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We live in an era of unparalleled convenience where we can get 24-hour home delivery of hot, fresh pizza, summon an Uber ride by tapping our cellphones, and have almost anything in the world brought to our doorstep by a jaunty Amazon driver.
According to Ventura County Sheriff’s Department spokesman Sgt. Jacob Holt, 20-year- old Camarillo resident Cory Harding may have thought he’d discovered a unique consumer niche that could bring significant product markups when he went into the “illegal narcotics delivery service.” While Harding carried a range of products from marijuana to psilocybin mushrooms and vape devices, the big mistake he may have made was targeting a customer base predominantly of underage minors.
Those activities brought Harding under the watchful eye of law enforcement when “an anonymous tip through Ventura County Crime Stoppers” sent the VCSD Camarillo Special Enforcement Unit and Camarillo Detectives to the internet to research Harding’s social media accounts.
That’s where detectives discovered that Harding blatantly advertised his services and promoted his products over social media, giving them all the information they needed to obtain a search warrant of his residence, vehicle, and person. With warrant in hand, detectives showed up at Harding’s house early on the morning of March 1st and invited themselves inside. During the ensuing search, detectives found “a large amount of marijuana, marijuana vape products, and psilocybin mushrooms” along with “a large amount of U.S. currency” presumed to be the revenue from his little business.
Harding was taken into custody and transported to Ventura County Jail,where he was booked for sales of marijuana to a minor, transport of marijuana for sales, possession of marijuana for sales, and possession and transport of psilocybin mushrooms for sale. He remains in custody with his bail set at $50,000.
