Ventura County Sheriff's Department

Location: 6800 block of Vista Del Rincon, Ventura
Date & Time: February 3, 2010, 12:00 P.M.
Unit Responsible: Ventura County Sheriff Narcotics, Ventura County District Attorney’s Office, Simi Valley Police Department’s Narcotic Unit, and Shasta County Sheriff’s Department

(S)uspects, (V)ictims, (W)itnesses City of residence Age
Joey Brack Ventura 53
Carola Jakubowski Ventura 45
Tyr Talavera Ventura 18

On February 3, 2010, members of the Sheriff’s East County Narcotics Street Team, the Simi Valley Police Narcotics Unit, and the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office Bureau of Investigation concluded a two-month investigation of narcotics sales, money laundering, tax evasion, and grand theft. A search warrant was served at Joey Brack’s residence in La Conchita, which led to the discovery of two large illegal indoor marijuana grow operations. More than 3 pounds of processed marijuana and 300 marijuana plants were seized.

Detectives also served a simultaneous search warrant at Brack’s residence in Shasta County with the assistance of narcotics detectives from the Shasta County Sheriff’s Department. Inside the residence, detectives located approximately $4,000 in US Currency, 180 marijuana plants, two shotguns, and two rifles. All three suspects were booked into the Pre-Trial Detention Facility. Talavera and Jakubowski were booked for possession of marijuana for sale with bail set at $175,000. Brack was booked on a felony arrest warrant for money laundering and for possession of marijuana for sale, tax evasion, several counts of money laundering, and grand theft of electricity from Southern California Edison. Brack’s bail is set at $675,000. The three suspects will be arraigned in the Ventura County Superior Court on February 8, 2010.