Local News in Brief : 5 Held in Drug Case in Thousand Oaks
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Three men and two women were arrested Thursday on charges of attempting to sell 2.2 pounds of cocaine to undercover officers in the parking lot of a Thousand Oaks restaurant, a spokesman for the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department said.
Sheriff’s deputies and agents of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration arrested the five at 3 p.m. outside a Dupar’s Restaurant at 33 W. Thousand Oaks Boulevard, said Ventura County Sheriff’s Sgt. Bob Larson.
Larson identified those arrested as Stella Gonzalez, 39, of Los Angeles; Roberto Reynaldo Clark, 30, of Los Angeles; Hector Colon Rodriguez, 31, of North Hollywood; Maria Lourdes Orrego, 27, of North Hollywood; and Ferney Noguera, 23, a transient.
All were held in the Ventura County Jail in lieu of $200,000 bond each on suspicion of sale of the cocaine, which had an estimated street value of $250,000, Larson said.
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