Fresno police seize $3m in ecstasy pills
Published online on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009
By Jim Guy / The Fresno Bee
Fresno police have confiscated about $3 million in ecstasy pills, cash and cocaine and booked two men on suspicion of distributing the illegal drug, Chief Jerry Dyer said today.
Dyer said it was the largest seizure of ecstasy in the city’s history.
He described ecstasy as a dangerous drug that can contain methamphetamine, opiates and hallucinogens. It is often sold on high school campuses, at nightclubs and at dance parties advertised on Internet sites, he added.
Ranveer Singh Gill and Harjeet Singh Longia, both 24, were arrested on charges of possession for sale of the drug after an investigation that began with the arrest of a street-level dealer in the Tower District in August. Dyer said police followed the trail from that arrest back to Longia, who worked in a convenience store near Clinton and Weber avenues.
Officers bought 5,000 ecstasy pills and arrested Longia on Tuesday, Dyer said. Gill, who was watching the sale from a black Jaguar parked nearby, was taken into custody based on a tip, the chief said.
At Gill's home in the 5400 block of West Saginaw Way, officers found 108,000 ecstasy pills that sell for $25 apiece, $207,000 in cash and a kilo of cocaine worth $50,000 in street sales, Dyer said.
Dyer said the ecstasy pills were brought in from Canada and that cocaine from the United States is often exchanged for ecstasy manufactured in laboratories controlled by organized crime there.
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Published online on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009
By Jim Guy / The Fresno Bee
Fresno police have confiscated about $3 million in ecstasy pills, cash and cocaine and booked two men on suspicion of distributing the illegal drug, Chief Jerry Dyer said today.
Dyer said it was the largest seizure of ecstasy in the city’s history.
He described ecstasy as a dangerous drug that can contain methamphetamine, opiates and hallucinogens. It is often sold on high school campuses, at nightclubs and at dance parties advertised on Internet sites, he added.
Ranveer Singh Gill and Harjeet Singh Longia, both 24, were arrested on charges of possession for sale of the drug after an investigation that began with the arrest of a street-level dealer in the Tower District in August. Dyer said police followed the trail from that arrest back to Longia, who worked in a convenience store near Clinton and Weber avenues.
Officers bought 5,000 ecstasy pills and arrested Longia on Tuesday, Dyer said. Gill, who was watching the sale from a black Jaguar parked nearby, was taken into custody based on a tip, the chief said.
At Gill's home in the 5400 block of West Saginaw Way, officers found 108,000 ecstasy pills that sell for $25 apiece, $207,000 in cash and a kilo of cocaine worth $50,000 in street sales, Dyer said.
Dyer said the ecstasy pills were brought in from Canada and that cocaine from the United States is often exchanged for ecstasy manufactured in laboratories controlled by organized crime there.
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