Wednesday, February 2, 2011

South Ogden Man Arrested in $8 Million Dollar Drug Bust

Rhode Island newspapers are now reporting the state's largest drug bust in history.  $6.6 Million in cocaine and $1.2 Million in cash was seized and a number of drug dealers are now behind bars.  But how did they catch these evil villains?  All thanks to a drug dealer in our own city!

Rhode Island State Police apparently learned a drug dealer was living in South Ogden and was transporting drugs to their state.  The following is from their press release:
“During the month of September 2010, a Rhode Island State Police Detective assigned to the DEA Task Force received information concerning a narcotics organization transporting large shipments of narcotics from the west coast into Rhode Island. Members of the Task Force developed further information that the narcotics organization utilized a tractor-trailer to facilitate the shipments of narcotics. Members of the investigative team developed information on a suspect in the organization identified as Adilson Antonio Reyes, age 29, of 3841 Adams Avenue, South Ogden, Utah. Investigators learned that Reyes had registered as a guest at a hotel in Rhode Island during the months of June, August, and September 2010. Information was developed indicating that Reyes was the registered owner of a 2000 Peterbilt tractor trailer truck from the State of Utah."
From that point they setup surveillance and followed Mr. Reyes until last week were the finally arrested him and two other drug dealers. They found nearly 66 kilos of cocaine in the trailer!

The crazy thing about this story is Mr.Reyes is from South Ogden.  In fact his home is two blocks from the police station.  Did Rhode Island Police figure this out or did our police?  I am shocked to learn there was such a large amount of drugs sitting in our city nearly two blocks from the police.

3841 Adams Ave, South Ogden, Utah
2 blocks from the police station

I called Officer Marcie Edwards from South Ogden Police to get more information but was unable to reach her.  I hope to post more as I get more info from the city.

You can read more about the arrest on these three websites:

http://newsblog.projo.com/2011/02/state-police-reports-biggest-d.html
http://www.eastbayri.com/detail/140958.html
http://www.abc6.com/Global/story.asp?S=13956252

Comments Welcome!

2 comments:

TealWren said...

How would the police here have even noticed anything suspicious? If he was picking up the goods in CA and transporting them to RI then I'm thinking our police officers saw just a man who made a living driving a semi truck. Nothing really suspicious there, no matter how close you are to the police station.

BenJoeM said...

Good point,

I guess what worries me more is that there was this much drugs in South Ogden in the first place.