Bakersfield residents arrested in drug ring

Story Created: Jul 11, 2007 at 5:23 PM PDT

Story Updated: Jul 11, 2007 at 7:10 PM PDT

Bakersfield residents arrested in drug ring
The U.S. Attorney's office has released information on a central valley investigation that involved the arrest of Bakersfield residents.

The US Attorneys office says it indicted Fidel Ramon Castro aka Mouse, Crystal Castro, Julia Quiroz and Billy Connelly all from Bakersfield.

Officers say Castro ran the Geez Clothing Store in Downtown Bakersfield. The charges included conspiracy to distribute meth, cocaine and marijuana.

Several agencies were involved including the Drug Enforcement Administration in town and it targeted two drug trafficking organizations and a violent gang within the state prison system.

As we showed you yesterday, Connelly runs Seven Seas a medical marijuana dispensary and feels he's being unfairly targeted because he was trying to see his store and somehow got tied up in this drug raid.