尔湾男子涉贩卖芬太尼、盗用身份身负11宗未结案 潜逃秘鲁被捕押回橙县
圣安娜讯——橙县检察官办公室10月14日宣布，44岁的尔湾男子埃里克·格兰特·鲁斯塔德（Erick Grant Rustad）涉嫌贩卖芬太尼、盗用他人身份信息，在橙县身负11宗未结刑事案件。他潜逃海外后于2026年2月13日在秘鲁被捕，10月13日晚由联邦调查局（FBI）探员押送至洛杉矶国际机场，移交尔湾警察局，并被关押在橙县监狱。若所有指控成立，他最高面临29年零6个月监禁。检方表示，他是今年1月以来第9名从海外被成功押回橙县受审的逃犯。
此次抓捕与引渡是多部门跨境协作的结果，参与机构包括FBI（含其驻秘鲁利马执法联络办公室）、美国司法部国际事务办公室、美国国务院外交安全局、橙县检察官办公室、尔湾警察局、橙县警长部门、塔斯廷警察局以及秘鲁执法部门。
检方指，鲁斯塔德在两宗重罪案件保释在外期间，于2025年4月又因涉嫌持有芬太尼被捕，他此前已有两次持有硬性毒品的定罪记录。他缴纳10万美元保释金获释后没有出庭应讯，而是先逃往墨西哥，随后飞往其母亲（秘鲁公民）所在的秘鲁。2025年4月28日，橙县高等法院法官对他发出15万美元的法官逮捕令；同年11月10日，联邦加州中区法院以「非法潜逃以逃避起诉」对他发出联邦逮捕令。
11宗案件的案情跨越数年。2023年5月，尔湾警方搜查鲁斯塔德的住所和车辆，查获多本笔记本，里面记有他人的姓名、社会安全号、地址、信用卡号和电话号码，另有支票、空白门禁卡和他人身份证件；14名个人信息被查获的人均表示不认识鲁斯塔德、从未授权他使用这些信息。警方还起获了打印机、压印设备和冰毒。
检方还指控：2023年7月，监控录像拍到他盗走一把玛莎拉蒂汽车钥匙；2024年3月，他在保释期间涉嫌潜入一处停车楼、企图盗窃储藏区内的多辆自行车，并将一张被盗的涂改支票存入自己账户，金额为2795美元；同月，他与另一人被捕时，车内引擎盖下的暗格藏有冰毒和数十个未使用的分装袋，后备箱中还有一副可一键翻转的车牌装置。2024年4月，检方指控他在保释期间通过短信与同伙商讨毒品的购买、定价与供货链条，并多次当面交易毒品，搜查中起获芬太尼、冰毒、多部手机和电子秤。2024年6月，警方目击有人向他的尔湾住所递送一只装有重物的蓝色袋子，随后搜查发现电子秤、装有冰毒和芬太尼的塑料袋、空分装袋、压碎的赞安诺药片和两部手机。此外，他还被控偷走陌生人门廊上的包裹、在Nordstrom百货盗窃太阳镜，以及有前科情况下持有毒品等。
时间线方面，鲁斯塔德于2026年2月13日在秘鲁落网后，美方与秘鲁当局随即启动引渡程序；2026年10月13日引渡完成，他被押回美国。
橙县检察官托德·斯皮策（Todd Spitzer）表示，正义的追求无法靠单打独斗，需要跨机构、跨国界的协作与坚持，橙县将一如既往，不惜追至天涯海角，把违法者绳之以法。
Irvine Man Accused of Fentanyl Dealing and Identity Theft in 11 Open Cases Captured in Peru, Extradited to Orange County
SANTA ANA, Calif. — The Orange County District Attorney's Office announced on October 14 that Erick Grant Rustad, 44, of Irvine, an accused fentanyl dealer and identity thief with 11 open criminal cases in Orange County, has been captured overseas and extradited back to the United States. Rustad was arrested in Peru on February 13, 2026, escorted by FBI agents to Los Angeles International Airport on the evening of October 13, turned over to the Irvine Police Department, and booked into the Orange County Jail. He faces a combined maximum sentence of 29 years and 6 months if convicted on all charges. Prosecutors said he is the ninth fugitive since January to be successfully returned from a foreign country to Orange County to face criminal charges.
The capture and extradition resulted from a multi-agency effort involving the FBI, including its Legal Attaché office in Lima, Peru; the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of International Affairs; the U.S. Department of State's Diplomatic Security Service; the Orange County District Attorney's Office; the Irvine Police Department; the Orange County Sheriff's Department; the Tustin Police Department; and Peruvian law enforcement authorities.
According to prosecutors, Rustad was out on bail in two felony cases when he was arrested in April 2025 on suspicion of felony possession of fentanyl, having two prior convictions for possession of a hard drug. After posting a $100,000 bond, he failed to appear in court and instead fled to Mexico and then flew to Peru, where his mother is a citizen. On April 28, 2025, an Orange County Superior Court judge issued a $150,000 bench warrant for his arrest, and on November 10, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California issued a federal warrant charging him with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution.
The 11 cases span several years. In May 2023, Irvine police searched Rustad's home and vehicle and found notebooks containing other people's names, Social Security numbers, addresses, credit card numbers and phone numbers, along with checks, blank access cards and identity documents belonging to others; 14 victims whose information was recovered said they did not know Rustad and had never authorized him to have it. Officers also seized printers, presses and methamphetamine.
Prosecutors further allege that in July 2023 Rustad was caught on surveillance video stealing a key to a Maserati; that in March 2024, while out on bail in the Maserati key case, he broke into a parking structure in an attempt to steal bicycles from a storage area and deposited a stolen, altered check for $2,795 into his account; and that he was arrested that month with another person with dozens of unused baggies and methamphetamine hidden in a compartment under the vehicle's hood, plus a license-plate flipping device in the trunk. In April 2024, while out on bail in two felony cases, he allegedly texted associates about drug purchases, pricing and supply chains and made multiple hand-to-hand drug sales; a search turned up fentanyl, methamphetamine, multiple phones and digital scales. In June 2024, after officers watched a weighted blue bag being delivered to his Irvine home, a search found a scale, bags of methamphetamine and fentanyl, empty baggies, crushed Xanax pills and two cell phones. He has also been charged with stealing a package from a stranger's doorstep, stealing sunglasses from Nordstrom, and drug possession with prior convictions.
Rustad was arrested in Peru on February 13, 2026, and, following extradition proceedings conducted with Peruvian authorities, was successfully extradited to the United States on October 13, 2026.
Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer said the pursuit of justice cannot be done unilaterally and requires partnership and a resolve that knows no borders, adding that Orange County will continue to go to the ends of the earth in the pursuit of justice.
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