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VENTURA COUNTY — A six month-long investigation by the Ventura County combined Agency Team, collaborating with Special Agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration, has finally generated impressive results and brought down a major organized drug ring in the city of Oxnard.
According to Ventura County Sheriff’s Department spokesman Det. Sgt. Carlos Macias, in July of 2016, detectives identified Toribio Aros-Osoria, a 34-year-old resident of Oxnard as an active importer of drugs smuggled into the U.S. from Mexico with the help of four other individuals scattered throughout Southern California.
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During the course of the investigation, Fontana resident Socorro Leyva-Jiminez, 44, was caught transporting 19 kilograms of cocaine, and is now “suspected of supplying Aros-Osorio” on an ongoing basis.
Another 20 kilograms of cocaine were found in the possession of 28-year-old Anaheim resident Yesenia Ramirez, “suspected of being a narcotics courier” delivering wholesale amounts of the drug to 23-year-old Juan Valle Lopez, a resident of Riverside. Another of Aros-Osorio’s suspected suppliers, Jose Manuel Ruiz, 42 of Reseda, was apprehended as he was making delivery of two kilograms of heroin to Aros-Osorio.
With suspects in custody, detectives served a search warrant on January 26th at the residence of Jose Ruiz being used “as a stash house for narcotics,” resulting in the additional seizure of 47 pounds of methamphetamine, one kilogram of heroin, and a quarter-kilogram of cocaine.
A second search warrant served upon the residence of Aros-Osorio netted an additional ten pounds of methamphetamine.
Aros-Osorio, Leyva-Jiminez, Ramirez, Lopez, and Ruiz were all booked into Ventura County Jail on charges of possession of controlled substances for sale, with the street value of all evidenced seized “estimated to be approximately $6,787,000.
Photos: Courtesy Ventura County Sheriff’s Department
