BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — The Kern County Sheriff’s Office and its high intensity drug trafficking task force helped execute a search warrant that resulted in the arrest of three people and the seizure of meth.
Law enforcement executed the warrant in the desert area south of Highway 138 and 180th Street West in Lancaster, officials said.
The sheriff’s office said once detectives converged on the property on Oct. 14, law enforcement was advised that three suspects were fleeing a structure that was believed to be a methamphetamine conversion lab.
KCSO said the office’s Air Support Unit helped direct ground units to the suspects, who were later apprehended without incident.
Through the investigation, law enforcement identified the three suspects as Adrian Sanchez-Manriquez, 41, from Culiacan, Sinaloa-Mexico, Paulo Misael Navarrete-Sillas, 27, from Chihuahua, Mexico and Omar Vega-Madueno, 36, from Culiacan, Sinaloa-Mexico.
KCSO said the three were identified as conspiring to possess meth for the purpose of sales, manufacture meth, maintaining a residence for the purpose of narcotic sales, possessing loaded firearms while in possession of a controlled substance, possession of stolen property, resisting arrest and trafficking meth in and around both the Central Valley and Southern California.
KCSO added that the loaded firearm found was reported stolen from McFarland.
All three suspects have been booked into the Kern County Sheriff’s Office Lerdo Justice Facility, officials said.
In total, law enforcement located and seized about 248.4 pounds of methamphetamine and 1,575 pounds of methamphetamine in liquid solution.
Officials also located several thousand dollars in U.S. currency.