The San Jose police union’s longtime executive director has been charged with attempting to import illegal synthetic opioid drugs from overseas in a scheme to distribute them in the U.S., federal prosecutors said Wednesday.
Joanne Marian Segovia, who has worked for the San Jose Police Officers’ Association for nearly 20 years, is suspected of using her home and office computers — and even the union’s UPS account — to order and distribute thousands of opioids and other pills, according to a release from U.S. Attorney Ismail J. Ramsey and Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent in Charge Tatum King.
Segovia, 64, is charged with attempting to unlawfully import valeryl fentanyl,