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Four arrested in huge meth seizure in Mesa
by Megan Boehnke - May. 7, 2009 07:09 PM
The Arizona Republic
Four people were arrested Wednesday in what Mesa police believe to be the largest methamphetamine bust in the department's history.
One of the people arrested was a mother accused of hiding $15,000 among toys in a backpack she gave to her 3-year-old son.
Wednesday's bust netted 16 pounds of the drug and more than $30,000 in cash, and detectives are expecting more arrests as the investigation continues, Commander Mark Wesselman said at a news conference Thursday.
The drugs had a street value of about $300,000.
Police were first tipped off to drug activity in the Dobson Street precinct thanks to information from a resident on the department's narcotics hotline.
Police made one arrest in west Mesa on April 28, which then led to search warrants that were executed in Phoenix, resulting in four more arrests on Wednesday.
Police are not releasing the name of the first person arrested in April as they pursue other leads, and would only say that he or she is a participant in drug activity.
Luis Enrigue Camacho-Paco, 40; Bernave Reyes, 24; Remedios Reyes Carranza, 24; and Briceida Esmarelda Urrea-Garcia, 22, are all facing drug trafficking charges.
All had immigration holds placed on them as well, police said.
Urea-Garcia is also being charged with money laundering and using a minor child in a criminal syndicate.
Detectives set up surveillance at a house on S. 65th Lane near 51st Avenue and Buckeye Road, when they saw a red Impala arrive at the home, and then almost an hour later, a silver Ford 500.
An hour after that, the vehicles left and police pulled over them both over in separate traffic stops and conducted searches with the help of the Phoenix Police Department's K9 unit.
In the Ford 500, detectives found two pounds of meth and $1,435.
In the Impala, they found $8,696.
In the house, they found a furniture-less home and 13.87 pounds of meth.
As police questioned Carranza inside the Impala, he told police that his wife and child were back at the home. Police went back to the house and saw Urrea-Garcia and the boy leave through a back entrance into an alley.
The woman was carrying a purse and a child's backpack that she handed to her son after spotting the officers. Police asked to see the backpack and in it, found $15,000 hidden among various toys. They also found $5,386 in a sock in Urrea-Garcia's purse and another $522 in her pants pocket
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Four arrested in huge meth seizure in Mesa
by Megan Boehnke - May. 7, 2009 07:09 PM
The Arizona Republic
Four people were arrested Wednesday in what Mesa police believe to be the largest methamphetamine bust in the department's history.
One of the people arrested was a mother accused of hiding $15,000 among toys in a backpack she gave to her 3-year-old son.
Wednesday's bust netted 16 pounds of the drug and more than $30,000 in cash, and detectives are expecting more arrests as the investigation continues, Commander Mark Wesselman said at a news conference Thursday.
The drugs had a street value of about $300,000.
Police were first tipped off to drug activity in the Dobson Street precinct thanks to information from a resident on the department's narcotics hotline.
Police made one arrest in west Mesa on April 28, which then led to search warrants that were executed in Phoenix, resulting in four more arrests on Wednesday.
Police are not releasing the name of the first person arrested in April as they pursue other leads, and would only say that he or she is a participant in drug activity.
Luis Enrigue Camacho-Paco, 40; Bernave Reyes, 24; Remedios Reyes Carranza, 24; and Briceida Esmarelda Urrea-Garcia, 22, are all facing drug trafficking charges.
All had immigration holds placed on them as well, police said.
Urea-Garcia is also being charged with money laundering and using a minor child in a criminal syndicate.
Detectives set up surveillance at a house on S. 65th Lane near 51st Avenue and Buckeye Road, when they saw a red Impala arrive at the home, and then almost an hour later, a silver Ford 500.
An hour after that, the vehicles left and police pulled over them both over in separate traffic stops and conducted searches with the help of the Phoenix Police Department's K9 unit.
In the Ford 500, detectives found two pounds of meth and $1,435.
In the Impala, they found $8,696.
In the house, they found a furniture-less home and 13.87 pounds of meth.
As police questioned Carranza inside the Impala, he told police that his wife and child were back at the home. Police went back to the house and saw Urrea-Garcia and the boy leave through a back entrance into an alley.
The woman was carrying a purse and a child's backpack that she handed to her son after spotting the officers. Police asked to see the backpack and in it, found $15,000 hidden among various toys. They also found $5,386 in a sock in Urrea-Garcia's purse and another $522 in her pants pocket
