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Guns, drugs, fighting birds seized during Lancaster home raid

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Four handguns, one rifle, five pounds of marijuana, 20 marijuana plants and one pound of methamphetamine packaged for sales were discovered when authorities served a search warrant Thursday at the Lancaster home on the 3500 Block of east Avenue H-4.
Four handguns, one rifle, five pounds of marijuana, 20 marijuana plants and one pound of methamphetamine packaged for sales were discovered when authorities served a search warrant Thursday at a Lancaster home on the 3500 Block of east Avenue H-4. (Courtesy LASD)

LANCASTER – A 27-year-old felon was arrested Thursday morning after authorities raided his Lancaster home and found several guns, marijuana plants, methamphetamine and a cockfighting ring in the backyard, authorities said.

Jorge Diaz was arrested around 9:30 a.m. on suspicion of possession of marijuana and methamphetamine for sales, cockfighting, and being a felon in possession of a firearm, with additional charges pending, according to a press release from the Lancaster Sheriff’s Station. Read it below:

About 150 fighting roosters were seized from a cockfighting ring in the backyard. (LASD)
About 150 fighting roosters were seized from a cockfighting ring in the backyard. (LASD)

[Around 7:30 a.m., Thursday, May 8], deputies with the Lancaster NARCO Unit served a search warrant at a residence located on the 3500 Block of east Avenue H-4.

They located resident Jorge Diaz in the home.

The deputies discovered four handguns, one rifle, five pounds of marijuana, 20 marijuana plants, one pound of methamphetamine, and additional items of evidence used for sales. One of the firearms was also reported stolen.

Deputies with the C.O.P.S. Bureau also responded to assist, once 150 roosters and cockfighting tools were located.

There were rooster coops in the backyard, cockfighting tools and little areas set up for training roosters on how to fight, Ruiz said.
There were rooster coops in the backyard, cockfighting tools and little areas set up for training roosters on how to fight, Ruiz said.

Los Angeles County Animal Control also responded and took control of the animals.

Suspect Diaz was booked at the Lancaster Station Jail for possession of marijuana and methamphetamine for sales, felon with a firearm, suspicion of cock fighting, and additional charges are pending.

Suspect Diaz was held on $55,000 bail. A second suspect has been identified and is pending being apprehended.

The second suspect’s name is not yet being released, according to Lancaster Community Relations deputy Miguel Ruiz.

Diaz was targeted for the drug bust after authorities observed his activities over a lengthy period of time, Ruiz said.

“It was based on good old-fashioned police work and follow up information,” Ruiz said. “The primary intent was to look for marijuana and illegal narcotics. The birds were a secondary find.”

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31 comments for "Guns, drugs, fighting birds seized during Lancaster home raid"

  1. Well reading all the comments and being on both sides of the fence in my life I have to say there really wasn’t too much in the picture as far a drugs and weapons go. It was a small time also the picture of how he kept the place it looks like to me he loved his animals and took good care of them. there is a lot of small time in AV because they are trying to support themselves and get ahead but of course that getting ahead part comes with a price. Sooner are later it boils down to getting caught. I do not understand because if it was such a big raid and they did do what was accused of in the paper why only $55,000 bail???? What I think is the AV is trying to make money one way or the other by taking down small time to seize property and how ever much to generate money that way and the small time cannot afford to try to fight it so they lose all the way around.

  2. i have seen this place before but i never thought that that activity was going on omg

  3. How long till Jerry Brown releases him back to the AV…along with all the other useless garbage he’s dumped here? We ought to be able to sue him for decimating this area.

    • There is a reason A.V.s courthouse is the largest in the nation. Justice is big business, and quite profitable. They do not care if you are innocent or guilty, the question is…”can you pay the fine”. Before they started sending section 8’s here they built a new courthouse…they knew you and your children were coming. Cops are nothing but thugs with guns, at least the majority of them. But they will always have the badge lickers, who back the cops. Remember that badge lickers when you are watching another episode of CSI. A.V. is Los Angeles’s toilet, the dumping grounds on the outskirts of town. You are all trash to them.

