Two Arizona men have been sentenced to prison after they were caught with two hundred pounds of meth, over two dozen pounds of cocaine, and twenty-five pounds of heroin, the Drug Enforcement Administration, Tempe police, and Arizona Attorney General’s Office announced on Tuesday.
In September last year, investigators executed a search warrant at a residence after a months-long probe. All the drugs mentioned above were found at the home, the DEA said.
Diego Bernal-Robles, 29, and his 44-year-old associate, Arturo Rojas-Armenta, were residing at the Tucson residence where investigators found the drugs along with equipment and chemicals used to manufacture meth.
Authorities estimated the street value of those drugs to be $1,311,000. Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich said the two were found guilty of running a drug trafficking organization.
Bernal-Robles was sentenced to five years in prison last year for possessing harmful drugs for sale, manufacturing dangerous drugs. Rojas-Armenta was sentenced to three years in prison by a Pima County Superior Court Judge on Tuesday for conspiring to possess dangerous drugs for sale, and for possessing a narcotic drug for sale.
The case was investigated by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the Tempe Police Department, the Arizona Attorney General’s Office, with help from the Maricopa County Drug Suppression Task Force (MCDST) HIDTA Clandestine Lab Team.
