SPECIAL OPERATIONS UNIT—NARCOTICS NARCOTICS ENFORCEMENT UNIT The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office maintains the Special Operations Unit—Narcotics, which consists of three Sheriff’s Office investigators, one intelligence officer, one K-9 deputy, one Probation officer/ investigator, and two Homeland
The expansion of the medicinal
Security Investigations agents,
marijuana cultivation and its licensing
In 2021, the following seizure totals were made as the result of numerous investigations by Sheriff’s narcotics investigators. Some seizures were the result of multi-agency investigations and occurred throughout California.
began in January 2018, and this has
supervised by a sergeant. The Narcotics Unit is primarily focused
led to an increased need to spend
Heroin
2,472 grams 694 grams
man hours to ensure compliance.
Cocaine
on major narcotic investigations, mainly
Although much of the compliance
Methamphetamine 2,472 grams
Drug Trafficking Organizations (DTOs)
work is done by Code Enforcement
Fentanyl
347 grams
and other narcotic-related crimes. The
officers, should abatement be
MDMA
45 grams
most prevalent illegal narcotics available
462 grams
needed of an illegal cannabis
Ketamine
in the county are methamphetamine,
operation, narcotics detectives are
Processed cannabis 1,137 grams
cocaine, fentanyl, and heroin. The unit
there to assist. Additionally, there
Cannabis plants
94,656
employs a wide range of investigative
continues to be a black market for
Currency Seized
$65,025
techniques to combat the problem.
illegally grown marijuana on federal,
Firearms Seized
16
Some common techniques are surveil-
state, and private property. With
lance, use of informants, controlled
these illegal grow operations, some
purchases, and wiretaps. In cases
of the most serious problems occur
Cocaine
723.5 grams 375 grams
SOU—Dep. Peet & K9 Rooster:
involving large-scale illegal drug sales
with the use of illegal pesticides,
Heroin
where the proceeds can be located,
herbicides, fertilizers, and the
Methamphetamine 7,592.8 grams
asset forfeiture may be utilized.
diversion of water.
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