{"id":8338,"date":"2025-10-17T13:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T13:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/8338\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T13:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T13:17:07","slug":"bcso-huge-drug-bust-made-at-downtown-san-antonio-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/8338\/","title":{"rendered":"BCSO: Huge drug bust made at Downtown San Antonio hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img width=\"640\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot_20251017_054001_Facebook-640x400.jpg\" class=\"object-cover wp-post-image\" alt=\"BCSO: Huge drug bust made at Downtown San Antonio hotel\" post-type=\"post\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tScreenshot from BCSO video\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>SAN ANTONIO (KTSA News) \u2014 Bexar County deputies made a big drug bust when acting on a tip they received.<\/p>\n<p>Sheriff Javier Salazar says they were told that a drug deal was happening at a hotel on East Houston Street Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>After getting a search warrant, deputies arrived at the hotel and searched two rooms.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s where they found 10 kilograms of methamphetamine laced with fentanyl.<\/p>\n<p>Salazar says the fentanyl acts as an ingredient to \u201cdrive addiction\u201d and that the combination of drugs is 50 times more addictive than crack cocaine.<\/p>\n<p>Two people were arrested. They have been identified as 38-year-old Yolanda Ponce and 22-year-old Tomas Hernandez Jr.<\/p>\n<p>They were both taken into custody on drug possession charges.<\/p>\n<p>Salazar says the drugs have a street value of between $500,000 to $800,000.<\/p>\n<p>More about:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Screenshot from BCSO video SAN ANTONIO (KTSA News) \u2014 Bexar County deputies made a big drug bust when&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4240,993,7936,7937,82,84,83],"class_list":["post-8338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-bexar-county-sheriffs-office","tag-downtown","tag-drug-bust","tag-east-houston-street","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}