This story was edited at 8:30 p.m. Oct. 5 to include another name used by suspect Leighann Combs, of Wildomar.
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A suspected drug ring in Temecula was broken up when five people were arrested and narcotics and paraphernalia discovered during a search warrant service at two homes, officials said.
Arrested were: Cory Jordan Rose, 23, of Temecula; Ben Henry Harris, 20, of Temecula; Jake Thomas Kennedy, 20, also of Temecula; Bobby Tae Kim, 38, of Temecula; Leighann Combs, also known as Leighann Keith, 30, of Wildomar and Darla Rust, 39, also of Wildomar.
According to Riverside County sheriff's Sgt. Vance Stolte, the warrants were served as part of an ongoing investigation; They were served at 1 p.m. Thursday in the 44000 block of Boguta Way and 30000 block of Hollyberry Lane, the sergeant wrote in a news release.
Investigators with the sheriff's Special Enforcement Team, Temecula's Problem Oriented policing team and the Temecula/Murrieta Regional Gang Task Force joined forces to make the busts, the sergeant wrote.
Inside the homes, investigators reportedly found heroin, methamphetamine, items indicative of of narcotic sales, narcotics paraphernalia, and items used during the commission of two commercial burglaries in Temecula, the sergeant said.
Authorities did not elaborate on the burglaries.
Rust was booked on suspicion of drug use and possession of paraphernalia; she was released on $2,500 bail and ordered back to court Nov. 15 to face misdemeanor charges.
Kim was booked on suspicion of drug sales and transport -- a felony -- and misdemeanor charges of failure to appear in court on a specified order; driving on a suspended license; drug use; drug possession and unsafe driving.
He remained behind bars in lieu of $25,000 bail, pending a court appearance Tuesday, jail records show.
Harris was booked on suspicion of drug use, drug possession, commercial burglary, receiving stolen property and license, insurance and vehicle violations.
He remained in custody in lieu of $5,000 bail, pending court Tuesday.
Rose was booked on suspicion of drug use and was released on $2,500 bail; he was ordered back to court Nov. 15, according to jail records.
Kennedy was booked on suspicion of drug sales, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of a controlled substance, a felony.
He remained in custody in lieu of $5,000, pending arraignment Tuesday.
There was no record of Combs at the county jail website.
Hopefully somewhere in their sentences is some counciling and drug rehab. They are still young enough to turn themselves around and get on the right road and not look like corpes :/
Thanks Nathan for commenting, and hope you speak of this when you see kids around too the neighborhoods.
As far as drug ring it sure has enough people with the product, doing the product, and probably enough people who came forward that sold for them, and also alot who said they bought from them. Thus that makes a drug ring no matter how many. You can have one head of a drug ring and 3 kids that sell for him, obvious this group was considerably larger then that, as was the phone contact lists and different meeting areas. Also any teenager can be an A student, in girlscouts, drive perfectly, and still get involved in drugs, with a drug ring, and still get hooked on drugs horrible. It does not make you a bad person at all unless you would steal or hurt someone during the course of the sales, the burglaries, robberies etc. that this group did. There are many people of all ages, for all differnt reasons addicted to drugs and alcohol and its horrible and hopefully BEN that will be the case with you and that you will be found to need help, not locked up. Unless of course you were the master mind behind all the burglaries and robberies of course, which I somehow doubt. If you turned and gave evidence you might have come out pretty well. Perhaps update us on this case? Would be nice to know.
digg 0 EmailShare Email Update: please read this as it involves the same Officers in a Federal Lawsuit: http://temekunews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Federal-Lawsuit-Hamilton-Stolte-Rhodes.pdf see here: http://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/archive/index.php/t-67975.html