Rogelio Botello This is Me

Education

 Web References

1. 1. Ventura County Star: County News

   www.vcpreps.com/vcs/county_new - [Cached]

   Published on: 7/4/2001   Last Visited: 7/9/2001

   Authorities arrested Rogelio Botello this week , a long-sought fugitive in the Hells Angels drug and racketeering case.
   
   Botello was one of 28 people indicted in February for allegedly being part of a drug-selling ring controlled by Hells Angels leader George Christie and run out of the Ink House , a Ventura tattoo parlor owned by Christie.
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   Ventura County sheriff's deputies received information Friday that Botello was staying at the home of a girlfriend in the College Park area of Oxnard , Senior Deputy Renee Ferguson said.
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   Botello is being held without bail in the Ventura County Jail , Ferguson said.
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   A member of the Hells Angels , Botello is accused of being the middleman in a vast criminal enterprise that , among other things , distributed drugs to school-age children.
   
   The indictment alleges that Botello bought Vicodin and Valium from Joshua Adams , who was stationed at the time with the U.S. Air Force 61st Medical Squadron , based in Los Angeles.
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   Adams allegedly sold pills to Botello that were later supplied to minors and sold at or near Ventura High School , De Anza Middle School , Holy Cross School , Nordhoff High School and E.P. Foster and Will Rogers schools.
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   Botello is scheduled to be arraigned July 9.
   
   July 4 , 2001