By Jim Reece - Local fugitive the “White Owl,” Albert Carl Fernandez, was captured near the Amador-El Dorado County line last week with the help of the Amador County Combined Narcotic Enforcement Team. The Amador Narcotic Team assisted the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office and the El Dorado County Code Enforcement Unit in conducting a building code compliance inspection of several small buildings and camping tents along the Cosumnes River off Bootstrap Way, between Amador and El Dorado counties. El Dorado Code Enforcement had conducted inspections in past years and found health and county building code violations, including marijuana cultivation. Law enforcement personnel conducted a sweep of the encampment but found no one inside the small, makeshift shacks. In one shack, the narcotics enforcement team and El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office teams discovered multiple syringes, methamphetamine injecting paraphernalia, marijuana growing materials, drying marijuana plants and enforcement and California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation reports in the name of Albert Fernandez. During the search of this shack, a male subject was seen running from an area adjacent to the encampment. The male subject ran toward perimeter personnel, who gave chase on foot. The subject subsequently surrendered to narcotics enforcement team personnel who were pursuing him. The male subject confirmed his identity as Albert Carl Fernandez, 52, also known as “White Owl”, the long-time Parolee at Large from West Point. A search of the encampment resulted in the seizure of 16 marijuana plants and the posting of five of the shacks as not fit for human occupation by the El Dorado County Code Enforcement Unit. Fernandez was arrested for Parole Violation, Cultivation of Marijuana, Possession of Hypodermic Syringes and was booked at the El Dorado County Jail.
Tuesday, 16 September 2008 03:05
"White Owl" Captured At Remote Camp
By Jim Reece - Local fugitive the “White Owl,” Albert Carl Fernandez, was captured near the Amador-El Dorado County line last week with the help of the Amador County Combined Narcotic Enforcement Team. The Amador Narcotic Team assisted the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office and the El Dorado County Code Enforcement Unit in conducting a building code compliance inspection of several small buildings and camping tents along the Cosumnes River off Bootstrap Way, between Amador and El Dorado counties. El Dorado Code Enforcement had conducted inspections in past years and found health and county building code violations, including marijuana cultivation. Law enforcement personnel conducted a sweep of the encampment but found no one inside the small, makeshift shacks. In one shack, the narcotics enforcement team and El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office teams discovered multiple syringes, methamphetamine injecting paraphernalia, marijuana growing materials, drying marijuana plants and enforcement and California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation reports in the name of Albert Fernandez. During the search of this shack, a male subject was seen running from an area adjacent to the encampment. The male subject ran toward perimeter personnel, who gave chase on foot. The subject subsequently surrendered to narcotics enforcement team personnel who were pursuing him. The male subject confirmed his identity as Albert Carl Fernandez, 52, also known as “White Owl”, the long-time Parolee at Large from West Point. A search of the encampment resulted in the seizure of 16 marijuana plants and the posting of five of the shacks as not fit for human occupation by the El Dorado County Code Enforcement Unit. Fernandez was arrested for Parole Violation, Cultivation of Marijuana, Possession of Hypodermic Syringes and was booked at the El Dorado County Jail.
