A silver Chevrolet Suburban arrived at the meeting location at 11:30 a.m. last Tuesday, January 9th; two men got out and approached undercover DEA agents in a parked vehicle where they believed the buyer was waiting.
Court documents show the individuals later identified as Luis Raul Garcia and Manuel Ignacio Ibarra Lucero allegedly showed the agents six bundles of meth inside the Suburban. At that point, agents who had been staking out the parking lot moved in and arrested the men.
A federal complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico on January 10th shows Garcia and Ibarra agreed to speak to investigators after their arrest and allegedly admitted to being paid to deliver the drugs. The two have been charged with possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and on January 16th waived their right to a detention hearing in U.S. District Court in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
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