Multi‑state Raids, Stops Seize Drugs, Guns, Cash

Law enforcement agencies across multiple U.S. jurisdictions this month carried out traffic stops, search warrants and coordinated raids that seized large quantities of drugs, firearms and cash and resulted in numerous arrests. In unincorporated Adams County, a traffic stop and subsequent residence search recovered about 70 pounds of methamphetamine, 1.29 kilograms of cocaine, five guns and several thousand dollars, and one person was arrested in a multi‑agency operation. Suffolk County police executed coordinated raids on four Organically Connected cannabis stores, arresting seven people and seizing more than 100 pounds of marijuana, edibles, hallucinogens and over $50,000 in cash, and the shops were shuttered. In Las Vegas, investigators arrested Adrian M. Sanchez after finding more than two pounds of fentanyl powder, about 11.5 ounces of methamphetamine, cocaine and a handgun in his vehicle, leading to multiple felony trafficking charges. Other stops and warrants produced sizable seizures and arrests, including the Oconee County arrest of John David Stancil after deputies found meth on his person and additional meth, two rifles, prescription pills and marijuana in his vehicle; an Arroyo Grande stop that uncovered drug paraphernalia, a firearm, 6.3 ounces of suspected meth and an improvised explosive device that a bomb task force removed, with driver Michael Rosso arrested on multiple felonies; and a Fresno stop yielding suspected drugs and a privately made firearm. Additional reported seizures included 110 grams of suspected cocaine, 240 grams of cannabis and five firearms in Freeport, Ill.; more than a pound of meth and cash in Butler County, Ohio; and the arrest of 19‑year‑old Rigoberto Avila Mendoza in Bonneville County, Idaho, after deputies found a handgun, over 163 grams of marijuana, THC edibles and, during booking, just over 1 gram of cocaine, with felony charges including possession of cocaine and introducing contraband into a correctional facility.