More than a ton of cocaine bound for NYC was found hidden in metal lawn rollers when authorities recently arrested three drug suspects.
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The Justice Department for the Southern District of New York on Monday filed charges of drug trafficking conspiracy against Jorge Aponte-Guzmán, Nelson Agramonte-Minaya and Carlos Maisonet-López.
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Aponte-Guzman, Nelson Agramonte-Minaya and Maisonet-Lopez were arrested in September after Aponte-Guzman drove a rented pickup truck to a New Jersey loading dock and collect 460 kilos in one fell swoop, prosecutors said.
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Aponte-Guzman met with the other two co-defendants at a New Jersey home, where the feds arrested them and seized the drug they hid inside lawn rollers, or mini-rollers used to flatten the ground. The next day, DEA agents seized another 10 lawn rollers from the loading dock that had other 460 kilos of cocaine hidden inside, authorities said.
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Each of the suspects was charged with conspiring to distribute more than 5 kilograms of cocaine, a charge that carries a possible maximum sentence of life in prison.
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“A billionaire cocaine storm was seized before it could wreak havoc in the Northeast, “DEA Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan said in a statement. release.
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This is the third hit to the cocaine trade in New York
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This is the third major blow that the authorities have dealt to drug trafficking in the region. Last week, the DEA reported that it was prosecuting five musical representatives to lead a “vast drug trafficking conspiracy” in which millions of dollars worth of cocaine was brought into New York City through children’s lunch boxes.
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The zippered lunch boxes -with popular cartoon characters from “My Little Pony” y “Los Minions”– were mailed to homes in New York and Massachusetts via the Postal Service, said the DEA.
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Cocaine seizures in New York grow by 150%
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With this new raid, the DEA and the law enforcement agencies in New York that cooperated with it, intend to achieve a change in the panorama of drug trafficking in the area, with cocaine seizures that increased more than 150% in the last year ”.
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Westchester County Police Commissioner Thomas A. Gleason said: “A seizure of this magnitude underscores the critical importance of working alongside our local and federal law enforcement partners on the DEA Task Force on Westchester. The tremendous work and dedication of the DEA and task force investigators has disrupted a major drug distribution operation and prevented approximately a ton of dangerous and illegal narcotics from being distributed on the streets of our area. “
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