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Alameda and Contra Costa County, California
Drug Crimes Defense Lawyers
Experienced, Aggressive Defense
When Your Freedom Is at Stake
Don’t be a victim of the government’s war on drugs. A drug charge can ruin a person’s life. In federal cases, it can involve a long prison sentence because of the mandatory minimum sentences. For example, the mandatory minimum sentence for possession of 5 grams or more of pure methamphetamine with intent to sell carries a 5 year mandatory minimum. If you want to read more about the tragedy of the federal system, read “Daughter’s Keeper” by Ayelet Waldman.
Police and federal agents often want to turn a simple possessor into an informer, further endangering the individuals and their families. Frequently they will charge personal possession of drugs as possession with intent to sell.
The Law Offices of Robert J. Beles in Oakland, Fremont, Hayward, and Pleasanton, California fights for you. I’ve been fighting for the rights of people since 1968. I am proud that I and all my associates have always been defense lawyers protecting our clients’ freedom. None of us are former prosecutors or law enforcement officers. We have always known which side we are on. Don’t be taken in by lawyers who promise you a better result because they were former prosecutors.
We believe good criminal defense involves investigating both the facts and the conduct of the police.
Drug crimes defense attorney Demetrius Costy has been an associate of my law firm for more than seven years. He is a very talented, tough advocate who is totally committed to do battle with the government. He has successfully defended people in every type of drug case. For example, he defended one of the largest State drug prosecutions in Alameda County history, a 19 kilo cocaine case, which was dismissed based on an early showing of police misconduct. Mr. Costy also knows and understands the medical marijuana laws. He has represented many medical marijuana growers.
At the Law Offices of Robert J. Beles in Oakland, Fremont, Hayward, and Pleasanton, California, we are determined to protect the constitutional rights of our clients who have been targeted in the "war on drugs." We represent clients facing drug arrests anywhere in Contra Costa or Alameda County, including communities such as Martinez, Richmond, Berkeley, Walnut Creels, Concord, and Pittsburg.
To schedule a consultation now regarding your drug investigation or arrest, contact us.
We Defend All State and Federal Drug Crimes
- drug possession
- possession of drug paraphernalia
- distribution or possession with intent to distribute
- conspiring to distribute, sell, or transport drugs
- cultivation of marijuana
- selling marijuana
- manufacture of methamphetamine, (meth labs and other drug labs)
- possession of chemicals used to make drugs (precursors), like Sudafed or ephedrine pills, acetone, and Freon
- forgery of prescriptions for drugs
- drug trafficking
- drug importation
- drug smuggling
We help people in all cases involving drugs, including marijuana, hashish, methamphetamine, “crystal” meth, cocaine, “crack”, “crank”, heroin, narcotics, Ecstasy, designer drugs, GHB, prescription drugs such as Vicodin or OxyContin, steroids, or performance enhancing drugs. We can help. No drug case is too small or too big.
Search Warrants
If you’ve been the victim of a search warrant, you know the humiliating way you or your loved ones were treated. Broken doors, house torn up, needless damage, property taken.
Just because there is a search warrant doesn’t mean that the search was legal. Police often put false and reckless information into the affidavit to get the warrants, and when this is shown, the evidence must be suppressed and the case dismissed.
Wiretaps
If you believe that you’ve been the victim of a tap on your phone, call us. This is a special kind of intrusion into your right of privacy, requiring very detailed authorization that may not have been properly obtained. We can help.
Informers - Snitches
If you think an informer is the reason you were targeted, call us. We can help.
We make motions to discover the names and locations of informers and what they were given in the form of money or reduced charged to induce them to snitch on you. If the police refuse to give us this information after being ordered by a court to do so, then your case will be dismissed.
Entrapment
If you only committed the crime because of pressure by law enforcement agents, you could have the defense of entrapment. If you were legally entrapped, we are experienced in bringing motions to dismiss.
Illegal Arrests
If you believe that you were stopped driving your car and searched without probable cause, you have been illegally stopped and searched. We can help – even if you signed a Consent to Search form. The consent could be worthless because the police pressured you to sign the form. Call us. The case could be dismissed.
Forfeiture
In drug cases, the police will often try to keep your property, your car, motorcycle, money, bank accounts, or house claiming that these are ill gotten gains of drug dealing. We have many years of experience in getting clients their property back. This can vary from hundreds to hundreds of thousands of dollars in value. Recently, we got back two valuable pieces of real estate, and in a 19 kilo cocaine case that was dismissed, we got back over $100,000 in cash that was found with the drugs. Don’t let the police illegally keep your property. We can help.
Drug Programs
If you or your loved one has an addiction problem, call us. We can refer the person to effective, compassionate drug programs. These programs can be used as an alternative to jail. They can be in-patient long term live in or out-patient short term. The result, with the help of experienced experts, can be a clean and sober life, free from jail and the criminal justice system.
Medical Marijuana - Cannabis Club
In California, State law (Proposition 215, the Compassionate Use Act) gives you the right to cultivate and possess certain quantities of marijuana if you have a doctor’s prescription (if not, we can refer you) or oral recommendation by a doctor.
We will vigorously defend your right under the medical marijuana law, whether or not you have a cannabis club card.
California medical marijuana law is not the federal law. Call us. We will explain the difference and help you.
To schedule a consultation now with an experienced Alameda County and Contra Costa County drug crimes defense lawyer, contact the Law Offices of Robert Beles.
