28 August 2015 Julio Gabriel Diaz, 67, was convicted of 79 counts of distributing controlled substances after a two-and-a-half week trial in federal court, said Thom Mrozek, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles.
LA Times Dr. Julio Gabriel Diaz is arrested at his Santa Barbara office in 2012. On Friday, a federal jury found Diaz, 67, guilty on 79 counts of writing prescriptions for powerful painkillers such as OxyContin and Dilaudid without a legitimate medical purpose. (Liz O. Baylen / Los Angeles Times)
The Inquisitr - Aug 29, 2015 In 2012, Diaz was arrested and pleaded guilty to 11 charges but later withdrew his plea, saying he was ill advised about the sentence he was facing and unaware that federal prosecutors would argue that his prescriptions could be tied to 20 people who died. ‘Candy Man’ doctor convicted of prescribing unneeded narcotics
Man Accused of Over-Prescribing Pain Pills Under House Arrest in Goleta
HUFFINGTON POST 01/5/12 Julio Gabriel Diaz, AKA The 'Candy Man' of Santa Barbara, California
The tragic lives of his many more victims are told in secret, cries for help that can never be fully told. They just move on to another con to feed the habit, constantly hiding their shame and lies. Lost souls with heaps of never ending sorrows. A life of crime is the only way to survive. There are other Candy Men and pimps (boyfriends) to get them through until the next pain, the next fix.
To grasp the significance of the Pennsylvania attorney general’s bust of a suspected major methamphetamine trafficking network with Bucks County ties, first you must understand the insular world of its users and distributors.
Meth, as it’s commonly known, isn’t a drug typically sold on street corners, but has a loyal following among mostly longtime users and dealers who operate largely in secret, according to those in law enforcement.
Typically the drug is made in small batches in small labs in out-of-the-way places. Often users will make the drug mainly for their own use, and sell some to feed their habit for the powerful and highly addictive synthetic stimulant, drug agents say.
The people who make and sell meth tend to be older, white men living in rural or suburban communities with an established customer base, law enforcement officials say. Like the people they sell to, dealers and distributors find the drug hard to resist, and many return to selling it after they’ve been arrested and served prison time, the drug agents say. READ MORE HERE.... MUG SHOT. LARGELY IN SECRET WOELLERT
"operate largely in secret" is key, may be more so in a lovely little town like Santa Barbara. They are in secret and in some of the most enchanting areas, who would ever guess?They ingratiate themselves as if they can be the best until they start jonesing. The courts, rehab do little to end the vicious cycle they are locked into.
3/18/13 SANTA BARBARA, Calif. Deputies found nearly 2,000 pounds of marijuana and a panga style fishing boat on Arroya Camada Beach in Santa Barbara Sunday
The playing field of Santa Barbara is not equal in the world of Rich man, poor man, methamphetamine. That is a grim fact of life. It was recently stated in a local news report that the Mexican cartels have taken over the local street gangs. What will that mean for other dealers and abusers? It doesn't get much more bloody, outside of a war, than the escalation in Mexico. On our local shores the War on Drugs has been kicked up a few notches with the recent murder of a federal law enforcement officer. We don't see how it helps when the privileged use illegal slave labor from Mexico or the US to do their dirty work.
Meth users often end up in the justice system. From Hollywood actors to lawyers, from race car drivers and minor league baseball players to children of pastors, from surfers to teachers … from any walk of life you care to name, methamphetamine has found its takers, its so-called tweekers.
"My problems have gotten worse. Now I am also dealing with health issues, and it is definite that I will be needing surgery some time in the next month or so. I was served an eviction notice yesterday and am facing that situation also. I have zero income, no phone, no car, and soon no house. I am at a check mate position and just want to give up. I cant take this anymore."
Lost, alone and steps away from homeless, it is not enough of a deterrent. (the fastest-growing group of homeless people in the United States is composed of single women with two or three children) The characters change, the locations change, the substances change, yet it is the same stories told time and again. "After Helen persuades him that "Don the writer" and "Don the drunk" are the same person, Don finally commits to writing his novel The Bottle, dedicated to Helen, which will recount the events of the weekend. He drops a cigarette into a glass of whiskey rather than drink it. He recalls that while packing for his lost weekend his mind was on a bottle suspended just outside his window, he ponders, over a reversal of the opening shot, how many other people in New York City are in the same position as he." 1945 The Lost Weekend
It seems simple when it was just The Bottle. Now there is an excess from street drugs to pharmaceuticals. With no end in sight of tortured addicted souls. Growing are the professionals who make it all too easy: Emergency room doctors at a Santa Barbara hospital saw a disturbing trend for more than a decade – patient after patient hooked on prescription drugs shared the same physician. Dr. Julio Gabriel Diaz "In addition, two women taken to a hospital emergency room indicated they were among numerous people who used sex to pay Diaz for narcotics, according to an affidavit filed in the case."
