El Chapo’s Drug lord mule, a California Correctional deputy officer, caught with over 100 fentanyl pills

…25-year-old former Riverside County hurriedly resigned position after arrest

*Pulled over on traffic, investigators found a gun and 104 pounds of fentanyl pills

*”Jorge Oceguera-Rocha’s alleged involvement in drug trafficking was monitored in Operation Hotline Bling. That operation, which led to 15 arrests and the seizure of $16 million in narcotics, was aimed at the Sinaloa cartel’s activity in the Inland Empire. It is apparent now that he was the corrupt Correctional Deputy”-RIVERSIDE County

*BY KEVIN SYDNEY/CRIME REPORTER, CALIFORNIA, NAIJA STANDARD NEWSPAPER

JOSE OCEGUERA-ROCHA was a 25-year-old former Riverside County, California Sheriff’s deputy who was allegedly caught with more than 100 pounds of fentanyl pills, nabbed as part of a high-profile investigation into the cartel once led by the drug lord known as “El Chapo,” according to a report in the Press-Enterprise.

This mule resigned his position as a correctional deputy after his arrest in September 2023.
According to officials, he was driving his private vehicle in Calimesa when he was pulled over. Inside his car, investigators say they found a gun and 104 pounds of fentanyl pills.
Investigators did not detail how they learned of Oceguera-Rocha’s alleged involvement in drug trafficking, but now it’s apparent that he was the “corrupt Riverside County Correctional Deputy” mentioned in a Wednesday press release touting Operation Hotline Bling, the Press-Enterprise explained.

That operation, which led to 15 arrests and the seizure of $16 million in narcotics, was aimed at the Sinaloa cartel’s activity in the Inland Empire.
That cartel was once helmed by Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, perhaps one of the most prominent and powerful drug lords since the height of Pablo Escobar’s empire in the 1980s and early ’90s.

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