Is that meth in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?

[samhexum]

A Mexican drug cartel tried to slip $1 million worth of methamphetamine into New York and New Jersey by hiding it in wax candles — including some shaped like male genitalia, law enforcement sources said Wednesday.

 

A DEA taskforce tricked a group of drug dealers into delivering the drugs to a Patterson, N.J., warehouse Tuesday, then seized more than 1,300 pounds of meth candles, packed away in 27 cardboard boxes, authorities said.

 

"It's kind of a cross between 'Breaking Bad' and a 'Sex in the City' case," mused one law enforcement source.

 

DEA agents charged five people — a man and woman from California, and three Mexican men in the country illegally — with conspiring to distribute meth, authorities said.

 

They’ll face stiff sentences — 10 years to life — if convicted.

 

The bust came as part of a larger investigation into drug trafficking, and federal authorities believe that Mexican cartels are trying to create a market for meth in the city.

 

“DEA has seen drugs smuggled in numerous ways: concealed in puppies, lollipops, furniture and produce. But secreting a million dollars’ worth of methamphetamine in wax candles of various shapes is shocking,” said DEA Special Agent in charge James Hunt. “This seizure signifies that drug trafficking organizations are determined to create a stronghold of meth users in the Northeast.”

 

 

Investigators learned about a large shipment of meth coming into the area when an undercover agent met with one of the suspects, Agustin Zamora-Vega, 30, in a Manhattan hotel.

 

The agent showed Zamora-Vega an apartment in Yonkers and suggested it as a place to store methamphetamine, and convert it into crystal meth.

 

Zamora-Vega didn’t like the Yonkers spot — the ventilation wasn’t to his taste, so the undercover agent showed him a New Jersey warehouse instead.

 

The narcotics came into Long Island on Tuesday.

 

When Zamora-Vega and his co-horts loaded the meth candles into the warehouse, the DEA, Homeland Security Investigations and NYPD sprang into action, authorities said.

 

Zamora-Vega and his accomplices, Orlando Alcantara, 33; Cindy Carrillo, 27; Santos Minjarez, 26, and Jose Luis Gonzalez-Solis, 28, were arraigned in Manhattan federal court. Carrillo couldn’t make her $250,000 bail, and the other four were remanded.

[Good Grief]

Thank-you, but good fucking God...really? More???

 

 

[Mo Mason]

"Paterson," New Jersey. And I think that sentence is too strict. Ten years to life? Absolutely ridiculous.

[samhexum]

Talk about living up to your name.

 

A Florida woman named Crystal Methvin was arrested Saturday in St. Johns County on drug possession charges after being caught with crystal meth, jail records show.

 

Methvin, 40, of St. Augustine, was busted after an anonymous caller tipped off cops who found her inside a car with two other people in a parking lot on South Dixie Highway, WJXT reports.

 

Police searched the car and found drug paraphernalia and a substance that tested positive for crystal meth.

 

Methvin was taken into custody with a man identified as Douglas Nickerson, WJXT reports.

 

Methvin has arrests in the county dating back to 1998 when she was booked into the St. Johns County Jail for driving under the influence. Most recently, she was arrested in January on 14 felony counts of drug possession and misdemeanor possession of drug equipment, jail records show.

 

Methvin remains in custody on $5,000 bond, according to jail records. It’s unclear if she’s hired an attorney.

 

[LADoug1]

“Crystal Methvin”? Gotta be a joking alias.

[caliguy]

"Paterson," New Jersey. And I think that sentence is too strict. Ten years to life? Absolutely ridiculous.

That's 1300 pounds though. We're talking about a very professional organization here. I'd say 10 years is very lenient.

[caliguy]

“Crystal Methvin”? Gotta be a joking alias.

Bitch probably has it on her license plate.