PLEASANTON — Federal prosecutors have charged two men in connection with a drug bust at the Dublin/Pleasanton BART station where agents say they seized 2.7 pounds of methamphetamine, court records show.
Carlos Alberto Baquedano, 29, and Onesimo Danilo Cholula Gonzalez, 47, were charged with drug distribution in connection with the Dec. 16 incident. The criminal complaint charges them with fentanyl distribution, but that appears to be a typo; a drug agent’s affidavit requests methamphetamine trafficking charges and makes no mention of a fentanyl bust anywhere in the document.
In addition to the methamphetamine, drug agents say they seized a bag full of $100 bills that prosecutors apparently hadn’t bothered to count by the time the criminal complaint was filed. The complaint says it contained an “unknown” quantity of money but that the bag was “large.”
The bust was twofold. Drug Enforcement Administration agents say they “obtained communications betweenBaquedano and another individual discussing an intended drug transaction,” at the BART station, then moved in and arrested him when he arrived there. The California Department of Justice also contributed to the investigation.
At the same time, Cholula Gonzalez was arrested in Livermore with the bag of money, prosecutors allege. Investigators allegedly witnessed a meeting inside a Honda between the two of them before Baquedano left for the BART station, but cite no other evidence of Cholula Gonzalez’s involvement, besides stating there are unspecified “other facts” that point to him being a drug dealer.