"Yes every medic and ER doc knows him. His nickname is Dr. Candy. Yes, every time I ran a call and found his name on the bottles, I documented it. As did Cottage hospital. We and they can only do so much and document so much. However, there is nothing more we could do but document and file complaints. For whatever reason, someone decided to take us seriously and take the next step. It is a shame it took so long."
Jael Strauss was on Cycle 8 of America’s Next Top Model five years ago looking gorgeous, and now her face is ravaged by a six-year meth, cocaine, and painkiller addiction (that’s right, she was using while on the show.) She is unrecognizable now, and her family staged an intervention on Dr. Phil.
A former “America’s Next Top Model” contestant who we haven’t seen in a long time
is headed back to our television sets, but this time the reason is not so pleasant. Jael Strauss, who participated in the 8th cycle of Tyra Banks’ model competition,
is set to appear on an intervention-style episode of “Dr. Phil” tomorrow when her family confronts her about her addiction to methamphetamine.
Stay off the pipe!
Officials said containment of the blaze, which quickly lapped up a hillside during the height of Friday's rush-hour commute and prompted temporary closure of the Getty Center, remained at 40%, a figure reached by Friday night.
This is when it gets disheartening to see workers with cigarettes hanging from their mouth. Why can't they wait to take a break? Hiring cheap labor isn't always the best answer, but that is how some of the old Santa Barbara privileged like to roll. Old families like tradition and they've made hiring under the table to escape labor costs a way of life. They do it year after year and it works for them. They don't seem to mind if they depend on henchmen to keep the crews in line, some sick stories are told in the hills of beautiful Santa Barbara. Everyone else is not as happy with that arrangement, most of all during fire season. Sure methheads need work too, but can't you find a foreman that can stay off the pipe?
It hasn't been that long since evacuating a large part of town was reality. Yes, it could be worse if a fire sweeps down into our little tinder box of a town, no one is that safe. And here we sit at the mercy of faulty equipment, wealthy cheapskates full of pride with how they play their slave labor games.
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) -- Firefighters struggled Friday to get ahead of a raging wildfire that has moved dangerously close to heavily populated areas around this idyllic coastal city and forced the evacuation of an roughly 30,000 people.
Larry Williamson saved his Mountain Drive home from the Tea Fire. He was unable to save his Electric Truck.
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METACRITIC Breaking Bad: Season 5
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The Bottom Line: Fresh from his season four "victory" over Gus Fring, Walter White is now in charge. And he's loving it. Jesse is back, Mike is sort of back, wife Skyler's early fears may be masking what she really feels inside and series creator Vince Gilligan appears to have done it again. It's not a matter of wondering if Breaking Bad will be great, but where in the pantheon it will ultimately reside. THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
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"They have already completed several jobs," he said. "They have long or short weapons (...) They are accompanied by men and they get out down to do the job. "
The armed wing of the Juarez drug cartel (La Linea), which operates on the border of Ciudad Juarez and El Paso is recruiting and training dozens of young, pretty women as sicarios (hired assassins), said a captured sicario hired by the criminal organization.
"Cocaine Cowboys"The film explores the rise of cocaine and resulting crime epidemic that swept the American city of Miami, Florida in the 1970s and 1980s. The producers of Cocaine Cowboys use interviews with law enforcement, journalists, lawyers, former drug smugglers and gang members to provide a first hand perspective of the Miami drug war.
Also documented in the film is
the gangland violence associated with the trade. The interviewees in the film argue that Griselda Blanco, an infamous crime family matriarch, played a major role in the history of the drug trade in Miami and other cities across America. It was the lawless and corrupt atmosphere, primarily from Blanco's operations, that led to the gangsters' being dubbed the "Cocaine Cowboys".
Beltrán (born 1960, Baja California, Mexico) is a Mexican drug cartel leader, dubbed "La Reina del Pacífico" (The Queen of the Pacific) by the media. She was arrested on September 28, 2007 and charged with organized crime and conspiracy to traffic drugs; Some charges were later dropped but she is still being held for possession of illegal weapons and money laundering, pending her extradition to the U.S.
Mexican and U.S. officials consider she was an important link between the Sinaloa Cartel in
Mexico and the Colombian Norte del Valle Cartel.
