Authorities in North Carolina arrested two Park City-area men on Monday on cocaine charges, catching them in a sting, the police there said.
Reymond Rosario and Enrique Torres are two of three people taken into custody as part of the sting, the Police Department in Asheboro said. Rosario is 29 years old and has a listed address in Park City, according to jail records in Randolph County, N.C. Torres is 21 years old and has a listed address in Deer Mountain, the jail records show.
According to the jail, Rosario is charged with:
The charges against Torres, according to the jail, are:
Each of them is being held on a $500,000 secured bond. Immigration officials, though, have ordered them held as well, the jail in Randolph County said.
The third person taken into custody was a woman from Sanger, Calif., who faces six cocaine charges, with four of them being trafficking counts.
The police in Asheboro said the officers seized approximately 13 pounds of a substance suspected to be cocaine. The Asheboro police estimate it has a street value of $600,000.
The arrests came after an investigation involving local, state and federal agencies, the Asheboro Police Department said.
The nature of the connection between the Park City area and Asheboro was not clear by the end of the week. Officials at the Park City Police Department and the Summit County Sheriff’s Office said there are not active local investigations into either Rosario or Torres.
It is rare for cocaine arrests in Park City or Summit County to involve as much of the narcotic as the authorities in Asheboro say they seized.