A California man indicted after FBI and DEA investigations in Central Arkansas into drug trafficking and gang violence was allowed to remain on bond in California after an arraignment in federal court Monday in front of a federal magistrate judge in Arkansas.
Osbaldo “Oz” Rodriguez, 27, of Cobb Mountain, Calif., was indicted on federal charges of conspiracy to distribute marijuana, possession with intent to distribute marijuana and use of a communications facility in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. He faces a maximum five-year prison sentence on the first two counts and a possible four-year sentence on the third count. Each count carries a possible maximum $250,000 fine.
Rodriguez, who owns and operates a CBD dispensary in California, appeared before a judge in California last week for his first appearance and was granted bond by a federal magistrate judge there pending his appearance in federal court in Arkansas for arraignment. On Monday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Tricia Harris allowed Rodriguez to remain free on bond and to remain in California to run his business, but added conditions that he surrender his passport immediately to federal authorities in California and that he undergo drug testing by the pre-trial services office there.
Rodriguez told Harris that his business only handles CBD products, which do not contain psychoactive ingredients contained in marijuana, and hemp that produces the intoxicating effects associated with marijuana. His attorney, Pamela…
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