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[NC] Meth bust takes out big ring
    #14039210 - 02/27/11 10:12 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

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Meth bust takes out big ring
February 26, 2011 - Salisbury Post.com

More than 25 people from a number of law enforcement agencies took part Thursday in an operation authorities say broke up one of the largest methamphetamine ice rings on the East Coast, and it all began in Rowan County.

The two-year investigation resulted in the arrest of three Mexican nationals Thursday. They are accused of transporting large amounts of cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana from the Texas-Mexico border to Atlanta, and then to Rowan County.

Over a two-year period, undercover officers and witnesses working under the direction of law enforcement bought drugs in Iredell and Wilkes counties.

The investigators said Salisbury resident Hildeberto Gonzalez-Chavez, 30, also known as “Beetle,” of 122 Cypress Lane, had been supplying the drugs to a customer in Wilkes County for more than 10 years.

On Thursday, officers said they watched Gonzalez-Chavez meet with another person in China Grove; the two then drove in separate vehicles to 115 Westhaven Way.

When Gonzalez-Chavez left the home and stopped to get gas on U.S. 152, law enforcement officers confronted and searched him.

Authorities said they found 1.75 pounds of methamphetamine ice, the most addictive and potent form of methamphetamine, in the vehicle. That was estimated to have a street value of about $100,000. Gonzalez-Chavez was arrested and charged with trafficking more than 400 grams of methamphetamine.

A man identified as Gonzalez-Chavez’s partner, 22-year-old Edgar Santana of Duluth, Ga., was driving about a mile ahead of Gonzalez-Chavez, and authorities stopped him.

Rowan County Sheriff’s Office Detective Lt. Chad Moose said Santana had delivered the methamphetamine to Gonzalez-Chavez. Santana was charged with trafficking more than 400 grams of methamphetamine.

“These guys get the big shipments in and then they deliver them,” Moose said.

Investigators uncovered additional information that led to them to the identity of the suspected supplier, 33-year-old Cesar Sierro-Pineda, of Duluth, Ga.

Rowan County authorities issued a warrant charging Sierro-Pineda with conspiracy to traffic methamphetamine. He was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and Gwinnett County authorities at his apartment complex in Duluth, Ga.

Investigators discovered a methamphetamine ice conversion lab in Sierro-Pineda’s apartment. Authorities evacuated the entire building.

One of the largest ever found, the lab contained about 5 gallons of liquid methamphetamine, enough to make 44 pounds of methamphetamine ice with a wholesale value of more than $1 million, authorities said.

The federal agents also charged two more people found in the apartment.

Ricky Morris, who lives a few houses down from Gonzalez-Chavez on Cypress Lane in Rowan County, said he was shocked to hear about the charges against his neighbor, who always seemed friendly.

Morris said he’s lived in the mobile home park for about 12 years and has never known of any drug dealing there or involving any of the residents.

“We never had problems out of nobody,” he said. “Nothing like that has ever happened.”

Investigation begins

According to a Rowan County search warrant, the investigation began around February 2009 after detectives purchased a large quantity of cocaine.

After many purchases, in which the cocaine totals exceeded 4 pounds, the drug dealers started selling methamphetamine to the undercover operatives, and authorities were able to pin down their drug runner and the main source in Georgia.

Rowan County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy David Ramsey said the men arrested Thursday have moved “millions and millions”of dollars in drugs, and he said the lab in Georgia was quite a find.

“It’s very rare to find (conversion labs),” Ramsey said. “You don’t get that very often.”

Ramsey said Thursday’s crew had been investigating and following Gonzalez-Chavez for the past two years. The operation included the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Customs and Immigration Enforcement; N.C. State Bureau of Investigation; the Rowan, Wilkes, Yadkin and Davie sheriff’s offices; the Mooresville Police Department; and the Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Office in Georgia.

Ramsey, who was recently appointed chief deputy in Rowan and has a background in narcotics with the Iredell County Sheriff’s Office and SBI, said authorities stayed on Gonzalez-Chavez “hot and heavy” during the investigation.

“That family was moving a lot of dope,” Ramsey said. “I was told (Thursday) that Pineda had been operating for about 12 years there (in Georgia) as a major drug distributor.

“This was a very significant seizure.”

Moose said the arrests could “spider web” into all sorts of cases.

“We hope it will lead to more arrests in all of these jurisdictions,” he said. “Ninety percent of the time, we’re taking off the small dealers. If we can get to the source, that’s when it makes the difference.

“It took time to get the larger players involved.”

Moose said the seizure and dismantling of the meth lab in Georgia should make it difficult to get methamphetamine for a while.

“The various smaller dealers that were getting it here are going to have to scramble and get it somewhere else now,” he said.

The Sheriff’s Office plans to continue working with other agencies to root out drugs in Rowan.

