A coalition of FBI agents and police around the Bay Area have thus far seized more than 14 pounds of fentanyl and arrested a 29-year-old man believed to be a large-scale fentanyl supplier.
OAKLAND — An FBI law enforcement task force has thus far seized at least 14 pounds of fentanyl and $28,000 in cash, and arrested a 29-year-old man believed to be a supplier to other Bay Area dealers who sell the deadly drug by the ounce, according to multiple law enforcement sources.
On Aug. 7, task force members arrested 29-year-old Elvin Melendez-Cruz, at the Bay Breeze Inn, where he’d apparently been staying for weeks. Authorities kept on seeing his recognizable Mercedes Benz parked at the hotel, and on July 19, a group of agents with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation say they saw him conduct a “hand to hand drug transaction” with a person in the parking lot, according tot he complaint.
In one controlled drug purchase, an informant for the Drug Enforcement Administration met a man Melendez-Cruz was allegedly supplying and bought 20 ounces from him. The two met up at the Happy Hot Dog parking lot in Oakland, while special agents with the DEA watched from a short distance away, the complaint says.
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