Calabasas 'DoorDash for Drugs' Dealer Gets 27 Years in TikTok Star's Death
The same-day drug delivery service, run out of a $9 million Calabasas mansion, was linked to two fatal overdoses.
Holly Bieler · August 12, 2026 · Calabasas
A Calabasas man who police say operated a drug delivery business as sophisticated as UberEats, was sentenced to 27 years in federal prison this week.
Police say [37-year-old Erick Oved Estrada](https://patch.com/california/los-angeles/doordash-drugs-dealer-sentenced-27-years-tiktok-stars-overdose-death) ran one of the city's most prolific direct-to-consumer drug operations for years, offering reliable same-day delivery across the southland 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 member.
One warm summer evening a few months after the Estradas moved into their new house, 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/).
However he was in a melancholy mood that night, screen recordings from the live stream show. He'd always imagined, he said at one point, that he would die young.
Only an hour later, his premonition would prove true. In a Burbank parking lot, police discovered Noriega passed out in his car, barely breathing. By morning, he was dead.
It was shocking news to his vast community, made even moreso when Noriega's cause of death was released a few weeks later: he'd died of a fentanyl overdose.
Noriega had never touched fentanyl, so far as anyone in his life knew. Including his drug dealer. The man had been selling Noriega party drugs every once in a while, on special occasions, for years.
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/)
It's become an increasingly widespread practice in recent years. Drug brokers and processors cut expensive pharmaceuticals like oxycodone or party drugs like MDMA with fentanyl, which is cheaper, and can mimic some of the same effects, at the right dose. At the wrong dose, it can kill instantly.
That delicate ratio has, in recent years, unleashed a torrent of death across the country. Young people, sometimes groups of them, dying in minutes, after unknowingly taking a tainted drug.
As those numbers 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 in Burbank. Assumed, at first, to be one of the city's innumerable addicts of the substance, investigators soon received a lead that pointed them in the direction of Estrada.
His reckoning came in November 2023, when 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. He was arrested days later, alongside three co-defendants, and has remained in federal custody since.
Estrada pleaded guilty in October to two counts, including distribution of fentanyl resulting in death. In addition to his 27-year sentence, handed down in Los Angeles federal court, 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 empire by investing in foreign cars.