SAN DIEGO—A Tijuana man who allegedly tried to drive into the United States with more than 2,200 pounds of meth and 53 pounds of fentanyl has been charged by San Diego federal prosecutors with drug trafficking offenses. The discovery of drugs in a van allegedly driven by Andres Gonzales Soriano, 24, was described by the…

ENCINITAS, Calif.—A 25-year-old man called the police saying that he found several dead people in his Encinitas apartment. However, there were no dead people in the residence, but the police arrested two people and seized weapons and drugs because of the call, the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department reported Jan. 20. Around 11 a.m. on…

ENGLEWOOD, Colo.—For the second time in a month, a Colorado library has closed its doors to clean up methamphetamine contamination. Officials in the Denver suburb of Englewood shut down the city library last week within a couple of hours of getting test results Wednesday showing that the contamination in the facility’s restrooms exceeded state thresholds,…

LOS ANGELES—A former Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officer was sentenced Dec. 9 to 70 months in federal prison for smuggling what he believed was meth through Los Angeles International Airport in exchange for $8,000. Michael Williams, 39, of Hawthorne, pleaded guilty in June to one federal count of attempting to distribute methamphetamine. Williams was arrested…

SAN DIEGO—U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) San Diego field office announced this week that the total amount of narcotics seized at Southern California ports of entry this past fiscal year decreased from the previous year. The statistics released this week accounted for drugs seized through Sept. 30 at the San Ysidro, Otay Mesa, Tecate,…

Methamphetamine has been discovered stashed away in decorative stones awaiting shipment to Australia from Amazon’s San Diego hub. The decorative stones, normally used for gardens and model railways, was concealed in packaging labelled “ornamental stones,” according to U.S. federal agents. Amazon and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) found at least five Amazon vendor accounts using the…

SAN DIEGO—A trucker who was arrested last year after authorities say he was caught with record-breaking amounts of meth and fentanyl inside his truck while trying to cross into the United States at the Otay Mesa Port of Entry was sentenced Oct. 14 to nine years in prison. Carlos Martin-Quintana-Arias, a Mexican resident whose age…

SAN DIEGO—A trucker who was arrested last year after authorities say he was caught with record-breaking amounts of meth and fentanyl inside his truck while trying to cross into the United States at the Otay Mesa Port of Entry was sentenced Oct. 14 to nine years in prison. Carlos Martin-Quintana-Arias, a Mexican resident whose age…

A massive new study spotlights the toll methamphetamine use may take on heart health, suggesting men, people with kidney disease and those with high blood pressure are especially at risk. The findings, published Monday in the Journal of the American Heart Association, indicated people who used meth faced a 32% overall increased risk for cardiovascular…

SAN DIEGO—Authorities seized nearly $3 million worth of methamphetamine, hidden among a shipment of onions, during a tractor-trailer’s inspection at federal facility in San Diego, officials announced Friday. A K-9 unit for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection alerted to the trailer’s shipment of onions on Sunday and officers found nearly 1,200 small packages of…