San Diego authorities arrest 3 noncitizens allegedly involved in transporting more than $5M worth of meth
Federal and local government in San Diego arrested three men in the U S illegally two from Mexico and one from El Salvador after they allegedly transported nearly pounds of methamphetamine worth more than million earlier this week The affair took place on Monday around p m during a joint narcotics inquiry in the South Bay region the San Diego County Sheriff's Office declared Thursday evening SDCSO detectives and U S Boundary Patrol agents observed three vehicles they assumed were being loaded with bundles of drugs A federal complaint filed by the U S Attorney's Office of the Southern District of California disclosed the vehicles were being loaded in a parking lot on Otay Mesa Road CBP OFFICERS SEIZE OVER M OF ALLEGED METHAMPHETAMINE AT SOUTHERN FRONTIER Two of those vehicles were driven toward a motel in San Ysidro while the third car went to a motel in Chula Vista the sheriff's office reported All three drivers were ultimately arrested They were identified by the Justice Department as -year-old Erick Omar Arriola of El Salvador and Mexican nationals Eugenio Lizama and Baltazar Rodriguez Reyes Arriola is a felon convicted of driving under the influence battery of a spouse and false imprisonment the DOJ commented 'ZOMBIE DRUG' SMUGGLED ACROSS SOUTHERN EDGE A GROWING THREAT TO AMERICANS PRACTITIONER WARNS When officers searched their vehicles they unveiled a total of bundles of methamphetamine weighing more than pounds and valued at around million It was one of the biggest seizures of methamphetamine in in the Southern District of California and the the bulk notable so far by the new Homeland Guard Task Force San Diego which was not long ago established by the Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Guard at the request of President Trump the DOJ reported All three men were booked into the San Diego Central Jail and face charges related to conspiracy transportation and possession of controlled substances for sales
