Over the past year, citizens, parents, and students have reported ongoing sales of illegal narcotics to students on the Campus of Carmel High School. As a result, agents of the DOJ STING Task Force conducted follow up investigation and subsequently authored a state search warrant for three locations, one of which was Carmel High School. One of the suspects is 18 year-old Andrew Tripps.
A butane hash oil lab was found where Andrew Tripps lives at 27 Camp Steffani Road. The homeowner and Tripps’ father, 47-year-old Richard Steven Tripps, was arrested and booked into Monterey Council Jail
