Elko police made a rare drug bust at the Elko airport arresting Mexican National possibly a member of an international illegal drug cartel and confiscating more than 100 pounds of a cornucopia of illegal drugs.
Elko Police were tipped off early Friday morning that a small privately chartered plane was carrying more than just the usual payload would be landing at the Elko Airport shortly.
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Elko police met the plane with a drug sniffing dog in tow and the dog enthusiastically alerted that this was no ordinary drug bust.
In the plane were three suitcases belonging to the man who had chartered the plane in California to fly to the Midwest. In these suitcases they found 86 pounds of marijuana, 2 pounds of methamphetamine and 1,930 Ecstasy pills.
Investigators believe the marijuana, meth and Ecstasy pills were being transported to the mid west. Julio Caesar Zaragoza-Romero, 38, was booked on three counts of trafficking. Authorities believe the contraband may be connected to cartel activity.
