Deputies in Riverside tasked with getting drugs off the street accidentally unleash the meth into the community when a sting operation goes sideways.
An “embarrassing” Riverside County Sheriff’s Department sting-operation-gone-wrong last week put 60 pounds of methamphetamine in the hands of a narcotics trafficker, the department admitted.
The deputies sold the street drug to the suspect, who promptly drove away from the undercover law enforcement team, according to the department.Other deputies from the gang task force tried to stop the suspect’s car, but the suspect fled, according to the sheriff’s department. “Why would you let someone get in their vehicle, I dont know,” said Michael Lujan, a retired captain with the Riverside Sheriff’s Department who lost the election to be sheriff to Chad Bianco last year. “It is pretty embarrassing. It’s unfortunate because now we have additional narcotics out on the street.”Lujan said that a “reverse-buy” operation usually has guardrails in place to stop suspects from making off with narcotics.
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