{"id":359986,"date":"2026-06-14T03:09:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T03:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/359986\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T03:09:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T03:09:19","slug":"camp-pendleton-breach-leads-to-cocaine-and-fentanyl-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/359986\/","title":{"rendered":"Camp Pendleton breach leads to cocaine and fentanyl bust"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A traffic stop turned into a six-hour manhunt at a Marine Corps base in San Diego County on Thursday that resulted in the seizure of a considerable amount of cocaine and fentanyl, according to military officials.<\/p>\n

The incident began at 5:40 p.m. when deputies from the Orange County Sheriff\u2019s Department tried to make a traffic stop along Interstate 5, according to department spokesperson Sgt. Lizbeth Gwisdalla. <\/p>\n

The driver exited the highway, and as a deputy got out of their patrol car to approach the stopped vehicle, the driver drove onto the base. <\/p>\n

\u201cOur deputies did not go in, but they let military personnel know that he was on the base,\u201d Gwisdalla said.<\/p>\n

The two suspects, who have not been identified, entered the Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in Oceanside through a base gate, according to a press release statement from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The suspects left their vehicle in base housing.<\/p>\n

\"Several <\/p>\n

Authorities seized about 51 kilograms of cocaine and fentanyl following a security breach at Camp Pendleton. <\/p>\n

(Naval Criminal Investigative Service)<\/p>\n

The NCIS launched a search throughout the camp and issued a temporary shelter-in-place order amid the investigation. <\/p>\n

Roughly 38,000 military family members occupy base housing complexes, according to the official camp\u2019s website<\/a>. Daytime populations can reach about 70,000 military and civilian personnel.<\/p>\n

About 30 camp personnel tracked the suspects after a six-hour manhunt. During their investigation, authorities found 51 kilograms of cocaine and fentanyl inside the runaway vehicle.<\/p>\n

Gwisdalla said that federal authorities will oversee the investigation, and the suspects will likely face federal charges. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A traffic stop turned into a six-hour manhunt at a Marine Corps base in San Diego County on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[6577,7203,146499,7375,7268,167,287,25496,348,48,52,51,118507,47,50,49,136142,146500,2131,178,3660],"class_list":["post-359986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-authority","tag-base","tag-base-housing","tag-camp","tag-cocaine","tag-deputy","tag-driver","tag-fentanyl-bust","tag-investigation","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-lizbeth-gwisdalla","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-marine-corps-base","tag-six-hour-manhunt","tag-suspect","tag-vehicle","tag-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}