Scarface of Hidden Hills

Erick Estrada was riding high as the "DoorDasher for Drugs". Until a TikTok star died.

Holly Bieler · August 13, 2026 · Calabasas

A Calabasas man who police say once operated a drug delivery business as sophisticated as UberEats, was sentenced to 27 years in federal prison this week.

Police say that for years, [37-year-old Erick Oved Estrada](https://patch.com/california/los-angeles/doordash-drugs-dealer-sentenced-27-years-tiktok-stars-overdose-death) headed one of the most prolific direct-to-consumer drug operations in the southland, offering reliable same-day of substances from cocaine to fentanyl.

The syndicate made Estrada rich, prosecutors allege. Estrada's wife Zoila owned two Range Rovers, while Erick drove a green Lamborghini. In 2021, they paid $6 million for a Mediterranean mansion in The Oaks in Calabasas, one of the area's most exclusive gated communities, which counts Kourtney Kardashian as a resident.

One warm summer evening a few months after the Estradas moved in, Cooper Noriega was walking through downtown Burbank, live-streaming on TikTok. After years of posting, the 19-year-old had achieved bonafide stardom on the platform, where he now counted over [1.7 million followers](https://www.thedailybeast.com/tiktok-star-cooper-noriega-found-dead-in-mall-parking-lot-after-cryptic-video/).

Noriega was in a melancholy mood, screen recordings from his live stream that night show. He'd always imagined, he said at one point, that he would die young.

Only a few hours later, police found Noriega in a nearby parking lot, passed out in the driver's seat of his car. By morning, he was dead.

The news shocked his large community, even more when Noriega's autopsy was eventually released. His cause of death was listed as a fentanyl overdose.

Noriega wasn't a fentanyl user, so far as anyone in his life knew. Including his drug dealer. That man, a Burbank-based dealer, had been selling Noriega party drugs off and on for a while.

But only recently, had he begun using Erick Oved Estrada as a supplier. After Noriega's death, the dealer contacted Estrada immediately, records show.

"My boy just died yesterday," he wrote. ["Shouldn't be selling shit with Fentanyl."](https://www.simivalleyacorn.com/articles/alleged-drug-delivery-service-is-linked-to-four-fatal-overdoses-simi-police-say/)

The practice is widespread. Distributors cut drugs like MDMA and cocaine with fentanyl, which is cheaper, and can mimic some of the same effects, at the right dose. At the wrong dose, it's lethal.

That delicate ratio has, in recent years, unleashed a torrent of death across the country. Young people, sometimes groups of them, dying in minutes.

As those cases have spiked, prosecutors have started going after dealers more aggressively. In recent years, a handful of states have secured murder convictions against dealers whose [drugs caused an overdose death.](https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/socal-fentanyl-dealers-face-murder-charges-prison-time-as-one-mother-warns-theyre-coming-for-you/)

It can be difficult to track, but investigators looking into Noriega's case soon happened upon a disturbing, but important lead. Six months after his death, a 20-year-old woman had died under similar circumstances close by. Ultimately, that led them to Estrada.

He was arrested at his estate in The Oaks in November 2023, after a federal grand jury [indicted him and five associates on 18 counts](https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/calabasas-man-arraigned-indictment-alleging-he-ran-same-day-drug-delivery-service-car), ranging from drug conspiracy to money laundering.

Estrada pleaded guilty in October to two counts, including distribution of fentanyl resulting in death. In addition to his 27-year sentence, he was ordered to pay $43,145 in restitution to the victims' families.

Many of his associates have been prosecuted as well. One of Estrada's lieutenants was sentenced in February to more than five years in prison, while the Burbank dealer who sold Noriega his pills is awaiting sentencing.

Estrada's wife was also arrested, and ultimately pleaded guilty, to money laundering. Prosecutors say she laundered the proceeds from Estrada's drug empire by buying luxury cars.