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SALT LAKE CITY — A man who investigators say distributes drugs around the country was arrested Thursday in Salt Lake City after police found 25 pounds of meth in his vehicle.
Johxan Lemus Rivera, 37, was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail for investigation of drug distribution.
Agents with the Utah State Bureau of Investigation developed information that "a vehicle carrying a large quantity of narcotics was going to be making a delivery in the Salt Lake area," according to a police booking affidavit.
After receiving additional information that the vehicle would be in the area of 700 West and 1300 South, investigators kept surveillance on the area and spotted a Honda Accord with a Montana license plate with a driver "sitting in the vehicle for an extended period of time," the affidavit states.
While watching the vehicle, a second man showed up and walked over to the car and appeared to make a drug transaction, police said. At that point, state agents took both men into custody.
In the Honda, police found 25 pounds of methamphetamine, according to the affidavit.
Police further noted that Rivera "is a narcotics trafficker in the United States illegally who drops off narcotics around the country."
