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Sarasota News Leader February 1, 2013 Page 65 FUGITIVE WANTED FOR HEROIN TRAFFICKING ARRESTED The Sarasota County Sheriff's Office, working in conjunction with the U.S. Marshals Florida Regional Fugitive Task Force, has captured 57-year-old Demares Beatrice Castillo-Isa, aka Lourdes Milagros Ortiz Canuelas, of 3100 Hawthorne Street, Lot No. 69, Sarasota, the office announced Jan. 25. She has been wanted since August 2012 "for her role in a large heroin trafficking operation," a Sheriff's Office report says. "Castillo-Isa was part of a group distributing significant quantities of heroin from La Universal Carniceria, 2862 Ringling Blvd., as well as her home," the report adds. "Undercover detectives from the Sheriff's Office and the Sarasota Police Department obtained heroin from her and two co-defendants, who were arrested in June and now face federal charges in the case," the report notes. One witness allegedly obtained more than 500 grams of heroin from Castillo-Isa for approximately $20,000 over a period of several months, according to the report. Demares Beatrice Castillo-Isa/Contributed photo Castillo-Isa was arrested on the night of Jan. 24 in the 2100 block of 34th Street West in Bradenton. She was charged with Conspiracy to Traffic Heroin and is being held without bond. She was arrested on similar charges in Boston in 2009, the report points out. NURSE ARRESTED FOR OBTAINING OXYCODONE BY FRAUD The Sarasota County Sheriff's Office has arrested Evelyn Kay Weisenborn, 53, of 4112 26th Avenue East, Bradenton, for fraudulently ordering more 100 bottles of Oxycodone through her employer for personal use, the office has announced. Associates at Premier Surgery Center contacted investigators with the Pharmaceutical Diversion Unit after discovering an unauthorized shipment of Oxycodone, a medication that is not prescribed by any of the physicians at the center, a Sheriff's Office report says. Detectives learned that from January 2010 to July 2012, Weisenborn, a registered nurse responsible for ordering medication for the practice, "had created fraudulent purchase orders for 30 mg 100-count bottles from the center's two distributors," the report adds. During that time, she allegedly obtained 111 bottles of Oxycodone, totaling 11,100 pills, the report continues. Evelyn Weisenborn/Contributed photo Weisenborn was arrested Jan. 28 and charged with 54 counts of Obtaining a Controlled Substance by Fraud, the report says. %