Arrests Made In Connection With Seal Beach 'Drug House'

SEAL BEACH, CA — Police on Sunday were searching for two men believed to have broken into a suspected drug house in Seal Beach following a police raid.

Two women were detained related to the drug house on Saturday but two men fled prior to the officers' arrival, according to the Seal Beach Police Department.

Officers were alerted to a possible burglary in progress at 9:11 a.m. Saturday in the 1700 block of Crestview Avenue, according to Seal Beach police Lt. Nick Nicholas.

"The reporting party stated they had heard glass breaking and the sound of a woman screaming," Nicholas said.

Two days earlier, another woman was arrested after police served a search warrant and found evidence she was running a narcotics operation at the home, the Orange County Register reported.

That residence was boarded-up and secured prior to the break-in and the management company confirmed no one had permission to be inside, Nicholas said.

Another search warrant was obtained and the West County SWAT team searched the house but found no one. The two women were later detained.

The identities of those detained and those at large weren't immediately released to "protect the integrity of the investigation."

City News Service contributed to this report.