Cocaine-Selling Operation Was Hidden In RV Next To Homeless Encampment: LAPD

LOS ANGELES, CA — Police say they've arrested two people responsible for a cocaine-selling operation that was hiding in plain sight: concealed inside an RV next to a homeless encampment, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

Narcotics investigators and gang-unit officers served a search warrant on the 1400 block of North Sierra Bonita Avenue in Hollywood on Jan. 31, which led them to the RV, which was parked on the 900 block of South Beacon Avenue in Westlake, according to an LAPD release.

The RV was parked next to a homeless encampment in an area known for drug-related activity, police said.

"It was determined that this specific recreational vehicle was not being used by any unhoused individual as a living quarter, but was instead used for the sole purpose of engaging in narcotics sales and consumption," police said.

Police executed a search warrant at the RV and seized 439.4 gross grams of powder cocaine, 29.2 gross grams of cocaine base, an unregistered handgun and $147,987 in cash, according to police.

Tony Walden, 55, of Los Angeles was arrested on a charge of possession of cocaine for sale. Marlon Price, 56, of Los Angeles, was arrested on a charge of possession of cocaine base for sale, according to the LAPD.