GPS tracking device helps soldiers to arrest alleged drug smugglers in Ohio

Cambridge, Ohio (WCMH) – Two men who were arrested and suspected about 500 grams or more cocaine smuggled in Ohio, were accused of a federal jury this week.

According to a criminal complaint by the US district court, the investigation for home protection examinations about a white Honda Accord from 2013 was informed with a license plate from Arizona, which was transported to suspicion of drugs and was determined on a trading memory intended for Columbus.

A search of the vehicle on May 31 appeared on zero smuggling, but an empty subject that ran the length of the vehicle from the center console to the exhaust pipe. In June, the investigators applied for a GPS succession order granted, and the device was used on June 2.

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About three weeks later, the Ohio State Highway Patrol was announced that the Honda traveled on Interstate 70 in Guernsey County, east of Cambridge, Ohio.

The Honda was stopped against the window injury because of a tinted window, and the occupants provided the soldiers with fraudulent Mexican driver's license, the complaint said. A K-9 unit was used and a positive willingness to alarm for narcotics was found.

The soldiers searched the vehicle and reported that three bricks with powdery substance, which tested positively on the presence of cocaine and waved about 3,633 grams.

The American law firm in the southern district of Ohio said that 42-year-old Cristian Melendez and 39-year-old Ismerio Garcia-Onivaro were arrested and both were illegally in the United States. It was found that Melendez had former convictions for heroin trade and illegal weapons, while Garcia-Intivaro also had earlier drug assessments.

The suspects are accused of being conspired to distribute 500 grams or more cocaine and illegally re -enter the United States after they have been convicted of crime. You are planned for a hearing for a hearing for a hearing.

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