Fairfield honey oil lab raided after street fight; two brothers arrested
Fairfield police broke up a fight outside a home in the 5000 block of Oakbrook Circle on 17 January 2018 and found a butane hash oil lab inside, then arrested Robert Olivieri, 30, and Nicholas Olivieri, 22, on narcotics and firearm charges. Nicholas Olivieri pleaded not guilty in Solano County Superior Court on 19 January and was held on $123,333 bail.
🇺🇸 5000 block of Oakbrook Circle, Fairfield, Solano County, California · California, United States
Fairfield police went to a home in the 5000 block of Oakbrook Circle on
Wednesday 17 January 2018 after a report of four men fighting in the front yard,
one of them carrying a handgun.[1]Officers detained two of the men and found
a THC extraction laboratory, also called a honey oil or hash oil lab, inside the
house.[1]
Robert Olivieri, 30, and Nicholas Olivieri, 22, both of Fairfield, were arrested
on narcotics and firearm charges and booked into the Solano County Jail.[1]Officers also confiscated cocaine, methamphetamine, Xanax tablets, psilocybin
mushrooms, LSD and PCP from the home.[1]
Nicholas Olivieri was arraigned in Solano County Superior Court on Friday 19
January and pleaded not guilty to a set of drug-related charges, including
manufacturing methamphetamine.[2]He remained in jail on bail of $123,333 and
was due back in court on 1 February for a readiness conference, while Robert
Olivieri had been released from custody.[2]
Police said legal medical and recreational marijuana in California had increased
the number of explosions from making marijuana concentrates.[1]The department
said honey oil labs are prohibited and that convictions carry sentences of up to
seven years in prison.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
2
Charged
1
Agency
Fairfield Police Department
Agency type
Police, Court
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis; Oil or extract
Setting
Home, Street or public place
Grown
Indoor
Charges
narcotics and firearm charges; possession of marijuana for sale; possession of concentrated cannabis
The incident date of 17 January 2018 comes from Wednesday in the 19 January accounts; the Fairfield Police Department's own post dates the response to 17 January, but the CBS and Bay City News stories give no calendar date for the raid.
The cannabis amounts are vague: multiple pounds of marijuana and an unquantified quantity of THC concentrate, so no weight is recorded.
The bail and arraignment details come only from the Vacaville Reporter and are not confirmed in the police-derived accounts.
No trial result or sentence was found for either man.
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Left out, as its quotation was not found in SFGATE / Bay City News Service: The Fairfield Police Department's special operations team then served a search warrant and seized a firearm, cash police suspected came from drug sales, THC concentrate and several pounds of marijuana.
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