“It went really well,” Moose said. “Here in the last year and a half we’ve had a lot of success working with other agencies.”




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Re: [NC] Meth bust takes out big ring [Re: veggie]
    #14039283 - 02/27/11 10:24 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

A scramble? lol thats what all that tax payers money does? a scramble hahaha


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Re: [NC] Meth bust takes out big ring [Re: Run]
    #14039336 - 02/27/11 10:31 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

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the lab contained about 5 gallons of liquid methamphetamine, enough to make 44 pounds of methamphetamine ice




I don't know anything about chemistry, but, could that even be possible?


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Re: [NC] Meth bust takes out big ring [Re: waves]
    #14039635 - 02/27/11 11:19 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

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the lab contained about 5 gallons of liquid methamphetamine, enough to make 44 pounds of methamphetamine ice




I don't know anything about chemistry, but, could that even be possible?




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Re: [NC] Meth bust takes out big ring [Re: veggie]
    #14039683 - 02/27/11 11:26 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

At the rate these bigger dealers are getting hit recently, I predict drug prices are going to rise... They are hitting these traffickers hard lately. The DEA has announced that they have seized more drugs with Mexico than any year of the past by this time. Expect the quality of your drug of choice to fall dramaticly if this keeps up.


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Re: [NC] Meth bust takes out big ring [Re: gamer4life]
    #14040497 - 02/28/11 06:41 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

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At the rate these bigger dealers are getting hit recently, I predict drug prices are going to rise... They are hitting these traffickers hard lately. The DEA has announced that they have seized more drugs with Mexico than any year of the past by this time. Expect the quality of your drug of choice to fall dramaticly if this keeps up.





If there are 1000 major drug dealers one year and the DEA busts 10 of them; then next year the DEA busts 100 major drug dealers, or even 200 that does not necessarily reflect competence on the part of the DEA.

Rather, there are more drug dealers; more people saying "yes" to the cartels in exchange for money, prestige, power, the right to keep their own lives, whatever.

Each year more people enter the trafficking business, so many more that the DEA catches more packages.  That does not mean the DEA is capturing anything like a sizable percentage of drugs being trafficked. 

I'm sure the average numbers are still under 5-10% of national shipments being caught.


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Re: [NC] Meth bust takes out big ring [Re: Humility]
    #14040797 - 02/28/11 08:53 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

Plus there are others to immediately replace whoever is taken out of the game. The poor kids in Mexico are looking up to the narcotrafficantes with their fly cars, all the bling bling and their gold plated pistols. They know they'll never get anywhere leading an honest life working hard so they be hustling. When you grow up in these places you basically grow up into a gang without much choice of your own.


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Re: [NC] Meth bust takes out big ring [Re: veggie]
    #14041791 - 02/28/11 12:48 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

they didnt even get 50 pounds of meth total....make it hard to find? LOL


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Re: [NC] Meth bust takes out big ring [Re: usefulidiot13]
    #14042009 - 02/28/11 01:19 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

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they didnt even get 50 pounds of meth total....make it hard to find? LOL




I'm saying in these few counties they supplied, people will have a hard time finding meth around there for a little while. Everyday the Feds are getting more and more of these shipments not to mention the safe house where the drugs are stored. I see the prices going up or the quality dropping, and that's the Feds main goal. They don't want to stop it they just want to slow it down. These bust happen everyday, and not to mention the cartels are killing each other. Sooner or later the prices will eventually go up and the quality will go down. Lets say Heroin for instance has risen in the nation about 20% and the cocaine has dropped about 20%. They are resorting to the easier drugs to traffic.(from the Drugs and Society 6Th edition by Micheal Lyman) I know it seems that there is too much money in it, but if you owned a business and you had to pay more to ship your items and pay people more to sell it, who does the extra money fall on? The customer. The quality will drop because when it's harder to get your stuff across you begin to put more cut in it so you can keep your profit cumming in. When the margin between shipping and distribution rises then the quality and prices will adjust accordingly.  I know the flow of drugs will never stop, that's impossible. I was stating my opinion, no one knows for sure what the future holds, I just was giving my prediction if the Feds keep cracking down like this, somethings got to give somewhere.


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Re: [NC] Meth bust takes out big ring [Re: gamer4life]
    #14042599 - 02/28/11 02:33 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

...although most statistics I've come across show that heroin has gotten more pure throughout the years and gone down in price.

Regardless, all these busts mean is dealers are going to start manufacturing new drugs, cartels are going to get more violent and the drug users are going to be the ones who suffer most.
The DEA can bust every dealer and supplier in the country... all this would do is open up a door for a new gang of organized criminals to run the show. Criminals have the monopoly on the "illegal drug trade" - no amount of arrests is going to stop them from making money on a commodity whose demand remains consistent.


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