Source: New York Post · 2026-09-16 · Original article ↗

Golden gun, 42kg of fentanyl and an alligator in a tiny tank found in luxury LA apartment

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Forty-fifth floor. Ninety-four pounds. She walked on $15,000 bond.

Summary

  • The New York Post reports FBI agents last week raided a 45th-floor apartment at 230 W. Olympic Blvd. in downtown Los Angeles and arrested Marvin Angelito, 27, and Susan Gonzalez, 26, on charges of possession with intent to distribute fentanyl.
  • An informant facing federal drug charges arranged to buy 500,000 M30 fentanyl pills for $125,000 on August 21. On a show-and-tell video call, a friend of Angelito called the unit the stash house and said there was cartel product upstairs. Agents seized that load, then later executed a search warrant.
  • The search found nearly 94 pounds of fentanyl pills and powder, more than two pounds of heroin, almost 16 pounds of cocaine, lab gear including a hydraulic press, an AR-15 in a hallway closet, a gold-plated Desert Eagle .50 on the kitchen counter, a police radio, and a small alligator that U.S. Fish and Wildlife seized.
  • At the downtown federal courthouse, Judge Karen Stevenson ordered Angelito detained and released Gonzalez on $15,000 bond. Arraignments are set for October 2 and October 9. No pleas were taken Monday.

Commentary

A warehouse dad still smells cardboard dust on a swing shift and knows a high-rise is supposed to be a home, not a press for pills. He did not pay downtown rent so a gold pistol could sit on a kitchen counter above a school route.

500,000 pills. $125,000. Ninety-four pounds. She walked on $15,000. The honest household already paid the ER. The vinyl chair in that waiting room still waits.

Look every working father who still shares an elevator with a 45th-floor door in the eye and answer this: if a stash house can make bond cheaper than the pill load, who still owns the next kitchen that thought a gold gun was decor?

Comments

If the load was 94 pounds, why was $15,000 bond enough to walk?
u/border_dad · 5h

45th floor. 94 pounds. $15,000 bond. Keep that order.

u/midwest_vet · 4h

I stood a door so a stash still meant a cell. A gold pistol is not decor.

u/rule_first · 4h

Angelito. Gonzalez. 500,000 M30s. Stevenson bond. Print the four.

u/tokyo_ally · 3h

Allied courts still treat a press and a Desert Eagle as a hold, not a lifestyle brand.

u/docket_rat · 3h

August 21 buy. Later warrant. Fish and Wildlife on the tank. File the sequence.

u/night_shift · 2h

I still lock a dock after dark. I want the next kitchen emptied and both names held.

u/texas_mom · 90m

A $15,000 walk after 94 pounds is not due process theater. It is a warning the street already paid.

u/gulf_watch · 55m

A cartel stash over a school route is a second border around a downtown elevator.

u/press_clip · 30m

The Post printed 94 pounds, the gold gun, and the bond. Argue those nouns.

u/soc_lead · 15m

Hold both. Crush the press. A 45th-floor view is not a license.

Paraphrased comments. Not attributed.

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