![]() “When he first came to the door, he had that big box and I went to grab it and he pulled back. She’s destroying my furniture.’ And she’s breaking up with him, and she’s destroying his car and personal items. “He says, ‘My girlfriend and I are fighting. That’s because less than 24 hours before deputies raided her home, Sandoval had agreed to help a male friend temporarily store some items because he was kicked out of his house. She believed she had been set up and was certain she knew who was responsible. Sandoval said she told the deputies the drugs were not hers. I just kept on saying that I had no idea.” “I just remember thinking, oh my God, oh my God. “I get a sick feeling in my stomach thinking about it because I had that feeling like, ‘Oh my God, I’m all alone.’ You know, what’s happening here?” Sandoval said. Drugs, she said, she’d never seen before. So, imagine her surprise when those deputies pulled out a large bag of meth from that box in her home. They weren’t working.”ĭespite her past run in’s with police Sandoval insisted she was never a drug dealer, only a user. ![]() “I tried to go the way that other people go to the hospital and take anti-depressants, but the prescriptions they were giving me were even worse. And it wasn’t like I was drinking and partying and staying out. It would give me a reason to get out of bed, go to work. “It was a coping mechanism there for a while when I was going through a bout of depression. She found it hard to turn away once the drugs took hold of her life. Sandoval said she turned to drugs to self-medicate when she hit a difficult time in her life. I wasn’t selling any drugs,” Sandoval said. I just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. I wasn’t seeking out trouble or anything. “You know, I’d be with other people that were getting in trouble and I’d be swept up in it too. But those were all minor charges compared to the trouble she was now facing. She had previous arrests for possession and other drug-related crimes dating back to 2001. It wasn’t the first time Sandoval had been busted for drugs. ![]() When the deputies were done searching her home Sandoval was facing felony drug trafficking charges: possession with intent to deliver methamphetamine. Inside that box, deputies found a large bag containing more than 1,000 grams (2.2 pounds) of methamphetamine. “Then they come out and they’re just holding up that big bag. “And they go, ‘OK, it’s right here, it’s right here.’ And then they pick me up and put cuffs on me and sit me on the couch,” Sandoval said. To Sandoval, it appeared the deputies knew what they were looking for and where to find it in her home. As Sandoval lay on the floor, she watched the deputies go directly to a backroom and focus their attention on a box sitting on a shelf. The deputies were executing a search warrant which alleged a confidential informant had seen meth in the home within the past 48 hours. I got down immediately because I didn’t want to get shot or anything.” “I just seen them running up on the porch, the rest of them running behind them, and they hit the side of the door. I mean, at the very same time,” Sandoval recalled. “I just opened the front door and then there they were. ![]()
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