Riverside Police Arrest 104 In Drug Sweep, but 100 Are Back on the Street

Riverside police arrested 104 people, including 33 dealers, during a three-day sweep targeting illegal drugs, the department announced May 2. The Riverside Police department’s narcotics unit conducted an undercover drug purchase operation along the Magnolia Avenue corridor, between Van Buren Boulevard and Pierce Street over the past several weeks. During the three-week “Operation Street Sweeper,” undercover agents were able to make 46 purchases of methamphetamine, fentanyl, cocaine, the hallucinogen PCP, and psilocybin mushrooms, the department reported. Sellers in the city, located about 55 miles east of Los Angeles, were mainly homeless or living in the various motels along Magnolia Avenue, police said. At the end of the operation police located 44 suspects who were caught selling illegal drugs. Of those, 33 were arrested and booked into the Robert Presley Detention Center for narcotics violations....