Heroin busts uncover ties to Mexico

◼ Heroin busts uncover ties to Mexico - Drug Task Force busts net 5.5 pounds of heroin allegedly shipped by drug trafficking organizations
Agents arrested the four occupants - Arsenio Larios, Marvin Mogollon, Marta Ramirez-Cruz and Rosa Ramirez Cruz, all of Los Angeles - on suspicion of trafficking heroin for sales.
Larios and Magollon both allegedly gave fake names to officers at the scene, and a subsequent record check revealed that Larios had two active felony drug trafficking warrants out of Los Angeles County and Magollon has three prior drug trafficking convictions, according to Harward, who added that both men had previously been deported as felons from the country by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
On Feb. 4, Harward said, agents received information that another car would be delivering a batch of heroin from Los Angeles. At about 2 p.m., agents made contact with the suspect vehicle - a newer black Volkswagen Bug - in the Ray's Food Place parking lot on Broadway in Eureka, and both occupants told agents they were from the Los Angeles area.
Agents again used a drug sniffing dog to check the outside of the car, Harward said, and the dog again gave a positive alert. Harward said agents obtained a search warrant for the vehicle and ultimately found 1.5 pounds of black tar heroin and a large amount of cash in a hidden compartment buried in the vehicles dashboard.
Agents arrested Leonon Gastelum-Rocha of Los Angeles and Jose Carranza-Reyes of Mexicali, Mexico, and booked them into Humboldt County jail on suspicion of trafficking heroin for sales. There's more