{"id":928521,"date":"2026-07-11T20:14:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T20:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/928521\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T20:14:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T20:14:16","slug":"coachella-teen-accused-of-distributing-marijuana-to-minors-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/928521\/","title":{"rendered":"Coachella teen accused of distributing marijuana to minors \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 19-year-old Coachella Valley man was arrested on suspicion of distributing marijuana to minors, according to the Riverside County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Manuel Guerra Meza, 19, of Coachella, was in possession of marijuana products to sell them to minors, the sheriff\u2019s office said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The department\u2019s Thermal Station began its investigation in May into an individual who was \u201cselling various illicit substances, targeting juveniles throughout the Coachella Valley,\u201d according to the sheriff\u2019s office. Investigators then identified Meza as a suspect in the case.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, sheriff\u2019s deputies found Meza driving in Cathedral City and were able to arrest him without incident.\u00a0 A search warrant was served at a Coachella home on the 86000 block of Calle Geranio in connection with the case. There, deputies found marijuana vape pens, psychedelic mushrooms, a gun with an altered serial number and about $25,000 in cash.<\/p>\n<p>Meza was booked into the John Benoit Detention Center and faces charges that include furnishing marijuana to a minor, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, possession of a firearm with an altered serial number, and willful harm to a child.<\/p>\n<p>The case remains under investigation. Anyone with more information is asked to contact Deputy Olivares at the Thermal Sheriff\u2019s Station at 760-863-8990.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 19-year-old Coachella Valley man was arrested on suspicion of distributing marijuana to minors, according to the Riverside&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":928522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,59076,234667,2961,224,5337],"class_list":["post-928521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-coachella","tag-coachella-valley","tag-la","tag-los-angeles","tag-losangeles"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116903180179688246","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=928521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/928522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}