{"id":1874414,"date":"2023-03-10T20:27:52","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T01:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/one-million-fentanyl-pills-seized-in-el-monte\/"},"modified":"2023-03-10T20:29:16","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T01:29:16","slug":"one-million-fentanyl-pills-seized-in-el-monte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/one-million-fentanyl-pills-seized-in-el-monte\/","title":{"rendered":"One\u00a0million fentanyl pills\u00a0seized in El Monte"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fone-million-fentanyl-pills-seized-in-el-monte%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1874414&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p> <br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">(Photo by JOHANNES EISELE\/AFP via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>OAN Geraldyn Berry<br \/>UPDATED 5:25 PM \u2013 Friday, March 10, 2023<\/p>\n<p>According to the Department of Justice, three Mexican nationals were arrested in El Monte on Thursday for allegedly possessing a million fentanyl pills.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\" style=\"min-width: 320px; min-height: 50px;  text-align: center;\">  \t<script>  \t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1'); });  \t<\/script>  <\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>According to the arrest affidavit on Tuesday, Florencio Camacho Allan, Florencio Gaixola Patino, 29, and Alex Valdez Oroz, 25, met at a Denny&#8217;s in El Segundo with two buyers to discuss selling 10,000 fentanyl tablets. Then, they sold one million pills.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors claimed that Allan and Gaixola Patino fled the meeting and drove to the parking lot, where they sold the buyers 10,000 Fentanyl pills at $7,500. While law enforcement was watching, the suspects left the restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>Later that day Allan allegedly confirmed his group&#8217;s interest in a one-million pill sale and showed one of the buyers his Volkswagen Jetta&#8217;s full of pills through a WhatsApp conversation.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators carried out ground and overhead surveillance of the Jetta on Wednesday morning as the group planned to buy the drug. Investigators then arrested the Sinaloa, Mexico Natives at El Monte Holiday Hotel. The drugs in the Jetta were then seized.<\/p>\n<p>Allan, Gaixola Patino, and Oroz are facing charges of possession with intent distribution controlled substances. If they are convicted, they will be sentenced to life imprisonment<\/p>\n<p>According to the Drug Enforcement Administration, they are currently investigating the arrests in the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area program (HIDTA). Homeland Security Investigations, Hawthorne Police Department and Fullerton Police Department, El Monte Police Department and the California National Guard provide assistance.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Keep up to date Get breaking news straight to your inbox. Sign up here\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/alerts\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.oann.com\/alerts<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&#8220;From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/newsroom\/one-million-fentanyl-pills-seized-in-el-monte\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=one-million-fentanyl-pills-seized-in-el-monte\">One\u00a0million fentanyl pills\u00a0seized in El Monte<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11px\"><em>&#8220;The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author of the article and not necessarily shared or endorsed by Conservative News Daily&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Photo by JOHANNES EISELE\/AFP via Getty Images OAN Geraldyn BerryUPDATED 5:25 PM \u2013 Friday, March 10, 2023 According to the Department of Justice, three Mexican nationals were arrested in El Monte on Thursday for allegedly possessing a million fentanyl pills. According to the arrest affidavit on Tuesday, Florencio Camacho Allan, Florencio Gaixola Patino, 29, and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1889931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[542],"tags":[10250,21314,21315,21316],"class_list":["post-1874414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oann","tag-fentanyl","tag-monte","tag-one-million","tag-pills-seized"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1874414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1889931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1874414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1874414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1874414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}