{"id":2688,"date":"2022-09-03T07:25:13","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T14:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/?p=2688"},"modified":"2022-09-03T21:27:30","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T04:27:30","slug":"k-9-ruger-on-guard-north-of-el-dorado-county-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/09\/03\/k-9-ruger-on-guard-north-of-el-dorado-county-line\/","title":{"rendered":"K-9 Ruger On Guard North of El Dorado County Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>Placer County Sheriff<\/pre>\n<p>(Placer County, CALIFORNIA) Sept 3, 2022 \u2014 &#8220;<strong>That\u2019s a good boy, Ruger!<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to K-9 Ruger and his human partner, what was a seemingly \u201croutine\u201d traffic stop turned into the seizure of tens of thousands of fentanyl pills.<\/p>\n<p>On August 29th at 1:35 p.m., a Placer County Sheriff\u2019s K-9 deputy conducted a traffic stop on eastbound Interstate 80 at the Maple Street exit, in North Auburn. K-9 Ruger, who is certified in narcotics detection, alerted his handler to the driver\u2019s side of the vehicle that was pulled over.<\/p>\n<p>Upon a search of that area, the deputy located five aluminum foil-lined packages that were vacuum sealed with plastic. The deputy observed parts of the packages that exposed blue-green M30 tablets, commonly known as fentanyl pills.<\/p>\n<p>During the investigation, the deputy determined each package contained approximately 10,000 tablets \u2013 which amounted to about 50,000 fentanyl pills total. The deputy also located four cell phones inside the vehicle. A search of the driver and passenger revealed $898 in the driver\u2019s wallet and $105 in the passenger\u2019s wallet.<\/p>\n<p>The driver, 27-year-old Brigido Lopez-Beltran, and passenger, 32-year-old Joaquin Mardueno, were both arrested for possession and sale of narcotics.<\/p>\n<p>We commend our deputy and his K-9 for potentially saving so many lives by taking over 12 pounds of this dangerous substance off the streets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>K-9 Ruger, who is certified in narcotics detection, alerted his handler to 50,000 fentanyl pills&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2688"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2690,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2688\/revisions\/2690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}