions.
Ken_Volok (anonymous profile)
January 7, 2013 at 4:57 p.m. (Suggest removal)