Eleven people were arrested in ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ Tuesday following a lengthy drug-trafficking investigation involving several law enforcement agencies, officials say.
The Drug Enforcement Administration’s Sierra Vista office and the ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ Department of Public Safety’s border strike force have been investigating alleged drug trafficking activities of Luis Agustin Montaño Hernandez since December 2018, the DEA said in a news release.
On Tuesday, detectives seized more than a pound of heroin, small quantities of methamphetamine, half a pound of suspected fentanyl, about $21,000 in cash, eight vehicles and nine weapons, the department said.
The agencies allege the drug trafficking organization operated in the ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ area and supplied Pima and ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ counties with heroin and methamphetamine, the department said. Detectives with the ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ Attorney General’s office served warrants at six ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ locations.
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Those arrested were: Luis Montaño-Hernandez, 36; Tatiana Tapia, 33; Jesus Emmanuel Tapia, 19; Antonio Rubio, 67; Tracey Trevena, 60; Irene Norzagaray, 65; Raymond Taylor, 68; Carlos Navallaz, 22; William Kehn, 59; and Jeffrey Stirnweis, 62.
Evidence will be submitted to the state Attorney General’s Office, a news release said.
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