Feds, Detectives Bust Drug Lab in Walnut Creek Apartment

[Apexvallen]

Federal agents and Walnut Creek detectives raided a drug lab in an apartment in the East Bay city, and it turned out to be one of the largest illegal steroid busts in Contra Costa County.

It started in February when agents with the Department of Homeland Security intercepted a package from Hong Kong containing 2 pounds of steroids. It was addressed to the Walnut Creek apartment on Third Avenue, just 2 miles from police headquarters.

When police and the feds followed the package to the apartment, they found much more. Walnut Creek police said suspect Daniel Tenca, 36, quietly set up a drug lab inside his home.

"A full-blown steroid manufacturing plant," Lt. Lanny Edwards said, describing the scene.

Inside the apartment, detectives discovered 20 pounds of steroids in both powder and liquid form, with an estimated street value of nearly half a million dollars. They also found thousands of mailings labels and other "indications that he did have some type of mail-order business," Edwards said.

A Mercedes Benz was parked in Lenca's driveway, and $25,000 in cash was stashed inside the apartment.

Feds, Detectives Bust Drug Lab in Walnut Creek Apartment

Stay safe out there knuckleheads.

 

[johnnydoe]

Any idea of the lab name?

 

[MNIRON]

Interesting they have the mailing lists as well. I highly doubt they will follow up on the customer unless they are in their immediate jurisdiction. To much of a pain for them to go cross states just for users....IMO

 

[jaymaximus]

Interesting. Thats right down the road from me

 

[johnnydoe]

If the feds are involved they will follow up. Moving stuff over state lines and using the mail for illegal activities qualifies it for a federal crime.

 

[Big_paul]

Homeland security has time to become involved with steroids? I could rant and throw a temper tantrum, but I already have in the past, so if anyone is interested in knowing how much something like this pisses me off take a look at some of my previous rants about LE.

 

[Big_paul]

This dispels the idea that shipping out of HK is safer.

 

[MNIRON]

If the feds are involved they will follow up. Moving stuff over state lines and using the mail for illegal activities qualifies it for a federal crime.

Understand that. But opening your spouses mail when your name is not on the address is a federal crime as well. What i meant was is the fed will take the customer lists and any records he has. They will sort it looking for any other downstream dealers. Out of the thousands of mailing labels the guy had, I doubt they have the resources to contact local FBI offices in all those other states, and follow up with some dude who bought $300 worth of test CYP. Now if in those lists they found a guy that bought raws or was spending $3000 a month with him, now that would be a possible sub dealer.

@Big_paul @CdnGuy you ever here of seen anything reported where they went after the small regular customer orders? Even with coke dealers I have heard they don't go after all the clients.....

 

[Big_paul]

What i meant was is the fed will take the customer lists and any records he has.

It's never a good for the cops to have your address. The chances that LE will go after customers who make small orders is doubtful though. I would definitely change my mailing address if I had used that source in the past.

 

[johnnydoe]

It's never a good for the cops to have your address. The chances that LE will go after customers who make small orders is doubtful though. I would definitely change my mailing address if I had used that source in the past.

They probably wouldnt go after someone for a few vials but i know one of my sources has a lot of people that resells his stuff. They might go after people like that.

 

[MNIRON]

They probably wouldnt go after someone for a few vials but i know one of my sources has a lot of people that resells his stuff. They might go after people like that.

Agreed but I bet that supplier would keep records of those purchases. The Feds aren't local cops. Their resources cost big bucks. They would go after dealers. I don't know maybe they would go after every single one person. I still think for the average 1-2 cycle guy per year, it's not high risk.

 

[MNIRON]

It's never a good for the cops to have your address. The chances that LE will go after customers who make small orders is doubtful though. I would definitely change my mailing address if I had used that source in the past.

Even if you went to another address the LE could still track you down if they wanted pretty easily IMO.

 

[Test_Subject]

What kind of retard has steroid raws sent directly to their lab?

Seriously.

 

[The Tone]

Yet legal drug companies that sell s*** to Consumers that are killing them. How many times have you not been sitting in front of your television set and see drug companies selling drugs that have so many side effects that will even kill you, make you blind make your ass bleed and so forth and so forth give me a break. But I guess that's okay such a fucking joke.

 

[johnnydoe]

Yet legal drug companies that sell s*** to Consumers that are killing them. How many times have you not been sitting in front of your television set and see drug companies selling drugs that have so many side effects that will even kill you, make you blind make your ass bleed and so forth and so forth give me a break. But I guess that's okay such a fucking joke.

Its ok as long as your "drug dealer" is a doctor.......

 

[Big_paul]

ever here of seen anything reported where they went after the small regular customer orders?

I'm not going to say it will never happen. If someone was making regular large orders maybe. This guy was domestic and if they felt it could lead to other domestic sources that is a possibility.

Chances are that he kept all personal information.

 

[Throwback]

Its ok as long as your "drug dealer" is a doctor.......

I know of a doc in e tn that single handedly caused at least half of the opiate addictions in a particular county...back when oxys were the new non habit forming safe narcotic pain killers...according to their manufacturers....he would write scripts for 6 to 8 oxy 80s with 4 to 6 40mg kickers for breakthru pain daily.
From the mid 90s thru 2008 or so he hooked up so many people it boggles the mind he is even allowed to practice.
He did not operate a pain clinic...he was a real back/orthepedic guy.
He no longer writes any pain killers beyong hydro 7.5s due to lawsuits etc.
And LE comes after some dude with steroids....got to make u wonder who pulls the strings when heroin is coming in by the plane load...big pharma or dea

 

[johnnydoe]

I know of a doc in e tn that single handedly caused at least half of the opiate addictions in a particular county...back when oxys were the new non habit forming safe narcotic pain killers...according to their manufacturers....he would write scripts for 6 to 8 oxy 80s with 4 to 6 40mg kickers for breakthru pain daily.
From the mid 90s thru 2008 or so he hooked up so many people it boggles the mind he is even allowed to practice.
He did not operate a pain clinic...he was a real back/orthepedic guy.
He no longer writes any pain killers beyong hydro 7.5s due to lawsuits etc.
And LE comes after some dude with steroids....got to make u wonder who pulls the strings when heroin is coming in by the plane load...big pharma or dea

Same stuff went on in my area. A couple doctors actually got busted by the dea. They were helping supply the demand for opiates when it was more than they could legally write on scripts. Im talking massive amounts.

 

[taco33150]

Lab had a name??

 

[AnTabolic73]

Lab had a name??

doesn't say, maybe someone can identify it