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Detectives with the Sheriff’s Station’s Narcotics Unit arrested five suspects Tuesday morning in connection with a raid on a suspected drug house.
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It was around 6 o’clock this morning, according to Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station. The investigating officers were aware the suspected drug house was near a school so they conducted their “raid” of the premises in the early morning hours for safety reasons.
The house, near the intersection of Maben Avenue and Cedarcreek Street, was about 300 feet from Rio Vista Elementary School, officials said. The house was located on the 27000 block of Maben Street.
Two suspects were arrested for possession with intent to sell heroin, and two individuals were arrested for methamphetamine possession with intent to sell. A fifth person was arrested on suspicion of running a drug house.
Neighbors frequently complained about the residence, according to station officials.
“I know police go over to that house regularly,” said Nathaniel Oberg, a resident of the area. “I heard there was a drug bust there at one point (in the past)… I just see police go over there quite a bit.”
Detectives with the Narcotics Unit have been focusing their efforts on heroin more recently in light of the rash of overdoses; however, as one detective noted, the two narcotics “go hand in hand,” and are frequently seen together in alleged “drug houses” like the one raided this morning.
Sheriff’s Station officials also requested city of Santa Clarita staff who work with nuisance abatement to address the residence.
Detectives suspect the occupants, who have not yet been identified by station officials, were “user-dealers,” who were also suspected addicts.
Sheriff’s Station officials also expressed concern over the amount of time deputies would be able to keep the suspected criminals off the street due to the passage of Propositions 47 and 57, which has limited their ability to arrest and incarcerate suspects accused of dealing drugs.
Sheriff’s Station officials are also working to track down a pair of suspected overdoses believed to be Santa Clarita Valley residents, although officials have not confirmed the nature of the deaths or their locations at the time of death.
One was believed to be a former Castaic man who was living in the Antelope Valley but working in Santa Clarita.
PUT THEM ALL IN JAIL FOR EVER (PERIOD)…….LET THEM ROD….
AGREE/THE HOUSE IS NASTY AND WOULD THIS BE CHILD ENDANGERMENT ?
Just another friendly reminder that a large percentage of people in Californian who thought they were being humane and giving “criminals” a second chance…made the wrong choice. Law enforcement does their job only to have them later released due to the charge being non-violent. People, we in California need to wake up, next on the ballot is going to be removing and / or reducing bail??? Why??? because its not fair that the less fortunate criminals cannot afford it? Here’s a thought, Don’t break the law and you wont have to worry about bail.
Santa Clarita nuisance abatement should board this house up.
What might happen if we sought to preserve human dignity and realized that more often than not, when we see criminal behavior and addictive behavior it is a failure of society? What if those people were put through intense rehabilitative services rather than turning them into worse “criminals” through our current prison system. Treating people like animals is never going to make them better humans. Giving the an opportunity to truly change the trajectory of their lives in other countries results in a 20% rate of recidivism. We have an 80% rate of recidivism. Just sayin’ if what we want is lower crime rates… our system could be improved… and not by making for profit businesses out of prisons. From a biblical perspective “all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God”. Loving people who hurt us is hard!! But it is the ONLY way we will help people to change their lives. Not all will change, but wouldn’t an 80% success rate be awesome?!!!
Excellently (and humanely) stated. Thank you .
To all Californians who voted for the measures to keep heroin/meth addicts out of jail…….. They are now living in the wash behind your warm cozy house, don’t you feel bad about that?
Here is a novel idea why don’t you step up and ACTUALLY help them? The City and State are not building any shiny new rehab centers for these addicts because they don’t care! Unfortunately it is going to take PRIVATE funds (your $$$$) to get these centers up and running. Donate now and please hurry because every day people are getting mugged and robbed by drug addicts and every day more children are being approached by meth dealers on school campuses!
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That is a very empathetic and beautiful take on the subject. Why don’t you start up a non-profit rehabilitation center and get donations from all of those who have the same hope for humanity as you do? It is apparent you are a very educated individual with a heart much larger than some of us (not sarcasm…but truth and a compliment) After your first three years, give us all an update on how the rehab facility is going. The only people that deserve the help are those who seek the help. You quoted the bible earlier and I believe Romans 5:6, Proverbs 28:26, and Jeremiah 17:5 address this issue in some format.
