We have both the sales price for the Sandher restaurant, and the sellers. The buyer was a 3rd party.
A Superior Court of Orange County dive (File – 22NF0710) appears to show Sinaloa operative and former Sandher Crime Family janitor Carlos Jesus Raygozaparedes pled guilty and bought himself a total of 19 years in jail (6 years concurrent). His lawyer was Douglas L. Lobato
Raygozaparedes Jesus Carlos 22NF0710 Felony Mar 21, 2022
On April 6, 2022 Buena Park cops busted Edgar Alfonso Lamas, 36, and Carlos Raygozaparedes, 53, and recovered 21 pounds of fentanyl pills, 821 pounds of methamphetamine and 190 pounds of cocaine. It was the biggest drug bust in 16 years in Orange County. Police said the two drug dealers were also charged with felony enhancements that the controlled substances exceeded 80 and 20 kilograms by weight or 400 liters by liquid volume. Lamas and Raygozaparedes faced a maximum sentence of over 37 years in jail if convicted on all charges. The two pled not guilty and remained in custody on a $5m bail.
Carlos Raygozaparedes and Edgar Alfonso Lamas were busted with enough fentanyl to kill 4.7m people. The case was mired in proceedural delays. At one point it was suggested one or both had turned rat.
Carlos Raygozaparedes was entitled a janitor at the Sandher family restaurant in Newport Beach. (subsequently sold) Gurcharan ‘Gogy’ Sandher ran the restaurant with wife Baljeet. He entered the U.S. in 1981.
Sinaloa Cartel operative Raygozaparedes appeared in CFSEU operation ‘Operation Valley Cloak’. He was called by Gurtaj Singh Sandher’s cell phone multiple times and was recorded near the International border 3 times in the fall of 2018.
“At 15:00 PDT the first helicopter, the decoy, landed on a Sandher property near the airport. Three phone calls were placed: at 08:05:32 PDT, a call was placed to Brothers Keeper gangster Amandeep Singh Kang from Swainson Road. Another call was placed at 12:14:51 PDT to Carlos Raygozaparedes, a Sinaloa Cartel operative, who held the title of janitor at Saagar Fine Cuisine of India in Newport Beach. ”
See —- Operation Valley Cloak
There has long been frustration in America with the RCMP’s wholesale inability to bust the Sandhers. Speculation is rife of a pending U.S. RICO case against the Sandher Crime Family. Their ties to Ryan Wedding will take them to the bottom, soon.
See —– Sandher Family Trust
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