Law enforcement officials keep quiet on cocaine seizure
An unusually large narcotics seizure -- more than 44 pounds of cocaine Tuesday night -- sparked lots of questions -- but few of them are likely to be answered any…
The California Highway Patrol runs a sobriety checkpoint on The Old Road in August 2017. Katharine Lotze/The Signal
Nearly three dozen weekend arrests involve drugs, alcohol
Santa Clarita Valley deputies and officers arrested 51 people over the weekend, and more than two-thirds of those arrests involved the illegal use of drugs or alcohol. Of the arrests…
Larry Huddleston
SCV in Recovery: Larry’s struggle
Aug. 22, 2013, is a day that Larry Huddleston is likely to never forget. About five years prior, to help battle intense, chronic back pain, the Air Force veteran was…
Patrick M. Fry,left, and Travis Hills-Garcia, of Santa Clarita, were two of five picked up as part of a national drug trafficking ring in 2018.
Two Saugus men among 5 busted in nationwide meth ring
Two Saugus men were among five people arrested Wednesday after a nationwide multi-agency drug investigation pegged the “Big Five” as running a “multi-state drug trafficking organization” that mailed more than…
LASD car. Signal file photo.
Santa Clarita deputy arrests three on burglary charges
A Santa Clarita deputy made several arrests Christmas Day as part of a patrol around local businesses in Canyon Country, local officials said Wednesday. In the early morning hours Monday,…
Man arrested Thursday, in “drug diversion” Friday, arrested Saturday
A 23-year-old man, arrested five times this year, was arrested Thursday for drug possession for which he pleaded guilty on Friday, then was placed in a “drug diversion” program, arrested…
UPDATE: Drugs or alcohol suspected in fatal crash Friday near Gorman
Drugs or alcohol may have been a factor in a fiery head-on crash near Gorman Friday night which claimed the life of a Lancaster woman and critically injured another…
Three people “hanging out” nabbed for meth, drug paraphernalia
Patrol deputies stopping to check on people “hanging out” Monday morning end up arresting three on drug-related charges. Deputies with the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station were on patrol…
Deputies with the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff Station's bike patrol team. photo courtesy SCV Sheriff Station.
Bike cops bust four for drugs
Deputies assigned to specialized patrol teams took a bike ride Tuesday through the backyards of Santa Clarita Valley homes, along bike trails and paseos, only to find meth, cocaine, gang…
Traffic stop nets 2 arrests, seizure of drugs and firearm
The simple traffic stop of a car traveling through Newhall Tuesday netted two arrests and the alleged seizure of drugs, drug paraphernalia and a gun stolen in a case…
FILE PHOTO: Lauren, who asked that her last name not be used, gets a hug from an addict currently in treatment after Lauren shared her story about losing her son to his addiction at the Signal's Talk About Heroin and Drug Addiction at Action Family Counseling on Monday, May 15, 2017. Katharine Lotze/The Signal
Mental health issues linked to substance abuse
A 2014 survey conducted by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration found that an estimated 20.2 million adults had a substance use disorder in the past year. Of…
SCV natives shine in academics. Courtesy photo
How Santa Clarita Valley’s schools address drug use, misuse in the classroom
Before addiction takes hold of teens and derails their lives, these young adults spend the majority of their days in the classroom. Oftentimes, schools are seen as the first or…
Drug and alcohol arrests outpace all others
Nearly 80 percent of all the arrests made in the Santa Clarita Valley in a two-day mid-week period were for either drug or alcohol violations. Of the 34 arrests made…
Los Angeles Strike Force nabs drug traffickers, seizes hundreds of pounds of narcotics
News release issued by the US Attorney's Office. LOS ANGELES – The first major narcotics trafficking indictment resulting from an investigation by the Los Angeles Strike Force was…
Sheriff's deputies conduct a drug raid at a home on Alaminos Drive in Saugus on May 9, 2017. (Austin Dave/The Signal)
“Dirty” suspected drug houses to be cleaned up
As narcotics detectives shut down suspected drug houses in the Santa Clarita Valley, having carried out three raids in the last three months, neighborhoods are being cleaned up one…
Drug addiction counselor: Two more SCV people died of overdoses
Drugs claimed the lives of two Santa Clarita Valley residents this past weekend, according to the man who has been alerting the public these past few weeks about killer batches…
Front line drug fighters call attention to opioids
Officials on the front line of fighting the proliferation of heroin in Southern California came together Thursday to raise awareness in curbing the emerging trend of heroin-like opioid abuse, and…
A Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff Station detective holds drug paraphernalia.
SCV invited to get rid of drugs
Santa Clarita Valley residents get a chance to do their part in battling the proliferation of heroin-like opioids, other painkillers and medication when National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day returns to…
“Upsurge” in heroin cases not unique to SCV
The proliferation of heroin in the Santa Clarita Valley which, by early indications, claimed the life of a Castaic man Sunday and sent eight heroin overdose victims to the hospital…
Deputies inside two sheriff's patrol vehicles wait for investigators and homicide officials outside a restroom at Bouquet Canyon Park in Saugus on April 23, 2017. (Austin Dave/The Signal)
UPDATE: Victim ID’d as drug detectives scramble to explain rash of drug overdoses
A rash of recent reported drug overdose cases across the Santa Clarita Valley including that of a young man found dead of an apparent overdose in the restroom at Bouquet…
