Blog: Drug Crimes

Electric Daisy Carnival (“EDC”) is a three-day dusk-to-dawn electronic music festival held each June at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The next one is coming up this June 16th through 18th. Despite EDC’s “zero-tolerance” policy for drug use and possession and the presence at the festival of numerous Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department officers, there were …

This past Thursday 25-year-old Jorge Garcia was arrested in North Las Vegas for drugs and gun charges following two raids. The police confiscated $15,000, 24 pounds of marijuana, 45 grams of methamphetamine, marijuana edibles, THC extract, and 23 firearms. The drug busts were conducted by SCORE, which is a law enforcement task force made up …

Last month Las Vegas police arrested eight illegal immigrants for allegedly committing the Nevada crime of drug trafficking. Law enforcement seized 212 pounds of drugs valued at nearly six million dollars. It was the biggest methamphetamine bust in the state’s history. The Nevada crime of drug trafficking is when a person knowingly sells, makes, or …