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Male Arrested for Illegal Drug Sales and Fraud-
Three Others Arrested for Fraud and Drug Charges

On June 25, 2021, officers with the Glendale Police Department’s Special Enforcement Detail responded to a room at a motel on the 1400 block of E Colorado St to conduct a probation compliance search of a female, identified as 25-year-old Susan Escobar of Tennessee, who also had an outstanding arrest warrant.

Officers knocked on the door to the motel room and a female, later identified as 50-year-old Lida Tajgardoun of Glendale, answered the door.  As she did so, officers could see Escobar inside of the room along with two other subjects, later identified as 29-year-old Kenneth Flye and 33-year-old Nicole Carta (both from Glendale).  All of the occupants of the room were asked to exit the room so officers could conduct a probation compliance check.

During a search of the room, officers located multiple plastic baggies containing heroin (some inside of a false drink container), a large quantity of empty plastic baggies, a digital scale, methamphetamine, additional drug paraphernalia along with multiple driver’s licenses, IRS paperwork, EDD paperwork and checks all belonging to other people, notebooks containing other people’s personal identifying information and a re-encoded credit card.

Flye was subsequently arrested and booked for possessing illegal drugs for sale and fraud; Carta and Escobar were arrested and booked for drug possession charges and fraud; Tajgardoun was arrested and booked for fraud and identity theft.