Drug Task Force Arrests Two and Scoops Eight Pounds of Meth Last Night

DTF feature blurThe Humboldt County Drug Task Force snagged two men and eight pounds of methamphetamine in Carlotta yesterday evening after an investigation led to them obtaining search warrants for two locations and one vehicle, explained Lt. Brian Quenell.

Two men, Juan Carlos Barraza-Hidalgo and Ezequiel Martinez-Hernandez, were arrested after officers located eight pounds of methamphetamine in their vehicle. They were charged with possession of an illegal substance for sale.

The task force then served the search warrants on the two locations. “They found additional evidence of sales,” Quenell explained. The investigation is still ongoing but he promised more information by tomorrow.

UPDATE: 8 Pounds of Meth Hidden in Spare Tire on Bottom of Vehicle, According to DTF

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Divide by Zero
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Divide by Zero
5 years ago

Let me guess, their “product” was manufactured in Scotland.

DHoff
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DHoff
5 years ago
Reply to  Divide by Zero

No, canada

Breezy
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Breezy
5 years ago
Reply to  Divide by Zero

More “foreigners” with poor attitudes

DHoff
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DHoff
5 years ago

Can you say CARTEL

ClassWarrior
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ClassWarrior
5 years ago

But they won’t be deported. The Immigration Dentention Center has no room for them until they can deal with all those children they have locked up.

Chatty Cathy
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Chatty Cathy
5 years ago
Reply to  ClassWarrior

They will be deported right to maximum security after they are sentenced.
Were you outspoken when Obama was detaining illegal minors?

Zando
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Zando
5 years ago
Reply to  ClassWarrior

This does not say that they are not citizens.

Divide by Zero
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Divide by Zero
5 years ago
Reply to  Zando

Oh please

Divide by Zero
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Divide by Zero
5 years ago
Reply to  Zando

Want to place a 10,000 dollar bet?????

Eel River
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Eel River
5 years ago

Keep at it! Always a good feeling to hear that you have caught bastards like these who are infecting our community. Thank you.

Big louie
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Big louie
5 years ago

Whoo hoo great job there’s more unfortunately
Thanks Leo’s

I like stars
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I like stars
5 years ago

Another significant bust. The sheriff has stepped his game up.

Dan Fuller
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Dan Fuller
5 years ago
Reply to  I like stars

LONG OVERdue that they find something besides those with “Too MUCH Cannabis” excellent job finally of concentrating on far more dangerous as well as more prevalent drugs such as Meth!!!

In my 1911 I trust
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In my 1911 I trust
5 years ago
Reply to  Dan Fuller

Good job sheriff! A real true drug bust, way to get that crap off the streets! Nice to hear of something other than weed getting taken off the street.

John well being
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John well being
5 years ago

Released on OR already. No worries.

CoveTroll
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CoveTroll
5 years ago

U cant deport! These are POC with civil rights! People who are just trying to feed the community of poor white trash meth so those people can rob other people to feed there drug habits all the while causing domestic violence,child molestation,burglary and collecting government funding because they have mental problems and can’t get a job. Ok…. deport them…

Courtney
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Courtney
5 years ago
Reply to  CoveTroll

Best comment today!

Festus Haggen
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Festus Haggen
5 years ago
Reply to  CoveTroll

20 miles to the West; cement overshoes.

zookeeper
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zookeeper
5 years ago

8lbs is a good haul. Well done.

local observer
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local observer
5 years ago
Reply to  zookeeper

8lbs has a local street value of $102,400. that’s a whole bunch of SSI money being spent. but compared to the ~9million in SSI issued every month to Eureka residents, it doesn’t seem like much.

Redwood Dan
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Redwood Dan
5 years ago
Reply to  local observer

How do you figure it to be $28.20 per gram? 15 years ago it used to be $100 a gram in Idaho, $40 in Vegas.

local observer
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local observer
5 years ago
Reply to  Redwood Dan

its a $100 an 8 ball right now. I hear coke is also that price. the last time I bought an 8 ball of coke was in 2001 and it was $150. I have paid $300 in the late 80s. it seems supply and demand are high which is poor marketing if you ask me.

Teegan
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Teegan
5 years ago

Don’t forget to notify ICE that these illegals were dealing ICE.

Mike
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Mike
5 years ago

I wonder if Arcata will start a go fund me account for these undocumented workers?

I《¤》I
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I《¤》I
5 years ago

Nice!!!
Anyone notice the big uptick in meth and heroin busts since pot legalization?

Willy
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Willy
5 years ago

Please prosecute and deport regardless of citizenship status. Replace with quality people through legal process. Thank you, Mr. Trump.