As Christians, (you’re correct) it is our job to forgive others as Christ has forgiven us…I for one pray for healing for all these individuals all the time, I pray that they seek help at local centers, etc…but unfortunately these individuals who choose not to seek help are a threat to our children and the community and need to be put away. A portion of our taxes pay for these centers and that are offered and they still choose to deny the help of places like B2H and other non-profits. I will continue to pray for those who are struggling however, the safety of my family comes first.
FYI – we are the family, related to these people and have been trying to clean up this situation for YEARS,
we did send these people to rehab and they blew from there. One of them has had a court ordered rehab, never showed up and the courts have let it slide.
the moral of the story is:
IF THERE ARE NO CONSEQUENCES, BAD BEHAVIOR WILL CONTINUE
Bleeding hearts, keep this in mind and don’t wonder why society has so many problems,
let’s be nice and see if they move into your neighborhood next
“Other countries” … seriously… it would depend on the country! MOST other countries have very defined RULES (laws) that its citizens are ALL expected to follow, for the benefit of ALL it’s citizens.
Blah, Blah, Blah… “it’s the failure of society.”. We all DESERVE to have RULES and LAWS that are in place for the protection of EVERYONE, not just means for the bums on our society to get around having to pay consequences when they break the law.
ENGLANDS recidivism rate: 59% for offenders in less than 12 months. 36 % for those in 1-4 years, 27% 4-10 years and 18% for more than 10 years.
GERMANY’s… recidivism rate – 35%
Not finding the 20% rate Alyssa mentions.
Making and selling Heroin… is in no way a NON-violent crime. The damage to human life and all those effected by addicts is VIOLENT.
What ‘people’ were thinking when voting in 57? …. they weren’t.
Most of the people who are in jail are a are absolutely going through a revolving door it’s like a family they grew up in jail the elders came from jail their uncles came from jail their mom and their dad their aunts uncles their brothers or sisters and they reunite. but really I’ve seen from first hand. I’m sorry that you think that giving them all these programs that they seem to be after serving eight months from their drug crime they send them to these rehabilitation centers or are safe houses but that doesn’t work because what you find in those places are more drugs and more ways to learn how you can get away with it again but then the revolving door and then recidivism at its finest. Truth is that the only way to change it is the individual him or herself there’s just no that’s got to be some sort of lightbulb going off in someone’s head it’s not definitely not the answer but neither is a sober living’s arm work it’s just people using like in the bathroom so when they get off contract and they can go leave the house on their own it’s really that simple . The only way to change is for America to stop buying it from other countries and flooding drugs in and out of our neighborhoods our communities are schools and stop sensationalizing all of it
In other countries they would be defiantly punished and that’s why they come here. Not very many people change. But if they do it’s a work of God and community.
If they don’t, it’s God’s fault.
They’re back home at least one of them is. So annoying.
One of them is my brother who is mildly autistic, we have been tring for YEARS to get this taken care of but we were told that it’s not a crime to be crazy so we have a situation that my brother married a drug adict cow who has been taking advantage of him, she’s even moved her boyfriend into the house. He’s afraid to divorce her because he’s catholic and doesn’t want to go to hell for divorcing her (he’s not mentally functional) – so he plays martyr while she gets drunk, does drugs and tears the house apart.
Now his daughter and her boyfriend are both on drugs and the daughter keeps popping out crack babies.
It’s a real bad situation.
The only way to fix this is to have a professional diagnose my brother properly and get him some supervision, he is not able to make good decisions. My sister in law belongs in jail, she’s a complete nut case.
For all you bleeding hearts out there who think you are doing society good, I will be the first to let you know that when there are no consequences for bad behavior, there will be bad behavior.
Stop making excuses for people who break the law, if there are no consequences the bad behavior will continue, talk to the neighbors here, this has been going on for YEARS, not months.
Choke the source of heroin influx, AGGRESSIVELY !