Big Santa Barbara drug bust! Does crime pay? You look at the house and tell me! Wow a big meth bust in Santa Barbara recently and the Santa Barbara news press missed reporting on one of the story’s. Of the 2 meth bust that occurred I am interested in The second Meth bust that took place at 2078 Las Canoas 93105 home of William Paxson. The information below was taken from Sheriff’s web page in regards to the drug bust and is in the middle of posting. “William Paxson – 11550(a) H&S – Under the influence of a controlled substance, 11364 H&S – Possession of drug paraphernalia, 11366 H&S – Maintaining a dwelling for drug use/sales. Bail was set at $2,500.” Really 2500 bail, wow Santa Barbara District Attorneys are really going after the white over 60, living in 2 Million dollar home “Gangsters’ that’s O.G. baby! During my harassment and 5 different illegal arrests I had bail any where from 20,000 to 100,000 for words I never said. Worse than that there is a current rumor that law enforcement caught one of there own in these arrest, can that be true? Take a look at the house yourself! *Magic in Santa Barbara June 7, 2010
Magic in Santa Barbara makes sense, the paper of record did not report the Mission Canyon drug bust. They just don't report on any of their friends or associates, that is how they roll. $2,500 bail? Was the fix already in?
After a three month long investigation which included complaints and information from the general public, Narcotics Detectives arrested six subjects suspected of dealing and using Methamphetamine during the search warrant in the 2000 block of Las Canoas Rd. in Santa Barbara. * Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department
DON'T DO METH VIDEO
It is curious, after a three month long investigation, or was it six months? Either way it was a heavy burden on the taxpayers to fund that investigation. The public deserves good results and to keep the criminals off the streets. Why is all that money spent to bust an operation at a remodeled million dollar property? Who do you think is doing any time? We heard more rumors about grand larceny and mysterious high end collections gone missing. I don't know if one of law enforcement's own was caught but from the sound of it there was a den of thieves and they were ratting on one another. They also blame the police. Was law enforcement on the in or out of one of the planned heists? One miscreant is still at his old game and none of that helps the addiction. The next time they are caught it may not go so well for them, but for now, not much has changed. Including the legal system that is so soft for rich, old and white dudes. The area’s methamphetamine problems have not improved and the County is throwing away money.
How is it the general public would know what goes on behind closed doors in Mission Canyon? They don't, it was all inside the circle of wheelers and dealers. The rumor about an inside job makes more sense. An extensive investigation of a millionaire's bust is one thing. for another, why was bail so low? No reporting in the Santa Barbara News-Press and no follow up in any local media. Although some of the culprits were repeat offenders, rumors of pedophilia and suspects in far more serious crimes. Why do they get off so easy and why isn't the public warned?
SANTA BARBARA — Symptomatic of the area’s methamphetamine problem, sheriff’s officials this week conducted raids on two individual drug rings operating in close proximity to one another. The first investigation led narcotics officers into the upscale residential foothill area high above the famed Santa Barbara Mission on Las Canoas Road. An ongoing series of neighborhood complaints from local community members initially alerted sheriff’s detectives to a specific house, upon which search warrants were served on May 25.
* Crime Voice
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Used car salespersons throughout Santa Barbara let out a collective groan when Montecito Motors closed in early September amid allegations that its owners father-son team Chet and Adam Taylor had duped dozens of clients out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Their scheme reportedly involved selling high-end, pre-owned cars out of their Chapala Street lot on consignment but then allegedly shirking contracts by fraudulently delaying payments, offering partial payments, or failing to disclose sales altogether.
Friday, May 18, 2012 Montecito Motors Father and Son Headed to Prison
13-Year and 11-Year Sentences Planned for Chet and Adam Taylor, Respectively
A former UA law school student and beauty queen Kumari Fulbright was sentenced to two years in prison plus six years’ probation Thursday for her part in the kidnapping and torture of her former boyfriend. Kumari Fulbright, 28, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit kidnapping and aggravated assault as part of a plea agreement that stipulated the prison sentence in the case, which also involved another ex-boyfriend. Kumari Fulbright was dating Joshua Conway in the fall of 2007 when she asked him to sell jewelry she was given by her former boyfriend, Robert Ergonis, according to prosecutors Michael Jette and Kim Ortiz. When Ergonis came back into Fulbright’s life, she lied and told Ergonis that Conway had stolen and sold the jewelry. Fulbright lured Conway to her apartment on Dec. 8, 2007, and Ergonis and David Radde jumped him, the prosecutors said. Another man, Larry Hammond, helped to detain him. Conway was beaten, cut with a knife and held at gunpoint for hours until he was able to escape. Fulbright, Radde and Hammond entered deals with the state and agreed to testify against Ergonis at his trial last month. Fulbright told jurors that the plan was only for Ergonis to talk Conway into telling them where the jewelry was. Ergonis was convicted of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, kidnapping, armed robbery and aggravated robbery. Jurors acquitted him on a second count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, choosing instead to convict him of a less serious assault charge. He’s scheduled to be sentenced next week. In Pima County Superior Court, Judge Michael Miller sentenced Fulbright Thursday. Miller ordered Fulbright to pay $15,000 in restitution. He also agreed to allow Fulbright to move to Florida when she is released from prison.
In 2012, Diaz was arrested and pleaded guilty to 11 charges but later withdrew his plea, saying he was ill advised about the sentence he was facing and unaware that federal prosecutors would argue that his prescriptions could be tied to 20 people who died.
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