Humloc
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Humloc
5 years ago

Great snag Humboldt Drug Task Force, keep it up & I hope more charges are added.

Heather
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Heather
5 years ago

I just dont get these comments! Where anywhere does it say they were illegal? We have our own idiots here in the usa you know! Just because there mexican dosent mean they arent from here

Mike
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Mike
5 years ago
Reply to  Heather

The vast majority of narcotics now flow across the Mexican border, controlled by the cartels. The cartels love using migrants to transport and distribute for numerous reason (as we have seen time and time again here locally ) so if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck and is packing 8 pounds of meth and it’s name is Hernandez not Billy Joe Bob on a Harley….

local observer
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local observer
5 years ago
Reply to  Mike

it rolls right over the border in trucks or under the border in tunnels according to actual records. they don’t use migrants. if 8lbs was found yesterday in Humboldt, how much do you think comes across the border each day. America’s thirst for hard drugs has never been higher. I would says tons cross the border every day.

Willy
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Willy
5 years ago
Reply to  local observer

Would a border wall help significantly ?

local observer
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local observer
5 years ago
Reply to  Willy

what do you think? I don’t even think the wall would stop immigration. you can’t build a wall thru the area most travelled in Texas. you should look at the map, Texas is the winner. a wall is for fearful people, that’s its intended purpose just like the walls in gated communities.

Willy
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Willy
5 years ago
Reply to  local observer

Well since you asked what I think, I feel the wall would pay for itself making the border more manageable while cutting down on crime, incarceration, and all the other social drains. Immigration is fantastic, just legally and systematically. Sometimes neighbors need fences

Mike
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Mike
5 years ago
Reply to  local observer

They don’t use migrants? I bet they don’t use ultralights, tunnels, catapults, ladders, false identification, stolen vehicles, mules, boats, mail, desperate Americans, greedy Americans, they use and exhaust every method possible and one is most definitely migrants. But usually it’s quite a few of them supervised by a “coyote” and if anything happens the coyote runs and repeats the process over again. Then they might make the migrants family work of the debt a.k.a sex trafficking.

aview
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aview
5 years ago
Reply to  Mike

Plenty comes for beyond our borders, yes. But what if I told you that meth is ALSO made in garages right here? Back seats of cars? Hmm? Its nothing more than a bunch of deadly crap mixed together, and plenty of white born-and-raised good ol’ boys make it here too.

Canyon oak
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Canyon oak
5 years ago
Reply to  Heather

Mexican is a nationality, not a ethnicity.
If they are Mexican, they aren’t American and should be deported, If They aren’t Mexican, but american, then we are stuck with them, just like all the other potential drooling friends wandering the streets..
Dual citizenship should be banned. Same with snow birds. Modern people might try the old idea of loyalty again.
Huge bust, we will probably see more like this as the drug dealers move out of weed world & back into the remaining black markets.
Like Nancy Pelosi says, “Meth users do the jobs that Americans don’t want to do.”

Susan
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Susan
5 years ago

Great job.

Norcalwarmth
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Norcalwarmth
5 years ago

It’s less on the streets and less our children have access too. Good job!

The Entropic Empath
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The Entropic Empath
5 years ago

Pleased to see larger busts for crystal! Hopefully some folks will be in withdrawal by tommorow, but there is plenty more where this 8lbs came from, I predict…

Alt Right For Life
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Alt Right For Life
5 years ago

That’s eight pounds that growers can’t soak their marijuana in to make it more addictive.

Good work law enforcement in getting drugs off the streets and working on making the lives of drug dealers and growers completely miserable.

I like stars
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I like stars
5 years ago

Ridiculous. I highly doubt any grower ever soaked weed in meth.

Alt Right For Life
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Alt Right For Life
5 years ago
Reply to  I like stars

They water the plants with it or spray it on there, saw it on the news about how marijuana has been made more addictive and is destroying lives and entire neighborhoods.

People are outraged and want an end to this behavior.

Cove broseph
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Cove broseph
5 years ago

This is probably the worst trolling I’ve ever seen in my life

rollin21
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rollin21
5 years ago

You can’t be serious. You have to be an undercover lib trying to make the so called “alt right” look ridiculous. Nice try. [edit]

36dweller
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36dweller
5 years ago

Doing the happy dance!! Nice job LEOs!!
And thank you Kym!

Mogtx
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5 years ago

That is awesome great job cops keep it up there might be hope, for our community.meth is the re as l root of evil I saw a lady that I knew was as meth user say her today 20 years later just tweekeked white stuff on each side of her lips jack just a hanging .and still doing .maybe this bust might save her life. Or someone’s life anyway get job I heard sirens coming my way must have been them.

Dave
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Dave
5 years ago

Thank God. Keep it up, guys.