February 5, 2022 – Ventura County, Ca.
Employment prospects for qualified candidates interested in serving on the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department Pharmaceutical Crimes Unit (PCU) continue to remain strong with an apparently endless supply of folks running around in the community purveying illicit prescription medication and fentanyl to a vulnerable population.
Evidence of that surfaced once again in the Spring of 2021, when, according to VCSD spokesman Sgt. John Hajducko, deputies responding to a 911 Emergency call for service discovered “a subject who was deceased as the result of a fentanyl overdose.” It didn’t take long for PCU detectives to learn that 30-year-old Los Angeles County resident Pablo Johnson
was the individual who had sold the fatal drug dose to the decedent.
Efforts to locate Johnson immediately began, but it was more than seven months later when the cops finally determined his whereabouts. On the afternoon of February 2 nd , detectives came a-knockin’ on Johnson’s Lancaster, Ca. front door, presented him with an arrest warrant, and summarily took him into custody on suspicion of his “involvement” in the 2021 overdose death.
At the time of his arrest, Johnson was also found to be in possession of “several vials of anabolic steroids,” indicative of his ongoing drug-dealing career.
Johnson was transported to Ventura County Jail, where he was booked on charges of sales of a controlled substance, possession for sales of a dangerous drug, and “an unrelated arrest warrant.” He remains in custody with his bail set a $120,000.
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