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WEST VALLEY CITY — Five Honduran nationals have been arrested in connection with a large scale drug distribution operation.
For a couple of months, detectives with the Utah County Major Crimes Task Force have been investigating a drug trafficking organization in Salt Lake County.
"Detectives have identified multiple houses involved and multiple people who are meeting and selling with street level customers. Each day the members of this organization are leaving their houses and selling for multiple hours, then returning home late at night. This same routine continues each day," according to a police booking affidavit.
On Wednesday, multiple search warrants were served in West Valley City. Fentanyl pills, crack-cocaine and "large amounts of cash" were found and seized, the affidavit states.
Ronald Canaca-Cabrera, 30; Rigo Adolfo Melendez-Martinez, 43; Cristian Antonio Valle-Acosta, 22; Yeirin Oni Aguilar-Mendez, 26; and Yahir Alexander Acosta-Melendez, 20, were each arrested and booked into the Salt Lake County Jail for investigation of money laundering, two counts of drug possession with intent to distribute, and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Police say all five are from Honduras and in the United States illegally.
