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The narcotics enforcement team of the Menlo Park Police Department concluded a six-week investigation with Monday’s arrest of Cayetano Figueroa-Fernandez, 31, of San Jose in the Safeway parking at 525 El Camino Real in Menlo Park.

Mr. Figueroa-Fernandez, a Safeway employee, was charged with sales and possession of methamphetamines, according to Police Sgt. Eric Cowans.

He was arrested “shortly after he conducted a methamphetamine transaction,” Sgt. Cowans said.

Over the weeks, undercover agents from the narcotics team had been buying meth from Mr. Figueroa-Fernandez to develop a set of facts that detectives could use to obtain a search warrant, police said.

The search of his home revealed “a substantial amount of methamphetamine,” Sgt. Cowans said in a news release.

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  1. You can bust every meth lab and meth user you can come up with and you will not even START to put a dent in the huge demand for meth. Meth addicts LOVE their meth and if you shut down the local labs then the Mexican mafia will simply increase the amount of meth it exports into the USA to meet the new demand. Methamphetamine should be legal. Mexico just legalized possession of small amounts of drugs. Switzerland reaffirmed its legal heroin system. Portugal decriminalized all drugs in 2001. Legalizing meth would kill meth labs, meth houses and the meth mafia overnight. A group of 10,000 very serious policemen, prosecutors, attorneys and citizens have formed a group to legalize ALL drugs, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (http://leap.cc ) They see what happened when we legalized alcohol in 1932 as a good example of how drug legalization would work. They’re sick of chasing drug users and sending innocent people to prison for decades just because they like to get high. This foolish war on drugs has lasted 37 years and cost us over a TRILLION dollars and we are not an inch closer to stopping drugs. Mark Montgomery boboberg@nyc.rr.com

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