      • Sorry you are mistaken. The AV court house is not the largest in the nation. That distinction belongs to the Thomas F. Eagleton United States Courthouse in Missouri

        The Los Angeles Superior Court system IS the largest in the nation, but it is comprised of around 47 smaller court houses around LA county. Considering that LA county is ranked as the most populous county in the nation (and in fact the county has more people living here then 42 other states), no winder it has such a large court system.

  4. I wonder if he had eggs for sale…selling product without a license is illegal…

    • Hahaha… now that’s funny right there, I don’t care who you are.
      Roosters don’t lay eggs :)

      Maybe he didn’t have a license to sell marijuana and meth.

  6. You guys can’t believe everything here. Judging a poor man without being convicted. You never know what is true and what is not. You [removed].

    • So the felon with the guns, the marijuana, the meth, the 150 roosters and cockfighting tools was nothing but mass hallucination?
      Jorge Diaz had been caught with his hands in the cookie jar.
      #notfeelingsorry4jorge

    • I think that you are right we have no right to judge this guy, maybe with economic hardships he turned to selling drugs to support his family and himself…

      • The show ‘Breaking Bad’ was really popular. Americans love, just love, their entertainment to be about violence, drugs, and big explosions but a real life incident really gets to them.

        Simple solution. Think of it as ‘entertainment’, folks. Problem solved.

    • Bet your on PRCS huh? You’ll get jammed again soon and then you and your boy Diaz can hang out in county and talk about the days when you were actually worth something to someone. Don’t forget, they’re expecting you to hoop something in, so u better be stretching it now dirtbag.

    • Whats the matter Jay, lost your supplier. Awwwww don’t feel bad just sober up and find you’ll lose all that aggression. Too bad your buddy is going to be someone else’s girlfriend.

      • Man [removed] all of you. Judging a person for something you read for all oy know he is innocent.. Talking about him being my supplier just because I see it from another point. Have you been to jail? Bet you haven’t so you wouldn’t know what its like

      • Man [removed] all of you. All you know he is innocent.. Talking about him being my supplier just because I see it from another point. Have you been to jail? Bet you haven’t so you wouldn’t know what its like

  9. Good job and thank u for taking a low life off the streets and making it safer for the kid and hard working ppl to lazy to get a real job and he rather be selling and poisoning ppl and killing animals thank u Lancaster NARCO. :)

  10. Look when are tne citizens of the AV gonna get a clue. The cops are the ones putting this [removed] on the street. They are the biggest traffickers I know. I wonder what snitch got promoted to top dawg.??? Lets watch and see what drama unfolds

  11. MF’S SNITCH’N……SMH GOOD OL POLICE WORK ND FOLLOW UP MY ASS! ……. THEY BUMP’D SUMBODY ELSE UP ND GOT THEY WEIRD ASS TO SNITCH UP …SMH

    • Take up the torch krys. I’m sure there is someone who will snitch on you too. Great job LASD! Another outstanding dirt bag off the street.

    • If someone had the common sense and decency to point the authorities in the right direction consequently leading to the arrest of Jorge Diaz then I say “Thank you!”
      @krys… You can leave your prison mentality in prison because your ignorance is showing.

      • Idiots, fools and morons…. criminals are not smartest tools in the shed! MANY THANKS AV NARCO for getting the criminal drug pusher, illegal firearms handler & animal abuser off our streets!!!!

    • krys—I guess you still don’t understand that there is no loyalty in the illegal business. There will always be someone like you that will take it for the team. Then 40 years later you will be sitting in a cell going Uh!

  12. So much for Kalifornia gun laws. Didn’t he know it was against the law for a felon to be in possession of firearms? Criminals do not obey the law….

    • I am counting days till I can leave CA! For same reason including the fools running the state assembly!