EL PASO, TX – The U.S. Attorney’s Office is pressing charges against two men accused of delivering 66.1 pounds of methamphetamine to a buyer in the parking lot of an IHOP restaurant in New Mexico last week.
A source of supply in Durango, Mexico, was trying to distribute the 30 kilos of meth in the United States and began conversations with a buyer who was an undercover Drug Enforcement Administration agent. Court documents show the trafficker agreed to sell the drugs at a wholesale price of $75,000 and told the undercover agent to expect delivery in the parking lot of the International House of Pancakes restaurant in Roswell, New Mexico.
IHOP Parking Lot
(Credit: IHOP Facebook
32lbs of Meth Seized in Presidio 12/22 (Courtesy/CBP)
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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